Min H. Kim

Chair Professor

Dr. Min H. Kim (김민혁) is the KAIST ICT-Endowed Chair Professor of Computer Science at the KAIST School of Computing. He heads the Visual Computing Lab (VCLAB). Before joining KAIST, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Yale University. He obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from University College London (UCL). His research interests encompass computational imaging, computational photography, hyperspectral imaging, 3D imaging/reconstruction, and reflectance acquisition. His work has been acknowledged at prestigious conferences, including receiving a SIGGRAPH Technical Paper Award Honorable Mention in 2022. Aside from his research, he has held active roles in the academic community, such as serving as the Technical Paper Chair for Eurographics 2022 and the Course Chair for SIGGRAPH Asia 2022. Additionally, he has been a member of program committees for leading conferences such as SIGGRAPH, SIGGRAPH Asia, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, and Eurographics. Furthermore, his editorial experience includes serving as an associate editor for reputable journals in computer science, such as ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) and IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI). His full CV is [here].

• Computational imaging: hyperspectral imaging, 3D imaging

• 3D reconstruction: 3D geometry, BRDF acquisition

• Computational photography: color, image restoration

• Google Scholar, DBLP, Orcid, ACM DL, ResearchID, Scopus, Microsoft Academic, ResearchGate

• SIGGRAPH Technical Paper Award Honorable Mention 2022
  - Sparse Ellipsometry: Portable Acquisition of Polarimetric SVBRDF and Shape

• KAIST’s Top 10 Research Accomplishments 2021
  - Differentiable transient rendering for non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging

• KAIST Technology Innovation Excellence Award 2021
  - Awarded for excellence in academic research career

• S-Oil Excellent Thesis Award (Grand Prize in IT division) by Korea Academy of Science and Technology 2020
  - Awarded for both outstanding doctoral student and professor who educated his student

• KAIST Academic Award 2020
  - Awarded for excellence in academic research career

• KAIST Endowed Chair Professor
  - Appointed as KAIST Endowed Chair Professor for outstanding research career (KAIST, 2019--2022)

• National R&D Excellence 100 by the Ministry of Science and ICT of Korea, 2018
  - High-performance image acquisition technology for creating photorealistic imagery

• KAIST CORE Tech Transfer Day 2018
  - Compact hyperspectral imaging at low cost (also presented at ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2017) [link]

• KAIST Breakthroughs 2016 and 2018
  - Compact hyperspectral imaging at low cost, 2018 [link]
  - Birefractive stereo imaging, 2016 [link]

• KAIST’s Top 10 Research Accomplishments 2016
  - Birefractive stereo imaging for single-shot depth acquisition

• Best Paper Awards
  - Received Best Application Paper & Demo Awards for outstanding work on 3D imaging at ACCV 2014
  - Received a Best Paper Award for our work on open-source graphics software at VAST 2012

• Ewon Assistant Professorship
  - Appointed as Ewon Endowed Professor for outstanding young faculty (KAIST, 2013–2016)

• Naver Young Faculty Fellowship
  - Received a Naver Young Faculty Fellowship with a grant for outstanding new faculty, 2015
  

• Microsoft New Faculty Award in Korea
  - Received a Microsoft New Faculty Award with a grant for outstanding new faculty in Korea, 2013

• Conference Chair
  - Eurographics (EG), Technical Paper Chair 2022
  - ACM SIGGRAPH Asia, Course Chair 2022
  - ACM SIGGRAPH Asia, Technical Communications and Posters Co-Chair 2020
  - Pacific Graphics (PG), Program Co-Chair 2023
  

• Technical Paper Committee/Area Chair
  - ACM SIGGRAPH 2021, 2022, 2024, 2025
  - ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2017, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2023
  - IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2020, 2023, 2024, 2025
  - IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2019
  - European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2024
  - Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2024
  - Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2020, 2021
  - Eurographics (EG) 2018, 2019, 2025
  - Eurographics Symposium on Rendering (EGSR) 2021, 2022, 2023
  - Pacific Graphics (PG) 2013 -- 2021
  

• Associate Editor
  - IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI): 2024 -- Present
  - IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG): 2022 -- Present
  - ACM Transactions on Applied Perception (TAP): 2016 -- 2023
  - IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging (TCI): 2020 -- 2022
  - ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG): 2014 -- 2017
  

