Yu-Ji Kim

I am a Ph.D. student at POSTECH. I have worked on building realistic 3D worlds to enable holistic scene understanding. My research interests are on 3D reconstruction, generation, and understanding, but not limited to.

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News

02/2026: I'll start a research internship at NVIDIA Research Taiwan.
10/2025: I have been selected as an Outstanding Reviewer (Top 3%) at ICCV 2025.
03/2025: 1 paper has been accepted to CVPR 2025.
11/2024: Our paper MeTTA won the Best Poster Award at BMVC 2024.
07/2024: 1 paper has been accpted to BVMC 2024.
07/2023: 1 paper has been accepted to ICCV 2023.
07/2022: 1 paper has been accepted to ECCV 2022.

Research

	GaussExplorer: 3D Gaussian Splatting for Embodied Exploration and Reasoning Kim Yu-Ji, Dahye Lee, Kim Jun-Seong, GeonU Kim, Nam Hyeon-Woo, Yongjin Kwon, Yu-Chiang Frank Wang, Jaesung Choe, Tae-Hyun Oh arXiv, 2026 Project Page / arXiv 3D scene understanding and embodied reasoning by integrating 3DGS and VLMs.
	Dr. Splat: Directly Referring 3D Gaussian Splatting via Direct Language Embedding Registration Kim Jun-Seong, GeonU Kim, Kim Yu-Ji, Yu-Chiang Frank Wang, Jaesung Choe^†, Tae-Hyun Oh^† CVPR, 2025 Project Page / Video / arXiv - Accepted as a highlight paper - Winner of Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship 2025 Korea Direct 3D-aware feature embedding with 3DGS.
	MeTTA: Single-View to 3D Textured Mesh Reconstruction with Test-Time Adaptation Kim Yu-Ji, Hyunwoo Ha, Kim Youwang, Jaeheung Surh, Hyowon Ha^†, Tae-Hyun Oh^† BMVC, 2024 Project Page / Video / arXiv - Best Poster Award at BMVC 2024 Single view to 3D object reconstruction with realistic PBR textures.
	Scratching Visual Transformer's Back with Uniform Attention Nam Hyeon-Woo, Kim Yu-Ji, Byeongho Heo, Dongyoon Han, Seong Joon Oh, Tae-Hyun Oh ICCV, 2023 Project Page / Video / arXiv Infusing dense attention splits the responsibility of interactions; the burden of interactions of self-attention is reduced.
	HDR-Plenoxels: Self-Calibrating High Dynamic Range Radiance Fields Kim Jun-Seong, Kim Yu-Ji*, Moon Ye-Bin, Tae-Hyun Oh ECCV*, 2022 Project Page / Video / arXiv High dynamic range (HDR) radiance fields that learn a plenoptic function of 3D HDR radiance fields, geometry information, and varying camera settings inherent in 2D low dynamic range (LDR) images.

Experience

NVIDIA, Taipei, Taiwan

Feb 2026 - Present

Research scientist internship (Manager: Jaesung Choe)
POSTECH, Pohang, Korea

Sep 2021 - Present

Ph.D. candidate (Advisor: Tae-Hyun Oh)

Honors & Awards

Outstanding Reviewer, ICCV 2025
Best Poster Award, BMVC 2024

Invited Talks

HDR-Plenoxels: High Dynamic Range Radiance Fields, Google ExploreCSR Workshop on POSTECH, Korea, 2023

Academic Services

Conference reviewer: ICCV [Outstanding Reviewer in 2025], ICLR, CVPR, AAAI, BMVC, WACV
Journal reviewer: TVCJ

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