We headed out to Northern Seoul Dream Forest for our 2026 lab autumn picnic! It was a bit hot and humid this year, but it felt so good to just chill, drink tea, and take a break together on a weekday afternoon in the middle of the semester. Good luck with your basic military training, Minsu! 💪

The paper by Master's student Jaeseok Park has been selected as the cover story for the September 2026 issue of the Drones journal. Drones is an SCI-indexed journal, publishing one issue per month for a total of 12 issues a year. Out of the 78 papers featured in this issue, his work was chosen as the most noteworthy paper. Huge congratulations! 🎉 

Congratulations to Master’s student Jae-seok Park on his paper published in the SCIE journal Drones in August 2026. Loop closure is a double-edged sword; it enhances map accuracy but false positives can corrupt the entire map. This study started from a brilliant spark of an idea: "What if we use the generative power of 3D Gaussian Splatting to prevent loop closure errors?" Congratulations again! 🎉

Successfully wrapped up the internship in this hot summer break of 2026! This time, we learned not just C++ and ROS but also NVIDIA Isaac Sim. Huge thanks to the seniors who guided the internship program, and kudos to the intern who worked so hard on the presentations! Cheers! 🙏

Following last year's event, we participated in the ITRC Fair held at COEX again this April 2026. We demonstrated autonomous driving technology for robotic guide dogs for the visually impaired and gave a presentation at the workshop. With the arrival of the Physical AI era, we could feel the growing public interest in robotics. Great job, everyone! 🙏

We went to Jara Island in Gapyeong for our 2026 lab spring outing . Although it was early spring with occasional raindrops, we had a precious time looking at cherry blossoms, taking walks, and enjoying coffee. It was so much fun to play the Baskin Robbins game, the subway station quiz, the capital city quiz, and the common sense quiz on the way back. 🤣

Participated in the 21st Korea Robotics Society Annual Conference in Pyeongchang, Gangwon-do, where Yuchan and Eunji presented their poster papers. It was a great opportunity to share our research and get a glimpse into the work of others. Oh, and of course, we grilled some meat, played Yutnori, and even went snowboarding! 😜

We gathered together to wrap up 2025. Sharing food and drinks, we had a truly meaningful and enjoyable time that brought us closer as a team. It’s hard to believe that 2025 is already over and we’re heading into 2026. Time flies so quickly. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!   🎆 

We visited Paldang Lake for our lab's autumn picnic in 2025. It was a truly precious and grateful time to make memories with our team members, while admiring the colorful autumn leaves on the mountains and the shimmering reflection of the sunlight on the calm water. 🍂

Eunji Lee joined the lab as a master student after finishing an internship during the spring semester and summer break this year. She will be focusing on 3D Computer Vision such as Visual SLAM and Structure from Motion for her research topic. Welcome aboard, Eunji~ 👋

Successfully wrapped up the very first CVRL internship program. It was a meaningful time to spend studying ROS and C++ and building connections with lab members every week. Hope this experience has served as a small but valuable stepping stone for your future endeavors. Cheers and congratulations to all! 🍻 

Soohwan gave a special lecture titled "How Far Have We Come with Spatial AI" at Summer School of Sejong University in July 2025. He introduced recent advancements in the field, including not only NeRF and 3DGS, but also transformer-based models such as VGGT and LVSM. Thank you all for attending! 🤠

At the ITRC Fair held at COEX in April 2025, we showcased our autonomous navigation technology for robot guide dogs for the visually impaired. The demo attracted great interest, and our team received both the Outstanding Booth Award and Best Paper Presentation Award. Thanks you all for your efforts! 🙏

Jaeseok Park and Yuchan Kim joined the lab as master students. Jaeseok will be focusing on 3D Gaussian Splatting, while Yuchan plans to research autonomous navigation for quadruped robots. It feels like the lab is gradually becoming more structured. Welcome aboard, all~ 👋

In July 2024, the book I co-translated, Causal Inference and Discovery with Python, was selected as Outstanding Academic Book (Natural Sciences/Computer Science) by the Ministry of Education and the National Academy of Sciences, Republic of Korea. Congratulations! 🎊 

On May 31, 2024, we successfully completed the project titled "Development of AI-based HD Mapping for Agricultural Robots," supported by the Ministry of Science and ICT. We hope our robots will bring new vitality to Korea agriculture, which is facing challenges due to a declining and aging farming population. 🤠

Minsu Kim started his PhD study in Department of Artificial Intelligence Applied, Kwangwoon Univ. and joined the lab as a researcher at March 04, 2024. Can't wait to study and research machine learning, deep learning, robotics and computer vision together. Welcome on board, Minsu! 🎉

Soohwan presented a seminar on Spatial AI at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) on November 24, 2023. Spatial AI is an emerging field that combines computer graphics, computer vision, robotics, and machine learning to understand, analyze, and represent three-dimensional space. 😎

Soohwan gave a tutorial titled "How close autonomous cars are" at the 2023 Summer Conference of Korea Data Mining Society.  It was about the latest hardware and software technologies used in self-driving cars, based on my work experience in NVIDIA Autonomous Driving Group. Pleasantly surprised by the large number of participants even in the last day session. Thank you! 😊

The recently published journal article, "Rotation Representations and Their Conversions" was selected by IEEE Access as the "Featured Article of the Week" for the first week of June 2023. Congratulations! 😃