Hello, I'm Donghwan Kim

I am a Ph.D. student in Computer Vision and Learning Lab at KAIST advised by Prof. Tae-Kyun Kim.

My dream is making people (also including me) happy. I feel happy in tackling challenging problems and exploring innovative ways to solve them. To make people happy, I am interested in research topics that enhance entertainment experiences particularly in fields such as AR/VR, telepresence, and creative content generation. Recently, my research has focused on 3D human reconstruction and human mesh recovery/generation.

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Education

KAIST
Ph.D. student in Computer Science, advised by Prof. Tae-Kyun (T-K) Kim.

Spring 2025 - Current

KAIST
M.S. in Computer Science, advised by Prof. Tae-Kyun (T-K) Kim.

Spring 2023 - Spring 2025

KAIST
B.S. in Computer Science.

Spring 2018 - Fall 2022

News

Oct. 2024: MHCDIFF has been accepted to NeurIPS 2024.
Jul. 2023: HOGraspNet has been accepted to ECCV 2024.
Sep. 2023: FourierHandFlow has been accepted to NeurIPS 2023.

Publications

[Cofidential] Research about human mesh recovery/generation

Donghwan Kim, Tae-Kyun (T-K) Kim

ICCV, 2025 (Under review)

Multi-hypotheses Conditioned Point Cloud Diffusion for 3D Human Reconstruction from Occluded Images

Donghwan Kim, Tae-Kyun (T-K) Kim

NeurIPS, 2024

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Dense Hand-Object(HO) GraspNet with Full Grasping Taxonomy and Dynamics

Woojin Cho, Jihyun Lee, Minjae Yi, Minje Kim, Taeyun Woo, Donghwan Kim, Taewook Ha, Hyokeun Lee, Je-Hwan Ryu, Woontack Woo, Tae-Kyun (T-K) Kim

ECCV, 2024

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FourierHandFlow: Neural 4D Hand Representation Using Fourier Query Flow

Jihyun Lee, Junbong Jang, Donghwan Kim, Minhyuk Sung, Tae-Kyun (T-K) Kim

NeurIPS, 2023

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Employment

PLUME.D
• Part time Researcher at PLUME.D.
• Improved generalization of 2D-to-3D pose uplifting with training on synthetic random camera projection.
• Implemented video-based SMPL-X estimation pipeline with diffusion models.

Feb. 2023 - Dec. 2024
Seoul, Korea

PLUME.D
• Unity Developer at PLUME.D.
• Implemented avatar rendering service from 2.5D human body joints with single web cam in real-time.
• 1st place (of 876 teams), 11th Chung Ju-Young Startup Competition (the largest private startup contest in Korea).
• 2nd place (of 5,420 teams), K-Startup Grand Challenge 2022 (the largest government startup contest in Korea).

Jan. 2022 - Feb. 2023
Seoul, Korea

NCSOFT
• Research Intern in the Human pose team of Vision AI Lab.
• Implemented GUI tool for multi-view camera calibration and multi-view camera capture.

Mar. 2021 - Aug. 2021
Seongnam, Korea