Taeyeop lee

Taeyeop Lee

Ph.D. Candidate

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

taeyeop.trevor [at] gmail.com

About me

I am a Ph.D. student co-advised by Prof. Kuk-Jin Yoon and Prof. In So Kweon. I obtained my B.S. from Kwangwoon University (2019) and M.S. from KAIST (2021). I have been fortunate to collaborate with NVIDIA Research (2022) and Adobe Research (2023).

My research focuses on understanding 3D worlds through geometry and semantics, specifically in Computer Vision and Robotics. Ultimately, my long-term goal is to create tools that can help people turn thoughts into reality.

Experience

Adobe Research, San Jose, CA
May 2023 - Aug. 2023
Research Intern, Creative Media Lab
Mentors: Jae Shin Yoon, Sai Bi, Yilin Wang, Yijun Li
NVIDIA Research, Redmond, WA (Remote)
Mar. 2022 - Sep. 2022
Research Intern, Learning and Perception Research Team
Mentors: Stan Birchfield, Jonathan Tremblay, Valts Blukis, Bowen Wen
PeopleSpace, Irvine, CA
Dec. 2018 - Feb. 2019
Intern
RO:BIT, Seoul, South Korea
Sep. 2015 - Dec. 2018
Research Assistant, Robot Sports Game Team
Advisor: Jin-Oh Kim

Education

Ph.D. candidate in Robotics, KAIST
Mar. 2021 - Present
M.S. in Robotics, KAIST
Mar. 2019 - Feb. 2021
B.S. in Robotics, Kwangwoon University
Mar. 2015 - Feb. 2019

Publications

Stable Surface Regularization for Fast Few-Shot NeRF
Byeongin Joung, Byeong-Uk Lee, Jaesung Choe, Ukcheol Shin, Minjun Kang, Taeyeop Lee, In So Kweon, Kuk-Jin Yoon
International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV), 2024
[Preprint]

TTA-COPE: Test-Time Adaptation for Category-Level Object Pose Estimation
Taeyeop Lee, Jonathan Tremblay, Valts Blukis, Bowen Wen, Byeong-Uk Lee, Inkyu Shin,
Stan Birchfield, In So Kweon, Kuk-Jin Yoon
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2023
[Project] [Paper] [Preprint] [Video]

One-Shot Neural Fields for 3D Object Understanding
Valts Blukis, Taeyeop Lee, Jonathan Tremblay, Bowen Wen, In So Kweon, Kuk-Jin Yoon, Dieter Fox, Stan Birchfield
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshop (CVPRW), 2023
XRNeRF: Advances in NeRF for the Metaverse
[Project] [Preprint] [Video]

UDA-COPE: Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Category-level Object Pose Estimation
Taeyeop Lee, Byeong-Uk Lee, Inkyu Shin, Jaesung Choe, Ukcheol Shin, In So Kweon, Kuk-Jin Yoon
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2022
[Project] [Paper] [Preprint]

Category-Level Metric Scale Object Shape and Pose Estimation
Taeyeop Lee, Byeong-Uk Lee, Myungchul Kim, In So Kweon
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2021
[Paper] [Preprint]

Robust Manipulation by Visual Learning
Taeyeop Lee, Philipp Benz, Myungchul Kim, In So Kweon
International Workshop on Frontiers of Computer Vision (IW-FCV), 2020
Best Demo Presentation Award
[Video] [Poster] [Certificate]

VectorNet: 6-DOF Pose Estimation in Occlusion
Taeyeop Lee
Dec. 2019
[Video] [Report]

Awards & Honors

2nd Place, KAIST EE Graduate School Futsal Competition, Oct. 2023
Finalist, Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship Korea, Nov. 2022 [Certificate]
International Elite Summer School - Robotics and Entrepreneurship (SDU), Aug. 2022 [Certificate]
Best Demo Presentation Award, Robust Manipulation by Visual Learning (IW-FCV), Feb. 2020 [Video] [Poster] [Certificate]
Achievement Award, Kwangwoon University, Feb. 2019 [Certificate]
Special Technology Award, R-BIZ Challenge TURTLEBOT3 AUTORACE (ROBOTIS), Nov. 2018 [Certificate]
Gold Prize, Sumo Robot, International Robot Contest (MOTIE), Oct. 2018 [Certificate]
President Award, R-BIZ DST Robot Multi-Mission Challenge, Sept. 2017 [Certificate]
2nd Place, RoboCup World Open Teen-Size Humanoid Soccer League Technical Challenge, July 2017 [Video] [Press] [Certificate]
5th Place, RoboCup Iran Open Rescue, Apr. 2017 [Report] [Certificate]
1st Place, RoboCup Korea Open Rescue, Feb. 2017 [Press] [Certificate]
Silver Prize, Intelligent Humanoid Robot Sports Competition, International Robot Contest (MOTIE), Oct. 2016 [Press] [Certificate]
Special Technology Award, National AI Robot Competition (Kyungnam University), Aug. 2016 [Video] [Certificate]
Silver Prize, Sumo Robot, International Robot Contest (KIPO), Nov. 2015 [Certificate]
Grand Award, TRIZ Competition for Creative Engineering Design (Kwangwoon University), Oct. 2015 [Certificate]
Creative Design Award, Engineering Contest (Kwangwoon University), May 2015 [Certificate]

Activities

Reviewer at CVPR, NeurIPS, ICRA
Pay it forward, 2018 - Present [Project]
RO:BIT, President, 2017 [Interview]
Teacher, Robot Program, 2016 - 2018
Organizer, K-Robot Competition with RO:BIT, 2015 - 2018