NEWS

• September 2026: A paper was accepted to NeurIPS 2026 🎉

• March 2026: A paper was accepted to Pattern Recognition (PR) 🎉

• August 2025: I was awarded a doctoral research grant from the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) 🎉

• August 2025: I will be presenting TRG at KCCV 2025 in Busan. Feel free to chat with me! 😊

• December 2024: I will join HCVL at the University of Birmingham in the UK as a Visiting Researcher 😊

• July 2024: A paper was accepted to ECCV 2024 🎉

• June 2023: A paper was accepted to ICIP 2023 🎉

• August 2022: A paper was accepted to WACV 2023 🎉

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Deep Learning

• 3D Vision

  • Multi-view geometry

  • Perspective geometry

• Human pose and shape estimation

  • 6DoF head pose estimation

  • 3D face reconstruction

  • Occlusion-robust pose estimation

  • Detection

• Dataset curation & annotation

PUBLICATIONS

EXPERIENCE

Visiting Researcher Dec.2024 - Mar.2025

• Visiting researcher at University of Birmingham, UK (Host: Prof. Hyung Jin Chang)

Robot development Internship Jan.2020 - Feb.2020

• R&D team at Robomation, Seoul, Korea

• Product development and testing

Academic club Mar.2018 - Feb.2021

• BARAM, Kwangwoon University

• Built and demonstrated robots each year

• Led a robotics team and won an award at a national competition

Military Service Feb.2016 - Nov.2017

• Republic of Korea Army, Honorable Discharged 

Projects

Research Project Apr.2026 - Current

• KEIT, Daegu, Korea

• Topic : Development of On-Device AI-Based Multi-Sensor Fusion Intelligent Perception Technology for Ensuring Worker Safety in Manufacturing Logistics Processes

• Role: Develop and implement a deep learning algorithm

Research Project Mar.2026 - Current

• ETRI, Daejeon, Korea

• Topic : Full-Range Head Pose Estimation and Gaze Following in Crowd Scenes

• Role: Develop and implement a deep learning algorithm

• Head detection and pose estimation in crowded scenes

• Skills: Dataset Curation & Annotation, Occlusion-robust pose estimation, Pose estimation from low-resolution image, Object detection 

Research Project Jun.2025 - Nov.2025

• ETRI, Daejeon, Korea

• Topic : Development of Long-Range Head Object Analysis Technology for Crowd Analysis

• Role: Develop and implement a deep learning algorithm

• Head detection and pose estimation in crowded scenes

• Skills: Occlusion-robust pose estimation, Pose estimation from low-resolution image, Object detection 

Research Project Apr.2023 - Dec.2025

• ETRI, Daejeon, Korea

• Topic : FACS-compatible digital human facial expression style transfer technology

• Role: Develop and implement a deep learning algorithm

• Reconstructing 3D face mesh and estimating 6DoF head pose from monocular image

• Achieving state-of-the-art in 6DoF head pose estimation task

• 1 paper accepted to ECCV 2024

• 1 paper accepted to PR 2026

• Skills: Perspective geometry, 6DoF head pose estimation, 3D face mesh reconstruction 

Research Project Apr.2022 - Oct.2022

• NCSOFT, Seoul, Korea

• Topic : 3D human mesh reconstruction from multi-view video for animation [Video]

• Role: Develop and implement a deep learning algorithm

• Occlusion-robust and temporally consistent human pose estimation from multi-view video

• Achieving state-of-the-art in human pose and shape estimation task

• 1 paper accepted to ICIP2023

• Skills: Multi-view geometry, Triangulation, Representation learning, Human pose and shape estimation, Temporal refinement

Research Project Aug.2021 - Jan.2022

• NCSOFT, Seoul, Korea

• Topic : Physically and temporally consistent human pose estimation from multi-view video

• Role: Develop and implement a deep learning algorithm

• Human pose and shape estimation from multi-view images

• Achieving state-of-the-art in terms of predicting joint rotation and human body shape

• 1 paper accepted to WACV2023, 1 domestic patent applied

• Skills: Multi-view geometry, Triangulation, Human pose and shape estimation

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Electronics and Communications Engineering Mar.2023 - 

• Kwangwoon University, Seoul, Korea

• Advisor: Prof. Ju Yong Chang

M.S., Electronics and Communications Engineering Mar.2021 - Feb.2023

• Kwangwoon University, Seoul, Korea

• Advisor: Prof. Ju Yong Chang

• GPA score : 4.42/4.5 

B.S., Robotics Mar.2015 - Feb.2021

• Kwangwoon University, Seoul, Korea

• GPA score : 4.06/4.5 

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

Reviewer

• IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP)

PATENT

• Young Hee Kim, Ju Yong Chang, and Sung Ho Chun, “Method and Apparatus for Providing 6DoF Head Pose Estimation from Monocular Video,” U.S. Patent Application No. 19/254,563, published May 14, 2026.

• SangJun Ahn, Sunwon Jeong, Ju Yong Chang, and Sungho Chun, “Electronic Device, Method, and Computer-Readable Storage Medium for Acquiring Information Indicating Shape of Body from One or More Images,” U.S. Patent Application No. 19/251,066, published Oct. 16, 2025.

AWARDS & HONORS

• 2025 Ph.D. Student Research Encouragement Fellowship Sep.2025-Aug.2026
  (2025년도 이공분야 학술연구지원사업(박사과정생연구장려금지원사업))

  • Funder: National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF)

  • Grant: 25,000,000 KRW

• Dean's list, Outstanding grade (Kwangwoon university) [picture] Apr.2020

• 4th place, Korea Intelligent Robot Contest (KIRC) [picture1][picture2] Oct.2019

• Dean’s list , Outstanding grade (Kwangwoon university) [picture] Apr.2019

SKILLS

• Programming Languages C/C++, Python, Java, LaTex

• Machine Learning Library Pytorch

• Research Skills Computer vision, Machine Learning, Multi-view geometry, Human pose and shape estimation, Representation Learning, 3D face reconstruction, 6DoF head pose estimation