Learning from Imperfect Data

I work on label-efficient visual learning. My research asks how visual models can learn useful structure when data is costly to annotate, difficult to store, or imperfect in practice. I explore limited supervision and compact representations, spanning weakly supervised and language-guided segmentation, object localization, and storage-efficient training.

I received my M.S. and Ph.D. in Integrated Technology from Yonsei University, advised by Prof. Hyunjung Shim. During my research internship at NAVER AI Lab, I worked with Song Park, Byeongho Heo, and Dongyoon Han on storage-efficient visual training.

I am currently an AI researcher and Staff Engineer at Samsung Electronics' AX/PI Center, working on semiconductor data modeling and layout generation. These industrial settings bring the same research question into practice: learning from structured patterns and noisy data with limited supervision.

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Comparison of augmentation effects on semantic segmentation and language-guided segmentation.

MaskRIS: Semantic Distortion-aware Data Augmentation for Referring Image Segmentation

  • Vision–Language
  • Data Augmentation
Minhyun Lee*, Seungho Lee*, Song Park, Dongyoon Han, Byeongho Heo†, Hyunjung Shim†
TMLR 2025
Accuracy and training-data storage comparison from the SeiT++ paper.

SeiT++: Masked Token Modeling Improves Storage-efficient Training

  • Storage-Efficient Learning
  • Masked Token Modeling
Minhyun Lee*, Song Park*, Byeongho Heo, Dongyoon Han, Hyunjung Shim†
ECCV 2024
EPS++ framework combining localization maps, saliency supervision, refinement, and image-level classification.

Saliency as Pseudo-Pixel Supervision for Weakly and Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation

  • Weak & Semi-Supervision
  • Saliency Guidance
Minhyun Lee*, Seungho Lee*, Jongwuk Lee, Hyunjung Shim†
IEEE TPAMI 2023
Ground-truth masks and class activation maps before and after activation manipulation.

Threshold Matters in WSSS: Manipulating the Activation for the Robust and Accurate Segmentation Model Against Thresholds

  • Weak Supervision
  • Threshold Robustness
Minhyun Lee*, Dongseob Kim*, Hyunjung Shim†
CVPR 2022
Image labels and a saliency map provide complementary signals for a segmentation mask.

Railroad Is Not a Train: Saliency As Pseudo-Pixel Supervision for Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation

  • Weak Supervision
  • Saliency Guidance
Seungho Lee*, Minhyun Lee*, Jongwuk Lee, Hyunjung Shim†
CVPR 2021