   •  Computer Graphics: SIGGRAPH/SIGGRAPH Asia

1. Hyunho Ha, Inseung Hwang, Nestor Monzon, Jaemin Cho, Donggun Kim, Seung-Hwan Baek, Adolfo Muñoz, Diego Gutierrez, Min H. Kim (2024), “Polarimetric BSSRDF Acquisition of Dynamic Faces,” ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), presented at SIGGRAPH Asia 2024, 43(6)
2. Shinyoung Yi, Donggun Kim, Jiwoong Na, Xin Tong, Min H. Kim (2024), “Spin-Weighted Spherical Harmonics for Polarized Light Transport,” ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), presented at SIGGRAPH 2024, 43(4)
3. Kiseok Choi, Inchul Kim, Dongyoung Choi, Julio Marco, Diego Gutierrez, Min H. Kim (2023), “Self-Calibrating, Fully Differentiable NLOS Inverse Rendering,” presented at SIGGRAPH Asia 2023
4. Inseung Hwang, Daniel S. Jeon, Adolfo Muñoz, Diego Gutierrez, Xin Tong, Min H. Kim (2022), “Sparse Ellipsometry: Portable Acquisition of Polarimetric SVBRDF and Shape With Unstructured Flash Photography,” ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), presented at SIGGRAPH 2022, 41(4)
5. Hyeonjoong Jang, Andréas Meuleman, Dahyun Kang, Donggun Kim, Christian Richardt, Min H. Kim (2022), “Egocentric Scene Reconstruction From an Omnidirectional Video,” ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), presented at SIGGRAPH 2022, 41(4)
6. Shinyoung Yi, Donggun Kim, Kiseok Choi, Adrian Jarabo, Diego Gutierrez, Min H. Kim (2021), “Differentiable Transient Rendering,” ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), presented at SIGGRAPH Asia 2021, 40(6)
7. Mustafa B. Yaldiz, Andreas Meuleman, Hyeonjoong Jang, Hyunho Ha, Min H. Kim (2021), “DeepFormableTag: End-to-end Generation and Recognition of Deformable Fiducial Markers,” ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), presented at SIGGRAPH 2021, 40(4)
8. Seung-Hwan Baek, Tizian Zeltner, Hyun Jin Ku, Inseung Hwang, Xin Tong, Wenzel Jakob, Min H. Kim (2020), “Image-Based Acquisition and Modeling of Polarimetric Reflectance,” ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), presented at SIGGRAPH 2020, 39(4)
9. Daniel S. Jeon, Seung-Hwan Baek, Shinyoung Yi, Qiang Fu, Xiong Dun, Wolfgang Heidrich, Min H. Kim (2019), “Compact Snapshot Hyperspectral Imaging with Diffracted Rotation,” ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), presented at SIGGRAPH 2019, 38(4), pp. 117:1--13
10. Giljoo Nam, Joo Ho Lee, Diego Gutierrez, Min H. Kim (2018), “Practical SVBRDF Acquisition of 3D Objects with Unstructured Flash Photography,” ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), presented at SIGGRAPH Asia 2018, 37(6), pp. 267:1--12
11. Seung-Hwan Baek, Daniel S. Jeon, Xin Tong, Min H. Kim (2018), “Simultaneous Acquisition of Polarimetric SVBRDF and Normals,” ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), presented at SIGGRAPH Asia 2018, 37(6), pp. 268:1--15
