SooBin Lim

SooBin Lim

Ph.D. Student

IIIXR Lab, Korea University

I am a Ph.D. student working in the IIIXR Lab, advised by Dr. HyeongYeop Kang. My research focuses on creating immersive virtual reality experiences and realistic character animation.

VR Experience Character Animation

📄 Publications

BiPO

BiPO: Bidirectional Partial Occlusion Network for Text-to-Motion Synthesis

Seong-Eun Hong, Soobin Lim, Juyeong Hwang, Minwook Chang, and HyeongYeop Kang

WACV 2026 Oral · Tucson, Arizona, USA

Paper Code Project Video
From Assumptions to Actions

From Assumptions to Actions: Turning LLM Reasoning into Uncertainty-Aware Planning for Embodied Agents

SeungWon Seo*, SooBin Lim*, SeongRae Noh*, Haneul Kim, and HyeongYeop Kang

ICLR 2026 · Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Paper
REVECA

REVECA: Adaptive Planning and Trajectory-based Validation in Cooperative Language Agents Using Information Relevance and Relative Proximity

SeungWon Seo*, SeongRae Noh*, Junhyeok Lee, SooBin Lim, Won Hee Lee, and HyeongYeop Kang

AAAI 2025 Oral, Top 5% · Philadelphia, USA

Paper Project Video
DARAM

DARAM: Dynamic Avatar-Human Motion Remapping Technique for Realistic Virtual Stair Ascending Motions

SooBin Lim*, SeungWon Seo, HyeongYeop Kang

SIGGRAPH 2023 · Los Angeles, USA

Paper Video

🎓 Education

2025 - Present

Integrated Ph.D. in Computer Science

Korea University

IIIXR Lab, advised by Dr. HyeongYeop Kang

2022 - 2024

Integrated MS-Ph.D. in Software Convergence

Kyung Hee University

IIIXR Lab, advised by Dr. HyeongYeop Kang

2018 - 2022

B.S. in Software Convergence

Kyung Hee University

🏆 Awards

2025
Master's Thesis Award – Honorable Mention For outstanding master’s research. KCGS
2021
Realistic Media Game Competition – Top Prize Presented an immersive VR puzzle game. (Project) Kyung Hee Univ.
2020
KHU SW Festival – Grand Award Developed a 2D casual puzzle game. (Project) Kyung Hee Univ.
2020
KHTHON – Excellence Award Created a cute, design-focused burger-making game. (Project) Kyung Hee Univ.

🎓 Scholarships

2025
Ph.D. Research Scholarship Terrain-Adaptive Embodied Avatar Controller from Sparse Signals National Research Foundation of Korea
2026
WACV 2026 Broadening Participation Travel Grant Travel support to attend WACV 2026. WACV
2023
Google East Asia Student Travel Grants Travel support to attend SIGGRAPH 2023. Google
2021
Pearl Abyss × KHUSWC Scholarship Smoothed-particle hydrodynamics with Unreal Engine. (Video) Pearl Abyss