Minkyun Seo

Undergraduate Researcher

About Me

Hi, my name’s Minkyun Seo. I am an undergraduate student at Seoul National University.

I’m double-majoring in Computer Science and Engineering and Architecture Engineering.

While recent advancements in generative models have revolutionized 2D design processes, 3D modeling has yet to benefit from these advancements fully. During my studies, I worked in parametric 3D modeling and often encountered repetitive tasks that required human intuition, making them difficult to automate. This sparked my interest in leveraging machine perception to transform these processes.

My primary focus has two key objectives:

  1. Accurately replicating real-world environments in virtual spaces
  2. Enabling the editing and reshaping of these 3D spaces

I am determined to redefine the way we design and interact with digital environments by building systems that can perceive and interpret the world as humans do

Publication

BUFFER-X: Towards Zero-Shot Point Cloud Registration in Diverse Scenes

https://github.com/MIT-SPARK/BUFFER-X

Minkyun Seo*, Hyungate Lim*, Kanghee Lee, Luca Carlone, Jaesik Park


Projects

Drone based 3D reconstruction of SNU Lecture Hall

github.com/MinkyunSeo/SNURecon

Project at SNU course "Smart Construction Technology"


Point Cloud Registration Pair Generator

Developed a pipeline to generate pairs from RGB-D images and aligned point clouds for 3D registration tasks
Adapted TSDF method and implemented synthetic LiDAR



Avatar Texture Enhancement via 3D Patch-wise SSIM Loss

github.com/MinkyunSeo/Avatar-Texture-Enhancement

Project at SNU graduate course "Deep Learning: A Statistical Perspective"




PlayEye:Toy for Preventing Child Myopia

github.com/SNU-EyeFi/PlayEye

PlayEye is a toy designed to prevent pediatric myopia by naturally encouraging eye movement through play.
The entire hardware and software were developed from scratch, and I was responsible for the software part.

PlayEye won the grand prize at the "SNU Creative Design Fair" and received a travel grant to attend MWC 2024 in Barcelona.




Department Office Chatbot

This chatbot is designed to answer inquiries for department office staff based on university regulations.
This project won 2nd place at FriendliAI LLM Hackathon.




YOCO:You Only Cook Once

github.com/SNU-YOCO/YOCO

YOCO is a cooking AI based on the Unbiased teacher v2 network. It assists users in cooking by predicting the doneness of ingredients.
YOCO won 2nd place at SNU Ambient AI Competition.

Ongoing Project (To be updated)


Research Experience

Undergaduate Research Intern

Seoul National University

Dec 2023 - Present

Visual & Geometric Intelligence Laboratory (Prof. Jaesik Park)
• Working on enhancing Geometric Feature Generalizability in point cloud registration
• Developed 5+ registration datasets using TSDF-based reconstruction and ray-traced LiDAR simulation
• Created a pipeline for learning general geometric features from data collected across diverse environments and acquisition methods

Undergaduate Research Intern

Seoul National University

Jun 2023 - Sep 2023

AIoT Laboratory (Prof. Hyung-Sin Kim)
• Contributed to early stage research on Covariate Shifts in Environment and Sensor Domain
• Set up ES Studio for generating out-of-distribution data across sensor and environmental variations
• Developed an evaluation codebase for conducting experiments on vision models

Education

Seoul National University

B.S. in Architecture Engineering
B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering

2019 - Present
https://en.snu.ac.kr/

Sejong Science High School

2016 - 2019
https://sjsh.sen.hs.kr/

Honors & Awards

National Excellence Scholarship (Full-ride)

Issued by South Korea Government

2021 - 2024

Academic Excellence Scholarship

Issued by Seoul National University

2019 - 2021, 2024 - Present

Including full-ride and partial scholarship

Grand prize at SNU Creative Design Fair

Issued by Seoul National University

2023

SNU Creative Design Fair is an annual competition where engineering enthusiasts showcase
• Awarded to the project ‘PlayEye: Toy for Preventing Child Myopia’ • Visited Mobile World Congress(MWC) 2024 in Barcelona, Spain

Grand prize at National ICT Smart Device Contest

Issued by Ministry of science and ICT

2023

• Awarded to the project ‘PlayEye: Toy for Preventing Child Myopia’

Second prize at FriendliAI LLM Hackathon

Issued by FriendliAI

2024

• Awarded to the project ‘Department Office Chatbot’

Grand prize at SNU Ambient AI Competition

Issued by Seoul National University

2023

• Awarded to the project ‘YOCO: You Only Cook Once’