Mingu Kang

M.S./Ph.D. Student, Seoul National University

Researching video understanding and world models through multimodal representations for prediction, planning, and decision-making.

Portrait of Mingu Kang

News

  • Our paper QLVSumm was accepted to NeurIPS 2026.
  • Our paper TripleSumm was accepted to ICLR 2026.
  • Our paper DisCoRD was accepted to ICCV 2025 as a Highlight.

Publications

01

Anisotropic Representations Improve Planning in JEPA World Models

Mingu Kang, Yoori Oh†, Sookyung Kim†, Joonseok Lee†

Preprint2026

02

Do Not Stop at Frame Scoring: Enabling End-to-end Training for Video Summarization

Sumin Kim*, Mingu Kang*, Minjun Kim, Sungmin Yang, U Kang, Jaegul Choo†, Yoori Oh†, Joonseok Lee†

Preprint2026

03

From Matching to Reasoning: Query-Aware Long Video Summarization

Mingu Kang, Sumin Kim, Hyunjin Lee, Sungmin Yang, Yoori Oh†, Joonseok Lee†

Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2026.

04

TripleSumm: Adaptive Triple-Modality Fusion for Video Summarization

Sumin Kim*, Hyemin Jung*, Mingu Kang*, Yejin Kim, Yoori Oh†, Joonseok Lee†

International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2026.

05

DisCoRD: Continuous Motion via Rectified Flow Decoding

Jungbin Cho*, Junwan Kim*, Jisoo Kim, Minseo Kim, Mingu Kang, Seuneun Hong†, Tae-Hyun Oh†, Youngjae Yu†

International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2025. Highlight.

01

Anisotropic Representations Improve Planning in JEPA World Models

Mingu Kang, Yoori Oh†, Sookyung Kim†, Joonseok Lee†

Preprint2026

02

DRUM: Dense Reliability Utilization Module for Robust Autonomous Driving Perception

Junhyung Kim, Mingu Kang, YunSeok Choi

Preprint2026

03

Do Not Stop at Frame Scoring: Enabling End-to-end Training for Video Summarization

Sumin Kim*, Mingu Kang*, Minjun Kim, Sungmin Yang, U Kang, Jaegul Choo†, Yoori Oh†, Joonseok Lee†

Preprint2026

04

From Matching to Reasoning: Query-Aware Long Video Summarization

Mingu Kang, Sumin Kim, Hyunjin Lee, Sungmin Yang, Yoori Oh†, Joonseok Lee†

Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2026.

05

TripleSumm: Adaptive Triple-Modality Fusion for Video Summarization

Sumin Kim*, Hyemin Jung*, Mingu Kang*, Yejin Kim, Yoori Oh†, Joonseok Lee†

International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2026.

06

DisCoRD: Continuous Motion via Rectified Flow Decoding

Jungbin Cho*, Junwan Kim*, Jisoo Kim, Minseo Kim, Mingu Kang, Seuneun Hong†, Tae-Hyun Oh†, Youngjae Yu†

International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2025. Highlight.

* Equal contribution. † Corresponding author.

Patents

Video Summarization Method and Computer Apparatus for the Same

Korean patent application filed May 2026 (application number pending)

Inventors: Mingu Kang, Sumin Kim, Hyemin Jeong, Yejin Kim, Yoori Oh, Joonseok Lee

Projects

Sep 2026 – Present

Building Foundation Models and Evaluation Benchmarks for Video Summarization

NRF Basic Science Research Program

Selected for the 2026 Basic Science Research Program funded by the National Research Foundation of Korea. Leading research on foundation models and evaluation benchmarks for video summarization using multimodal data.

Research

Research Experiences

Honors & Awards

Sep 2026

LG AI Research President's Award

LG AI Research

Developed an AI model to predict pitch-control success probabilities.

Selected
Nov 2025

Best Research Award

SKKU IME Annual Research Review

Top-rated research selected by industry and government-funded institute evaluators.

