Sookwan Han
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Hi! I'm an undergraduate student at Seoul National University, majoring in Electrical and Computer Engineering. I'm an intern in Visual Computing Lab, under the guidance of Prof. Hanbyul Joo.

I am leading team ROUND.

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[News]
  • Jun 2025 나라의 마지막 희망; 그리고 나아가야할 방향
  • Jun 2025 I'm going to YC AI startup school. See you in San Francisco
  • May 2025 Gave a talk at Balaji NS
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Publications

* equal contribution; corresponding author

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RobotHome: An Instrumented Multi-Camera System for Real-Time Triadic Human-Robot Collaboration
Preprint
[Preprint]

48 RGB cameras + two Franka arms Home-Replica System for real-time triadic human-robot collaboration.
Contributions: Force/compliance-based error mitigation; Triadic collaboration task design; Robot-camera synchronization

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Beyond the Contact: Discovering Comprehensive Affordance for 3D Objects from Pre-trained 2D Diffusion Models
Hyeonwoo Kim*, Sookwan Han*, Patric Kwon, Hanbyul Joo
In ECCV 2024 as Oral Presentation
[arXiv] [Project Page] [Code]

Novel representation that jointly models contact, orientation, and spatial affordances.
Contributions: Introduced Comprehensive Affordance (ComA) to model non-contact behaviors beyond contact-based interactions

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Learning Canonicalized 3D Human-Object Spatial Relations from Unbounded Synthesized Images
Sookwan Han, Hanbyul Joo
In ICCV 2023 as Oral Presentation
[arXiv] [Project Page] [Code]

Scalable method for inferring how humans spatially interact with tools and objects.
Contributions: Diffusion-based pipeline for synthesizing and aggregating 3D human-object spatial relations

Projects

shellfish

Biomimetic Shellfish Robot for Microplastic Collection
Built a low-power biomimetic underwater robot inspired by scallop jet-propulsion and contraction-expansion actuation.
[Report]

minicar

Autonomous Mini-Car Competition
Coding mentor for Python-based perception and control (competition adapted from MIT Beaver Works).
[YouTube]

Honors/Awards

Physics Expert Certification (Nationwide) - Expert in all fields

University Math Competition (Nationwide) - Gold Prize

Military Honors - Chief-of-Staff of Air Force Award + Minister of National Defense Award

SNU FastMRI Challenge - 1st place (144 teams)

Heart Disease AI Datathon - Grand Prize (169 teams)

Teaching

Diffusion Models Lecture - Led diffusion models lecture at Visual Computing Lab (Materials)

Scholarships

Google Travel Grants - Support for attending AI conferences (ICCV, ECCV)

Presidential Science Scholarship - Full scholarship for undergraduate studies

Misc

YC AI Startup School - 2500 Attendees Selected (Link)

Talk at Balaji NS - SyncSDE Talk (Link)

Affiliation

Seoul National University

Undergraduate
2020.03 - 2026.08 (Expected)

Major: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Student Body President of SNU ECE (2022)
Leave of absence for military service (2 years: 2023 2nd - 2025 1st)

Seoul Science High School

Graduated
2017.03 - 2020.02

Major: Math, Physics

Research/Work Experience

Visual Computing Lab

Intern

2022.03 - 2023.11
2025.09 - Current

Advisor: Hanbyul Joo
Research Area: Robotics; Human-Object Interaction
Machine perception for understanding human-object interactions.

VLSI Lab

Intern

2021.09 - 2022.02

Advisor: Jaejoon Kim
Research Area: Quantized/Compressed Neural Networks
Quantizing transformers for embedded devices.