Daeun Lee | UNC Chapel Hill

About Me

Thanks for visiting my website! ✨ I am a 2nd-year Ph.D. student at UNC Chapel Hill, MURGe-Lab (Advisor: Prof. Mohit Bansal). Previously, I was advised by Prof. Jinkyu Kim at Korea University and Prof. Sung Ju Hwang at KAIST.

Research Interests

Embodied AI, Agents
Out-of-Domain Generalization, Adaptation
Video Understanding

News

[Aug. 2025] One paper got accepted to EMNLP 2025 Findings 🇨🇳
[Jun. 2025] New preprint is out: check out Video-Skill-CoT
[May. 2025] Join Adobe Research as 2025 Summer Intern!
[Jan. 2025] Invited talk at Cisco Meraki
[Nov. 2024] New preprint is out: check out VideoRepair
[May. 2024] One paper got accepted to ICML 2024 🇦🇹
[Apr. 2024] One paper got accepted to CVPRW 2024 🇺🇸
[Jan. 2023] One paper is oral-presented at WACV 2023 🏝️
[Dec. 2022] I finished my first research internship at NAVER LABS!

Publications

VideoRepair: Improving Text-to-Video Generation via Misalignment Evaluation and Localized Refinement

Daeun Lee, Jaehong Yoon, Jaemin Cho, Mohit Bansal

preprint

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EMNLP Findings

Video-Skill-CoT: Skill-based Chain-of-Thoughts for Domain-Adaptive Video Reasoning

Daeun Lee*, Jaehong Yoon*, Jaemin Cho, Mohit Bansal

Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) Findings, 2025.

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ICML

BECoTTA: Input-dependent Online Blending of Experts for Continual Test-time Adaptation

Daeun Lee*, Jaehong Yoon*, Sung Ju Hwang

International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2024.

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CVPRW

HD Maps are Lane Detection Generalizers: A Novel Generative Framework for Single-Source Domain Generalization

Daeun Lee, Minhyeok Heo, Jiwon Kim

CVPR Data-Driven Autonomous Driving Simulation Workshop (CVPRW), 2024.

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WACV

Resolving Class Imbalance for LiDAR-based Object Detector by Dynamic Weight Average and Contextual Ground Truth Sampling

Daeun Lee, Jinkyu Kim

IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2023.

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ECCV

Bridging the Domain Gap towards Generalization in Automatic Colorization

Hyejin Lee, Daehee Kim, Daeun Lee, Jinkyu Kim, Jaekoo Lee

European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2022.

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Services

Conference Reviewer:
- CVPR 2022,2024,2025
- ECCV 2022,2024
- AAAI 2025
- NeurIPS 2025

Acknowledgement

💐 Always appreciate all of my great advisors and collaborators: Mohit Bansal (UNC), Jaehong Yoon (NTU), Jinkyu Kim (KU), Jaemin Cho (JHU), Minhyeok Heo (NaverLabs), Sung Ju Hwang (KAIST), Sungbin Lim (KU)

Misc

🧸 I am a big fan of Sanrio (Hello Kitty, Mymelody, Kuromi), all teddy bears, and K-POP!