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I'm an integrated M.S.โ€“Ph.D. student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Inha University, advised by Younggun Cho in SPARO Lab. I also received my B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Inha University. During my M.S., I worked on learning-based state estimation, focusing on self-supervised inertial odometry, and I'm now working on proprioceptive state estimation โ€” explicitly modeling and correcting environment-induced error in proprioceptive odometry from inertial, kinematic, and contact signals alone. For my personal thoughts and research experiences, please check out my :)

Latest News

  • 2026.08 Awarded the Ph.D. Candidate Research Fellowship, National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF). Principal Investigator
  • 2026.06 RadLoc accepted to IROS 2026. Co-author
  • 2026.06 Commerge accepted to IJRR. Co-author
  • 2026.06 Placed 2nd in the SLAM category of the Hilti-Trimble SLAM Challenge at ICRA 2026.

Latest Research

KISS-IMU: Self-supervised Inertial Odometry with Motion-balanced Learning and Uncertainty-aware Inference
2026 1st Author Conference

KISS-IMU: Self-supervised Inertial Odometry with Motion-balanced Learning and Uncertainty-aware Inference

Best Paper on Robot Perception Finalist

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2026)
PoLaRIS Dataset: A Maritime Object Detection and Tracking Dataset in Pohang Canal
2025 1st Author Conference

PoLaRIS Dataset: A Maritime Object Detection and Tracking Dataset in Pohang Canal

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2025)
Category
Region
Type
  1. RadLoc: Radar-based 3-DoF Global Localization via Fast, Robust, and Lightweight Spatial Descriptor Across Diverse Environmental Scenarios
    Hogyun Kim, Jiwon Choi, Jungwoo Lee, Younggun Cho
    IROS, 2026 , 2026/10
    Project Code
  2. Commerge: Communication-Efficient, Robust and Fast LiDAR Map Merging Framework for Multi-robot Coordination in Resource-constrained Scenarios
    Hogyun Kim, Jiwon Choi, Juwon Kim, Geonmo Yang, Seokhwan Jeong, Hyungtae Lim, Younggun Cho
    IJRR , 2026/06
    Project Code
  3. KISS-IMU: Self-supervised Inertial Odometry with Motion-balanced Learning and Uncertainty-aware Inference
    Jiwon Choi, Hogyun Kim, Geonmo Yang, Juhui Lee, Younggun Cho
    ICRA, 2026 , 2026/06 ยท Best Paper on Robot Perception Finalist
    arXiv Project Code
  4. SKiD-SLAM: Robust, Lightweight, and Distributed Multi-Robot LiDAR SLAM in Resource-Constrained Field Environments
    Hogyun Kim, Jiwon Choi, Juwon Kim, Geonmo Yang, Dongjin Cho, Hyungtae Lim, Younggun Cho
    ICRA workshop on Field Robotics (spotlight talk), 2025 , 2025/05 ยท Spotlight Talk
    arXiv Project Code
  5. PoLaRIS Dataset: A Maritime Object Detection and Tracking Dataset in Pohang Canal
    Jiwon Choi*, Dongjin Cho*, Giheyon Lee, Hogyun Kim, Geonmo Yang, Joowan Kim, Younggun Cho
    ICRA, 2025 , 2025/05
    Paper arXiv Project Code
  6. IML-SLAM: ์ฃผํ–‰ ์ฐจ๋Ÿ‰ ๋ชจ์…˜์„ ๊ณ ๋ คํ•œ LiDAR-Inertial SLAM ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ
    Jiwon Choi, Hogyun Kim, Geonmo Yang, Younggun Cho
    Korea Institute of ITS Conference , 2025/04 ยท Excellent Paper Award
  7. Narrowing your FOV with SOLiD: Spatially Organized and Lightweight Global Descriptor for FOV-constrained LiDAR Place Recognition
    Hogyun Kim, Jiwon Choi, Taehu Sim, Giseop Kim, Younggun Cho
    RA-L , 2024/08
    Paper arXiv Project Code
  8. ๊ฐ€๋ฒผ์šด ์ „์—ญ ์„ค๋ช…์ž๋กœ ์ด๋ฃจ์–ด์ง„ ์œ„์น˜ ์ธ์‹ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์„ ์ด์šฉํ•œ ๊ฐ•์ธํ•œ ์Šฌ๋žจ ๊ธฐ์ˆ 
    Jiwon Choi, Hogyun Kim, Younggun Cho
    ICROS Annual Conference , 2024/06
  9. Study on Efficient Multi-floor Navigation Using a Visual Marker and Floor Plan Map
    Jiwon Choi, Taehu Sim, Gihyeon Lee, Jaeyong Lee, Gilhwan Kang, Hogyun Kim, Young Gun Cho
    ICROS Journal , 2024/01
    Paper
  10. Visual marker ๋ฐ ์„ค๊ณ„๋„๋ฉด์„ ํ™œ์šฉํ•œ ํšจ์œจ์ ์ธ ๋‹ค์ธต ๋‚ด๋น„๊ฒŒ์ด์…˜์— ๊ด€ํ•œ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ
    Gihyeon Lee, Sangwook Han, Taehu Sim, Jiwon Choi, Changhee Kim, Jaeyong Lee, Younggun Cho
    ICROS Annual Conference , 2023/06
  11. ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ Sampling Algorithm์„ ์ด์šฉํ•œ LiDAR์˜ ๊ฐ์ฒด ์ธ์‹ ์„ฑ๋Šฅ ๊ฐœ์„ ์— ๊ด€ํ•œ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ
    Dongyoung Kim, Hanbin Song, Jiwon Choi, Jaewoon Lee, Jiung Im, Jonghun Won
    Korea Institute of ITS Conference , 2022/06 ยท Excellent Paper Award
Type
Role
RadLoc: Radar-based 3-DoF Global Localization via Fast, Robust, and Lightweight Spatial Descriptor Across Diverse Environmental Scenarios
2026 Co-author Conference

