I’m Seongwon Lee, an assistant professor at the School of Electrical Engineering at Kookmin University. I am currently the principal investigator of the Computational Intelligence Lab (CILAB). Previously, I was a researcher in the Visual Intelligence Laboratory at ETRI. Before that, I received my Ph.D. and B.S. degrees in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Yonsei University in 2023 and 2016, respectively, advised by Professor Euntai Kim.

I am interested in building algorithms and machines that can understand the world and communicate with humans. My research focuses on learning deep networks that can solve a wide range of problems using a few general interfaces.

🎉 News

• (Apr 2025) 🧑🏻‍🏫 Giving an invited talk about Neural 3D Reconstruction @ KETI.
• (Mar 2025) 🧑🏻‍🏫 Giving an invited talk about Image Matching and 3D Vision Research @ ETRI.
• (Feb 2025) 📃 One paper is accepted to ICRA 2025.
• (Nov 2024) 📃 One paper is accepted to IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI) (IF: 20.6, JCR Top 1%).
• (Oct 2024) 📃 One paper is accepted to IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles (TIV) (IF: 14.0, JCR Top 2%).
• (Oct 2024) 📃 One paper is accepted to IEEE Access (IF: 3.4, JCR Top 40%).
• (Aug 2024) 🏫 I am starting my assistant professorship in Kookmin University.
• (Jul 2024) 📃 One paper is accepted to ECCVW 2024.
• (Jan 2024) 🧑🏻‍🏫 Giving an invited talk about recent computer vision research trends @ Yonsei University. [slide]
• (Oct 2023) 🧑🏻‍🏫 Giving an invited talk about image retrieval @ Jeonbuk National University. [slide]
• (Aug 2023) 📃 One paper is accepted to BMVC 2023.
• (Feb 2023) 📃 One paper is accepted to CVPR 2023.
• (Nov 2022) 🎉 I won the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship 2022.
• (Oct 2022) 🎉 I won the Excellence Vision Research Award at the 1ˢᵗ Yonsei AI Workshop.
• (Mar 2022) 🎉 A “Correlation Verification for Image Retrieval” paper has been selected for Oral presentation in CVPR 2022.
• (Mar 2022) 📃 Two papers are accepted to CVPR 2022.
• (Jul 2021) 📃 One paper is accepted to ICCV 2021.

📚 Selected Publications

Google Scholar full list, ^† denotes corresponding author

• Fast Global Localization on Neural Radiance Field
  

  Mangyu Kong, Jaewon Lee, Seongwon Lee^†, Euntai Kim^†
  IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 2025
  [arXiv]

• Correlation Verification for Image Retrieval and Its Memory Footprint Optimization
  

  Seongwon Lee, Hongje Seong, Suhyeon Lee, Euntai Kim^†
  Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), Mar 2025
  [paper]

• Location-Aware Transformer Network for Bird’s Eye View Semantic Segmentation
  

  Suhan Woo, Minseong Park, Youngjo Lee, Seongwon Lee, Euntai Kim^†
  Accepted, Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles (TIV), Oct 2024
  [paper]

• Language-only Efficient Prompt Learning for Zero-shot Composed Image Retrieval
  

  Seongwon Lee, Yong-Ju Lee^†
  European Conference on Computer Vision Workshop (ECCVW (Green-FOMO Workshop)), Oct 2024
  

• RoomNeRF: Representing Empty Room as Neural Radiance Fields for View Synthesis
  

  Mangyu Kong, Seongwon Lee, Euntai Kim^†
  The British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), Nov 2023
  [page] [paper] [supp] [poster] [video]

• Revisiting Self-Similarity: Structural Embedding for Image Retrieval
  

  Seongwon Lee, Suhyeon Lee, Hongje Seong, Euntai Kim^†
  IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Jun 2023
  [page] [paper] [supp] [poster] [video]  

