Soowon Son

Last updated: May 2026
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Education

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
Seoul, Korea · Mar 2025 – Present
Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence
Korea University
Seoul, Korea · Aug 2024 – Feb 2025
M.S. in Computer Science and Engineering
Advisor: Seungryong Kim — degree incomplete; transferred to KAIST with advisor.
Korea University
Seoul, Korea · Mar 2019 – Aug 2024
B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering
GPA: 4.0 / 4.5

Experience

Kakao Corp.
Mar 2026 – May 2026
Token compression in video VLM

Publications

C: Conference, P: Preprint, *: Equal Contribution, : Corresponding Author

[P2]TrackCraft3R: Repurposing Video Diffusion Transformers for Dense 3D Tracking PDF Project Code
Jisu Nam, Jahyeok Koo, Soowon Son, Jaewoo Jung, Honggyu An, Junhwa Hur†, Seungryong Kim†
In submission
[P1]Probing and Leveraging Video Diffusion Transformer Features for Robust Point Tracking PDF arXiv Project Code
Soowon Son, Honggyu An, Jisu Nam, Hyunah Ko, Chaehyun Kim, Dahyun Chung, Jung Yi, Siyoon Jin, Junhwa Hur†, Seungryong Kim†
In submission
[C4]TETO: Tracking Events with Teacher Observation for Motion Estimation and Frame Interpolation PDF arXiv Project Code
Jini Yang*, Eunbeen Hong*, Soowon Son, Hyunkoo Lee, Sunghwan Hong, Sunok Kim, Seungryong Kim†
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2026)
[C3]Emergent Temporal Correspondences from Video Diffusion Transformers PDF Project Code
Jisu Nam*, Soowon Son*, Dahyun Chung, Jiyoung Kim, Siyoon Jin, Junhwa Hur†, Seungryong Kim†
Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2025)
[C2]Visual Persona: Foundation Model for Full-Body Human Customization PDF Project Code
Jisu Nam, Soowon Son, Zhan Xu, Jing Shi, Difan Liu, Feng Liu, Aashish Misraa, Seungryong Kim†, Yang Zhou†
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2025)
[C1]Pose-dIVE: Pose-Diversified Augmentation with Diffusion Model for Person Re-Identification PDF arXiv Project
Inès Hyeonsu Kim*, Woojeong Jin*, Soowon Son, Junyoung Seo, Seokju Cho, JeongYeol Baek, Byeongwon Lee, JoungBin Lee, Seungryong Kim†
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2026) Findings

Scholarships and Awards

Semester High Honors2020 – 2023

Academic Services

Conference Reviewer: ICLR 2026, NeurIPS 2026