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MinHyuk Sung

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology · Engineering

About the Lab

Professor MinHyuk Sung's research lab specializes in 3D vision, shape understanding, and deep learning for geometric data. The lab focuses on advancing 3D instance segmentation, shape completion, and CAD-aware reconstruction by leveraging neural networks that emphasize geometric reasoning and structural priors. Key research directions include generative modeling of 3D shapes, end-to-end primitive fitting, and component-based assembly prediction from incomplete or low-quality scans. The lab develops data-efficient, end-to-end frameworks that bridge the gap between raw 3D point clouds and high-level geometric representations.

3D instance segmentationshape completiongeometric deep learningCAD reconstructionprimitive fitting

Research Overview

Papers
96
Total Citations
1,351
Papers (5y)
56
Primary Field
Engineering

Research Output Trend

Figures are computed from collected data and may differ slightly.

Publications per year (5y)
56total
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Citations per year (5y)
218total
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Selected Papers

15
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Article|337 citations·2019
GSPN: Generative Shape Proposal Network for 3D Instance Segmentation in Point Cloud
Li Yi, Wang Zhao, He Wang, Minhyuk Sung, Leonidas Guibas

We introduce a novel 3D object proposal approach named Generative Shape Proposal Network (GSPN) for instance segmentation in point cloud data. Instead of treating object proposal as a direct bounding box regression problem, we take an analysis-by-synthesis strategy and generate proposals by reconstructing shapes from noisy observations in a scene. We incorporate GSPN into a novel 3D instance segmentation framework named Region-based PointNet (R-PointNet) which allows flexible proposal refinement

Computational MechanicsEngineering
2
Article|180 citations·2019
Supervised Fitting of Geometric Primitives to 3D Point Clouds
Lingxiao Li, Minhyuk Sung, Anastasia Dubrovina, Li Yi, Leonidas Guibas
OA

Fitting geometric primitives to 3D point cloud data bridges a gap between low-level digitized 3D data and high-level structural information on the underlying 3D shapes. As such, it enables many downstream applications in 3D data processing. For a long time, RANSAC-based methods have been the gold standard for such primitive fitting problems, but they require careful per-input parameter tuning and thus do not scale well for large datasets with diverse shapes. In this work, we introduce Supervised

Computational MechanicsEngineering
3
Article|177 citations·2015
Data-driven structural priors for shape completion
Minhyuk Sung, Vladimir G. Kim, Roland Angst, Leonidas Guibas
SJR Q1ACM Transactions on GraphicsOA

Acquiring 3D geometry of an object is a tedious and time-consuming task, typically requiring scanning the surface from multiple viewpoints. In this work we focus on reconstructing complete geometry from a single scan acquired with a low-quality consumer-level scanning device. Our method uses a collection of example 3D shapes to build structural part-based priors that are necessary to complete the shape. In our representation, we associate a local coordinate system to each part and learn the dist

Computational MechanicsEngineering
4
Article|80 citations·2017
ComplementMe
Minhyuk Sung, Hao Su, Vladimir G. Kim, Siddhartha Chaudhuri, Leonidas Guibas
SJR Q1ACM Transactions on Graphics

Assembly-based tools provide a powerful modeling paradigm for non-expert shape designers. However, choosing a component from a large shape repository and aligning it to a partial assembly can become a daunting task. In this paper we describe novel neural network architectures for suggesting complementary components and their placement for an incomplete 3D part assembly. Unlike most existing techniques, our networks are trained on unlabeled data obtained from public online repositories, and do no

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5
Book Chapter|54 citations·2020
Learning 3D Part Assembly from a Single Image
Yichen Li, Kaichun Mo, Lin Shao, Minhyuk Sung, Leonidas Guibas
SJR Q2Lecture notes in computer science
Computational MechanicsEngineering
6
Article|50 citations·2022
Point2Cyl: Reverse Engineering 3D Objects from Point Clouds to Extrusion Cylinders
Mikaela Angelina Uy, Yen‐Yu Chang, Minhyuk Sung, Purvi Goel, Joseph G. Lambourne, Tolga Birdal, Leonidas Guibas
2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)

We propose Point2Cyl, a supervised network transforming a raw 3D point cloud to a set of extrusion cylinders. Reverse engineering from a raw geometry to a CAD model is an essential task to enable manipulation of the 3D data in shape editing software and thus expand their usages in many downstream applications. Particularly, the form of CAD models having a sequence of extrusion cylinders - a 2D sketch plus an extrusion axis and range - and their boolean combinations is not only widely used in the

Computational MechanicsEngineering
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Article|36 citations·2021
CTRL-C: Camera calibration TRansformer with Line-Classification
Jinwoo Lee, Hyunsung Go, Hyunjoon Lee, Sunghyun Cho, Minhyuk Sung, Junho Kim
2021 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)

Single image camera calibration is the task of estimating the camera parameters from a single input image, such as the vanishing points, focal length, and horizon line. In this work, we propose Camera calibration TRansformer with Line-Classification (CTRL-C), an end-to-end neural network-based approach to single image camera calibration, which directly estimates the camera parameters from an image and a set of line segments. Our network adopts the transformer architecture to capture the global s

