Taeheon Kim, Ph.D.
Incoming Postdoctoral Researcher
e-mail: eetaekim@kaist.ac.kr [Google Scholar]
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My research focuses on making multimodal and embodied AI reliable in the physical world. I am interested in how multimodal perception and reasoning can be integrated with action to enable intelligent and adaptive interaction with the environment.
Research Interest
Robotics and Vision-Language-Action Models
Multimodal Learning and Reasoning
AI Safety and Robustness
Education
Education
KAIST, Daejeon, South Korea
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Mar. 2020 – Aug. 2026 (Advisor: Professor Yong Man Ro)
KAIST, Daejeon, South Korea
B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Mar. 2014 – Feb. 2019
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA
Exchange Student, Computer Engineering, Aug. 2016 – May 2017
GPA: 4.0 / 4.0, Faculty Honors
Gyeongnam Science High School, South Korea
Early Graduation (2-year Program), Mar. 2012 – Feb. 2013
Publications
7. Infrared Cleanser: Detecting the Hyperchannel and Removing Adversarial Patches in Infrared Images
Taeheon Kim, Sangyun Chung, Youngjoon Yu, and Yong Man Ro
Under Review
6. MSCoTDet: Language-driven Multi-modal Fusion for Improved Multispectral Pedestrian Detection
Taeheon Kim*, Sangyun Chung*, Damin Yeom, Youngjoon Yu, Hak Gu Kim, and Yong Man Ro (* : equally contributed.)
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT), 2025
Impact Factor: 11.1, JCR Top 3.7%
[paper]
5. Revisiting Misalignment in Multispectral Pedestrian Detection: A Language-driven Approach for Cross-modal Alignment Fusion
Taeheon Kim*, Sangyun Chung*, Youngjoon Yu*, and Yong Man Ro (* : equally contributed.)
IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2024
4. Causal Mode Multiplexer: A Novel Framework for Unbiased Multispectral Pedestrian Detection
Taeheon Kim*, Sebin Shin*, Youngjoon Yu, Hak Gu Kim, and Yong Man Ro (* : equally contributed.)
IEEE / CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR), 2024
Acceptance Rate 23.6%
[paper][demo video][code]
3. Multispectral Invisible Coating: Laminated Visible-Thermal Physical Attack against Multispectral Object Detectors using Transparent Low-e films
Taeheon Kim, Youngjoon Yu, and Yong Man Ro
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2023
Acceptance Rate 19.6%
[paper][demo video]
2. Defending Physical Adversarial Attack on Object Detection via Adversarial Patch-Feature Energy
Taeheon Kim, Youngjoon Yu, and Yong Man Ro
ACM Multimedia Conference (MM), 2022
Acceptance Rate 24%
[paper][demo video]
1. MAP: Multispectral Adversarial Patch to Attack Multispectral Person Detection
Taeheon Kim, Hong Joo Lee, and Yong Man Ro
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2022
Professional Activities
■ Reviewer
IEEE / CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR) 2024, 2025, 2026
IEEE / CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2025
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2025, 2026, 2027
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2025
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT) 2023, 2024
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS) 2024
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP) 2025
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM) 2025
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (T-ITS) 2025
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) 2025
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2023
IEEE International Conference on Image Processing Workshop (ICIPW) 2024
■ Teaching
2016 Spring: CS101: Introduction to Programming
@KAIST, Undergraduate Teaching Assistant
2017 Spring: ECE2031: Digital Design Laboratory
@Georgia Tech, Undergraduate Teaching Assistant
Supervised over 30 Georgia Tech students in laboratory experiments, technical writing, and presentation skills.
2021 Spring: EE202: Signals and Systems
@KAIST, Graduate Teaching Assistant
2021 Fall, 2022 Spring, 2022 Fall: EE305: Introduction to Electronics Design Lab
@KAIST, Graduate Teaching Assistant
Other Skills
Classical piano performance, with a focus on Chopin’s works. Chopin's music serves as a source of creativity and inspiration for my research.
Classical Piano Performances (Played by Taeheon Kim)
Chopin's Etudes (Op.10 No.1, Op.25 No.2, Op.25 No.9, Op.25 No.12)
Chopin's Piano Sonata (No.3, Op.58 4th mov)
E-sports.
Overwatch
Feel free to reach out to play together
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