Hello
I am Seonho Lee (Griffin Sunho Lee in the US). I am a M.S. student at KAIST AI, majoring in Artificial Intelligence. I am working as an AI graduate researcher at Computer Vision and Machine Learning Lab at KAIST, advised by Prof. Hyunjung Shim.
I am interested in research on AI especially in Computer vision. I hope to use AI to help people freely envision, realize, and share what they believe in.
Particularly, I am researching on the following topics:
1. Generative AI
2. Vision-Language Understanding
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- Email: glanceyes (at) kaist (dot) com
News
Oct. 2025: Two papers PartCATSeg and 3D-Aware VLM Finetuning got selected as QIFK(Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship Korea) 2025 Finalist.
Aug. 2025: Our 3D-Aware VLM Finetuning paper got accepted to EMNLP 2025 Findings!
Jun. 2025: I got ML engineering internship at Snap Inc. in Santa Monica, CA.
Jun. 2025: I got awarded Korean Presidential Science Scholarship for Graduate Students.
May. 2025: Our ScribbleDiff paper got accepted to ICIP 2025!
Feb. 2025: Our PartCATSeg paper got accepted to CVPR 2025!
Jan. 2025: Our DreamCatalyst paper got accepted to ICLR 2025!
Sep. 2024: Our PartCLIPSeg paper got accepted to NeurIPS 2024!
Sep. 2023: I got accepted to CVML Lab as a M.S. graduate student in KAIST AI.
Publications
*: equal contribution. †: corresponding author. C: conference P: preprint
[C5] 3D-Aware Vision-Language Models Fine-Tuning with Geometric Distillation
- Seonho Lee*, Jiho Choi*, Inha Kang, Jiwook Kim, Junsung Park, Hyunjung Shim†
- Keywords: 3D-Aware VLM Finetuning
EMNLP 2025 Findings, Paper, Codes
[C4] Fine-Grained Image-Text Correspondence with Cost Aggregation for Open-Vocabulary Part Segmentation
- Jiho Choi*, Seonho Lee*, Seungho Lee, Minhyun Lee, Hyunjung Shim†
- Keywords: Open-Vocabulary Part Segmentation
[C3] Scribble-Guided Diffusion for Training-free Text-to-Image Generation
- Seonho Lee*, Jiho Choi*, Seohyun Lim, Jiwook Kim, Hyunjung Shim†
- Keywords: Conditional Image Generation
[C2] DreamCatalyst: Fast and High-Quality 3D Editing via Controlling Editability and Identity Preservation
- Jiwook Kim*, Seonho Lee*, Jaeyo Shin, Jiho Choi, Hyunjung Shim†
- Keywords: 3D Editing, Score Distillation
ICLR 2025, Paper, Project Page, Codes
[C1] Understanding Multi-Granularity for Open-Vocabulary Part Segmentation
- Jiho Choi*, Seonho Lee*, Seungho Lee, Minhyun Lee, Hyunjung Shim†
- Keywords: Open-Vocabulary Part Segmentation
[P1] What “Not” to Detect: Improving Object Detection under Negation via Reasoning and Token Merging
- Inha Kang, Youngsun Lim, Seonho Lee, Jiho Choi, Junsuk Choi†, Hyunjung Shim†
- Keywords: Described Object Detction under Negation
Work Experience
Snap Inc.
- ML engineer intern at Generative ML team (VideoCraft)
- Jun. 2025 ~ Sep. 2025, Santa Monica, CA, USA (On-site)
- Led a project for establishing cross-reference dataset preprocessing pipeline for personalized video generation
- Developed new model architecture with multi-subject adapters for VideoAlchemist 2.0
Life Planning Lab
- Data engineer & Back-end engineer
- Dec. 2021 ~ Jan. 2022, Seoul
- Developed back-end platform and data preprocessor
Projects
3D-Aware VLM Finetuning, Samsung Research
- Electronic Device and Method for Operating Thereof and Storage Medium
- Korean patent: 10-2025-0109574
SHrack: Mobile Web Service for Real-time Exercise Count Tracking
- Web-based real-time video streaming service for accurate exercise count detection
- Keywords: MobileNet, Contextual Prediction Module
RECJOON: Backjoon Online Judge Problem Solving Recommendation System
- Naver Boostcamp AI Tech 3rd, Team 14 (Mar. 2022 ~ Jun. 2022)
- Keywords: Recommendation System
KUVIS: Web-based Visual Programming Software with Deep Learning in Medicine
- Seonho Lee, Yoomin Kang, Advised by Prof. Wonki Jeong (Jul. 2022 ~ Aug. 2022)
- Keywords: Visual Programming, Parallel Computing for Deep Learning
- Prototype of VIENCE Pathoview
Education
KAIST
- M.S. in Artificial Intelligence, Mar. 2024 ~ Feb. 2026 (Expected)
- GPA: 4.20 / 4.3
Sogang University
- B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering, Mar. 2017 ~ Feb. 2024 (Expected)
- GPA: 4.12 / 4.3 (Summa Cum Laude)
Sangsan High School
Honors and Awards
Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship Korea (QIFK) 2025 Finalist
- Selected as a finalist by Qualcomm AI Research (Oct. 2025)
- Two papers: PartCATSeg and 3D-Aware VLM Finetuning
Korean Presidential Science Scholarship for Graduate Students
- Awarded by the President of Korea (Jun. 2025)
2nd Place on Open Vocabulary Part Segmentation Challenge at CVPR 2024
- 2nd Place Winnder both on Track 1 and 2
- 4th workshop on Open World Vision at CVPR 2024
Excellence Award in 2023 POSTECH OIBC Challenge
- 3rd Place (3/120) in AI Competition of Solar Power Generation Forecasting (Dec. 2023)
2022 ICPC Asia Korea Regional Contest
- 48th in Korea, 62nd in Preliminary
Korea National Science and Technology Scholarship
- Spring 2019, Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023 (4 Semesters)
Dean’s List, Sogang University
- 1%: Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2022
- 5%: Fall 2018
Academic Activities
Reviewer
- 3DV 2026
Extra-Curricular Activities
Naver Boostcamp AI Tech 3rd
- Participated in courses and competitions hosted by Upstage
Skills
Languages
- Python, SQL, C++, C, JavaScript, Bash, PHP
Libraries & Frameworks
- PyTorch, TensorFlow, Node.js, OpenGL, CUDA
Tools
- Git, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Google Cloud, Shell, MLflow
Algorithm & Problem Solving
- Profile Links (Korean Leetcode)
Last updated: 24th, Oct. 2025