• Correlation Verification for Image Retrieval
  

  Seongwon Lee, Hongje Seong, Suhyeon Lee, Euntai Kim^†
  IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Jun 2022
  Selected as an Oral Presentation (Oral Presentation Acceptance Rate: 342/8161 ≈ 4.2%)
  Winner at Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship 2022
  Excellence Vision Research Award at 1ˢᵗ Yonsei AI Workshop
  Encouragement Award at 2023-1 Graduate School of Yonsei University Thesis Award
  [page] [paper] [supp] [poster] [video] [slide] [arXiv]  

• WildNet: Learning Domain Generalized Semantic Segmentation from the Wild
  

  Suhyeon Lee, Hongje Seong, Seongwon Lee, Euntai Kim^†
  IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Jun 2022
  Finalist at Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship 2022
  [page] [paper] [supp] [arXiv]  

• Hierarchical Memory Matching Network for Video Object Segmentation
  

  Hongje Seong, Seoung Wug Oh, Joon-Young Lee, Seongwon Lee, Suhyeon Lee, Euntai Kim^†
  IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Oct 2021
  [page] [paper] [supp] [arXiv]  

🎖 Honors and Awards

• (Jul 2023) 2023-1 Graduate School of Yonsei University Thesis Award (2023)
  • Encouragement Award - Correlation Verification for Image Retrieval (CVPR 2022)
• (Nov 2022) Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship 2022
  • Winner ($4,000) - Correlation Verification for Image Retrieval (CVPR 2022)
• (Oct 2022) 1st Yonsei AI Workshop (2022)
  • Excellence Vision Research Award - Correlation Verification for Image Retrieval (CVPR 2022)

💼 Projects

• (Aug 2023 - Aug 2024) Development of AI Autonomy and Knowledge Enhancement for AI Agent Collaboration
  • Funding from Information & Communications Technology Promotion (IITP)
• (Apr 2022 - Dec 2022) Development of Deep Learning-Based Fine-Matching Technology using ToF Depth Sensor
  • Funding from LG Electronics
• (May 2021- Dec 2021) Development of Deep Learning-Based Image Retrieval Technology using ToF Depth Sensor
  • Funding from LG Electronics
• (Apr 2020 - Feb 2021) Development of Front-Down SLAM Technology Based on ToF Depth Sensor
  • Funding from LG Electronics
• (Apr 2019 - Dec 2019) Development of Depth Map Generation Technology using Continuous Stereo Images
  • Funding from Hyundai AutoEver
• (Oct 2017 - Feb 2019) Development of Integration Module Technology for Localization and Autonomous Driving Control Based on Multi-modal Sensor for Wheel Drive Service Robot
  • Funding from the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (MOTIE)
• (Oct 2016 - Oct 2017) Development of Robot Autonomous Driving Technology using Laser Scanner
  • Funding from Hitachi-LG Data Storage
• (May 2016 - Apr 2020) Development of Robot Intelligence Technology for Mobility with Learning Capability toward Robust and Seamless Indoor and Outdoor Autonomous Navigation
  • Funding from the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (MOTIE)

💻 Academic Services

• Invited Talks
  • (Apr 2025) Match and Extend: Visual Based Matching and 3D Reconstruction
    • Korea Electronics Technology Institute (KETI)
  • (Mar 2025) Neural Rendering: NeRF and 3D Gaussian Splatting
    • Electronics and Telecommunication Research Institute (ETRI)
  • (Jan 2024) Recent Advances in Computer Vision: Foundation Models, Vision-Language Models and 3D Neural Representations [slide]
    • School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Yonsei University
  • (Oct 2023) Introduction to Image Retrieval: Local Features & beyond [slide]
    • Department of Electronic Engineering, Jeonbuk National University
• Reviewer
  • Conference
    • IEEE/CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR)
    • European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)
    • IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
    • IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
    • IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (IROS)
    • Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV)
  • Journal
    • IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI)
    • IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE)
    • International Journal of Control, Automation and Systems (IJCAS)