Selected
Aug 2025

President's Award, Institute for Information & Communications Technology Planning & Evaluation (IITP)

IITP

Developed AI models for paragraph-level classification to predict whether text is human-written or AI-generated, leveraging contextual clues within the same document for reliable detection of generative AI content.

Selected
Apr 2025

Minister of Employment and Labor Award

LG AI Research

Developed an AI model to predict the likelihood of pregnancy success in infertile patients.

Selected
Aug 2024

National Institute of Korean Language Award

National Institute of the Korean Language

Developed an AI model to distinguish conversation context in Korean LLMs.

Selected
Aug 2024

Minister of Science and ICT Award

SW Centered University

Developed an AI model to detect fake voice generated by AI.

Selected
Sep 2026

LG AI Research President's Award

LG AI Research

Developed an AI model to predict pitch-control success probabilities.

Selected
Sep 2026

Presidents' Awards, Korea East-West Power and GS E&R

3rd Wind Power Generation Forecasting AI Competition (BARAM 2026)

Developed an AI model for wind power generation forecasting.

Nov 2025

Best Research Award

SKKU IME Annual Research Review

Top-rated research selected by industry and government-funded institute evaluators.

Selected
Sep 2025

Excellence Award (Korea Energy Agency)

Power Consumption Forecasting AI Competition

Developed a power consumption forecasting AI model.

Aug 2025

President's Award, Institute for Information & Communications Technology Planning & Evaluation (IITP)

IITP

Developed AI models for paragraph-level classification to predict whether text is human-written or AI-generated, leveraging contextual clues within the same document for reliable detection of generative AI content.

Selected
Jun 2025

Intelligent Multimedia Research Center Director's Award

Sungkyunkwan University

Developed prompts and retrieval-augmented generation strategies for fair and neutral responses based on biased context and user intent.

Apr 2025

Minister of Employment and Labor Award

LG AI Research

Developed an AI model to predict the likelihood of pregnancy success in infertile patients.

Selected
Jan 2025

President's List, High Student Success Performance

Sungkyunkwan University

Selected as one of the Top 20 students for outstanding achievement across Sungkyunkwan University.

Dec 2024

Korea Water Resources Corporation President Award

K-water

Developed an AI model that can accurately detect abnormal timing and leakage sections of the water supply network.

Feb 2025

Sungkyunkwan University brAIn Research Program Award

Sungkyunkwan University

Conducted research on the image inpainting model, CoReaP: Collaborative Reconstruction with Assistive Priors.

Nov 2024

Korea Agro-Fisheries Food Trade Corporation Award

Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs

Developed an AI model for agriculture price forecasting.

Oct 2024

Korea Computer Education President Award

The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education

Developed a text-to-3D motion generation model and web production for rehabilitation exercise.

Oct 2024

Hankuk University of Foreign Studies Presidential Award

Hankuk University of Foreign Studies

Developed an AI model that classifies article categories from news title and text keywords.

Sep 2024

SKKU Univ AI Director Award

Sungkyunkwan University

Developed an AI model to detect illegal gambling advertisements on web pages.

Aug 2024

National Institute of Korean Language Award

National Institute of the Korean Language

Developed an AI model to distinguish conversation context in Korean LLMs.

Selected
Aug 2024

Minister of Science and ICT Award

SW Centered University

Developed an AI model to detect fake voice generated by AI.

Selected
Jul 2024

Dean's List Award, High Scholastic Achievement

Sungkyunkwan University

Top 1% for the fall semester 2023.

Fellowships & Scholarships

Mar 2026

Master's Excellence Scholarship (Science and Engineering)

Korea Student Aid Foundation

Selected as a scholarship recipient for outstanding master's students in science and engineering.

Scholarship
Sep 2026

NRF Graduate Research Encouragement Grant

National Research Foundation of Korea

Selected for graduate research funding in video summarization.

Scholarship
Feb 2024

Presidential Science Scholarship

President of the Republic of Korea

Selected as one of the Top 60 nationwide for fostering world-class scientists in engineering.

Scholarship

Academic Services

2026

Reviewer

Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)

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