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

  • May. 2026: PhysHanDI has been accepted to ICML 2026.
  • 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

PhysHanDI: Physics-Based Reconstruction of Hand-Deformable Object Interactions

PhysHanDI: Physics-Based Reconstruction of Hand-Deformable Object Interactions

Jihyun Lee, Changmin Lee, Donghwan Kim, Tae-Kyun (T-K) Kim
ICML, 2026

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LieHMR: Autoregressive Human Mesh Recovery with SO(3) Diffusion

LieHMR: Autoregressive Human Mesh Recovery with SO(3) Diffusion

Donghwan Kim, Tae-Kyun (T-K) Kim
arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.25739

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

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

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

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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Reviewer

  • NeurIPS: 2025, 2026
  • AAAI: 2026