Jihoon Kim

I’m Jihoon Kim, an AI Research Engineer & Technical Lead building grounded LLM and multimodal agent systems, generative models for human motion, and the production infrastructure that connects research to reliable creative tools. At Cinamon, I lead research and engineering across story-to-scene planning, multimodal generation, and motion AI while managing and mentoring AI researchers and engineers. My research spans controllable long-horizon motion generation, language-based motion synthesis and editing, and human-scene interaction. I hold an M.S. in Artificial Intelligence from Korea University and a B.S. in Electronic Engineering from Hanyang University; previously, I worked on generative models at KakaoBrain and enterprise AutoML at AILYS.

selected publications

WACV

Controllable Long-term Motion Generation with Extended Joint Targets

Eunjong Lee, Eunhee Kim, Sanghoon Hong, Eunho Jung, and Jihoon Kim

In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV); corresponding author: Jihoon Kim , Mar 2026

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@inproceedings{lee2026comet,
  title = {Controllable Long-term Motion Generation with Extended Joint Targets},
  author = {Lee, Eunjong and Kim, Eunhee and Hong, Sanghoon and Jung, Eunho and Kim, Jihoon},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)},
  pages = {5164--5173},
  month = mar,
  year = {2026},
}

IROS

Robust and Expressive Humanoid Motion Retargeting via Optimization-Based Rig Unification

Taemoon Jeong, Taehyun Byun, Jihoon Kim, Keunjun Choi, Jaesung Oh, Sungpyo Lee, Omar Darwish, Joohyung Kim, and Sungjoon Choi

In 2025 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2025

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@inproceedings{jeong2025robust,
  title = {Robust and Expressive Humanoid Motion Retargeting via Optimization-Based Rig Unification},
  author = {Jeong, Taemoon and Byun, Taehyun and Kim, Jihoon and Choi, Keunjun and Oh, Jaesung and Lee, Sungpyo and Darwish, Omar and Kim, Joohyung and Choi, Sungjoon},
  booktitle = {2025 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)},
  pages = {21619--21626},
  year = {2025},
  doi = {10.1109/IROS60139.2025.11246607},
}

AAAI

FLAME: Free-form Language-based Motion Synthesis & Editing

Jihoon Kim, Jiseob Kim, and Sungjoon Choi

In Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence; oral presentation , 2023

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@inproceedings{kim2023flame,
  title = {{FLAME}: Free-form Language-based Motion Synthesis \& Editing},
  author = {Kim, Jihoon and Kim, Jiseob and Choi, Sungjoon},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
  volume = {37},
  number = {7},
  pages = {8255--8263},
  year = {2023},
  doi = {10.1609/aaai.v37i7.25996},
}

Pattern Recogn.

Conditional Motion In-betweening

Jihoon Kim, Taehyun Byun, Seungyoun Shin, Jungdam Won, and Sungjoon Choi

Pattern Recognition, Dec 2022

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@article{kim2022conditional,
  title = {Conditional Motion In-betweening},
  author = {Kim, Jihoon and Byun, Taehyun and Shin, Seungyoun and Won, Jungdam and Choi, Sungjoon},
  journal = {Pattern Recognition},
  volume = {132},
  pages = {108894},
  month = dec,
  year = {2022},
  publisher = {Elsevier},
  doi = {10.1016/j.patcog.2022.108894},
}