Publications

* indicates equal contribution

2026

• Instant NuRec: Feed-Forward 3D Gaussian Reconstruction for Driving Scene Simulation

  NVIDIA

  arXiv 2026

  Paper Project

• NVIDIA OmniDreams: Real-Time Generative World Model for Closed-Loop Autonomous Vehicle Simulation

  NVIDIA

  arXiv 2026

  Paper Project

• Direct Diffusion Score Preference Optimization via Stepwise Contrastive Policy-Pair Supervision

  Dohyun Kim, Seungwoo Lyu, Seung Wook Kim, Paul Hongsuck Seo

  ECCV 2026

  Paper Project

• Connecting the Objects: Relational Occlusion Graphs for Amodal Segmentation

  Huiling Liu, Eunnam Cho, Soyun Choi, Aecheon Jung, Seung Wook Kim, Sungeun Hong

  Pattern Recognition Letters 2026

  Paper

2025

• Cosmos-Drive-Dreams: Scalable Synthetic Driving Data Generation with World Foundation Models

  Xuanchi Ren*, Yifan Lu*, Tianshi Cao*, Ruiyuan Gao*, Shengyu Huang, Amirmojtaba Sabour, Tianchang Shen, Tobias Pfaff, Jay Zhangjie Wu, Runjian Chen, Seung Wook Kim, Jun Gao, Laura Leal-Taixe, Mike Chen, Sanja Fidler, Huan Ling

  arXiv 2025

  Paper Project

• Random Conditioning with Distillation for Data-Efficient Diffusion Model Compression

  Dohyun Kim*, Sehwan Park*, Geonhee Han, Seung Wook Kim, Paul Hongsuck Seo

  CVPR 2025

  Paper Project

• Cosmos World Foundation Model Platform for Physical AI

  NVIDIA

  arXiv 2025

  Paper Project

2024

• L4GM: Large 4D Gaussian Reconstruction Model

  Jiawei Ren, Kevin Xie, Ashkan Mirzaei, Hanxue Liang, Xiaohui Zeng, Karsten Kreis, Ziwei Liu, Antonio Torralba, Sanja Fidler, Seung Wook Kim, Huan Ling

  NeurIPS 2024

  Paper Project

• DistillNeRF: Perceiving 3D Scenes from Single-Glance Images by Distilling Neural Fields

  Letian Wang, Seung Wook Kim, Jiawei Yang, Cunjun Yu, Boris Ivanovic, Steven Waslander, Yue Wang, Sanja Fidler, Marco Pavone, Peter Karkus

  NeurIPS 2024

  Paper Project

• Diffusion Texture Painting

  Anita Hu, Nishkrit Desai, Hassan Abu Alhaija, Seung Wook Kim, Masha Shugrina

  SIGGRAPH 2024

  Project

• Align Your Gaussians: Text-to-4D with Dynamic 3D Gaussians and Composed Diffusion Models

  Huan Ling*, Seung Wook Kim*, Antonio Torralba, Sanja Fidler, Karsten Kreis

  CVPR 2024 Highlight

  Paper Project

• EmerDiff: Emerging Pixel-level Semantic Knowledge in Diffusion Models

  Koichi Namekata, Amirmojtaba Sabour, Sanja Fidler, Seung Wook Kim

  ICLR 2024

  Paper Project

• EmerNeRF: Emergent Spatial-Temporal Scene Decomposition via Self-Supervision

  Jiawei Yang, Boris Ivanovic, Or Litany, Xinshuo Weng, Seung Wook Kim, Boyi Li, Tong Che, Danfei Xu, Sanja Fidler, Marco Pavone, Yue Wang

  ICLR 2024

  Paper Project

• WildFusion: Learning 3D-Aware Latent Diffusion Models in View Space

  Katja Schwarz, Seung Wook Kim, Jun Gao, Sanja Fidler, Andreas Geiger, Karsten Kreis

  ICLR 2024

  Paper Project

2023

• DreamTeacher: Pretraining Image Backbones with Deep Generative Models

  Daiqing Li*, Huan Ling*, Amlan Kar, David Acuna, Seung Wook Kim, Karsten Kreis, Antonio Torralba, Sanja Fidler

  ICCV 2023

  Paper Project

• NeuralField-LDM: Scene Generation with Hierarchical Latent Diffusion Models

  Seung Wook Kim*, Bradley Brown*, Kangxue Yin, Karsten Kreis, Katja Schwarz, Daiqing Li, Robin Rombach, Antonio Torralba, Sanja Fidler

  CVPR 2023

  Paper Project

• Align your Latents: High-Resolution Video Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models

  Andreas Blattmann*, Robin Rombach*, Huan Ling*, Tim Dockhorn*, Seung Wook Kim, Sanja Fidler, Karsten Kreis

  CVPR 2023

  Paper Project

2022

• PolymorphicGAN: Generating Aligned Samples Across Multiple Domains With Learned Morph Maps

  Seung Wook Kim, Karsten Kreis, Daiqing Li, Antonio Torralba, Sanja Fidler

  CVPR 2022 Oral

  Paper Project

• BigDatasetGAN: Synthesizing ImageNet with Pixel-wise Annotations

  Daiqing Li, Huan Ling, Seung Wook Kim, Karsten Kreis, Adela Barriuso, Sanja Fidler, Antonio Torralba

  CVPR 2022

  Paper Project

• Self-Supervised Driven Consistency Training for Annotation Efficient Histopathology Image Analysis

  Chetan L. Srinidhi, Seung Wook Kim, Fu-Der Chen, Anne L. Martel

  Medical Image Analysis 2022

  Paper

2021

• EditGAN: High-Precision Semantic Image Editing

  Huan Ling, Karsten Kreis, Daiqing Li, Seung Wook Kim, Antonio Torralba, Sanja Fidler

  NeurIPS 2021

• DriveGAN: Towards a Controllable High-Quality Neural Simulation

  Seung Wook Kim, Jonah Philion, Antonio Torralba, Sanja Fidler

  CVPR 2021 Oral

  Paper Project

2020

• Variational Amodal Object Completion

  Huan Ling, David Acuna, Karsten Kreis, Seung Wook Kim, Sanja Fidler

  NeurIPS 2020

  Project

• Learning to Simulate Dynamic Environments with GameGAN

  Seung Wook Kim, Henry Zhou, Jonah Philion, Antonio Torralba, Sanja Fidler

  CVPR 2020

  Paper Project

2019

• Visual Reasoning by Progressive Module Networks

  Seung Wook Kim, Makarand Tapaswi, Sanja Fidler

  ICLR 2019

  Project

• The Shmoop Corpus: A Dataset of Stories with Loosely Aligned Summaries

  Atef Chaudhury, Makarand Tapaswi, Seung Wook Kim, Sanja Fidler

  arXiv 2019

  Paper Code

2018 & earlier

• Cascaded Pyramid Network for 3D Human Pose Estimation Challenge

  Sungeun Hong, Wonjin Jung, Ilsang Woo, Seung Wook Kim

  ECCV PoseTrack Workshop 2018

• Keep and Learn: Continual Learning by Constraining the Latent Space for Knowledge Preservation in Neural Networks

  Hyo-Eun Kim, Seung Wook Kim, Jaehwan Lee

  MICCAI 2018

  Paper

• Transferring Knowledge to Smaller Network with Class-Distance Loss

  Seung Wook Kim, Hyo-Eun Kim

  ICLR Workshop 2017

  Paper

• Combining Word Prediction and r-ary Huffman Coding for Text Entry

  Seung Wook Kim, Frank Rudzicz

  SLPAT Workshop 2016