Wonwoong

Wonwoong

- Ph.D. candidate at Purdue ECE

I am a Ph.D. candidate at Purdue ECE, advised by Prof. Inouye. I will graduate in Fall 2025 and am currently seeking new job opportunities. My research interests include AI for creativity, diffusion models, and their applications. I have earned my M.S. degree in CSE at Korea University, advised by Prof. Jaegul Choo. I received B.A. in the department of Film, Television and Multimedia at Sungkyunkwan University in Korea.

Working Papers

  • Imagine for Me: Creative Conceptual Blending of Real Images and Text via Blended Attention
    Wonwoong Cho, Y. Zhang, Y. Chen, D. Inouye
    [Paper] [Project page]
    (Under review)

  • Causally Retrieve-and-Harness Contextual Bias of Pretrained Diffusion Models
    Wonwoong Cho, Raymond A. Yeh, David I. Inouye
    (Under review, draft available upon request)

Publications

  • Att-Adapter: A Robust and Precise Domain-Specific Multi-Attributes T2I Diffusion Adapter via Conditional Variational Autoencoder
    Wonwoong Cho, Y. Chen, M. Klenk, D. Inouye, Y. Zhang,
    [Paper]
    ICCV’25

  • Enhanced Controllability of Diffusion Models via Feature Disentanglement and Realism-Enhanced Sampling Methods
    [Paper]
    Wonwoong Cho, Hareesh Ravi, Midhun Harikumar, Vinh Khuc, Krishna K. Singh, Cynthia Lu, David I. Inouye, Ajinkya Kale
    ECCV’24

  • Cooperative Distribution Alignment via JSD Upper Bound
    [Paper]
    Wonwoong Cho*, Ziyu Gong*, David I. Inouye
    Neurips’22 (* equal contributions)

  • Why be adversarial? Let’s cooperate!: Cooperative Dataset Alignment via JSD Upper Bound
    [Paper]
    Wonwoong Cho*, Ziyu Gong*, David I. Inouye
    ICML’21 Workshop INNF+ (spotlight talk)

  • Image-to-Image Translation via Group-wise Deep Whitening-and-Coloring Transformation
    [Paper] | [code] | [video] | [Presentation material]
    Wonwoong Cho, Sungha Choi, David Keetae Park, Inkyu Shin, Jaegul Choo
    CVPR’19 (oral)

  • What and Where to Translate: Local Mask-based Image-to-Image Translation
    [Paper]
    Wonwoong Cho, Seunghwan Choi, Junwoo Park, David Keetae Park, Tao Qin, Jaegul Choo

  • Coloring with Words: Guiding Image Colorization Through Text-based Palette Generation
    [Paper] | [code]
    Hyojin Bahng*, Seungjoo Yoo*, Wonwoong Cho*, David Keetae Park, Ziming Wu, Xiaojuan Ma, Jaegul Choo
    ECCV’18 (* equal contributions)

CV

Here is my CV