Department of Computer Science  ·  Emory University

Emory Vision
& Graphics Lab

Modeling Beyond Visual Boundaries

News

Jan 2026

Our paper "Feed-forward Human Performance Capture via Progressive Canonical Space Updates" has been accepted to ICLR 2026!

Sep 2025

Dr. Youngjoong Kwon joined Emory University CS as an assistant professor. Welcome to Emory!

Team

Faculty

Youngjoong Kwon

Assistant Professor

Department of Computer Science, Emory University

PhD Students

2026 Cohort

Chanyoung Kim

PhD Student

2026 Cohort

Yilin Xu

PhD Student

Visiting Researcher

Donghyun Kim

Visiting Researcher

Undergraduate Intern

Max Roberts

Undergraduate Intern

Publications

Preprint

Delaunay Canopy: Building Wireframe Reconstruction from Airborne LiDAR Point Clouds via Delaunay Graph

Donghyun Kim, Chanyoung Kim, Youngjoong Kwon, Seong Jae Hwang

ICLR 2026

Feed-forward Human Performance Capture via Progressive Canonical Space Updates

Youngjoong Kwon, Yao He, Heejung Choi, Chen Geng, Zhengmao Liu, Jiajun Wu, Ehsan Adeli

ICCV 2025

GAS: Generative Avatar Synthesis from a Single Image

Yixing Lu, Junting Dong, Youngjoong Kwon, Qin Zhao, Bo Dai, Fernando De la Torre

ECCV 2024

Generalizable Human Gaussians for Sparse View Synthesis

Youngjoong Kwon, Baole Fang, Yixing Lu, Haoye Dong, Cheng Zhang, Francisco Vicente Carrasco, Albert Mosella-Montoro, Jianjin Xu, Shingo Takagi, Daeil Kim, Aayush Prakash, Fernando De la Torre

TVCG 2024

Bringing Telepresence to Every Desk

Shengze Wang, Ziheng Wang, Ryan Schmelzle, Liuejie Zheng, Youngjoong Kwon, Soumyadip Sengupta, Henry Fuchs

NeurIPS 2023

DELIFFAS: Deformable Light Fields for Fast Avatar Synthesis

Youngjoong Kwon, Lingjie Liu, Henry Fuchs, Marc Habermann, Christian Theobalt

ICLR 2023

Neural Image-based Avatars: Generalizable Radiance Fields for Human Avatar Modeling

Youngjoong Kwon, Dahun Kim, Duygu Ceylan, Henry Fuchs

WACV 2022

Tailor Me: An Editing Network for Fashion Attribute Shape Manipulation

Youngjoong Kwon, Stefano Petrangeli, Dahun Kim, Haoliang Wang, Vishy Swaminathan, Henry Fuchs

NeurIPS 2021 Spotlight

Neural Human Performer: Learning Generalizable Radiance Fields for Human Performance Rendering

Youngjoong Kwon, Dahun Kim, Duygu Ceylan, Henry Fuchs

ACM MM 2020

Rotationally-Consistent Novel View Synthesis for Humans

Youngjoong Kwon, Stefano Petrangeli, Dahun Kim, Haoliang Wang, Henry Fuchs, Vishy Swaminathan

ECCV 2020 Spotlight

Rotationally-Temporally Consistent Novel-View Synthesis of Human Performance Video

Youngjoong Kwon, Stefano Petrangeli, Dahun Kim, Haoliang Wang, Eunbyung Park, Vishy Swaminathan, Henry Fuchs

CASA 2017

Real-time Animation of Rain-wet Cloth Material

Youngjoong Kwon, Daeyong Kim, Inkwon Lee

Research

Human Performance Capture

Reconstructing detailed 3D human models from sparse camera setups with high fidelity and real-time performance.

Avatar Modeling

Creating photorealistic digital humans from minimal input — a single image to a fully rigged, animatable avatar.

Neural Rendering

Combining neural networks with rendering techniques for photorealistic image and scene synthesis.

Telepresence

Enabling immersive remote presence through real-time 3D capture for accessible, life-sized virtual collaboration.

World Foundation Models

Building large-scale models for understanding and generating 3D worlds grounded in physical reality.

Novel View Synthesis

Generating new viewpoints of scenes from limited observations, generalizing across identities and environments.

Contact

Office

Goodrich C. White Hall 215
Emory University
301 Dowman Dr, Atlanta, GA 30322

Office Hours

By appointment

Prospective PhD candidates should include a brief statement of research interests and a CV in their email.