12. Joo Ho Lee, Adrian Jarabo, Daniel S. Jeon, Diego Gutierrez, Min H. Kim (2018), “Practical Multiple Scattering for Rough Surfaces,” ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), presented at SIGGRAPH Asia 2018, 37(6), pp. 275:1--12
13. Inchang Choi, Daniel S. Jeon, Giljoo Nam, Diego Gutierrez, Min H. Kim (2017), “High-Quality Hyperspectral Reconstruction Using a Spectral Prior,” ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), presented at SIGGRAPH Asia 2017, 36(6), pp. 218:1--13
14. Seung-Hwan Baek, Incheol Kim, Diego Gutierrez, Min H. Kim (2017), “Compact Single-Shot Hyperspectral Imaging Using a Prism,” ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), presented at SIGGRAPH Asia 2017, 36(6), pp. 217:1--12
15. Julio Marco, Quercus Hernandez, Adolfo Munoz, Yue Dong, Adrian Jarabo, Min H. Kim, Xin Tong, Diego Gutierrez (2017), “DeepToF: Off-the-Shelf Real-Time Correction of Multipath Interference in Time-of-Flight Imaging,” ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), to be presented at SIGGRAPH Asia 2017, 36(6), pp. 219:1--12
16. Giljoo Nam, Joo Ho Lee, Hongzhi Wu, Diego Gutierrez, Min H. Kim (2016), “Simultaneous Acquisition of Microscale Reflectance and Normals,” ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), presented at SIGGRAPH Asia 2016, 35(6), pp. 185:1–11
17. Seung-Hwan Baek, Diego Gutierrez, Min H. Kim (2016), “Birefractive Stereo Imaging for Single-Shot Depth Acquisition,” ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), presented at SIGGRAPH Asia 2016, 35(6), pp. 194:1–11
18. Min H. Kim, Todd Alan Harvey, David S. Kittle, Holly Rushmeier, Julie Dorsey, Richard O. Prum, David J. Brady (2012), “3D Imaging Spectroscopy for Measuring Hyperspectral Patterns on Solid Objects,” ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), presented at SIGGRAPH 2012, 31(4), pp. 38:1–11
19. Min H. Kim, Tobias Ritschel, Jan Kautz (2011), “Edge-Aware Color Appearance,” ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), presented at SIGGRAPH 2011, 30(2), pp. 13:1–9
20. Min H. Kim, Tim Weyrich, Jan Kautz (2009), “Modeling Human Color Perception under Extended Luminance Levels,” ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), presented at SIGGRAPH 2009, 28(3), pp. 27:1–9
21. Patrick Paczkowski, Min H. Kim, Yann Morvan, Julie Dorsey, Holly Rushmeier, Carol O’Sullivan (2011), “Insitu: Sketching Architectural Designs in Context,” ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), presented at SIGGRAPH Asia 2011, 30(6), pp. 182:1–10
22. Tobias Ritschel, Thorsten Grosch, Min H. Kim, Hans-Peter Seidel, Carsten Dachsbacher, Jan Kautz (2008), “Imperfect Shadow Maps for Efficient Computation of Indirect Illumination,” ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), presented at SIGGRAPH Asia 2008, 27(5), pp. 129:1–8

