Mobile Intelligence Laboratory
- Drawing by Honaya
Sunglok Choi (최성록)
Assistant Professor, Ph. D.
Computer Science and Engineering Department
Seoul National University of Science and Technology (SEOULTECH)
Contact
- Homepage, Github, Google Scholar
- E-mail: sunglok@seoultech.ac.kr
- Phone (Office): +82-2-970-6708
- Address: Mirae Hall #327, 232 Gongneung-ro, Nowon-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea (01811)
Research Interests
- Robot Navigation: Localization, SLAM, Motion and Task Planning
- 3D Computer Vision: Robust Regression, Visual Odometry/SLAM, Structure-from-Motion
Education
- Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), September 2014 - February 2019
- Doctor of Philosophy in Robotics
- Thesis: Efficient 3D Visual Perception for Intelligent Surveillance and Autonomous Navigation (Advisor: Prof. Jong-Hwan Kim), 2019 KAIST Library
- Doctor of Philosophy in Robotics
- Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), March 2006 - February 2008
- Master of Science in Robotics
- Thesis: Robust Parameter Estimators for Dynamic Data Distribution and Its Application to Landmark-based Localization (Advisor: Prof. Jong-Hwan Kim), 2008 KAIST Library
- Project Pages: RANSAC Template Library and Triangulation Toolbox.
- Thesis: Robust Parameter Estimators for Dynamic Data Distribution and Its Application to Landmark-based Localization (Advisor: Prof. Jong-Hwan Kim), 2008 KAIST Library
- Master of Science in Robotics
- Seoul National University (SNU), March 2001 - February 2006 “Cum Laude”
- Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering (Double Major)
- Thesis: Three New Algorithms for Vision-based Mouse in Embedded System (Advisor: Prof. Kunwoo Lee), 2004 “Best Presentation Award”
- Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (Double Major)
- Thesis: Design and Development of x86 and Linux based Mobile Robot Platform (Advisor: Prof. Hyungbo Shim), 2006 SNU Library
- Bachelor of Science in Computer Science Engineering (Minor)
- Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering (Double Major)
Brief Work Experience
- 2021/03 - Present: Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering Department, SEOULTECH
- 2008/02 - 2021/02: Senior Researcher, Intelligent Robotics Research Division, ETRI
- 2020/08 - 2021/02: Professor, ETRI AI Academy
- 2012/10 - 2012/11: Visitor, Field Robotics Center, Robotics Institute, CMU
- 2011/08 - 2011/09: Visiting Researcher, FutureRobot
Selected Publication
- Sunglok Choi and Jong-Hwan Kim, Leveraging Localization Accuracy with Off-centered GPS, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Vol. 21, No. 6, 2020 DOI Code
- Sunglok Choi and Jong-Hwan Kim, Fast and Reliable Minimal Relative Pose Estimation under Planar Motion, Image and Vision Computing, Vol. 69, 2018 DOI
- Sunglok Choi, Jaehyun Park, and Wonpil Yu, Simplified Epipolar Geometry for Real-time Monocular Visual Odometry on Roads, International Journal of Control, Automation and Systems (IJCAS), Vol. 13, No. 6, 2015 DOI
- Sunglok Choi, Triangulation Toolbox: Open-source Algorithms and Benchmarks for Landmark-based Localization, in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2014 DOI Project Page
- Sunglok Choi and Wonpil Yu, Any-angle Path Planning on Non-uniform Costmaps, in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2011 DOI
- Sunglok Choi, Taemin Kim, and Wonpil Yu, Performance Evaluation of RANSAC Family, in Proceedings of British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), 2009 PDF DOI Project Page
Selected Honor and Awards
- 2021 Excellent Teaching Award, Seoul National University of Science and Technology (SEOULTECH), February 2022
- 2020 KROS Young Scientist Award, Korea Robotics Society (KROS), December 2020
- 2019 ETRI Best Researcher Award, Electronics and Telecommunication Research Institute (ETRI), April 2020
- Division: AI Research Laboratory
- The 13th Korea Robotics Society Annual Conference (KRoC), Korea Robotics Society (KROS), January 2018
- AFCV Best Robot Vision Paper Award
- Paper: Comparison on Visual Features for Life-long Intelligent Visual Surveillance
- The 14th International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems (ICCAS), Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems (ICROS), October 2014
- Best Presentation Award
- Paper: Robust Ground Plane Detection from 3D Point Clouds
- The 6th International Conference on Ubiquitous Robot and Ambient Intelligence (URAI), Korea Robotics Society (KROS), October 2009
- Outstanding Paper Award (Poster Paper Category)
- Paper: Guided Path Planning for Proximity Location Sensors
- 2007 FIRA RoboWorld Cup USA, Federation of International Robot-Sport Association (FIRA), June 2007
- The 2nd Prize in the RoboSot Category
- Team: KAIST OmniBots
- 2005 Korea Intelligent Robot Contest (KIRC), Gyeongsangbuk-Do Province, October 2005
- Honor Prize
- Work: A Security Robot using USB Camera and WLAN, Integral