ABOUT

I’m a Ph.D. student at ACSL @ GIST AI, advised by Prof. Ue-Hwan Kim. My research lies at the intersection of computer vision and robotics, with a focus on learning effective 2D/3D scene representations for embodied perception and reasoning. I investigate how fine-grained visual perception can be transformed into structured, geometrically grounded, and semantically rich representations that support robotic reasoning, planning, and interaction. Ultimately, I aim to bridge perception and high-level reasoning, enabling robots to build task-relevant world models and operate robustly in complex real-world environments.

* Keywords: 2D/3D Scene Understanding, Robotic AI, Representation Learning

Publications

• OP3DSG: Open-vocabulary Part-aware 3D Scene Graph Generation for Real-world Environments
  Yirum Kim, Ue-Hwan Kim^†
  European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2026 [Project][Paper][Code]

• MA3DSG: Multi-Agent 3D Scene Graph Generation for Large-Scale Indoor Environments
  Yirum Kim, Jaewoo Kim, Ue-Hwan Kim^†
  IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation (ICRA) 2026 [Paper][Code]

^† Corresponding author, ^* Equal Contribution

Awards and Honors

• GIST Presidential Fellowship
  Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Mar 2024
• Best Bachelor Thesis Award
  Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Feb 2024
• First Prize — 2023 Innovative Convergence Technology Contest (Algorithm track)
  Institute of Integrated Technology, Aug 2023
• University Scholarship
  Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Mar 2022
• GIST Scholarship / Participate in IFA @ Berlin
  GIST AI Graduate School, Sep 2022
• Grand Prize — 2021 Innovative Convergence Technology Contest (Robot track)
  Institute of Integrated Technology, Aug 2021
• First Prize — 2020 Innovative Convergence Technology Contest (Robot track)
  Institute of Integrated Technology, Aug 2020

Education

• Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)
  M.S./Ph.D. in AI Graduate School (Mar 2024 ~ present)
  Advisor: Ue-Hwan Kim
• Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)
  B.S. in School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Mar 2020 ~ Feb 2024)

Work Experiences

• Autonomous Computing Systems Lab (ACSL)
  Research Intern (Mar 2023 ~ Feb 2024)
• GIST Institute for Artificial Intelligence
  Research Intern (Nov 2021 ~ Aug 2022)
• Cognition and Intelligence Lab
  Research Intern in G-Surf Program (Jun 2021 ~ Aug 2021)

Teach Experiences

• Lecturer at AI+X Program (Intel AI Drone & AWS DeepRacer)
  GIST AI Graduate School, Republic of Korea
• Teaching Assistant of Computer Programming (GS1401) Course
  Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea