My ultimate goal is to bridge the gap between human imagination and digital reality,
creating a world that is seamlessly modifiable according to user intention.
To that end, my research focuses on Generative Models and
Controllable Generation, with an emphasis on understanding the internal
dynamics of diffusion models and developing principled, training-free methods that steer
sampling toward more faithful, diverse, and hallucination-resistant outputs.
Feel free to send me an e-mail if you want to have a chat! Contact: hyun_cho@korea.ac.kr
Reusing one sinusoidal block recurrently expands spectral support without
extra parameters: by Jacobi–Anger, each sine step creates
new frequency combinations.
We characterize the pre-softmax attention matrix QK in
transformers as an associative memory matrix encoding pairwise
associations between input features.
We introduce TAG, a theoretically grounded,
training-free, computationally lightweight, and architecture-agnostic
guidance method that operates solely on trajectory signals without
modifying the underlying diffusion model.
ECCV 2026 Malmö, Sweden 🇸🇪
ReAL: Reference-to-Image (R2I)-Aware Latent Diffusion for Image
Super-Resolution
ReAL grounds diffusion SR in retrieved visual references rather
than text priors. It encodes a matched reference once and
reuses its cached attention features throughout denoising, enabling
reference-driven texture and structure recovery without CFG.
We propose an image-based RAG framework (iRAG) for
realistic super-resolution, using a trainable hashing function to
retrieve either real-world or generated references from an LR query.
We introduce a bit-plane decomposition that enables
lossless implicit neural representations, allowing
exact reconstruction of digital signals with continuous networks.
Integrated M.S & Ph.D in Electrical Engineering
| Korea University
Mar 2024 - cont.
Research: Generative Model & Hopfield Model
Advisor: Prof. Kyong Hwan Jin
B.S in Software | Gachon University
Mar 2020 - Feb 2024
Research: Image Super Resolution
Advisor: Prof. Kiho
Choi (currently in Kyung Hee University)
Gold Prize, 38th Workshop of Image Processing and Image
Understanding (IPIU), 2026
Award Certificate ↗
Samsung Research (Next Generation Display Lab), Development of user-preferred
image-based image quality technology,
2024.06-2025.05
Samsung Research (Next Generation Display Lab), Uncertainty-Aware Temporal
Relation Reasoning under Missing Video Evidence,
2026.01-2026.12
Method and Apparatus for Lossless Implicit Neural Representation
Based on Bipolar Vector Labeling and Recursive Single Weight Operation
Hyunmin Cho,
Kyong Hwan Jin,
Yongjun Lee,
Jiwon Kim,
Woo Kyoung Han Korea Patent Application No. 10-2025-0150878