RadLoc: Radar-based 3-DoF Global Localization via Fast, Robust, and Lightweight Spatial Descriptor Across Diverse Environmental Scenarios

1st author โ€” Hogyun Kim

IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2026)
Commerge: Communication-Efficient, Robust and Fast LiDAR Map Merging Framework for Multi-robot Coordination in Resource-constrained Scenarios
2026 Co-author Journal

Commerge: Communication-Efficient, Robust and Fast LiDAR Map Merging Framework for Multi-robot Coordination in Resource-constrained Scenarios

1st author โ€” Hogyun Kim

International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR 2026)
KISS-IMU: Self-supervised Inertial Odometry with Motion-balanced Learning and Uncertainty-aware Inference
2026 1st Author Conference

KISS-IMU: Self-supervised Inertial Odometry with Motion-balanced Learning and Uncertainty-aware Inference

Best Paper on Robot Perception Finalist

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2026)
SKiD-SLAM: Robust, Lightweight, and Distributed Multi-Robot LiDAR SLAM in Resource-Constrained Field Environments
2025 Co-author Conference

SKiD-SLAM: Robust, Lightweight, and Distributed Multi-Robot LiDAR SLAM in Resource-Constrained Field Environments

1st author โ€” Hogyun Kim Spotlight Talk

ICRA Workshop on Field Robotics (ICRA Workshop 2025)
PoLaRIS Dataset: A Maritime Object Detection and Tracking Dataset in Pohang Canal
2025 1st Author Conference

PoLaRIS Dataset: A Maritime Object Detection and Tracking Dataset in Pohang Canal

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2025)
Narrowing your FOV with SOLiD: Spatially Organized and Lightweight Global Descriptor for FOV-constrained LiDAR Place Recognition
2024 Co-author Journal

Narrowing your FOV with SOLiD: Spatially Organized and Lightweight Global Descriptor for FOV-constrained LiDAR Place Recognition

1st author โ€” Hogyun Kim

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L 2024)
Category
StudyLiDAR SLAMInteractive~12 min

Two Sweeps, One Transform

Ray-cast two real LiDAR sweeps, pick edge and planar features by curvature, and watch a Gauss-Newton solver recover the relative pose the way LOAM and LIO-SAM do.

Open lab
๐Ÿšง ์ž‘์„ฑ์ค‘StudyKinematicsInteractive~10 min

From Foot Contact to Body Velocity

Drive a GO2 quadruped and watch stance-foot contact and leg kinematics fuse with an IMU into a body-velocity estimate.

Open simulator

Presentation

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Academic Service

  • Reviewer RA-L, 2025, 2026 ICRA, 2026 IROS, 2026