   •  Computer Vision: CVPR/ICCV/ECCV

1. Dongyoung Choi, Hyeonjoong Jang, Min H. Kim (2024) “OmniLocalRF: Omnidirectional Local Radiance Fields from Dynamic Videos,” Proc. IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2024), Seattle, United States, Jun. 17 – 21, 2024
2. Hakyeong Kim, Andreas Meuleman, Hyeonjoong Jang, James Tompkin, Min H. Kim (2024) “OmniSDF: Scene Reconstruction using Omnidirectional Signed Distance Functions and Adaptive Binoctrees,” Proc. IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2024), Seattle, United States, Jun. 17 – 21, 2024
3. Jungwoo Kim, Min H. Kim (2023) “Joint Demosaicing and Deghosting of Time-Varying Exposures for Snapshot HDR Imaging,” Proc. IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2023), Paris, France, Oct. 4 - 6, 2023
4. Donggun Kim, Hyeonjoong Jang, Inchul Kim, Min H. Kim (2023) “Spatio-Focal Bidirectional Disparity Estimation from a Dual-Pixel Image,” Proc. IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2023), Vancouver, Canada, Jun. 18 – 22, 2023
5. Daniel S. Jeon, Andreas Meuleman, Seung-Hwan Baek, Min H. Kim (2023) “Polarimetric iToF: Measuring High-Fidelity Depth through Scattering Media,” Proc. IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2023), Vancouver, Canada, Jun. 18 – 22, 2023
6. Andreas Meuleman, Yu-Lun Liu, Chen Gao, Jia-Bin Huang, Changil Kim, Min H. Kim, Johannes Kopf (2023) “Progressively Optimized Local Radiance Fields for Robust View Synthesis,” Proc. IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2023), Vancouver, Canada, Jun. 18 – 22, 2023
7. Andreas Meuleman, Hakyeong Kim, James Tompkin, Min H. Kim (2022) “FloatingFusion: Depth from ToF and Image-stabilized Stereo Cameras,” Proc. European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2022), Tel Aviv, Oct. 23 – 27, 2022
8. Donghun Kang, Hyeonjoong Jang, Jungeon Lee, Chong-Min Kyung, Min H. Kim (2022) “Uniform Subdivision of Omnidirectional Camera Space for Efficient Spherical Stereo Matching,” Proc. IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2022), New Orleans, USA, Jun. 19 - 24, 2022
9. Seung-Hwan Baek, Hayato Ikoma, Daniel S. Jeon, Yuqi Li, Wolfgang Heidrich, Gordon Wetzstein, Min H. Kim (2021) “Single-shot Hyperspectral-Depth Imaging with Learned Diffractive Optics,” Proc. IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2021), Montreal, Canada & Virtual, Oct. 11, 2021 – Oct. 17, 2021
10. Andreas Meuleman, Hyeonjoong Jang, Daniel S. Jeon, Min H. Kim (2021) “Real-Time Sphere Sweeping Stereo from Multiview Fisheye Images,” Proc. IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR Oral 2021), Nashville, Tennessee, USA, June 19–25, 2021
11. Hakyeong Kim, Andreas Meuleman, Daniel S. Jeon, Min H. Kim (2021) “High-Quality Stereo Image Restoration from Double Refraction,” Proc. IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2021), Nashville, Tennessee, USA, June 19–25, 2021
12. Hyunho Ha, Joo Ho Lee, Andreas Meuleman, Min H. Kim (2021) “NormalFusion: Real-Time Acquisition of Surface Normals for High-Resolution RGB-D Scanning,” Proc. IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2021), Nashville, Tennessee, USA, June 19–25, 2021
13. Numair Khan, Min H. Kim, James Tompkin (2021) “Differentiable Diffusion for Dense Depth Estimation from Multi-view Images,” Proc. IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2021), Nashville, Tennessee, USA, June 19–25, 2021
14. Joo Ho Lee, Hyunho Ha, Yue Dong, Xin Tong, Min H. Kim (2020) “TextureFusion: High-Quality Texture Acquisition for Real-Time RGB-D Scanning,” Proc. IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR Oral 2020), Seattle, WA, USA, June 14–19, 2020
15. Andreas Meuleman, Seung-Hwan Baek, Felix Heide, Min H. Kim (2020) “Single-shot Monocular RGB-D Imaging using Uneven Double Refraction,” Proc. IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR Oral 2020), Seattle, WA, USA, June 14–19, 2020
16. Inchang Choi, Orazio Gallo, Alejandro Troccoli, Min H. Kim, Jan Kautz (2019) “Extreme View Synthesis,” Proc. IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV Oral 2019), Seoul, Korea, Oct. 27–Nov. 2, 2019
17. Numair Khan, Qian Zhang, Lucas Kasser, Henry Stone, Min H. Kim, James Tompkin (2019) “View-consistent 4D Light Field Superpixel Segmentation,” Proc. IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV Oral 2019), Seoul, Korea, Oct. 27–Nov. 2, 2019
18. Giljoo Nam, Chenglei Wu, Min H. Kim, Yaser Sheik (2019) “Strand-accurate Multi-view Hair Capture,” Proc. IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR Oral 2019), Long Beach, CA, USA, June 16–20, 2019
19. Lizhi Wang, Chen Sun, Ying Fu, Min H. Kim, Huang Hua (2019) “Hyperspectral Image Reconstruction Using a Deep Spatial-Spectral Prior,” Proc. IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2019), Long Beach, CA, USA, June 16–20, 2019
20. Daniel S. Jeon, Seung-Hwan Baek, Inchang Choi, Min H. Kim (2018) “Enhancing the Spatial Resolution of Stereo Images using a Parallax Prior,” Proc. IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2018), Salt Lake City, USA, June 18, 2018
21. Joo Ho Lee, Inchang Choi, Min H. Kim (2016) “Laplacian Patch-Based Image Synthesis,” Proc. IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2016), Las Vegas, USA, June 26, 2016, pp. 2727–2735
22. Seung-Hwan Baek, Inchang Choi, Min H. Kim (2016) “Multiview Image Completion with Space Structure Propagation,” Proc. IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2016), Las Vegas, USA, June 26, 2016, pp. 488–496