Research Papers

· Soohwan Kim and Minkyoung Kim, "Rotation Representations and their Conversions," IEEE Access, vol. 11, pp. 6682-6699, 2023.  DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3237864

· Soohwan Kim and Jonghyuk Kim, "Efficient Clustering for Continuous Occupancy Mapping Using a Mixture of Gaussian Processes," Sensors, vol. 22, no. 18, 6832, 2022.  DOI: 10.3390/s22186832

· Soohwan Kim and Minkyoung Kim, "Tutorial on Complex Numbers and Quaternions for Rotations," Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems, vol. 28, no. 3, pp. 242-253, 2022. DOI: 10.5302/J.ICROS.2022.22.0009

· Minkyoung Kim and Soohwan Kim, "Dynamics of Macroscopic Diffusion across Meta-populations with Top-down and Bottom-up Approaches: A Review," Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering, vol. 19, no. 5, pp. 4610-4626, 2022. DOI: 10.3934/mbe.2022213

· Chanoh Park, Peyman Moghadam, Jason Williams, Soohwan Kim, Sridha Sridharan, and Clinton Fookes, "Elasticity Meets Continuous-Time: Map-Centric Dense 3D LiDADR SLAM," IEEE Transactions on Robotics, vol. 38, no. 2, pp 978-997, 2022. DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2021.3096650

· Chanoh Park, Peyman Moghadam, Soohwan Kim, Sridha Sridharan, and Clinton Fookes, "Spatiotemporal Camera-LiDAR Calibration: A Targetless and Structureless Approach," IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 5, no.2, pp. 1556-1563, 2020. DOI: 10.1109/LRA.2020.2969164

· Chanoh Park, Soohwan Kim, Peyman Moghadam, Jiadong Guo, Sridha Sridharan, and Clinton Fookes, "Robust Photogeometric Localization over Time for Map-centric Loop Closure," IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 4, no.2, pp. 1768-1775, 2019. DOI: 10.1109/LRA.2019.2895262

· Thomas Lowe, Soohwan Kim, and Mark Cox, "Complementary Perception for Handheld SLAM," IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 3, no.2, pp. 1104-1111, 2018. DOI: 10.1109/LRA.2018.2795651

· Chanoh Park, Peyman Moghadam, Soohwan Kim, Alberto Elfes, Clinton Fookes, and Sridha Sridharan, "Elastic LiDAR Fusion: Dense Map-Centric Continuous-Time SLAM," Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 1206-1213, 2018. DOI: 10.1109/ICRA.2018.8462915

· Benzun Pious Wisely Babu, David Cyganski, James Duckworth, and Soohwan Kim, "Detection and Resolution of Motion Conflict in Visual Inertial Odometry," Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 996-1002, 2018. DOI: 10.1109/ICRA.2018.8460870

· Chanoh Park, Soohwan Kim, Peyman Moghadam, Clinton Fookes, and Sridha Sridhara, "Probabilistic Surfel Fusion for Dense LiDAR Mapping," Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops, pp. 2418-2426, 2017. Link

· Benzun Wisely Babu, Soohwan Kim, Zhixin Yan and Liu Ren, "σ-DVO: Sensor Noise Model Meets Dense Visual Odometry," Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, pp. 18-26, 2016. DOI: 10.1109/ISMAR.2016.11

· Soohwan Kim and Jonghyuk Kim, "GPmap: A Unified Framework for 3D Mapping Based on Sparse Gaussian Processes," Field and Service Robotics, Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, vol. 105, pp. 319-332, 2015. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-07488-7_22

· Soohwan Kim and Jonghyuk Kim, "Hierarchical Gaussian Processes for Robust Map Building," Proceedings of The Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2015. Link

· Soohwan Kim and Jonghyuk Kim, "Recursive Occupancy Mapping and Surface Reconstruction using Gaussian Processes and Bayesian Committee Machines," Proceedings of The Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2014. Link

· Soohwan Kim and Jonghyuk Kim, "Occupancy Mapping and Surface Reconstruction using Local Gaussian Processes with Kinect Sensors," IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, vol. 43, no. 5, pp. 1335-1346, 2013. DOI: 10.1109/TCYB.2013.2272592

· Soohwan Kim and Jonghyuk Kim, "Continuous Occupancy Maps  using Overlapping Local Gaussian Processes," Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 4709-4714, 2013. DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2013.6697034

· Soohwan Kim and Jonghyuk Kim, "Building Occupancy Maps with a Mixture of Gaussian Processes," Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 4756-4761, 2012. DOI: 10.1109/ICRA.2012.6225355

· Soohwan Kim and Jonghyuk Kim, "Building Large-Scale Occupancy Maps using an Infinite Mixture of Gaussian Process Experts," Proceedings of The Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2012. Link

· Soohwan Kim and Jonghyuk Kim, "Towards Large-scale Occupancy Map Building using Dirichlet and Gaussian Processes," Proceedings of The Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2011. (Best Paper Finalist) Link

· Soohwan Kim, Howon Cheong, Dong Hwan Kim and Sung-Kee Park, "Context-based Object Recognition for Door Detection," Proceedings of International Conference on Advanced Robotics, pp. 155-160, 2011. DOI: 10.1109/ICAR.2011.6088578

