Spatial Intelligence Lab

Professor

Education, career, and research interests of the lab's principal investigator.

Biography

  • Jongmin Lee is an assistant professor at Chung-Ang University (CAU) and the principal investigator of the Spatial Intelligence Lab. His research focuses on computer vision and machine learning, with particular interests in visual geometry, 3D vision, geometric deep learning, and spatial reasoning with large language models. He leads research efforts that bridge theoretical advances with real-world applications in robotics, AR/VR, and autonomous vision systems.

Work Experience

  • 2025.09 – Present

    Chung-Ang University

    Assistant Professor in Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering

  • 2024.10 – 2025.08

    LG AI Research

    Research Scientist, Vision Lab & EXAONE VL TF: post-training multi-modal LLMs (SFT, DPO/GRPO) for vision-language foundation models

  • 2023.07 – 2023.10

    Meta Reality Labs

    Research Scientist Intern, XR Eyes team (Burlingame, CA)

Education

  • 2024

    Ph.D. in Computer Science Engineering, POSTECH

    Computer Vision Lab, advised by Prof. Minsu Cho

  • 2018

    B.Sc. in Computer Science Engineering, POSTECH

  • 2018

    B.Sc. in Industrial & Management Engineering, POSTECH

Research Interests

  • Visual geometry & 3D vision

    • Visual correspondence, object/camera pose estimation, multi-view geometry
    • Structure-from-motion, optical flow, 3D reconstruction, 3D symmetry
    • Point-cloud registration, robotics, embodied AI, spatial reasoning
  • Representation learning

    • Invariance and equivariance, geometric deep learning, equivariant learning
    • Self-supervised learning, diffusion models for discriminative tasks
    • Foundation models for image, video, and 3D
  • Visual perception

    • Object detection and segmentation, video summarization
    • Document understanding, task-specific fine-tuning with multi-modal LLMs