About Lee, Jae Joong
- Jae Joong Lee is a Computer Science Ph.D. candidate at Purdue University, advised by Prof. Bedrich Benes in the Computer Graphics and Visualization Laboratory. He works at the intersection of computer vision, 3D graphics, and generative AI to create digital twins.
- Jae Joong Lee received a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science at Purdue University.
Updates (last updated June 12, 2026)
- 📜 My paper on plant point cloud completion from occluded scans has been accepted to Plant Phenomics.
- 🏆 My proposal was selected for the Google Research Computing Grant.
- 🎉 Tree-D fusion is featured in the Re-Leaf exhibition at Rome’s Palazzo delle Esposizioni in collaboration with the MIT Senseable City Lab.
- 📜 My paper, Tuning-Free Amodal Segmentation via the Occlusion-Free Bias of Inpainting Models, is accepted to AAAI 2026. (Acceptance Rate: 17.6%) Paper
- 🎉 I was awarded GPU funding from the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource Pilot as a PI.
- 🎉 I will join Zillow Group as an AI Applied Scientist Intern specializing in Computer Vision.
- 🏆 I was honored to receive the John R. Rice Partial Fellowship in Scientific Computing from the Department of Computer Science at Purdue University.
- 🤝 My work, Tree-D fusion, is used in the 19th International Architecture Exhibition Biennale Venice, Re-Leaf Project in collaboration with MIT Senseable City Lab.
- 📰 My recent work, Tree-D fusion, is covered by MIT News and Purdue News.
- 📜 Another paper, Single Image to 3D Point Cloud, is accepted to WACV 2025. Project Website
- 📜 My paper, Tree-D Fusion, is accepted to ECCV 2024. See you in Milan, Italy🇮🇹. Project Website
- 🎉 Received Merit Recognition Award from Purdue University.
- 📜 "Latent L-systems: Transformer-based Tree Generator" is accepted to ACM Transactions on Graphics, and invited to present at SIGGRAPH2024!
- 🎉 Offered Samsung Electronics Scholarship.
- I got a deep learning certification from the NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute.
- 💥 Finished Ph.D. Core Requirements (Equivalent to a qualification exam in other universities.)
- Started the first Ph.D. program semester in CS at Purdue University.
- 🎓 Received Bachelor of Science in Computer Science (CS) at Purdue University.
Publications
A-Occ-Plant: Plant Occluded Point Cloud Completion via Amodal Segmentation
Plant Phenomics, 2026
Language-Guided Invariance Probing of Vision Language Models
Pattern Recognition Letters, April 2026
Top2Ground: A Height-Aware Dual Conditioning Diffusion Model for Robust Aerial-to-Ground View Generation
arXiv
[🔥Top Conference🔥] Tuning-Free Amodal Segmentation via the Occlusion-Free Bias of Inpainting Models
Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2026
Fundings
- Google Research Grant, PI, 2026
- NSF NAIRR Grant, PI, 2025
Work Experience
Zillow — Applied ScientistMay 2025 – Aug 2025
Implemented a discrete VAE and latent diffusion backbone for high-fidelity indoor scene synthesis.
Samsung Electronics — Research ScientistMay 2022 – Aug 2022
Investigated out-of-distribution (OOD) detection using ResNet-based feature-space analysis to identify novel defects in semiconductor manufacturing.
Teaching
CS 177 — Programming with Multimedia Objects (Python)Aug 2021 – Dec 2022
Graduate Teaching Assistant. Held office hours, automated grading scripts, and created exams and assignments.
Awards
John R. Rice Partial Fellowship in Scientific Computing2025
Purdue Employee Recognition Award2024
Samsung Electronics Excellence Scholarship2022
Services
- Reviewer, SIGGRAPH
- Reviewer, IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)
- Reviewer, IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
- Reviewer, International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
- Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG)
- Reviewer, AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
- Sergeant, KATUSA (Korean Augmentation to the United States Army), Eighth Army, U.S. Army, 2018–2020