PUBLICATIONS

Accepted Publications

2026

  1. [1] Safe-LLaVA: A Privacy-Preserving Vision-Language Dataset and Benchmark for Biometric Safety
    Younggun Kim, Swetha Sirnam, Fazil Kagdi, and Mubarak Shah
    IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Findings 2026 (CVPR Findings).
    [Link]
  2. [2] Multi-view Structural Convolution Network for Domain-Invariant Point Cloud Recognition of Autonomous Vehicles
    Younggun Kim, Mohamed Abdel-Aty, Beomsik Cho, Seonghoon Rhoo, and Soomok Lee*
    Minor Revision at IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles (T-IV). [Impact Factor: 14.3, JCR Quartiles: Q1, Conditionally Accepted]
    [Link]
  3. [3] Region-Level Vision-Language Model for Detecting Distraction Behaviors and Mobility Attributes of Vulnerable Road Users
    Dai Quoc Tran*, Mohamed Abdel-Aty, Younggun Kim, Ahmed Abdelrahman, and Zubayer Islam
    IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (T-ITS). [Impact Factor: 8.4, JCR Quartiles: Q1]
    [Link]

    4. 2025

  4. [4] VRU-Accident: A Vision-Language Benchmark for Video Question Answering and Dense Captioning for Accident Scene Understanding
    Younggun Kim, Ahmed S. Abdelrahman*, and Mohamed Abdel-Aty
    International Conference on Computer Vision Workshop (ICCVW), 2025. [Oral, Best Student Paper Award]
    [Link]
  5. [5] Pedestrian Crossing Direction Prediction at Intersections for Pedestrian Safety
    Younggun Kim*, Mohamed Abdel-Aty, Keechoo Choi, Zubayer Islam, Dongdong Wang, and Shaoyan Zhai
    IEEE Open Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems (OJ-ITS), 2025. [Impact Factor: 5.3, JCR Quartiles: Q1]
    [Link]

2024

  1. [6] 3D Adaptive Structural Convolution Network for Domain-Invariant Point Cloud Recognition
    Younggun Kim and Soomok Lee*
    Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV), 2024.
    [Link]

Under Review & arXiv Preprint

  1. [1] MMCAformer: Macro-Micro Cross-Attention Transformer for Traffic Speed Prediction with Microscopic Connected Vehicle Driving Behaviors
    Lei Han*, Mohamed Abdel-Aty, Younggun Kim, Yang-Jun Joo, and Zubayer Islam
    has been submitted to IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (T-ITS). [Impact Factor: 8.4, JCR Quartiles: Q1]
  2. [2] Gated Kinematic–Visual Fusion for Right‑Turn Pedestrian Conflict Risk Assessment
    Dai Quoc Tran*, Mohamed Abdel-Aty, Qianqian Jin, Younggun Kim, and Zubayer Islam
    has been submitted to IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (T-ITS). [Impact Factor: 8.4, JCR Quartiles: Q1]

Professional Services

2025

  1. [1] Reviewer, IEEE Open Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems.
    [2] Reviewer, Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting. (5 times)
    [3] Reviewer, Science of Remote Sensing.
    [4] Reviewer, International Conference on Computer Vision Workshop (ICCVW).

Publications