Kimin Yun
Scholar

Kimin Yun

Google Scholar ID: fcVfLCkAAAAJ
Senior Researcher, ETRI
Computer VisionMachine Learning
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
2,109
 
H-index
16
 
i10-index
20
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
33
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Reasoning-augmented Vision-Language Models for Improved Competency in Scene Text Recognition, ICCE Asia, 2025
  • Task-Adaptive Open-Set Detection with Prompt-Tuned Adaptors, IEEE AVSS, 2025
  • CoT-Segmenter: Enhancing OOD Detection in Dense Road Scenes via Chain-of-Thought Reasoning, IEEE AVSS, 2025
  • Distributional Uncertainty for Out-of-Distribution Detection, IEEE AVSS, 2025
  • Task-Specific Adaptation of Segmentation Foundation Model via Prompt Learning, ECCVW, 2024
  • Training-Free OOD Object Detection Leveraging Pre-Trained Segmentation Model Competency, ICTC, 2024
  • Background memory-assisted zero-shot video object segmentation for unmanned aerial and ground vehicles, ETRI Journal, 2023
  • Face Shape-Guided Deep Feature Alignment for Face Recognition Robust to Face Misalignment, IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science, 2022
  • SWAG-Net: Semantic Word-Aware Graph Network for Temporal Video Grounding, CIKM, 2022
  • Localization Uncertainty Estimation for Anchor-Free Object Detection, ECCVW, 2022
  • Occluded Pedestrian-Attribute Recognition for Video Sensors Using Group Sparsity, [Incomplete]
Research Experience
  • Involves national R&D projects at ETRI focusing on both foundational technologies and applied research in computer vision and machine learning. Strives to bridge the gap between theoretical advancements and their practical implementations in both research at ETRI and teaching at UST.
Education
  • Received a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Seoul National University in 2010. Completed an integrated Master's and Ph.D. program in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Seoul National University under the supervision of Prof. Jin Young Choi in 2017.
Background
  • A senior researcher at the Visual Intelligence Lab at the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) in South Korea. Since 2025, also serving as an Associate Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Science and Technology (UST). Research interests focus on improving human life through smarter, more beneficial vision systems, particularly in developing practical applications for real-world challenges.