Hanbat National University · Dept. of AI Software

Visual Intelligence
& Reliability Lab

The Visual Intelligence & Reliability Lab (VIR Lab) at Hanbat National University advances visual AI for the real world through research in computer vision, deep learning, and reliable AI.

Research Interests

Our interests include, but are not limited to:

Visual Intelligence

  • Recognition, Detection & Segmentation
  • Multimodal Learning
  • Generative Models

Reliability

  • Robust Learning from Imperfect Data
  • Out-of-Distribution Generalization
  • Interpretability & Explainability

We're recruiting!

We welcome motivated students who want to grow as AI researchers and engineers.
VIR Lab is currently recruiting undergraduate interns.

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People

Faculty

Youngdong Kim

Youngdong Kim 김영동

Assistant Professor · Department of Artificial Intelligence Software
Hanbat National University

Education

  • Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, KAISTAdvisor: Junmo Kim
    2016–2021
  • M.S., Electrical Engineering, KAISTAdvisor: Seong-Dae Kim
    2014–2016
  • B.S., Electrical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University
    2010–2014

Experience

  • Assistant Professor, Hanbat National University
    2025–Present
  • Staff Researcher, Samsung Electronics (SAIT → AI Center)
    2021–2025

Publications

International Conference

  • Forget What Matters, Keep the Rest: Selective Unlearning of Informative Tokens

    Seunghee Koh, Sunghyun Baek, Youngdong Kim†, Junmo Kim†

    ACL 2026 †Corresponding authors

  • BiasAdv: Bias-Adversarial Augmentation for Model Debiasing

    Jongin Lim, Youngdong Kim, Byungjai Kim, Chanho Ahn, Jinwoo Shin, Eunho Yang, Seungju Han

    CVPR 2023

  • Joint Negative and Positive Learning for Noisy Labels

    Youngdong Kim, Juseung Yun, Hyounguk Shon, Junmo Kim

    CVPR 2021

  • NLNL: Negative Learning for Noisy Labels

    Youngdong Kim, Junho Yim, Juseung Yun, Junmo Kim

    ICCV 2019 Participation Award, 25th Samsung Humantech Paper Awards

  • Learning from Imbalanced and Hierarchically Dual-Labeled Data

    Juseung Yun, Youngdong Kim, Junho Yim, Hansang Cho, Junmo Kim

    ICCE-Asia 2018

  • Refine Pedestrian Detections by Referring to Features in Different Ways

    Jaemyung Lee, Sihaeng Lee, Youngdong Kim, Janghyeon Lee, Junmo Kim

    IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV) 2017

  • Identity Preserving Residual-Spatial Transformer Network

    Donggyu Ju, Youngdong Kim, Junmo Kim

    RiTA 2017

Domestic Conference

  • VA-QKD: 가상 앵커를 이용한 효율적인 One-Shot W2A2 양자화

    최범영, 조성환, 정의림, 김영동

    한국통신학회 동계종합학술발표회 2026 장려상

  • YOLOv8-P2: 고해상도 특징 기반 객체 탐지 모델

    김윤희, 서민경, 현장훈, 김영동

    한국통신학회 동계종합학술발표회 2026

  • 앱 카메라 기반 손동작 인식과 로봇 제어 시스템

    최진, 정진교, 김영동, 현장훈

    한국통신학회 동계종합학술발표회 2026

  • 딥 신경망 상위 레이어 상호 관계성 감소를 통한 아웃라이어 검출 기법

    김영동, 양주영, 한상은, 김준모

    대한전자공학회 추계학술대회 2019

  • 딥 신경망 기반 전이학습을 통한 불량 검출 기법

    김영동, 임준호, 이예강, 송재만, 정다운, 정기봉, 김준모

    제29회 영상처리 및 이해에 관한 워크샵 2017

  • 해부학적인 구조에 근거한 손가락 관절 위치 추정 기법

    김영동, 강성현, 장태영, 김성대

    제28회 영상처리 및 이해에 관한 워크샵 2016

Patents

  • Method and Device with Image-Difference Reduction Preprocessing

    Youngdong Kim, Byungjai Kim, Jongin Lim, Seungju Han

    US 2025/0045884 A1 2025.02.06 · Patent Pending

  • Method and Electronic Device with Adversarial Data Augmentation

    Jongin Lim, Byungjai Kim, Youngdong Kim, Seungju Han

    US 2024/0152764 A1 2024.05.09 · Patent Pending

  • Method and Device with Defect Detection

    Byungjai Kim, Youngdong Kim, Jongin Lim, Seungju Han

    US 2024/0153070 A1 2024.05.09 · Patent Pending

Lectures

2026 · Spring

Undergraduate

  • AI 이해와 활용 OMNI100008
  • 고급C언어프로그래밍 AISW2102
  • 소프트웨어원리 AISW3104

Graduate

  • 딥러닝을 위한 수학과 이론 AISW060015

2025 · Fall

Undergraduate

  • C언어프로그래밍 AISW1101
  • 강화학습 AISW320007
  • 인공지능프로그래밍응용 AISW420011

Get in touch

For questions about our research, collaboration, or joining the lab,
please feel free to reach out.

  • Email ydkim1293@hanbat.ac.kr
  • Tel 044-863-9267
  • Office 세종공동캠퍼스 8동 204호
  • Address 세종특별자치시 집현북로 109
  • Department Department of Artificial Intelligence Software,
    Hanbat National University