I am a Research Officer at the Agency for Defense Development, Korea's national defense R&D agency (akin to DARPA), and a First Lieutenant in the Republic of Korea Army. I received my B.S. from DGIST's interdisciplinary program, concentrating in Computer Science & Engineering.
Research Interests
My research lies at the intersection of computer vision and robotics, aiming to enable agents to generalize to novel scenarios and execute long-horizon tasks. I am currently developing unified representations that integrate dynamic 3D geometry with open-world semantics.
My research encompasses three key areas:
1. Spatiotemporal Scene Representations (Ongoing)
: Modeling scene dynamics from online observations
2. Vision-Language Representations [ECCV 2024]
: Learning open-world semantic representations that enable generalization
3. Implicit Neural Representations [CVPR 2023]
: Reconstructing continuous scene representations from sensor data
Publications
Ongoing Projects
Active
4D Neural Implicit Mapping
We build dense representations to jointly encode geometric structure and high-level semantics of dynamic environments.
Under review (2025)
Aligning Forest and Trees in Images and Long Captions for Cross-Domain Grounding
Byeongju Woo, Zilin Wang, Byeonghyun Pak, Sangwoo Mo, Stella X. Yu
We propose a hierarchical vision-language model that enables fine-grained multimodal understanding without extra annotations.
Experience
Agency for Defense Development (ADD)
Mar 2023 – PresentResearch Officer for National Defense
Manager: Dr. Eunjin Koh/Advisor: Dr. Hoseong Kim
- Developed object detection models for surveillance UAVs
- Worked on domain generalization with vision-language models [ECCV 2024]
- Worked on image & video diffusion models [NeurIPS 2025]
Image Processing Laboratory @ DGIST
Dec 2021 – Feb 2023Undergraduate Research Intern
Advisor: Prof. Kyong Hwan Jin
- Worked on implicit neural representations (INRs) for super-resolution [CVPR 2023]
Education
Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST)
B.S. in Engineering, School of Undergraduate StudiesFeb 2019 – Feb 2023
University of California, Berkeley (UCB)
Summer Visiting StudentJul 2019 – Aug 2019