· Soohwan Kim and Sung-Kee Park, "On-line Object Segmentation through Human-Robot Interaction," Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 1734-1735, 2010. DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2010.5651041

· Soohwan Kim, Dong Hwan Kim and Sung-Kee Park, "Object Modeling for Environment Perception through Human-Robot Interaction," Proceedings of International Conference on Control Automation and Systems, pp. 1734-1735, 2010. DOI: 10.1109/ICCAS.2010.5669918

· Soohwan Kim, Howon Cheong, Ju-Hong Park, and Sung-Kee Park, "Human Augmented Mapping for Indoor Environments using a Stereo Camera," Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 5609-5614, 2009. DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2009.5354128

· Soohwan Kim, Ju-Hong Park, and Sung-Kee Park, "Vision-based Human Augmented Mapping for Indoor Environments," Proceedings of International Conference on Advanced Robotics, 2009. Link

· Soohwan Kim, Ju-Hong Park, and Sung-Kee Park, "Preliminary Development for Vision-based Human Augmented Mapping: Human Robot Interaction and Human Following," Proceedings of International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots and Ambient Intelligence, pp. 611-613, 2009. Link

· Soonyong Park, Soohwan Kim, Mignon Park, and Sung-Kee Park, "Vision-based Global Localization for Mobile Robots with Hybrid Maps of Objects and Spatial Layouts," Information Sciences, vol. 179, no. 24, pp. 4174-4198, 2009. DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2009.06.030

· Yukyung Choi, SyungKwon Ra, Soowhan Kim, and Sung-Kee Park, "Real-Time Arm Motion Imitation for Human-Robot Tangible Interface," Intelligent Service Robotics, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 61-69, 2009. DOI: 10.1007/s11370-009-0037-8

· Hyung-O Kim, Soohwan Kim, Dong-Hwan Kim, and Sung-Kee Park, "Segmentation of Pointed Objects for Service Robots", Journal of Korea Robotics Society, vol.4, no.2, pp. 139-146, 2009. UCI: G704-SER000008836.2009.4.2.010

· Ju-Hong Park, Soohwan Kim, Nakju lett Doh, and Sung-Kee Park, "Vision-based Global Localization Using a Hybrid Map Representation," Proceedings of International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems, pp. 1104-1108, 2008. DOI: 10.1109/ICCAS.2008.4694317

· Soonyong Park, Soohwan Kim, and Sung-Kee Park, "Coarse-to-Fine Vision-based Localization for Mobile Robots Using an Object and Spatial Layout-based Hybrid Map," Proceedings of International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems, pp. 2111-2116, 2008. Link

· Hyung-O Kim, Soohwan Kim, and Sung-Kee Park, "Pointing Gesture-based Unknown Object Extraction for Learning Objects with Robot," Proceedings of International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems, pp. 2156-2161, 2008. DOI: 10.1109/ICCAS.2008.4694455

· Hyung-O Kim, Soohwan Kim, and Sung-Kee Park, "Pointed Object Segmentation for Service Robots," Proceedings of International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots and Ambient Intelligence, pp. 799-804, 2008.

· Yukyung Choi, Soohwan Kim, and Sung-Kee Park, "Vision-based Human Motion Capture Using Stereo Cameras for Tangible Interface," Proceedings of International Symposium on Robotics, pp. 24-29, 2008. Link

· YuKyung Choi, Sungkwon Ra, Soohwan Kim, ChangHwan Kim, and Sung-Kee Park, "Vision-based Human-Robot Motion Transfer in Tangible Meeting Space," Journal of Korea Robotics Society, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 143-151, June, 2007. Link

· Yukyung Choi, Sungkwon Ra, ChangHwan Kim, Mignon Park, Soohwan Kim, and Sung-Kee Park, "Real-Time Arm Motion Imitation for Human-Robot Tangible Interface," Proceedings of International Conference on Advanced Robotics, 2007.

· Soohwan Kim, Minkyoung Kim, and Minje Park, "Combining Motion Capture Data with PD Controllers For Human-like Animations," Proceedings of SICE-ICASE International Joint Conference, pp. 904-907, 2006. DOI: 10.1109/SICE.2006.315485

· Minkyoung Kim, Soohwan Kim, and Hyun Kim, "Application of Robot Behavior Coordination Mechanism to Task Coordination for Intelligent Environments," Proceedings of International Symposium of Ubiquitous Computing System, 2006.

