RESEARCH INTEREST

• Computer Vision and deep learning.

• Continual learning, Open world object detection, Robotics, Foundations...

EDUCATION

• MS-Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence | Mar. 2023 – Present

  • • Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan, South Korea

    • Advisor: Prof. Seungryul Baek 

  • B.S. in Information and Communications Engineering | Mar. 2016 – Feb. 2022

    • Pukyong National University (PKNU), Busan, South Korea

    • Advisor: Prof. Hoon Lee (ACNL Lab)

EXPERIENCE

• AI research intern, NAVER AI Lab, Seoul, South Korea  | Oct. 2024 ~  Apr. 2025

  • NAVER AI Lab (Backbone Research Team), Seoul, South Korea

  • Advisor : Dongyoon Han [LINK]

• NVIDIA AI Ambassador | Feb. 2022 – Mar. 2025

  • Leader, NVIDIA × MODULABS Foundation Models Lab | Feb. 2024 – Present

• AI research intern | Aug. 2022 – Feb. 2023

  • UVL Lab, Ulsan, South Korea

• AI research intern | Apr. 2022 – Jul. 2022

  • Corp. KST, Busan, South Korea

PUBLICATION Please see the Publications tab in the upper right corner.

• J. Kim*, Y. Jang*, H. Kim, E. Lee, E. Kim, S. Baek, J. Yoo, "B-RIGHT: Benchmark Re-evaluation for Integrity in Generalized Human-Object Interaction Testing," in Proc. of the British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), Sheffield, UK, 2025 (to be presented). [PDF] (* indicates co-first authorship)

• J. Kim, Y. Ku, S. Beak, "Can Synthetic Images Conquer Forgetting? Beyond Unexplored Doubts in Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning",  in Proc. of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) workshop, Honolulu, USA, 2025. [PDF]

• J. Kim, Y. Ku, J. Kim, J. Cha, S. Beak, "VLM-PL: Advanced Pseudo Labeling approach Class Incremental Object Detection with Vision-Language Model," in Proc. of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) workshop, Seattle, WA, 2024. [PDF] 

• [HIGHLIGHT] J. Kim, H. Cho, J. Kim, Y. Tiruneh, S. Beak, "SDDGR: Stable Diffusion-based Deep Generative Replay for Class Incremental Object Detection," in Proc. of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Seattle, WA, 2024. [PDF] (Highlight, 324/11532≈2.8% ratio) 

• J. Kim, S. Hong, C. Kim, J. Kim, Y. Tiruneh, J. On, J. Song, S. Choi, and S. Baek, "Class-Wise Buffer Management for Incremental Object Detection: An Effective Buffer Training Strategy," accepted for publication in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Seoul, South Korea, 2024.[PDF]

• J. Kim, S. Hong, J. Kim, J. On, C. Kim, Yihalem, J. Song, S. Choi and S. Baek "Reducing data imbalancing for Object Detection," in Proc. 2023 Summer Conference of Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers (IEIE), Jun. 2023.

• H. Park, J. Kim, J. Kim and S. Baek, "Temporal MANO based Video Hand Pose and Shape Estimation," JKAIA, 2022.

• [BEST PAPER AWARD] I. Lee, J. Kim, H. Lee, Y. Kim, D. Lee, H. Lee “Multi-Task Learning Approach to Autonomous Driving Techniques,” in Proc. 2021 Fall Conference of Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers (IEIE), Nov, 2021. 

• [BEST PAPER AWARD] H. Kim, J. Kim, I. Lee, and H. Lee ”Deep Learning-Based Self-Driving Systems for Swarm Vehicle,” in Proc. 2021 Summer Conference of Korea Information and Communications Society (KICS), Jun. 2021. 

• J. Kim, H. Kim, I. Lee, H. Lee “AI Edge Server Design for Swarm Vehicular Network,” in Proc. 2021 ICT College Paper Contest of Institute of Embedded Engineering of Korea (IEMEK), May. 2021. 

• H. Kim, J. Kim, I. Lee, and H. Lee “AI-Enabled Low-Complexity Autonomous Driving Using Tensor RT,” in Proc. 2021 Winter Conference of Korea Information and Communications Society (KICS), Feb. 2021.

UNDER-REVIEW|ARXIV Please see the Publications tab in the upper right corner.

• J. Kim, N. Kim, J. Lee, I. Park, D. Han†, S. Baek†, “Revisiting Reliability in the Reasoning-based Pose Estimation Benchmark,” ICCV Workshops (MMFM), Honolulu, USA, 2025. †corresponding authors. [non-arch.][arXiv] [code].

