Kim Youwang

youwang.kim@postech.ac.kr

Kim Youwang I am a Ph.D. student at AMILab at POSTECH, advised by Tae-Hyun Oh. I am also a research scientist intern at Meta Reality Labs - Codec Avatars team, working with Yaser Sheikh, Chen Cao, and Jovan Popović. I have a close research collaboration with Gerard Pons-Moll, and was a visiting researcher at Real Virtual Humans Group at the Univ. of Tübingen. I received my bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from POSTECH.

I work on research projects at the intersection of computer graphics, vision, and machine learning. My research interests are the generative modeling of 3D/4D virtual humans, animals, and objects by understanding their realistic shapes and appearances.

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News

12/2024 Our paper NeuFace got invited to ICLR2025 as a poster presentation.
11/2024 Our BMVC2024 paper MeTTA won the best poster award at BMVC2024.
11/2024 Our work on large 3D scene stylization won the Excellence Prize at ICT paper awards.
10/2024 I started research scientist internship at Meta Reality Labs - Codec Avatars team.
07/2024 Our paper on large-scale 3D face mesh dataset is accepted to TMLR 2024.
07/2024 Our paper on robust monocular 3D mesh reconstruction is accepted to BMVC 2024.
07/2024 I won the best poster award in POSTECH-KAIST joint ML workshop 2024.
02/2024 Our paper on text-driven PBR texture synthesis is accepted to CVPR 2024.

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Research Experiences

Meta Reality Labs - Codec Avatars team, Pittsburgh, PA.Oct 2024 - Present
Research scientist intern, working with Yaser Sheikh, Chen Cao, and Jovan Popović.
University of Tübingen - Real Virtual Humans group, Tübingen, Germany.Sep 2023 - Present
Worked as a visiting researcher. Ongoing research collaboration with Gerard Pons-Moll.
POSTECH - Algorithmic Machine Intelligence lab, Pohang, Korea.Sep 2020 - Present
Graduate student, working with Tae-Hyun Oh.

Publications

Robust 3D Shape Reconstruction in Zero-Shot from a Single Image in the Wild
Junhyeong Cho, Kim Youwang, Hunmin Yang, Tae-Hyun Oh
arXiv
Paper

A Large-Scale 3D Face Mesh Video Dataset via Neural Re-parameterized Optimization
Kim Youwang, Lee Hyun*, Kim Sung-Bin*, Suekyeong Nam, Janghoon Ju, Tae-Hyun Oh
ICLR 2025 / TMLR 2024
Project page | Paper | Openreview | Code (TBA)
- Invited to ICLR 2025 for poster presentation (Top 6.61% of TMLR papers were invited)

Paint-it: Text-to-Texture Synthesis via Deep Convolutional Texture Map Optimization and Physically-Based Rendering
Kim Youwang, Tae-Hyun Oh, Gerard Pons-Moll
CVPR 2024
Project page | Paper | Video | Code | Poster
- Best Poster Award at POSTECH-KAIST joint ML workshop 2024
- Presented in AI for Content Creation Workshop (AI4CC) at CVPR 2024
- Presented in AI for 3D Generation Workshop (AI3DG) at CVPR 2024

MeTTA: Single-View to 3D Textured Mesh Reconstruction with Test-Time Adaptation
Kim Yu-Ji, Hyunwoo Ha, Kim Youwang, Jaeheung Surh, Hyowon Ha, Tae-Hyun Oh
BMVC 2024
Project page
- Best Poster Award at BMVC 2024

ObjectDR: Object-Centric Domain Randomization for 3D Shape Reconstruction in the Wild
Junhyeong Cho, Kim Youwang, Hunmin Yang, Tae-Hyun Oh
CVPRW 2024
Project page | Paper

CLIP-Actor-X: Text-driven 4D Human Avatar Generation via Cross-modal Synthesis-through-Optimization
Kim Youwang*, Taehyun Byun*, Kim Ji-Yeon, Sungjoon Choi, Tae-Hyun Oh
Journal under review

Feed-Forward Photorealistic Style Transfer for Large-Scale 3D Neural Radiance Fields
GeonU Kim, Kim Youwang, Tae-Hyun Oh
AAAI 2024
Project page | Paper | Code
- Excellence Prize ($2K) at ICT paper awards 2024

Text-driven Human Avatar Generation by Neural Re-parameterized Texture Optimization
Kim Youwang, Tae-Hyun Oh
ICCVW 2023
Paper | Poster

STREAM: Spatio-Temporally Consistent Face Mesh Reconstruction on Videos
Kim Youwang, Lee Hyun*, Kim Sung-Bin*, Suekyeong Nam, Janghoon Ju, Tae-Hyun Oh
CVPRW 2023
Poster

Multi-stage Adaptive Rank Statistic Pruning for Lightweight Human 3D Mesh Recovery Model
Dong Hun Ryou, Kim Youwang, Tae-Hyun Oh
The Visual Computer Journal (TVCJ) 2023
Paper

CLIP-Actor: Text-Driven Recommendation and Stylization for Animating Human Meshes
Kim Youwang*, Kim Ji-Yeon*, Tae-Hyun Oh
ECCV 2022
Project page | Paper | Video | Code | Poster
- Grand Prize (1st place, Minister's award, $12K) at ICT paper awards 2023
- Qualcomm Innovation Award Winner 2022
- Presented in AI for Content Creation Workshop (AI4CC) at CVPR 2023

FastMETRO: Cross-Attention of Disentangled Modalities for 3D Human Mesh Recovery with Transformers
Junhyeong Cho, Kim Youwang, Tae-Hyun Oh
ECCV 2022
Project page | Paper | Code | Poster

Unified 3D Mesh Recovery of Humans and Animals by Learning Animal Exercise
Kim Youwang, Kim Ji-Yeon, Kyungdon Joo, Tae-Hyun Oh
BMVC 2021
Project page | Paper

Awards & Honors

Best Poster Award, BMVC, 2024
Excellence Prize, Electronics Times ICT Paper Awards, 2024
Best Poster Award, POSTECH-KAIST joint ML workshop, 2024
Grand Prize (Minister's award, $12,000 prize), Electronics Times ICT Paper Awards, 2023
Outstanding Reviewer Award, ICCV, 2023
Winner ($4,000 prize), Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship Korea (QIFK), 2022
International Computer Vision Summer School (ICVSS), 2022

Talks

Towards Efficient & Realistic Virtual World Communication, INNERVERZ, Korea, 2023

Academic Services

Conference Reviewer: CVPR, ICCV (Outstanding reviewer 2023), ECCV, NeurIPS, BMVC
Journal Reviewer: TPAMI, ACM TOG/SIGGRAPH Asia, IJCV, TMM

Misc.

Come visit my Youtube channel! I sometimes upload paper reviews (in Korean).
As a guitarist of the band STEELER, I also upload some music covers or gigs.

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