Youngkyoon Jang, Ph.D.

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youngkyoonjang[at]huawei.com

I was a Senior Research Scientist & Sub-project Lead on the 3D Vision Team at Huawei Noah's Ark Lab London from November 2022 to April 2026. Prior to joining Huawei, I worked as a Software Engineer (Founding Research Specialist) at Disguise and as a postdoctoral researcher at Imperial College London, the University of Bristol, Queen Mary University of London, the University of Cambridge, and KAIST. I received my Ph.D. from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in August 2015 under the supervision of Woontack Woo (KAIST), co-advised by Tae-Kyun Kim (Imperial College London).
My research focused on visual sensing technologies to make interactions between humans and autonomous systems more intuitive in real-world environments. My work involved designing and collecting new datasets, modeling and analyzing visual attributes, understanding human behavior, and investigating decision-making fairness through visual computing and data analysis. With a strong foundation in computer science, I incorporated advanced machine learning and deep learning methodologies (including 3DGS, NeRF, 3D-VLMs, Transformers, and CNNs) applied to computer vision.

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News

11/06/2026: Redesigned site now open at [New Website].
20/02/2026: Got accepted to IEEE/CVF CVPR (Findings), Denver, CO, USA. [arXiv]
24/11/2025: Got accepted to Springer IJCV. [Project] [IJCV-SharedIt-PDF] [article] [demo]
11/08/2025: Got accepted to Springer IJCV. [article]
26/02/2025: Got accepted to IEEE/CVF CVPR, Nashville TN, USA. [Project] [arXiv] [open access]
12/12/2024, Invited talk at Department of AI, Korea University, S. Korea.
02/12/2024, Invited talk at Graduate School of AI, POSTECH, S. Korea.
09/10/2023: ILSH-VSCHH CodaLabs publicly open!! for new [Validation] and [Test] submissions.
02/10/2023: [ICCVW 2023 papers]: ILSH Dataset and VSCHH 2023 released.
15/05/2023, Opened 'To NeRF or not to NeRF: VSCHH Challenge' @ ICCV2023. [WS] [CodaLab]
01/11/2022, Joined 3D Vision Team at Huawei Noah's Ark Lab as a Senior Research Scientist.
10/06/2022, Invited talk at Global Mentoring Program, KIST--UST, S. Korea.
06/06/2022, Joined R&D Team at Disguise as a Software Engineer (Research Specialist).
26/05/2022, Released Message Passing Framework Code at the ICRA 2022.
15/02/2022, Invited talk at Graduate School of Culture Technology, KAIST, S. Korea.
31/01/2022, Got acceptance letter from IEEE ICRA, Philadelphia, USA. [Project] [Code] [pdf]
14/01/2022, Invited talk at Mokpo Hongil High School, S.Korea.
22/07/2021, Invited talk at HCI Research Center, Dankook University, S. Korea.
11/05/2021, Joined Personal Robotics Lab. in ISN Group at Imperial College London as an RA.
29/10/2020, Invited talk at Facebook Reality Labs, Redmond, US.
10/08/2020, Released EPIC-Tent 2019 Dataset [Teaser Video] [Dataset] [Annotation]
08/10/2019, Invited to serve on IEEE VR 2020 Conference Track Area Chair.
21/08/2019, Got acceptance letter from IEEE ICCV Workshop on EPIC, Seoul, S.Korea. [Project]
31/01/2019, Got acceptance letter from Elsevier CVIU. [Project]
15/11/2018, Invited to serve on IEEE VR 2019 Conference Track Area Chair.
21/05/2018, Joined Visual Information Lab. of Uni. of Bristol as a Senior (PostDoc) RA.
02/11/2017, Invited lecture at Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK.
25/08/2017, Got acceptance letter from IEEE ICCV Workshop on AMFG, Venice, Italy. [Project]
03/08/2017, Invited talk at Augmented Reality Research Centre, KAIST, S. Korea.
01/08/2017, Invited talk at Intelligent Image Processing Research Centre, KETI, S. Korea.
08/08/2016, Got acceptance letter from IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems. [Project]
01/07/2016, Won the best poster award at IEEE CVPR16 Workshop on HANDS, Las Vegas, USA, sponsored by Facebook/Oculus and Purdue University.
01/07/2016, Poster presentaion at IEEE CVPR16 Workshop on HANDS, Las Vegas, NV, USA.
23/05/2016, Joined MMV Group of Queen Mary University of London as a PostDoc.
04/05/2016, Invited talk at Graduate School of Culture Technology, KAIST, S. Korea.
29/04/2016, Invited talk at College of Inf. and Com. Eng., Daegu University, S. Korea.
26/04/2016, Invited talk at Realistic Information Platform Research Center, KETI, S.Korea.
25/04/2016, Best presentation award, APMR 16, Andong, S.Korea.
02/04/2016, Invited talk at NamDoHakSuk(NDHS), S.Korea.
01/02/2016, Invited talk at Max-Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany.
18/12/2015, Invited talk at Mokpo Hongil High School, S.Korea.
17/12/2015, Invited talk at VTouch Research Group, VTouch Inc., S.Korea.
12/11/2015, Invited lecture at GSCT Course (GCT555: 3D Interaction Design), KAIST, S.Korea.
15/10/2015, Invited talk at Korea Electric Power Research Institute, KEPCO, S.Korea.
06/09/2015, Full C.V. and research statement have been updated.
20/08/2015, Initiated new website.

Appointment

[11/2022 - 04/2026] Senior Research Scientist, 3D Vision Team, Noah's Ark Lab, Huawei.
[07/2023 - 12/2023] Academic visitor, Dept. of Computing, Imperial College London.
[06/2022 - 10/2022] Software Engineer (Research Specialist), R&D Team, Disguise.
[05/2021 - 06/2022] Research associate, Dept. of EEE, Imperial College London.
[05/2018 - 04/2021] Senior research associate, Dept. of CS, University of Bristol.
[06/2016 - 05/2018] Postdoc researcher, School of EE/CS, Queen Mary University of London.
[07/2016 - 05/2018] Visiting researcher, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge.
[08/2015 - 04/2016] Postdoc researcher, AHRC, CTRI, KAIST.
[2011, 2014, 2015] Visiting researcher, ISN Group, Dept. of EEE, Imperial College London.

Education

[02/2012 - 08/2015] Ph.D., Graduate School of Culture Technology, KAIST
[09/2008 - 02/2012] Coursework (Ph.D.) Completion, Information & Communication Eng., GIST
[03/2007 - 06/2008] Coursework (M.S.) Completion, Computer Science, SMU
[03/2003 - 02/2007] B.S., Computer Science, SMU