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Current position: Senior Research Engineer, Hyundai Motor Company - Robotics LAB.

Interested Topics

Key problems to solve

• SLAM
  • How to solve a pose estimation problem (LO / VO), at global optimum, with PGO?
  • How does SLAM improve with the aid of deep learning?
• Spatial AI
  • How do we fuse information from multimodal sensors? What would be the benefits?
  • What is required for a robot to understand a place? How are the places “recognized”?

Education

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

Ph.D. in CEE (Mar. 2017 ~ Feb. 2023)

• Robotics Program, Smart City Program

B.S. in ME (Feb. 2012 - Feb. 2017)

• Double Major in Business and Technology Management (BTM)

Daegu Science High School (TSHS)

Certification (Mar. 2010 ~ Feb. 2012)

Peer-Reviewed Articles

• LC2: LiDAR-Camera Loop Constraints From Cross-Modal Place Recognition (RA-L 2023, ‣)
• Volumetric Vegetation Monitoring from LiDAR Scans with Ground Estimation (ICCAS 2022)
• Survey of Robotics Technologies for Civil Infrastructure Inspection (JIIR 2022)
• Low-cost Thermal Mapping for Concrete Heat Monitoring (ICRA WS 2022)
• Natural Language Representation as Features for Place Recognition (UR 2022)
• ViViD++: Vision For Visibility Dataset (RA-L 2022)
• EventVLAD: Visual Place Recognition with Reconstructed Edges from Event Cameras (IROS 2021, https://github.com/alexjunholee/EventVLAD)
• ViViD: Vision for Visibility Dataset (ICRA WS 2019)
• Event-based Real-time Optical Flow Estimation (ICCAS 2017)