Computer Vision and Pattern RecognitionComputer Science
8
Preprint|36 citations·2018
GSPN: Generative Shape Proposal Network for 3D Instance Segmentation in Point Cloud
Li Yi, Wang Zhao, He Wang, Minhyuk Sung, Leonidas Guibas
arXiv (Cornell University)OA

We introduce a novel 3D object proposal approach named Generative Shape Proposal Network (GSPN) for instance segmentation in point cloud data. Instead of treating object proposal as a direct bounding box regression problem, we take an analysis-by-synthesis strategy and generate proposals by reconstructing shapes from noisy observations in a scene. We incorporate GSPN into a novel 3D instance segmentation framework named Region-based PointNet (R-PointNet) which allows flexible proposal refinement

Computational MechanicsEngineering
9
Article|35 citations·2021
MultiBodySync: Multi-Body Segmentation and Motion Estimation via 3D Scan Synchronization
Jiahui Huang, He Wang, Tolga Birdal, Minhyuk Sung, Federica Arrigoni, Shi‐Min Hu, Leonidas Guibas
OA

We present MultiBodySync, a novel, end-to-end trainable multi-body motion segmentation and rigid registration framework for multiple input 3D point clouds. The two non-trivial challenges posed by this multi-scan multibody setting that we investigate are: (i) guaranteeing correspondence and segmentation consistency across multiple input point clouds capturing different spatial arrangements of bodies or body parts; and (ii) obtaining robust motion-based rigid body segmentation applicable to novel

Computational MechanicsEngineering
10
Article|31 citations·2023
SALAD: Part-Level Latent Diffusion for 3D Shape Generation and Manipulation
Juil Koo, Seung-Woo Yoo, Minh Hieu Nguyen, Minhyuk Sung

We present a cascaded diffusion model based on a part-level implicit 3D representation. Our model achieves state-of-the-art generation quality and also enables part-level shape editing and manipulation without any additional training in conditional setup. Diffusion models have demonstrated impressive capabilities in data generation as well as zero-shot completion and editing via a guided reverse process. Recent research on 3D diffusion models has focused on improving their generation capabilitie

Computational MechanicsEngineering
11
Article|28 citations·2021
CPFN: Cascaded Primitive Fitting Networks for High-Resolution Point Clouds
Eric-Tuan Lê, Minhyuk Sung, Duygu Ceylan, Radomír Měch, Tamy Boubekeur, Niloy J. Mitra
2021 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)

Representing human-made objects as a collection of base primitives has a long history in computer vision and reverse engineering. In the case of high-resolution point cloud scans, the challenge is to be able to detect both large primitives as well as those explaining the detailed parts. While the classical RANSAC approach requires case-specific parameter tuning, state-of-the-art networks are limited by memory consumption of their backbone modules such as PointNet++ [27], and hence fail to detect

Computational MechanicsEngineering
12
Book Chapter|26 citations·2020
Pix2Surf: Learning Parametric 3D Surface Models of Objects from Images
Jiahui Lei, Srinath Sridhar, Paul Guerrero, Minhyuk Sung, Niloy J. Mitra, Leonidas Guibas
SJR Q2Lecture notes in computer science
Computational MechanicsEngineering
13
Article|26 citations·2021
DeepMetaHandles: Learning Deformation Meta-Handles of 3D Meshes with Biharmonic Coordinates
Minghua Liu, Minhyuk Sung, Radomír Měch, Hao Su

We propose DeepMetaHandles, a 3D conditional generative model based on mesh deformation. Given a collection of 3D meshes of a category and their deformation handles (control points), our method learns a set of meta-handles for each shape, which are represented as combinations of the given handles. The disentangled meta-handles factorize all the plausible deformations of the shape, while each of them corresponds to an intuitive deformation. A new deformation can then be generated by sampling the

Computational MechanicsEngineering
14
Article|18 citations·2020
DeformSyncNet
Minhyuk Sung, Zhenyu Jiang, Panos Achlioptas, Niloy J. Mitra, Leonidas Guibas
SJR Q1ACM Transactions on GraphicsOA

Shape deformation is an important component in any geometry processing toolbox. The goal is to enable intuitive deformations of single or multiple shapes or to transfer example deformations to new shapes while preserving the plausibility of the deformed shape(s). Existing approaches assume access to point-level or part-level correspondence or establish them in a preprocessing phase, thus limiting the scope and generality of such approaches. We propose DeformSyncNet, a new approach that allows co

Computational MechanicsEngineering
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Preprint|15 citations·2018
Deep Functional Dictionaries: Learning Consistent Semantic Structures on 3D Models from Functions
Minhyuk Sung, Hao Su, Ronald Yu, Leonidas Guibas
arXiv (Cornell University)OA

Various 3D semantic attributes such as segmentation masks, geometric\nfeatures, keypoints, and materials can be encoded as per-point probe functions\non 3D geometries. Given a collection of related 3D shapes, we consider how to\njointly analyze such probe functions over different shapes, and how to discover\ncommon latent structures using a neural network --- even in the absence of any\ncorrespondence information. Our network is trained on point cloud\nrepresentations of shape geometry and assoc

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Research Areas

Computational MechanicsComputer Vision and Pattern RecognitionControl and Systems EngineeringArtificial IntelligenceAerospace EngineeringBiophysics

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