Seonguk Seo CV Scholar LinkedIn

I am a research scientist at Meta. I received Ph.D. at ECE, Seoul National University under the supervision of Prof. Bohyung Han. My research focuses on developing reliable, safe, and trustworthy machine learning systems across various applications. Beyond research, I am also interested in interactive media art, ambient sound, and brand experience design. I worked at Meta in 2022 and at Adobe Research in 2019 as a research scientist intern.


[May, 2025] Our paper about video captioning is accepted to ICML 2025.

[Dec, 2024] I joined Meta as a research scientist.

[Nov, 2024] Three papers (including one oral) are accepted to WACV 2025.

[Oct, 2024] Our artwork <The Operator: Notated Human> won the Red Dot Award: Design Concept 2024, featured at Red Dot 2024 Highlights.

[Aug, 2024] I received the Distinguished Ph.D. Dissertation Award from ECE, Seoul National University.

[Mar, 2024] I will participate in CVPR 2024 Doctoral Consortium.

[Feb, 2024] Our paper about federated learning is accepted to CVPR 2024.

Education

Seoul National University Mar, 2018 - Aug, 2024 Ph.D., Computer Vision Lab., Electrical and Computer Engineering - Dissertation Title: Representation Learning for Robustness, Privacy, and Transferability - Committee: Prof. Kyoung Mu Lee, Prof. Taesup Moon, Prof. Joonseok Lee, Prof. Suha Kwak, and Prof. Bohyung Han
POSTECH Mar, 2010 - Feb, 2018 B.S., Valedictorian and Summa Cum Laude
TU Berlin Mar, 2017 - Aug, 2017 Visiting Student
Seoul Science High School Mar, 2007 - Feb, 2010

Work Experiences

Meta Research Scientist Dec, 2024 - Present Menlo Park, CA, USA
Seoul National University Senior Researcher Oct, 2024 - Nov, 2024 Seoul, Korea
Meta Research Scientist Intern May, 2022 - Sep, 2022 Cambridge, MA, USA
Adobe Research Research Intern Aug, 2019 - Oct, 2019 San Jose, CA, USA
VCNC Software Engineer Mar, 2014 - Feb, 2016 Seoul, Korea

Publications

2025
Fine-Grained Video Captioning through Scene Graph Consolidation
Sanghyeok Chu, Seonguk Seo, Bohyung Han
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), Vancouver, Canada, 2025
Learning to Translate Noise for Robust Image Denoising
Inju Ha*, Donghun Ryou*, Seonguk Seo, Bohyung Han
CVPR 2025 Workshop on Domain Generalization: Evolution, Breakthroughs and Future Horizon
Revisiting Machine Unlearning with Dimensional Alignment
Seonguk Seo, Dongwan Kim, Bohyung Han
IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), Tucson, AZ, 2025
Metric Compatible Training for Online Backfilling in Large-Scale Retrieval
Seonguk Seo, Gokhan Uzunbas, Bohyung Han, Sara Cao, Ser-Nam Lim
IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), Tucson, AZ, 2025
Oral Presentation
Re-evaluating Group Robustness via Adaptive Class-Specific Scaling
Seonguk Seo, Bohyung Han
IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), Tucson, AZ, 2025
2024
Relaxed Contrastive Learning for Federated Learning
Seonguk Seo*, Jinkyu Kim*, Geeho Kim*, Bohyung Han
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Seattle, WA, 2024
2022
Unsupervised Learning of Debiased Representations with Pseudo-Attributes
Seonguk Seo, Joon-Young Lee, Bohyung Han
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), New Orleans, LA, 2022
InfoNeRF: Ray Entropy Minimization for Few-Shot Neural Volume Rendering
Mijeong Kim, Seonguk Seo, Bohyung Han
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), New Orleans, LA, 2022
Information-Theoretic Bias Reduction via Causal View of Spurious Correlation
Seonguk Seo, Joon-Young Lee, Bohyung Han
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Vancouver, Canada, 2022    
2020
URVOS: Unified Referring Video Object Segmentation Network with a Large-Scale Benchmark
Seonguk Seo, Joon-Young Lee, Bohyung Han
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Glasgow, UK, 2020
Learning to Optimize Domain Specific Normalization for Domain Generalization
Seonguk Seo, Yumin Suh, Dongwan Kim, Geeho Kim, Jongwoo Han, Bohyung Han
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Glasgow, UK, 2020
2019
Domain-Specific Batch Normalization for Unsupervised Domain Adaptation
Woong-Gi Chang*, Tackgeun You*, Seonguk Seo*, Suha Kwak, Bohyung Han
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Long Beach, CA, 2019
Learning for Single-Shot Confidence Calibration in Deep Neural Networks through Stochastic Inferences
Seonguk Seo*, Paul Hongsuck Seo*, Bohyung Han
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Long Beach, CA, 2019

