Jihyun Lee

News

• Sep 2026Retrieval Heads Meet Vision is accepted to NeurIPS 2026.
• Jun 2026AffordGen is accepted to ECCV 2026.
• Apr 2026PhysHanDI is accepted to ICML 2026.
• Mar 2026LCA is accepted to CVPR 2026.
• Sep 2025I joined Meta as an AI Research Scientist.
• Sep 2025MPMAvatar and ORIGEN are accepted to NeurIPS 2025. Both papers were led by new MSc students, whom I helped as a mentor.
• Aug 2025I'll be giving an invited talk at the HANDS Workshop at ICCV 2025.
• Jul 2025I'll be giving a talk at the Doctoral Consortium and presenting an invited poster on REWIND at KCCV 2025.
• Jul 2025SCGen is accepted to ICCV 2025. Congratulations to the lead author, Take!
• Jun 2025I'm attending CVPR 2025 to present REWIND. I'll also be presenting an invited poster at the EgoVis Workshop.
• Jun 2025Successfully defended my Ph.D.! I sincerely thank Prof. Tae-Kyun Kim, Prof. Minhyuk Sung, Prof. Seunghoon Hong, Prof. Hanbyul Joo, and Prof. Gyeongsik Moon for serving on my thesis committee.

Publications

* Full publication list is available in my CV.

Retrieval Heads Meet Vision: Uncovering How VLMs Locate and Extract Visual Information

Chanho Park, Daehyeon Choi, Jihyun Lee, Minhyuk Sung

NeurIPS 2026

Project Paper

Affordance-Guided Diffusion Prior for 3D Hand Reconstruction

Naru Suzuki, Takehiko Ohkawa, Tatsuro Banno, Jihyun Lee, Ryosuke Furuta, Yoichi Sato

ECCV 2026

Project Paper

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

Jihyun Lee*, Changmin Lee*, Donghwan Kim, Tae-Kyun Kim (* equal contributions)

ICML 2026

Project Paper

Large-Scale Codec Avatars: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Large-Scale Avatar Pretraining

Large-Scale Codec Avatars Team, Meta

CVPR 2026

Project Paper

MPMAvatar: Learning 3D Gaussian Avatars with Accurate and Robust Physics-Based Dynamics

Changmin Lee, Jihyun Lee, Tae-Kyun Kim

NeurIPS 2025

Mentored the lead student's first MSc research project

Project Paper Code

ORIGEN: Zero-Shot 3D Orientation Grounding in Text-to-Image Generation

Yunhong Min*, Daehyeon Choi*, Kyeongmin Yeo, Jihyun Lee, Minhyuk Sung (* equal contributions)

NeurIPS 2025

Mentored the lead student's first MSc research project

Project Paper Code

Generative Modeling of Shape-Dependent Self-Contact Human Poses

Takehiko Ohkawa, Jihyun Lee, Shunsuke Saito, Jason Saragih, Fabian Prada, Yichen Xu, Shoou-I Yu, Ryosuke Furuta, Yoichi Sato, Takaaki Shiratori

ICCV 2025

Project Paper

REWIND: Real-Time Egocentric Whole-Body Motion Diffusion with Exemplar-Based Identity Conditioning

Jihyun Lee, Weipeng Xu, Alexander Richard, Shih-En Wei, Shunsuke Saito, Shaojie Bai, Te-Li Wang, Minhyuk Sung, Tae-Kyun Kim, Jason Saragih

CVPR 2025

Project Paper

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 Kim

ECCV 2024

Project Paper Code

InterHandGen: Two-Hand Interaction Generation via Cascaded Reverse Diffusion

Jihyun Lee, Shunsuke Saito, Giljoo Nam, Minhyuk Sung, Tae-Kyun Kim

CVPR 2024

Project Paper Code

FourierHandFlow: Neural 4D Hand Representation Using Fourier Query Flow

Jihyun Lee, Junbong Jang, Donghwan Kim, Minhyuk Sung, Tae-Kyun Kim

NeurIPS 2023

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Im2Hands: Learning Attentive Implicit Representation of Interacting Two-Hand Shapes

Jihyun Lee, Minhyuk Sung, Honggyu Choi, Tae-Kyun Kim

CVPR 2023

Project Paper Code Presentation Poster

Contrastive Knowledge Distillation for Anomaly Detection in Multi-Illumination/Focus Display Images

Hangil Park*, Jihyun Lee*, Yongmin Seo, Taewon Min, Joodong Yun, Jaewon Kim, Tae-Kyun Kim (* equal contributions)

MVA 2023 (oral)

Paper

Pop-Out Motion: 3D-Aware Image Deformation via Learning Shape Laplacian

Jihyun Lee*, Minhyuk Sung*, Hyunjin Kim, Tae-Kyun Kim (* equal contributions)

CVPR 2022

Project Paper Code Presentation Poster

Face Parsing from RGB and Depth Using Cross-Domain Mutual Learning

Jihyun Lee, Binod Bhattarai, Tae-Kyun Kim

CVPRW 2021 (oral)

Paper Dataset

Fast DCTTS: Efficient Deep Convolutional Text-to-Speech

Minsu Kang, Jihyun Lee, Simin Kim, Injung Kim

ICASSP 2021

Paper

Academic Activities

Reviewer

• Computer Vision: CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, IJCV, etc.
• Machine Learning: ICLR, NeurIPS, ICML, AAAI
• Computer Graphics: SIGGRAPH, SIGGRAPH Asia, PG

Invited Talk

• HANDS Workshop @ ICCV 2025

Student Organizer

• Google exploreCSR Workshops @ KAIST

Awards & Honors

• Outstanding Reviewer 2024, ECCV
• Outstanding TA Award 2022, KAIST
  Awarded to TAs who earned the highest ratings on KAIST CS student survey
• Excellence Award (Mayoral Award) at Korea Software Convergence Hackathon 2019
  Developed an automatic traffic light control system based on reinforcement learning
• Honorable Mention Award at Undergraduate Student Paper Competition 2019, KSC & KCC
  Proposed a method to reduce blocking effects of DCT-based X-ray grid line suppression
• Silver Prize at Undergraduate Student Paper Competition 2018, KIPS
  Proposed a DCT-based X-ray grid line suppression method using dynamic segmentation