Research Interests

• Generative Models. e.g. Diffusion Models, VAEs, GANs
• Talking Head Synthesis, Face Manipulation

Experience

• Machine learning Researcher (KAIST KCVL, Daejeon, Korea)

  • Mar. 2025
  • Advisor : Prof. Tae-Kyun Kim

• Undergraduate Intern (GIST ViRL, Gwangju, Korea)

  • Jun. 2023 - Dec. 2024
  • Advisor : Prof. Jeany Son

• Machine Learning Engineer (VIVE STUDIOS, Seoul, Korea)

  • Apr. 2022 - May. 2023

• Undergraduate Intern (GIST CILAB, Gwangju, Korea)

  • Sep. 2021 - Jan. 2022
  • Advisor : Prof. Kim Kyung-Joong

Publications

• DiffFace: Diffusion-based Face Swapping with Facial Guidance

  • Kihong Kim*, Yunho Kim*, Seokju Cho, Junyoung Seo, Jisu Nam, Kychul Lee, Seungryong Kim, KwangHee Lee (* : Equal Contribution) (Under Review), ArXiv Preprint, 2022

  • [Project Page], [ArXiv] [Code]

• A Simple Baseline with Single-encoder for Referring Image Segmentation

  • Seonghoon Yu, Ilchae Jung, Byeongju Han, Taeoh Kim, Yunho Kim, Dongyoon Wee, and Jeany Son

  • [ArXiv]

Education

• Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Korea

  • M.S. in Computer Science
    • Mar. 2025-

• Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju, Korea

  • B.S. in Computer Science (4.17/4.5)
  • Mar. 2021-

• Daegu Science High School, Daegu, Korea

  • Mar.2018 - Feb.2021

Honors

• Scholarships(GIST) : Academic Merit Scholarship (2021), Government Sponsorship(2021-2022)
• National Science & Technology Scholorship (4,120,000 KRW/2years)
• Bronze Prize in 40th University Students Contest of Mathematics (2021).

Extracurricular

• Berkeley Summer Session, Berkeley, United States
  • Jun.2022 - Aug.2022

Skills

• Languages
  • Korean : native
  • English : TOEIC (915), TEPS (456)
• ML/DL
  • PyTorch, Numpy
• Programming Languages
  • python, JavaScript