Junwan Kim

AI Researcher

Junwan Kim

Currently, I am an undergraduate student majoring in Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Yonsei University. My research interest lies in the field of artificial intelligence, particularly high-dimensional computer vision perceptions (like 3D, videos, etc.). I am also highly interseted in building AR/VR worlds through AI. I am searching for MS/Ph.D. programs abroad that aligns with my research interests and career goals.

Contact

jw1510 [at] yonsei [dot] ac [dot] kr

Computer Vision
Undergraduate Student @ Yonsei Univiersity
50, Yonsei-ro, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea

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Publications

URECAđź’ˇ: Unique Region Caption Anything 2025
Sangbeom Lim*, Junwan Kim*, Heeji Yoon, Jaewoo Jung, Seungryong Kim
arXiv preprint

V.I.P.: Iterative Online Preference Distillation for Efficient Video Diffusion Models 2025
Jisoo Kim, Wooseok Seo, Junwan Kim, Seungho Park, Sooyeon Park, Youngjae Yu
arXiv preprint

DisCoRD: Discrete Tokens to Continuous Motion via Rectified Flow Decoding 2024
Jungbin Cho*, Junwan Kim*, Jisoo Kim, Minseo Kim, Mingu Kang, Sungeun Hong, Tae-Hyun Oh, Youngjae Yu
arXiv preprint

TWLV-I: Analysis and Insights from Holistic Evaluation on Video Foundation Models 2024
TwelvLabs Team
Technical Report

Pegasus-v1 Technical Report 2024
TwelvLabs Team
Technical Report

AVIN-Chat: An Audio-Visual Interactive Chatbot System with Emotional State Tuning 2024
Chanhyuk Park*, Jungbin Cho*, Junwan Kim*, Seongmin Lee, Jungsu Kim, Sanghoon Lee
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) Demonstrations Track

Design and Implementation of User-Interactive Crowd Accident Avoiding System 2023
Junwan Kim*, Youngbae Kong*, Byeongho Kim*, Minjae Park*, Jeongeun Nah
Annual Conference of Korea Information Processing Society (ACK)



* denotes equal contribution

Careers

TwelveLabs March 2024 - August 2024
Seoul, South Korea / San Francisco, USA
TwelveLabs, a startup specializing in foundation models for video understanding, where I worked as a research intern in the video-language research team. (Advisor: Prof. Minjoon Seo)

Linq Alpha September 2023 - January 2024
Boston, USA (Remote)
Linq Alpha, a startup specializing in generative models for finance, where I participated in an industry-academic collaboration project. (Advisor: Prof. Jy-Yong Sohn)

Rebuilder AI July 2023 - August 2023
Seoul, South Korea
Rebuilder AI is a startup specializing in developing AI models for 3D assets, where I participated in an industry-academic collaboration project.

Educations

Yonsei University March 2019 - Present
Seoul, South Korea
B.S. Elctrical and Electronic Engineering

Research Experiences

MIRLAB Aug 2024 - Mar 2025
Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea
Undergraduate Researcher (Supervisor: Prof. Yonugjae Yu)

CVLAB Sep 2024 - Present
KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology), Seoul, South Korea
Undergraduate Researcher (Supervisor: Prof. Seungryong Kim)