Jongwoo Lim
Also known as 임종우
Jongwoo Lim is a computer vision researcher whose work spans object tracking and visual navigation. He earned degrees at Seoul National University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, then worked at Honda Research Institute USA and Google's Street View team before joining Hanyang University in 2012. His 2013 paper Online Object Tracking: A Benchmark tested trackers on annotated video sequences and received CVPR's 2023 Longuet-Higgins Prize. At Hanyang, he headed its Artificial Intelligence Department and served as principal investigator for an AI graduate-school program; he also visited Microsoft's HoloLens team in 2019 and founded MultiplEYE in 2020. He is a professor at Seoul National University, where he coauthored 2026 work on depth-conditioned visual navigation.
- Now at
- MultiplEYE and Seoul National University
- Works
- 106
- Citations
- 15,447
- h-index
- 35
Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 15 October 2026.
Timeline
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1997–2005
Studying computer science
He earns a bachelor's degree in computational statistics and computer science at Seoul National University in 1997. At the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, he completes master's and Ph.D. degrees in computer science in 2003 and 2005.
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2005–2012
Honda and Google
He works as a senior scientist at Honda Research Institute USA from 2005 to 2011. He joins Google's Street View team as a software engineer from 2011 to 2012.
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2012–2023
Head of Hanyang's AI Department
He joins Hanyang University's Department of Computer Science as a professor in March 2012 and stays through August 2023. While there, he heads its Department of Artificial Intelligence and serves as principal investigator of the IITP Artificial Intelligence Graduate School program.
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2013
Online Object Tracking: A Benchmark
With Yi Wu and Ming-Hsuan Yang, he publishes Online Object Tracking: A Benchmark in 2013. The paper reports large-scale experiments with annotated video sequences and evaluation criteria for comparing online trackers.
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2019
Visiting Microsoft's HoloLens team
He visits Microsoft's HoloLens team as a visiting researcher in 2019.
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Since 2020
Founding MultiplEYE
He founds MultiplEYE and begins serving as its CEO in March 2020 while teaching at Hanyang.
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2023
A Longuet-Higgins Prize
His 2013 CVPR paper with Yi Wu and Ming-Hsuan Yang receives the 2023 Longuet-Higgins Prize.
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September 2023–October 2026
Professor at Seoul National University
He is a professor in Seoul National University's Department of Mechanical Engineering from September 2023. In 2026, he coauthors PathLift, a depth-conditioned adapter that uses sensor-grade depth to lift visual-navigation policies into metric paths.
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