• J. Kim, Y. Ku, D. Han†, S. Baek† "Diffusion Meets Few-shot Class Incremental Learning," In under review, †corresponding authors, ArXiv, Mar 2025 [paper]

• J. Kim, S. Hong, C. Kim, H. Cho, Yihalem, J. Kim, E. Kim, J. Song, S. Choi, S. Baek "An Effective Buffer Training Strategy for Class-Incremental Object Detection", CVPR workshop (CLVision), Jun. 2023. [non-arch.] The improved version was accepted to ICASSP 2024.

ACADEMIC ACTIVITY

Professional Service

• Reviewer, British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), 2025.

• Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), 2024.

• Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), 2024.

Presentations

• Oral Presentation, UNIST Representative, Digital Innovators Symposiums, 2024.

• Poster Presentation, Korean Conference on Computer Vision (KCCV), 2024.

• Poster Presentation, "An Effective Buffer Training Strategy for Class-Incremental Object Detection," CVPR Workshop (CLVision), 2023.

PROJECT

• "사람 중심 인공지능 핵심원천기술개발" (Human-centered AI Core Technology Development) | Sep. 2023 – Present

  • Funded by MIST (과기부) through IITP

• "Development of Object Detection Models for Impurity Detection in Fish Cake Products" | Sep. 2023 – Present

  • Industry-University Cooperation with Samjin-food

• "Expanding Data Coverage through Incremental Learning and Development of Integrated Domain Recognition Systems" | Aug. 2022 – Aug. 2023

  • Industry-University Cooperation with LG Electronics

  • Achievement: Led to the designation of our lab as a "Target Lab" by LG Electronics.

• "Identification Systems of Dog Nose-Print Using Siamese Network" | Sep. 2021 – Dec. 2021

  • Co-work with Urobo AI (Startup)

• "AI-Assisted Safety Systems Using Industrial Internet-of-Things (IIoT)" | Apr. 2021 – Dec. 2021

  • X-corps Festival Project

• "Autonomous Driving Techniques for Industrial Safety" | Jun. 2021 – Sep. 2021

  • Pukyong National University Han Contest

• "Deep Learning Approaches for Swarm Autonomous Vehicle Systems" | Jan. 2021 – Mar. 2021

  • Leaders in Industry-university Cooperation (LINC) Project

AWARD

•  Excellence Award, Poster presentation, 37th Workshop on Image Processing and Image Understanding, 2025. 

•  Excellence Award, PKNU Study Club Performance, 2022, (Host: Pukyong Nation Univ.)

•  Excellence Award, LINK+ Competitive Contest, 2021, (Host: Pukyong Nation Univ.) 

•  Excellence Award, Han. Competitive Contest, 2021, (Host: Pukyong Nation Univ.) 

•  Best Undergraduate Paper Award, 2021, (Host: IEMEK, The Institute of Embedded Engineering of Korea) 

•  Best Undergraduate Paper Award, 2021, (Host: KICS, The Korea’s information and communications technology) 

•  Best Undergraduate Paper Award, 2021, (Host: IEIE, The Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers) 

•  Excellence Award, Presentation Engineering in literature, 2021, (Host: Pusan National Univ.) 

•  1st Prize, PKNU Capstone Design, 2021, (Host: Pukyong Nation Univ) 

• 2nd Prize (KIBO), Busan AI Idea Contest Exhibition, 2020, (Host: NILE, Busan) 

AFFILITATION

• Notion Ambassador | Jan. 2023 – Jan. 2025

TEACHING & MENTORING

• Lecture Mentor (Language Model, RAG), 13th Samsung Software AI-academy For Youth (SSAFY), SAMSUNG, Busan, Jul. 2025

• Workshop Lecturer, 6th AI Novatus Academia (Computer Vision), UNIST AI Innovation Park, Ulsan, Aug. 2023

• Workshop Lecturer, 5th AI Novatus Academia (Computer Vision), UNIST AI Innovation Park, Masan, Apr. 2023.

• Workshop Lecturer, NVIDIA Jetson AI Ambassador Workshop, Pukyong National University, May 2022.

• Workshop Presentation, Corp. KST, May 2022.

 CONTENT

• Youtube videos

  • Anydoor / GLIGEN+BLIP / LayoutDM / Classifier-free guidance / I-blurry / PristmaticVLMs (2025)