About Me
I am an assistant professor in the School of Artificial Intelligence, Computer and Electrical Engineering at Handong Global University. My primary research interest is in computer vision especially group activity understanding, robotics and its applications.
News
[Mar. 2026] I have joined Handong Global University as an Assistant Professor.
[Sep. 2025] One paper is accepted in NeurIPS 2025.
[Aug. 2025] I have started a new position as a Postdoctoral researcher at POSTECH Graduate School of AI.
[June. 2025] I am glad to announce that I successfully defended my Ph.D. dissertation, “Compositional Reasoning Approaches to Group Activity Understanding”.
[July. 2024] Two papers are accepted in ECCV 2024.
[Jan. 2023] I won BK21 outstanding paper award.
[Mar. 2022] One paper is accepted in CVPR 2022.
Work Experience
- Assistant Professor at Handong Global University, Pohang, Korea
School of AI, Computer and Electrical Engineering
Mar. 2026 - Current - Postdoctoral researcher at POSTECH, Pohang, Korea
Graduate School of AI
Aug. 2025 - Feb. 2026 - Lecturer for future scholars at POSTECH, Pohang, Korea
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Aug. 2025 - Current - Researcher at POSTECH, Pohang, Korea
Computer Vision Laboratory
Aug. 2018 - Feb. 2019 - Lecturer at Hanbat National University, Daejeon, Korea
Department of Computer Engineering
Mar. 2018 - Feb. 2019 - Developer at SIMNET, Daejeon, Korea
Feb. 2015 - Feb. 2018
Education
Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) Pohang, Korea
Ph.D. student in Computer Science and Engineering
Advisor: Professor Suha Kwak
GPA: 4.0/4.3
Feb. 2019 - Aug. 2025Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Visiting student in Language Technologies Institute
IITP (Institute of Information & Communications Technology Planning & Evaluation) Executive Education Program
Aug. 2019 - Feb. 2020Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) Daejeon, Korea
M.S. student in Industrial & Systems Engineering
Advisor: Professor Kyung Chul Chae
GPA: 3.74/4.3 (93.77/100)
Mar. 2013 - Feb. 2015Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) Daejeon, Korea
B.S. in Biological Science
B.S. in Industrial & Systems Engineering
GPA: 3.64/4.3 (92.66/100)
Feb. 2008 - Feb. 2013
Publications
Event-centric Video Chain-of-thought for Reasoning Temporal Localization
Youngkil Song, Yoonjae Baek, Dongwon Kim, Inho Kim, Dongkeun Kim*, Suha Kwak*
IPIU 2026Part-Aware Bottom-Up Group Reasoning for Fine-Grained Social Interaction Detection
[Paper] [Project Page]
Dongkeun Kim, Minsu Cho, Suha Kwak
NeurIPS 2025 (acceptance = 5290 / 21575 = 24.52%)Online Temporal Action Localization with Memory-Augmented Transformer
[Paper] [Project Page] [Code]
Youngkil Song*, Dongkeun Kim*, Minsu Cho, Suha Kwak
ECCV 2024 (acceptance = 2395 / 8585 = 27.9%)Towards More Practical Group Activity Detection: A New Benchmark and Model
[Paper] [Project Page] [Code]
Dongkeun Kim, Youngkil Song, Minsu Cho, Suha Kwak
ECCV 2024 (acceptance = 2395 / 8585 = 27.9%)Detector-Free Weakly Supervised Group Activity Recognition
[Paper] [Project Page] [Code]
Dongkeun Kim, Jinsung Lee, Minsu Cho, Suha Kwak
CVPR 2022 (acceptance = 2067 / 8161 = 25.33%)Neural Contrast Enhancement of CT Image
[Paper]
Minkyo Seo, Dongkeun Kim, Kyungmoon Lee, Seunghoon Hong, Jae Seok Bae, Jung Hoon Kim, Suha Kwak
WACV 2021
Honors & Awards
- IPIU Best paper award, Gold Prize (2026)
- BK21 outstanding paper award (2023)
- National Scholarship for Science and Engineering KOSAF (2008 - 2011, 2013 - 2014)
Academic Services
- Conference Reviewer: CVPR 2024-2026, ECCV 2024-2026, ICCV 2023-2025, WACV 2022-2025, ACCV 2022-2024, ACMMM 2025
- Journal Reviewer: International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), Image and Vision Computing, Transactions on Multimedia, Pattern Recognition Letters (PRL)