Kim Youwang

Kim Youwang

youwang.kim@postech.ac.kr Ph.D. Student, Electrical Engineering, POSTECH
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I am a Ph.D. student at AMILab at KAIST, advised by Tae-Hyun Oh. I was a research scientist intern at Meta Codec Avatars team, working with Chen Cao, Jovan Popović, and Yaser Sheikh. I also work closely 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 focuses on understanding the visual world by developing methods to realistically generate and reconstruct 3D agents (e.g., humans, animals, objects, and robots) from sparse observations, which enables advancements in virtual simulation and embodied intelligence.

Research Experiences

Publications

A Paper on Monocular 3D Face Avatar Reconstruction

To be updated

FPGS: Feed-Forward Semantic-aware Photorealistic Style Transfer of Large-Scale Gaussian Splatting
GeonU Kim, Kim Youwang, Lee Hyoseok, Tae-Hyun Oh
arXiv 2025
Project page | Paper | Code(TBA)
- Excellence Prize ($2K) at ICT paper awards 2024

Robust 3D Shape Reconstruction in Zero-Shot from a Single Image in the Wild
Junhyeong Cho, Kim Youwang, Hunmin Yang, Tae-Hyun Oh
CVPR 2025
Project page | 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 | Code
- Invited to ICLR 2025 for poster presentation (Top 5% TMLR papers 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 (Best Poster Award)
Project page
- Best Poster Award at BMVC 2024

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

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
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