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	Text-Conditioned Background Generation for Editable Multi-Layer Documents [2025] Taewon Kang, Joseph K J, Christopher Tensmeyer, Jihyung Kil, Wanrong Zhu, Ming C. Lin, Vlad Morariu Under Review
	Action2Dialogue: Generating Character-Centric Narratives from Scene-Level Prompts [2025] Taewon Kang, Ming C. Lin Under Review
	Text2Story: Advancing Video Storytelling with Text Guidance [2025] Taewon Kang, Divya Kothandaraman, Ming C. Lin Under Review
	3D-free meets 3D priors: Novel View Synthesis from a Single Image with Pretrained Diffusion Guidance [2024] Taewon Kang, Divya Kothandaraman, Dinesh Manocha, Ming C. Lin Accepted to The 40th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-26), AAAI 2026 Workshop on AI for Environmental Science.
	HART: Human Aligned Reconstruction Transformer [2025] Xiyi Chen, Shaofei Wang, Marko Mihajlovic, Taewon Kang, Sergey Prokudin, Ming C. Lin Under Review
	Score-based Generative Modeling through Stochastic Evolution Equations in Hilbert Spaces [2023] Sungbin Lim, Eunbi Yoon, Taehyun Byun, Taewon Kang, Seungwoo Kim, Kyungjae Lee, Sungjoon Choi Accepted to 2023 37th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2023) Spotlight Paper.
	Filmify: Image-to-Film-photo Generation based on Stable Diffusion [2023] Taewon Kang, Susung Hong 2023 Spring Semester Capstone Design(COSE480)/Independent Study(COSE406) Competition, 2nd award, Korea University.
	GLEAN-ID: Super-resolution identity-preserving project (Internship Report) [2022-2023] Taewon Kang (Internship at UC Merced (Vision and Learning Lab) with Prof. Ming-Hsuan Yang, Aug 2022 – Feb 2023) Selected Best Practices Award in the 2022 Fall Semester Student Internship Program at Korea University.
	Data Augmentation using Random Image Cropping for High-resolution Virtual Try-On (VITON-CROP) [2021] Taewon Kang, Sunghyun Park, Seunghwan Choi, and Jaegul Choo
	Multiple GAN Inversion for Exemplar-based Image-to-Image Translation [2021] Taewon Kang Accepted to 2021 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 3rd International Workshop on Real-World Computer Vision From Inputs With Limited Quality (RLQ). 2021 Spring Semester Capstone Design(COSE489)/Independent Study(COSE406) Competition, 2nd award(KRW 1,500,000), Korea University.
	Online Exemplar Fine-Tuning for Image-to-Image Translation [2020] Taewon Kang*, Soohyun Kim*, Sunwoo Kim and Seungryong Kim (* indicates equal contribution)
	Vender [2020] Taewon Kang, Daeun Kim, Minyoung Kim, Seonguk Seo, Dahye Lee, Dohyeok Lee Installation media artwork, Installed at Play on AI (2020.12.17.~2021.01.29.), Art Center Nabi Temporary Artists, <Vender>, 2020, 63x81x170cm, Self-produced Vending Machine, Monitor, PC, Arduino, LED strip, Facial Emotion Recognition (FER2013 dataset) model  * archive online website: playonai.online
	Unsupervised Image-to-Image Translation with Self-Attention Networks [2018-2020] Taewon Kang, Kwang Hee Lee Accepted to 2020 IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Smart Computing (BigComp), REGULAR Paper & Presentation ICCV 2019 Image and Video Synthesis Workshop Competition Participation
	Structure-based Computer Without Using Transistors Structure-based Optimal Logics Without Using Transistors [2019-2020] Jonghyeon Lee, Taewon Kang Accepted to IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics Asia 2020 (ICCE-Asia 2020)
	Generate Personification Character with using GAN Algorithm [2018-2019] Taewon Kang 2018 YIP 창업경진대회 대상 (적대적 생성 신경망 알고리즘을 기반으로 한 의인화 캐릭터 생성 방법 특허출원) KR Patent 10-2084782 2018 세종과학예술영재학교 자율연구 최종 발표 (금상(1위, 수학정보융합분야)) 2019 한국정보과학회 KCC2019 학부생/주니어 논문경진대회 우수상(2위) 수상 2019 한국정보과학회 인공지능 소사이어티(AI KOREA 2019) 우수 포스터 발표상 (은상(2위), 1-minute AI Madness Session)
	Developing an education tool about symbol of elements and chemical formula by hacking Minecraft [2017-2018] Taewon Kang, Jeongdam Choi 2017 세종과학예술영재학교 창의탐구 최종 발표 (금상(1위)) 2018 Taiwan International Science Fair Finalist (Taipei)
	Image Explanation Software for the Bilnd [2016-2017] Taewon Kang 제 33회 한국정보올림피아드 공모부문 은상 (2016) 제 8회 한국청소년과학창의대회(ISEF-K) CS분야 2위 (2017) 2017 Intel ISEF Finalist (Los Angeles)
	LIGHT for Study (AI Stand) [2015-2016] Taewon Kang 2016 서울시민 발명 아이디어 경진대회 KR Patent 10-1875216
	E/V Group Control System [2013-2014] Taewon Kang 제 31회 한국정보올림피아드 공모부문 금상 (2014)