· Minje Park, Soohwan Kim, and Il-gwon Jeong, "Animating Human-like Figures Using Dynamics Simulation," Proceedings of Human Computer Interaction Korea, 2006. Link

Supervision of Undergraduate Research Projects

· Soohwan Kim, Daeky Jeong, SeungJun Lee, SungYeob Jung, DongJae Yang, GeunyEong Jeong, Suk-Hyung Hwang, Sewoong Hwang, "Dr. Vegetable: an AI-based Mobile Application for Diagnosis of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests," Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference, vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 457-460, 2023. Link

· Suk-Hyung Hwang, Min-Taek Lim, Hun-Tae Hwang, Seung-Jun Lee, Soohwan Kim, Sewoong Hwang, "Development of a Web Service for Cosmetics Recommendation based on an Artificial Intelligence for User Personal Color Generation", Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference, vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 461-463, 2023. Link

· Sewoong Hwang, Min-Taek Lim, Hyun-Ki Hong, Hun-Tae Hwang, Sung-Hyun Park, Young-Kyu Choi, Suk-Hyung Hwang, Soohwan Kim, "An Efficient Second-hand Transaction Meta-Services", Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference, vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 469-471, 2023. Link

· Minsu Kim, Soohwan Kim, Minkyoung Kim, "3D Scanning System using a Single 2D Spinning LiDAR", Proceedings of the Korea Society of Information Communication Security Ethics Conference, 2020. (Excellence Award)

· Yunji Lim, Katsutoshi Eda, Suk-Hyung Hwang, Eung-Hee Kim, Soohwan Kim, Minkyoung Kim, "Attitude Calibration System based on Video Recognition", Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference, pp. 1333-1335, 2020. (Grand Prize) Link

· Jeho Bang, Suk-Hyung Hwang, Eung-Hee Kim, Soohwan Kim, Minkyoung Kim, "Vehicle Access Control System based on Recognition of Car License Plate and Model", Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference, pp. 1519-1521, 2020. (Participation Award) Link

· Sihu Ahn, Namhoon Cho, Suk-Hyung Hwang, Eung-Hee Kim, Soohwan Kim, Minkyoung Kim, "Analysis of Citizens' Response to the Spread of COVID-19 using the Number of Subway Passengers and Comparison with the MERS-Cov Period", Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference, pp. 1709-1711. Link

· Jiwon Lee, Suk-Hyung Hwang, Eung-Hee Kim, Soohwan Kim, Minkyoung Kim, "Analysis of Social Behavior Changes using Broadcasting Audience Rating Data", Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference, pp. 1718-1720, 2020. Link

Ph.D. Thesis

· Soohwan Kim, "GPmaps: a Bayesian Nonparametric Approach for Mapping and Reconstruction," The Australian National University, PhD Thesis, 2015. DOI: 10.25911/5d7633c79f929

Patents

· Soohwan Kim, DaeKy Jeong, Daeky Jeong, SeungJun Lee, GeunyEong Jeong, SungYeob Jung, DongJae Yang, "System for Diagnosing Plant Diseases based on Artificial Intelligence,"  Application No. 10-2022-0176364, South Korea, 2022.

· Soohwan Kim, Min-Taek Lim, Hun-Tae Hwang, Hyun-Ki Hong, Sung-Hyun Park, Young-Kyu Choi, "Used Goods Proper Trading System and Proper Trading Method of Used Goods,"  Application No. 10-2022-0176363, South Korea, 2022.

· David Nister, Soohwan Kim, Yue Wu, Minwoo Park, and Cheng-Chieh Yang, "Motion-Based Object Detection For Autonomous Systems and Applications,"  Application Publication of US20220301186A1, United States, 2022. Link

· Soohwan Kim, Benzun Wisely Babu, Zhixin Yan, and Liu Ren, "RGB-D Camera-based Tracking System and Method Thereof,"  International Application Published of WO2017220815A1, World Intellectual Property Organization, 2017. Link

· Soohwan Kim, Dong Hwan Kim and Sung-Kee Park, "An Apparatus for Object Segmentation Given a Region of Interest in An Image and Method Thereof," Publication No. 1011084910000, Republic of Korea, 2012.

· Dong Hwan Kim, Sung-Kee Park, Soohwan Kim and Munsang Kim, "A Method and Apparatus for Contour-based Object Category Recognition Robust to Viewpoint Changes," Publication No. 1011845880000, Republic of Korea, 2012.

· Soohwan Kim, Dong Hwan Kim and Sung-Kee Park, "System for Object Learning through Multi-modal Interaction and Method Thereof," Publication No. 1011002400000, Republic of Korea, 2011.

· Soohwan Kim, Sung-Kee Park, Munsang Kim, Changmook Chun and Yong-Kwon Lee, "A Mapping Method for Hybrid Map of Mobile Robot," Publication No. 1010814950000, Republic of Korea, 2011.

· Soohwan Kim, Minje Park, Il-gwon Jeong, and Inho Lee, "Apparatus for Capturing and Editing Pose Data or Motion Data by Constructing Articulated Figures and Method Thereof," Publication No. 1009200560000, Republic of Korea, 2009.

· Sung-Kee Park, Soohwan Kim, and Junho Choi, "Physical Property of Image Sensor Used Wide Dynamic Range Video Signal Processing Method," Publication No. 1008929720000, Republic of Korea, 2009.

· Minje Park, Soohwan Kim, Il-gwon Jeong, and Inho Lee, "Apparatus and Method for Creating Animation of Human-like Figures," Publication No. 1006979750000, Republic of Korea, 2007.

Books

· Suk-hyung Hwang, Young-Ae Jung, Minkyoung Kim, and Soohwan Kim, Artificial Intelligence Literacy, Hongreung Publishing Companry, 2022.