Minkuk Kim

Minkuk Kim

Ph.D. student in Artificial Intelligence · Kyung Hee University

NowVisiting researcher at UIUC, Prof. James M. Rehg's lab, working closely with Dr. Junho Kim · Sept 2026 – Mar 2027

About

I am a Ph.D. student in Artificial Intelligence at Kyung Hee University, advised by Prof. Seong-Tae Kim in the AugMented Intelligence (AMI) Laboratory. My research focuses on video-language understanding, with a particular interest in long-form and streaming videos that involve extended temporal contexts.

A central theme of my work is memory-augmented video understanding: how models can retain, structure, and retrieve visual evidence over long temporal contexts. I study this problem through dense video captioning and video question answering, where models need to localize relevant events and reason over temporally distributed information.

Looking ahead, I hope to extend video understanding toward more realistic and interactive settings, such as egocentric video and embodied/VLA scenarios, where perception can eventually support action.

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TimeTraveler: a question can point to past, current or future evidence in a video stream; existing memory-based systems only look back.TimeTraveler overall framework: the Time Dictionary is built asynchronously from the stream and the Temporal Strategy Planner routes each question to past, current or future evidence.
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TimeTraveler: Temporal Strategy Planning with Time Dictionary for Streaming Video Understanding

Minkuk Kim, Junho Kim, Seong Tae Kim

Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2026