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Youngjoong Kwon


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I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Emory University, where I lead the Emory Vision and Graphics Lab (EVGL).

Previously, I was a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford Translational AI (STAI) Lab and Stanford Vision and Learning (SVL) Lab, advised by Professor Ehsan Adeli. I was also a postdoctoral fellow at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, advised by Professor Fernando de la Torre. I received my Ph.D. from the Department of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, advised by Professor Henry Fuchs.

My research lies at the intersection of computer vision and computer graphics, with a focus on human digitization, 3D reconstruction, AR/VR and telepresence.

Contact

  • youngjoong.kwon [at] emory [dot] edu

Education

  • PhD in Computer Science, 2023

    University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States

  • BS in Computer Science, 2017

    Yonsei University, Korea

Publications

  • GenFusion: Feed-forward Human Performance Capture via Progressive Canonical Space Updates

    Youngjoong Kwon, Yao He, Heejung Choi, Chen Geng, Zhengmao Liu Jiajun Wu, Ehsan Adeli

    ICLR 2026

    [ project / paper / code ]

  • GAS: Generative Avatar Synthesis from a Single Image

    Yixing Lu, Junting Dong, Youngjoong Kwon, Qin Zhao, Bo Dai, and Fernando De la Torre

    ICCV 2025

    [ project / paper / code ]

  • Generalizable Human Gaussians for Sparse View Synthesis

    Youngjoong Kwon, Baole Fang∗, Yixing Lu∗, Haoye Dong, Cheng Zhang, Francisco Vicente Carrasco, Albert Mosella-Montoro, Jianjin Xu, Shingo Takagi, Daeil Kim, Aayush Prakash, and Fernando De la Torre

    ECCV 2024

    [ project / paper / code ]

  • Bringing Telepresence to Every Desk

    Shengze Wang, Ziheng Wang, Ryan Schmelzle, Liuejie Zheng, YoungJoong Kwon, Soumyadip Sengupta, Henry Fuchs

    TVCG 2024

    [ project / paper / code ]

  • DELIFFAS: Deformable Light Fields for Fast Avatar Synthesis

    Youngjoong Kwon, Lingjie Liu, Henry Fuchs, Marc Habermann, Christian Theobalt

    NeurIPS 2023

    [ project / paper / code ]

  • Neural Image-based Avatars: Generalizable Radiance Fields for Human Avatar Modeling

    Youngjoong Kwon, Dahun Kim, Duygu Ceylan, Henry Fuchs

    ICLR 2023

    [ project / paper / code ]

  • Tailor Me: An Editing Network for Fashion Attribute Shape Manipulation

    Youngjoong Kwon, Stefano Petrangeli, Dahun Kim, Haoliang Wang, Vishy Swaminathan, Henry Fuchs

    WACV 2022

    [ paper / dataset ]

  • Neural Human Performer: Learning Generalizable Radiance Fields for Human Performance Rendering

    Youngjoong Kwon, Dahun Kim, Duygu Ceylan, Henry Fuchs

    NeurIPS 2021 Spotlight presentation (Acceptance: < 3.0%)

    [ project / paper / code ]

  • Rotationally-Consistent Novel View Synthesis for Humans

    Youngjoong Kwon, Stefano Petrangeli, Dahun Kim, Haoliang Wang, Henry Fuchs, Vishy Swaminathan

    MM 2020

    [ paper / dataset ]

  • Rotationally-Temporally Consistent Novel-View Synthesis of Human Performance Video

    Youngjoong Kwon, Stefano Petrangeli, Dahun Kim, Haoliang Wang, Eunbyung Park, Vishy Swaminathan, Henry Fuchs

    ECCV 2020 Spotlight presentation (Acceptance: 265/5025 ≈ 5.3%)

    [ paper / dataset / code ]

  • Real-time Animation of Rain-wet Cloth Material

    Youngjoong Kwon, Daeyong Kim, Inkwon Lee

    CASA 2017

    [ paper ]

Grants

  • PI, University Research Committee (URC) Grant, Emory University, $30,000, 2026
  • PI, Program to Enhance Research and Scholarship (PERS), Emory University, $12,000, 2026

Awards & Honors

  • Bronze Prize, 27th HumanTech Paper Award, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 2022

Academic Activities

Area Chair

  • 3DV 2026

Reviewer

  • CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, NeurIPS, ICML, SIGGRAPH ASIA, TOG, 3DV, VR, ICLR

Organizer

  • CVPR 2026 PhysHuman Workshop

Invited Talk

  • Deep Representations for Affordable and Efficient Human Digitization
    • The University of British Columbia (UBC), hosted by Prof. Helge Rhodin
    • Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS), hosted by Prof. Yuliang Xiu
    • Stanford University, hosted by Prof. Gordon Wetzstein
    • Adobe Research, hosted by Dr. Yi Zhou
    • NVIDIA Research, hosted by Dr. Umar Iqbal
    • Texas A&M University, hosted by Prof. Cheng Zhang
    • Brown University, hosted by Prof. James Tompkin
    • Seoul National University Hospital, hosted by Dr. Jaewon Choi
    • MyoSuite, hosted by Hokin Deng