Hello, I'm Soowon Son

Ph.D. Student, KAIST AI

I am a Ph.D. student at KAIST advised by Seungryong Kim, and I collaborate with Junhwa Hur at Google DeepMind. I am interested in understanding the dynamics of video and in efficient video representation. I am currently exploring motion-aware video representations using point tracking.

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News

Jun 2026Our work TETO has been accepted to ECCV 2026. 🎉
May 2026New preprint TrackCraft3R released — repurposing video diffusion transformers for dense 3D tracking.
Feb 2026Our work Pose-dIVE has been accepted to CVPR 2026 (Findings). 🎉
Dec 2025New preprint DiTracker released — probing and leveraging video diffusion transformer features for robust point tracking.
Sep 2025Our work Emergent Temporal Correspondences (DiffTrack) has been accepted to NeurIPS 2025. 🎉
Feb 2025Our work Visual Persona has been accepted to CVPR 2025. 🎉

Experience

Kakao Corp.

Mar 2026 – May 2026

Research Intern | Token compression in video VLM

Publications

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2026

TrackCraft3R: Repurposing Video Diffusion Transformers for Dense 3D Tracking

Jisu Nam, Jahyeok Koo, Soowon Son, Jaewoo Jung, Honggyu An, Junhwa Hur†, Seungryong Kim†

Preprint · In submission

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TETO: Tracking Events with Teacher Observation for Motion Estimation and Frame Interpolation

Jini Yang*, Eunbeen Hong*, Soowon Son, Hyunkoo Lee, Sunghwan Hong, Sunok Kim, Seungryong Kim†

ECCV 2026

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Pose-dIVE: Pose-Diversified Augmentation with Diffusion Model for Person Re-Identification

Inès Hyeonsu Kim*, Woojeong Jin*, Soowon Son, Junyoung Seo, Seokju Cho, JeongYeol Baek, Byeongwon Lee, JoungBin Lee, Seungryong Kim†

CVPR 2026 Findings

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2025

Probing and Leveraging Video Diffusion Transformer Features for Robust Point Tracking

Soowon Son, Honggyu An, Jisu Nam, Hyunah Ko, Chaehyun Kim, Dahyun Chung, Jung Yi, Siyoon Jin, Junhwa Hur†, Seungryong Kim†

Preprint · In submission

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Emergent Temporal Correspondences from Video Diffusion Transformers

Jisu Nam*, Soowon Son*, Dahyun Chung, Jiyoung Kim, Siyoon Jin, Junhwa Hur†, Seungryong Kim†

NeurIPS 2025

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Visual Persona: Foundation Model for Full-Body Human Customization

Jisu Nam, Soowon Son, Zhan Xu, Jing Shi, Difan Liu, Feng Liu, Aashish Misraa, Seungryong Kim†, Yang Zhou†

CVPR 2025

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