Kyungsik Kim, Dongwook Kim, and Hyungjung Kim from VIP Lab won 2nd place in the AI Co-Scientist : 2025 Samsung AI Challenge, hosted by Samsung Research. The competition recognized innovative approaches to advancing AI-driven research systems and creative problem-solving. 🎉 Congratulations to the team for their outstanding achievement and dedication! Visit the official competition page

VIP Lab has started a new project supported by the Institute of Information & Communications Technology Planning & Evaluation (IITP) under the AI Star Fellowship program, running from 2025 to 2030.

We are proud to announce that our team — composed of MinKyung Kim, Kyungsik Kim, and HwalMin Lee — has achieved 3rd place in the NTIRE 2025 Challenge on RGB2RAW, held in conjunction with CVPR 2025.

Dean Jae-Young Sim of the UNIST Graduate School of Artificial Intelligence received the Minister of Science and ICT Commendation for his outstanding contribution to digital talent development and regional innovation through AI education and research. Since 2019, Dean Shim has led UNIST’s AI initiatives by establishing a strong foundation for interdisciplinary education and research across … Read moreProfessor Jae-Young Sim Receives Minister of Science and ICT Commendation

Jae-Won Yang has been selected for the “Improving Person Detection and Tracking Performance” internship program at CJ AI Center! He will be participating in this program for the next four months. Wishing him the best of luck and success! Congrats once again! 🎊

We’re happy to announce that we won a consortium project supported by Institute of Information & communications Technology Planning & Evaluation(IITP) under the Leading Generative AI Human Resources Development grant. During the 4 years, we will develop an AI-based explainable multi-modal chatbot system for traffic situation analysis. 

We’re happy to announce that we won a project of Mid-career Researcher Program supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea grant. During the 5 years, we will conduct research on multi-modal person search with continuously generated data and changing models securing knowledge preservation and backward compatibility.

Eunpil Park, Jaejun Yoo, and Jae-Young Sim, “Universal Dehazing via Haze Style Transfer”. Eunpil, Congratulations!

Congratulations to Eunpil on obtaining his Ph.D., Duhyun and Hyeona on obtaining their Master’s degrees, and Yoonhan on obtaining his Bachelor’s degree!

Minyoung Oh, Duhyun Kim, Jae-Young Sim, “Domain Generalizable Person Search Using Unreal Dataset”. Minyoung and Duhyun, Congratulations!