Youngchan Kim

About

I'm Youngchan Kim, a Ph.D. student in the Dept. of Visual Computing and AI at MPI for Informatics, advised by Prof. Christian Theobalt. My research interests focus on generative human model and relighting and facial animation and motion synthesis at the intersection of Computer Vision, Computer Graphics, and Machine Learning.

Previously, I completed my Master's degree at POSTECH Computer Graphics Lab under the supervision of Prof. Seung-Hwan Baek, working on high-dimensional light properties [NeSpoF, spDataset] and light-matter interaction modeling [hpBRDF]. Before pursuing graduate studies, I received my Bachelor's degree in Mathematics & Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Yonsei University.

✅ Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions or want to discuss potential collaborations!

News

Apr 2026 I’m thrilled to share that I've officially started my Ph.D. journey at Max Planck Institute for Informatics. I will be conducting my research under the guidance of Prof. Christian Theobalt. I'm really grateful for this opportunity and looking forward to this new chapter ahead!

Education

Research Experience

Publications

* Multi-Dimensional Light Properties *

Hyperspectral Polarimetric BRDFs of Real-world Materials

Yunseong Moon, Ryota Maeda, Suhyun Shin, Inseung Hwang, Youngchan Kim, Min H. Kim, Seung-Hwan Baek

SIGGRAPH Asia 2025

Project Paper Dataset

Spectral and Polarization Vision: Spectro-polarimetric Real-world Dataset

Yujin Jeon*, Eunsue Choi*, Youngchan Kim, Yunseong Moon, Khalid Omer, Felix Heide, Seung-Hwan Baek

CVPR 2024 (highlight)

Project Paper Dataset

Neural Spectro-polarimetric Fields

Youngchan Kim, Wonjoon Jin, Sunghyun Cho, Seung-Hwan Baek

SIGGRAPH Asia 2023

Project Paper Code Dataset