About
Hello! I am an MS student at the Spatial AI Lab, Hanyang University, under the supervision of Prof. Je Hyeong Hong. My primary research interest lies in semantic and geometric correspondence, with a focus on discovering meaningful relationships across different modalities such as 2D images and 3D shapes.
I hold a Bachelor's degree in Electronic Engineering (2020โ2023) from Hanyang University, and am currently pursuing my Master's degree in the same department. Undergraduate GPA: 3.88/4.0
โจ Motivation
My long-standing interest in human-object interaction for robotics naturally led me to explore how machines can go beyond appearance and understand the functional semantics of objects. For instance, knowing that two visually different drawer handles serve the same purpose requires reasoning about function and spatial configurationโsomething humans do intuitively but machines still struggle with.
๐๐ปโโ Research Direction
To tackle this challenge, I investigate how to lift single-view images into 3D representations that preserve semantic structure while being invariant to topology, occlusion, and partial visibility. This allows systems to reason about geometry in a viewpoint-invariant way and identify functionally analogous parts across object instances or scenes, even from limited observations.
My current work focuses on learning dense correspondences between single images and 3D shapes, leveraging unsupervised signals and geometric priors. This research has broad applications in robot imitation learning, 3D scene understanding, and interactive perception.
๐๏ธ Vision
Ultimately, I aim to build intelligent agents that can reason over the world through semantic spatial structuresโnot just labels or text. Just as a person understands the layout of unfamiliar supermarkets in different cities, future systems must learn to generalize across objects and environments via correspondence in 3D.
Research
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FUN-AD: Fully Unsupervised Learning for Anomaly Detection
Jiin Im*, Yongho Son*, Je Hyeong Hong
WACV 2025 (poster)
Career
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Undergraduate Researcher at Intelligent Robotics Research Center, KIST (2022.06.22 โ 2022.08.31)
Worked under the supervision of Dr. Yoonseob Lim
Hobbies
In my free time, I enjoy:
- โพ Watching baseball
- ๐ฅ Supporting the KBO League team: ๐ฏ KIA Tigers
- ๐ต Listening to music ๐ธ
Contact
โ๏ธ Email: skqldit33@hanyang.ac.kr
๐ Location: 6th Floor, Hanyang Institute of Technology (HIT), Hanyang University, Seongdong-gu, Wangsimni-ro 222, Seoul, South Korea