Taeyeon Kim | Computer Vision Researcher

Education

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) Daejeon, Republic of Korea

Ph.D. Computer Science Mar 2026 – Present

M.S. Computer Science Mar 2024 – Feb 2026

Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST) Daegu, Republic of Korea

B.S. Computer Science Mar 2019 – Feb 2024

University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, California, USA

Freshmen Global Leadership Program Jul 2019 – Aug 2019

KAIST Geometric AI Lab Daejeon, Republic of Korea

Research Internship Jul 2023 – Aug 2023

Student Volunteer at SIGGRAPH 2023 LA, California, USA

Student Volunteer Aug 2023

CLASSUM Seoul, Republic of Korea

Frontend Developer Internship Oct 2022 – Feb 2023

Web product UI development and rich text editor implementation.

Undergraduate Researcher in DGIST Daegu, Republic of Korea

Vehicle in Loop Simulation Lab (VILS) Sep 2021 – Feb 2022

Lv.3 autonomous driving car SCC/AEB software developer; danger recognition AI from road scene video.

High-Assurance Software Systems Lab (HASS) Mar 2022 – Jun 2022

Delivery drone digital twin simulation and pathfinding algorithm research using Unity.

Brain Robot Augmented InteractioN Lab (BRAIN) May 2020 – Dec 2020

Driver drowsiness prediction model using EEG brain signals and deep learning.

MorphGS: Morphology-Adaptive Articulated 3D Motion Transfer from Videos

Taeyeon Kim, Youngju Na, Jumin Lee, Sebin Lee, Minhyuk Sung, and Sung-Eui Yoon

European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2026

Visual-RRT: Finding Paths toward Visual-Goals via Differentiable Rendering

Sebin Lee, Jumin Lee, Taeyeon Kim, Youngju Na, Woobin Im, and Sung-Eui Yoon

Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF conference on computer vision and pattern recognition (CVPR), 2026

Pose-Free 3D Gaussian Splatting via Shape-Ray Estimation

Youngju Na, Taeyeon Kim, Jumin Lee, Kyu Beom Han, Woo Jae Kim, and Sung-Eui Yoon

IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2025

Articulated Motion Retargeting with 4D Gaussian Splatting

Taeyeon Kim, Youngju Na, and Sung-Eui Yoon

한국인공지능학회 하계학술대회 (CKAIA), Aug 2024 · Domestic

ICIP Best Student Paper Award

IEEE International Conference on Image Processing Sep 2025

DGIST Presidential Fellowship Daegu, Republic of Korea

Scholarship Aug 2020 – Jul 2023