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Suyeon Lee
이수연
Ph.D. Student
School of Electrical Engineering, KAIST

About me

I am a second-year Ph.D. student at KAIST Multimodal AI Lab, advised by Professor Joon Son Chung. My research focuses on multimodal AI, particularly audio-visual speech processing and source separation. I investigate how cross-modal cues can be leveraged to isolate target signals and improve speech perception in complex acoustic environments, with the goal of building robust multimodal systems for real-world applications.

Education

Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, KAIST

Mar. 2025 - Present

Advisor: Joon Son Chung

M.S. in Electrical Engineering, KAIST

Mar. 2023 - Feb. 2025

Advisor: Joon Son Chung

B.S. in Electrical Engineering, KAIST

Mar. 2018 - Feb. 2023

Selected Awards

2024
  • Achieved 1st Place (Winner) in the Audio Track and 4th Place in the Audio-Visual Track of NIST Speaker Recognition Evaluation (SRE)

Experience

Research Intern, AIRS Company, Hyundai Motor Group

Sep. 2021 - Feb. 2022

Publications

2026

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LRS-VoxMM: A benchmark for in-the-wild audio-visual speech recognition
D. Kwak, J. Choi, S. Lee, and J. S. Chung
Technical Report
Paper Project Page
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I4U’s Official and Streamlined Audio Systems for NIST SRE24
D. Colibro, C. Vair, Y. Tu, J. Li, Z. Huang, Y. Chen, K. A. Lee, M. Mak, J. Mishra, V. Singh, X. Xuan, M. Chhibber, O. Kurnaz, T. Kinnunen, S. Lee, C. Jung, K. Nam, J. S. Chung, and S. Wang
Odyssey 2026
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Cinematic Audio Source Separation Using Visual Cues
K. Zhang*, S. Lee*, A. Senocak, and J. S. Chung
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
Paper Project Page
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Plug-and-Steer: Decoupling Separation and Selection in Audio-Visual Target Speaker Extraction
D. Kwak*, S. Lee*, and J. S. Chung
Interspeech
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2025

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Model-Guided Dual-Role Alignment for High-Fidelity Open-Domain Video-to-Audio Generation
K. Zhang*, T. X. Pham*, S. Lee, A. Niu, A. Senocak, and J. S. Chung
Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
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2024

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Seeing Through the Conversation: Audio-Visual Speech Separation based on Diffusion Model
S. Lee*, C. Jung*, Y. Jang, J. Kim, and J. S. Chung
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
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TalkNCE: Improving Active Speaker Detection with Talk-Aware Contrastive Learning
C. Jung*, S. Lee*, K. Nam, K. Rho, Y. Jang, and J. S. Chung
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
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FlowAVSE: Efficient Audio Visual Speech Enhancement Models with Conditional Flow Matching
C. Jung, S. Lee, J. H. Kim, and J. S. Chung
Interspeech
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Contact

  syun (at) mmai (dot) io
  Room 3103, N24 (LG Innovation Hall)

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