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Sunglok Choi (최성록)

Assistant Professor, Ph. D.
Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering
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: Sensor Fusion, Localization, SLAM, Motion and Task Planning
• 3D Vision: Camera Calibration, Visual Odometry/SLAM, Structure-from-Motion, 3D Gaussian Splatting

Education

• Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), September 2014 - February 2019
  • Doctor of Philosophy in Robotics
• Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), March 2006 - February 2008
  • Master of Science in Robotics
• Seoul National University (SNU), March 2001 - February 2006 “Cum Laude”
  • Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering (Double Major)
  • Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (Double Major)
  • Bachelor of Science in Computer Science Engineering (Minor)

Brief Work Experience

• 2021-03 - Present: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, 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

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
• The 14th International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems (ICCAS), Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems (ICROS), October 2014
  • Best Presentation Award
• The 6th International Conference on Ubiquitous Robot and Ambient Intelligence (URAI), Korea Robotics Society (KROS), October 2009
  • Outstanding Paper Award (Poster Paper Category)
• 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 (Team: Integral)