Hyunjin Kim김현진

I'm an incoming CS PhD student at the University of Maryland, College Park, where I will be advised by Prof. Dinesh Manocha. I'm also a research intern at Nokia Bell Labs this summer.

I received my MS in CS from UC San Diego, advised by Prof. Xiaolong Wang, and my BS from Yonsei University, during which I worked with Prof. Jaesik Park.

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Yonsei University
2020-2024		 University of Toronto
2022-2023		 UC San Diego
2024-2026		 University of Maryland
2026-

News
Jan 2026 I will be joining Nokia Bell Labs as a research intern this summer.
Sep 2025 One paper accepted to NeurIPS 2025.

Selected Research
My research lies at the intersection of 3D/4D computer vision and robotics, where I aim to build computational systems capable of human-like scene understanding. These systems perceive complex environments and construct world models that capture both visual appearance and physical dynamics. My current research focus is on physics-grounded world models and their applications to robot manipulation and navigation.

EgoPhys: Learning Generalizable Physics Models of Deformable Objects from Egocentric Video
Hyunjin Kim, Ri-Zhao Qiu, Guangqi Jiang, Xiaolong Wang
arXiv preprint, 2026
Paper | Project Page | bibtex 
@article{kim2026egophys,
  title={EgoPhys: Learning Generalizable Physics Models of Deformable Objects from Egocentric Video},
  author={Kim, Hyunjin and Qiu, Ri-Zhao and Jiang, Guangqi and Wang, Xiaolong},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2606.16202},
  year={2026}
}
Metropolis-Hastings Sampling for 3D Gaussian Reconstruction
Hyunjin Kim, Haebeom Jung, Jaesik Park
Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2025
Paper | Project Page | Code | bibtex 
@inproceedings{
  kim2025metropolishastings,
  title={Metropolis-Hastings Sampling for 3D Gaussian Reconstruction},
  author={Hyunjin Kim and Haebeom Jung and Jaesik Park},
  booktitle={The Thirty-ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems},
  year={2025}
}
Visual Acoustic Fields
Yuelei Li, Hyunjin Kim, Fangneng Zhan, Ri-Zhao Qiu, Mazeyu Ji, Xiaojun Shan, Xueyan Zou, Paul Liang, Hanspeter Pfister, Xiaolong Wang
CVPR 3rd Workshop on Generative Models for Computer Vision, 2025
Paper | Project Page | Dataset | bibtex 
@article{li2025visual,
  title={Visual acoustic fields},
  author={Li, Yuelei and Kim, Hyunjin and Zhan, Fangneng and Qiu, Ri-Zhao and Ji, Mazeyu and Shan, Xiaojun and Zou, Xueyan and Liang, Paul and Pfister, Hanspeter and Wang, Xiaolong},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.24270},
  year={2025}
}

Academic Activities
Reviewer Conference Reviewer
CoRL 2026, NeurIPS 2026

Journal Reviewer
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP)


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