Awards and Honors

Red Dot Winner Award: Design Concept Oct, 2024
Distinguished Ph.D. Dissertation Award Aug, 2024
CVPR Doctoral Consortium Jun, 2024
KCCV Doctoral Colloquium Aug, 2023
AAAI Student Scholarship Feb, 2022
IPIU Excellence Paper Award Feb, 2022
Youlchon AI Star Scholarship Aug, 2020
Visual Domain Adaptation Challenge @ ICCV 2019 Nov, 2019
Samsung AI Forum 2019 Best Poster Award Nov, 2019
Samsung AI Forum 2018 Best Poster Award Sep, 2018

Academic Services

Organizer
The 5th Large-Scale Video Object Segmentation Challenge Workshop @ ICCV 2023
Oct, 2023
The 4th Large-Scale Video Object Segmentation Challenge Workshop @ CVPR 2022
Jun, 2022
The 3rd Large-Scale Video Object Segmentation Challenge Workshop @ CVPR 2021
Jun, 2021
Invited Talk
KCCV, Naver Labs, XAIC, IEIE
Reviewer
Journal: TPAMI, IJCV
Conference: ICLR, ICML, NeurIPS, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, AAAI

Patents


Referring image segmentation (US, issued)
2023
Unified referring video object segmentation network (US, issued)
2022

Art Portfolios

<The Operator: Notated Human> Interactive Installation Art May / Jan, 2024 Funded by NCA and presented at the Seouliteum / Kepco art center, Seoul Oct, 2024 - Oct, 2025 Exhibited at the Red Dot Design Museum, Singapore Winner of Red Dot Award: Design Concept 2024 (featured)
<Code: Exposing Identity> Interactive Media Pavilion Art Oct, 2023 Funded by ARKO and presented at PLATFORM-L, Seoul
<Alain> Interactive Performance Art Jul, 2023 Funded by ARKO and performed at Theater QUAD, Seoul
<Artificial Shadows> Interactive Media Art Jul, 2023 - Aug, 2023 Funded by ARKO and presented at Gallery Sejul, Seoul
<Code: Inherent Identity> Interactive Media Pavilion Art Dec, 2022 Funded by ARKO and presented at Gallery Min, Seoul
<Vision Machine> Interactive Performance Art Nov, 2022 Funded by ARKO and filmed offline
<Holy Motors: The Vehicled Bodies> Interactive Performance Art Sep, 2022 - Oct, 2022 Funded by Hyundai ZER01NE and performed at S Factory, Seoul
<Disorient: Ringularity> Interactive Media Art Sep, 2022 - Oct, 2022 Funded by Soorim Cultural Fdn. and presented at Kim Hee-Su art center, Seoul
<Code: Registering Identity> Interactive Media Art Nov, 2021 Funded by ARKO and presented online
<Disorient: Ergo-sphere> Interactive Media Art Oct, 2021 Funded by KOCCA and presented at maru art center, Seoul
<Vender> Interactive Installation Art Dec, 2020 - Jan, 2021 Funded by and presented at art center nabi, Seoul