Ph.D. Student
Graduate School of AI
Seoul National University
gchnkang at gmail dot com

Bio

I am a fourth year Ph.D. student in the Graduate School of AI at Seoul National University, advised by Prof. Byoung-Tak Zhang. My research straddles machine learning, natural language processing, computer vision, and robotics. I’m focused on connecting language with perception and action, enabling machines to understand the semantics of the physical world. Specific topics include:

• Embodied AI: Robots doing real-world tasks via language interaction (ICRA’24, IROS’23)
• Multimodal AI: Vision-language models (VLMs) that can continuously communicate with humans about images (CVPR’23, EMNLP’21, EMNLP’19) and videos (ACL’21)
• Other topics like robustness and image generation (CVPRW’22, NeurIPSW’21, ICASSP’20).

I was fortunate to collaborate with researchers in NAVER and SK Telecom.

Prior to joining Ph.D., I did my master study in Cognitive Science at Seoul National University. Studying cognitive science has sparked my interest in AI and interdisciplinary research. I earned my Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Ajou University.

News

• [Mar 2024] I wrote my research statement about what I’ve been studying.
• [Mar 2024] A new preprint (Continual Vision-and-Language Navigation) is released.
• [Jan 2024] PROGrasp is accepted to ICRA 2024!
• [Dec 2023] I attend Brainlink 2023.
• [Nov 2023] I’ll give a talk at Dept. of Energy Resources Engineering at Seoul National University (Title: “The Evolution of Language Models: From Basic NLP to ChatGPT and Beyond”).
• [Oct 2023] Two preprints (PROGrasp and PGA) are released!
• [Jun 2023] One paper is accepted to IROS 2023!
• [Mar 2023] Happy to announce that our paper is accepted to CVPR 2023!
• [Jun 2022] One paper is accepted to ICML 2022 Pre-training Workshop.
• [May 2022] Thrilled to announce that our new preprint is released!
• [Apr 2022] One paper is accepted to CVPR 2022 HCIS Workshop.
• [Dec 2021] I gave an invited talk at Korea Software Congress.
• [Oct 2021] One paper is accepted to NeurIPS 2021 CtrlGen Workshop.
• [Aug 2021] One paper is accepted to Findings of EMNLP 2021.
• [May 2021] One paper is accepted to ACL 2021.
• [Sep 2020] I’m starting my Ph.D. in this fall.
• [Jun 2020] From July, I’ll join SNU AI Institute (AIIS) as a researcher.
• [Jan 2020] Our paper has been accepted to ICASSP 2020!
• [Dec 2019] From January, I’ll be a research intern at SK T-Brain!
• [Nov 2019] I gave a spotlight talk at Video Turing Test workshop, ICCV 2019.
• [Oct 2019] I gave an invited talk at SK Telecom AI Center.
• [Aug 2019] Excited to announce that our paper has been accepted to EMNLP 2019.
• [Jun 2019] Our proposed method ranks 3rd place in Visual Dialog Challenge 2019!!
• [Aug 2018] We have a paper accepted to ECCV 2018 Workshop on VizWiz Grand Challenge.

Publications

Continual Vision-and-Language Navigation

Seongjun Jeong, Gi-Cheon Kang, Seongho Choi, Joochan Kim, Byoung-Tak Zhang
Paper

PGA: Personalizing Grasping Agents with Single Human-Robot Interaction

Junghyun Kim, Gi-Cheon Kang^*, Jaein Kim^*, Seoyun Yang, Minjoon Jung, Byoung-Tak Zhang
Paper

PROGrasp: Pragmatic Human-Robot Communication for Object Grasping

Gi-Cheon Kang, Junghyun Kim, Jaein Kim, Byoung-Tak Zhang
ICRA 2024 (Oral)
Paper Code

The Dialog Must Go On: Improving Visual Dialog via Generative Self-Training

Gi-Cheon Kang, Sungdong Kim^*, Jin-Hwa Kim^*, Donghyun Kwak^*, Byoung-Tak Zhang
CVPR 2023
ICML 2022 Workshop on Pre-training: Perspectives, Pitfalls, and Paths Forward Project Page Paper Code Slides Video

GVCCI: Lifelong Learning of Visual Grounding for Language-Guided Robotic Manipulation

Junghyun Kim, Gi-Cheon Kang^*, Jaein Kim^*, Suyeon Shin, Byoung-Tak Zhang
IROS 2023 (Oral)
Paper Code

Improving Robustness to Texture Bias via Shape-focused Augmentation

Sangjun Lee, Inwoo Hwang, Gi-Cheon Kang, Byoung-Tak Zhang
CVPR 2022 Workshop on Human-centered Intelligent Services: Safety and Trustworthy Paper

Reasoning Visual Dialog with Sparse Graph Learning and Knowledge Transfer

Gi-Cheon Kang, Junseok Park, Hwaran Lee, Byoung-Tak Zhang^*, Jin-Hwa Kim^*
EMNLP 2021 Findings Paper Code Slides

Attend What You Need: Motion-Appearance Synergistic Networks for Video Question Answering

Ahjeong Seo, Gi-Cheon Kang, Joonhan Park, Byoung-Tak Zhang
ACL 2021 Paper Code

C³: Contrastive Learning for Cross-domain Correspondence in Few-shot Image Generation

Hyukgi Lee, Gi-Cheon Kang, Chang-Hoon Jeong, Hanwool Sul, Byoung-Tak Zhang
NeurIPS 2021 Workshop on Controllable Generative Modeling in Language and Vision Paper

Label Propagation Adaptive Resonance Theory for Semi-Supervised Continuous Learning

Taehyeong Kim, Injune Hwang, Gi-Cheon Kang, Won-Seok Choi, Hyunseo Kim, Byoung-Tak Zhang
ICASSP 2020 Paper

Dual Attention Networks for Visual Reference Resolution in Visual Dialog

Gi-Cheon Kang, Jaeseo Lim, Byoung-Tak Zhang
EMNLP 2019
ICCV 2019 Workshop on Video Turing Test (Spotlight Talk) Paper Code Slides

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