Team

I lead the Human-Centered Vision and Learning (HCVL) Grounp at the University of Birmingham. I am fortunate to work or have worked with the following members:


Staff

Hyung Jin Chang

Associate Professor

  • Postdoc @ Imperial College London
  • PhD @ Seoul National University
  • Computer vision
  • Robotics

PhD Students

Nora Horanyi

Ph.D Student
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  • M.Sc. @ University of Szeged
  • Human Attention Estimation
  • Gaze Estimation

Linfang Zheng

Ph.D Student (With SUST)

  • M.Sc. @ Harbin Institute of Technology
  • Robust Object 6D Pose Estimation
  • Object Manipulationn

Tze Ho Elden Tse

Ph.D Student

  • M.Eng. @ University of Oxford
  • 3D Hand-Object Reconstruction
  • Graph Neural Network

Hengfei Wang

Ph.D Student

  • M.Sc. @ Tsinghua University
  • Gaze Estimation
  • NeRF

Esha Dasgupta

Ph.D Student

  • M.Sc. @ University of Cambridge
  • 3D Human Posture Estimation
  • Musculoskeletal Regression

Zhongqun Zhang

Ph.D Student

  • M.Sc. @ Tongji University
  • 3D Hand-Object Pose Estimation
  • Limited Supervision

Jonathan Freer

Ph.D Student

  • M.Sc. @ University of Birmingham
  • Novel View Synthesis
  • NeRF

Research Assistant

Yuqi Hou

Research Assistant

  • M.Sc. @ University of Birmingham
  • Eye Gaze Tracking
  • Deep Learning

Co-supervising PhD Students


Visiting Academics

  • Jaemin Na, (from Ajou University, South Korea).

Alumni

Name Role Dates Current Position
Hengfei Wang Postdoc 03/2025 - Present PostDoc researcher, EPFL
Jeongho Lee PhD Student (Visiting) 02/2025 - 08/2025 DanKook University, South Korea
Sungho Chun PhD Student (Visiting) 12/2024 - 03/2025 KwangWoon University, South Korea
Hopyeong Hwang Visiting Researcher (Visiting) 12/2024 - 11/2025 Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency, South Korea
Jongsu Youn PhD Student (Visiting) 10/2024 - 11/2024 PhD Student, Chung-Ang University, South Korea
SeungMo Seo PhD Student (Visiting) 10/2024 - 11/2024 PhD Student, Chung-Ang University, South Korea
Uyoung Jeong PhD Student (Visiting) 09/2024 - 12/2024 PhD Student, UNIST, South Korea
YoungChan Choi PhD Student (Visiting) 09/2024 - 02/2025 DanKook University, South Korea
Jung Hoon Sung PhD Student (Visiting) 09/2024 - 02/2025 DanKook University, South Korea
Seungryul Baek Research visit 07/2024 - 08/2024 Associate Professor, UNIST, South Korea
Jeonghan Lee PhD Student (Visiting) 07/2024 - 08/2024
Bo Eun Kim Postdoc 04/2024 - 02/2025 Assistant Professor, Dankook University, South Korea
Ju Yong Chang Sabbatical visit 03/2024 - 02/2025 Professor, Kwangwoon University, South Korea
Jungchan Cho Sabbatical visit 01/2024 - 01/2025
Jiyoung Yoon Visiting Researcher 01/2024 - 12/2024 Senior Research Fellow, Busan Development Institute, South Korea
SeungJu You Visiting Researcher 09/2023 - 09/2024 Director, Human Resource Development Division, Ministry of Personnel Management, South Korea
Woochul Kim Visiting Researcher (Visiting) 08/2023 - 08/2025 Ministry of Science and ICT, South Korea
Jiho Park MSc Student (Visiting) 09/2022 - 12/2022 PhD Student, Dongguk University, South Korea
Bongkeun Choi Visiting Researcher 09/2022 - 08/2023 Director, Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW), South Korea
Sanghun Kim MSc Student (Visiting) 09/2022 - 12/2022
Yongsoo Baek Sabbatical visit 02/2022 - 02/2023 Professor, Inha University Hospital, South Korea
Daeun Sung Visiting Researcher 12/2021 - 06/2022 Assistant Director, General Services and Personnel Division, Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, South Korea
Jaemin Na PhD Student (Visiting) 10/2021 - 03/2022 Senior Research Engineer, Vision AI Research Department, KT AI2X Lab
Taehoon Kim PhD Student (Visiting) 10/2021 - 03/2022 Ajou University, South Korea
Xuecheng Qi Research Assistant 09/2021 - 02/2022 HUAWEI
Zhongqun Zhang PhD Student 04/2021 - 06/2025 Assistant Professor, Nankai University, China
Jinwook Kim Sabbatical visit 02/2021 - 02/2022 Professor, Chung-Ang University, South Korea
Tze Ho Elden Tse PhD Student 02/2020 - 06/2024 PostDoc researcher, NUS, Singapore
Linfang Zheng PhD Student 01/2020 - 10/2024 PostDoc researcher, University of Hong Kong, China
John Yang PhD Student (Visiting) 09/2019 - 12/2019 Software Engineer, NVIDIA, USA
HyunChul Sim Visiting Researcher 07/2019 - 06/2020 Director, Hyundai Motors, South Korea
Daniel Varnai Research Assistant 01/2019 - 12/2020
Nora Horanyi PhD Student 10/2018 - 05/2023 Senior Machine Learning Specialist, JBA Risk Management, UK
Yixing Gao Teaching Fellow Associate Professor, Jilin University, China
Yuming Chen Research Assistant