Our First IRiS MT at 2022

The first official MT of IRiS lab was successfully completed! We climbed Gyeryong mountain and ate a delicious barbecue. Best of all, recreation was a great time that entertained everyone in the IRiS lab. We’re looking forward to the next MT!

Climbing Gyeryong mountain successfully in 3 hours!

Enjoying barbecue party in dinner~~

Introducting of recreation game!

Growing the vine robot using hand compressor and mouth to blow up(?)

Twisting the towel and fill the cup with water while blindfolded

Driving Yongjun’s car by making a specific sound like doo-dong-tak!

[Success Story] Winners of “2020 NAVER LABS Mapping & Localization Challenge”

12, August 2020. 

SangMin Lee, JoongKu Lee and KwangUk Jeong won the “2020 NAVER LABS Mapping & Localization Challenge” on indoor section! (details)

Out of a total 12 university teams all across Korea, IRiS team finished the challenge with surprisingly high score!

 Our method consisted of several technologies:

  • image retrieval to find the database image that is the most similar to the queried image,
  • feature extraction and matching,
  • sensor fusion for fusing camera and LiDAR data,
  • extensive preprocessing of the LiDAR data.

 Congratulations!

[Success Story] “Outstanding Reviewer Award” at IEEE ICRA 2020

5, June 2020. 

The International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2020) is the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society’s (RAS) flagship conference and the premier international forum for robotics researchers to present and discuss their work.

According to ICRA 2020, creating a world class technical program for ICRA requires the contributions of many. For that, IEEE RAS recognizes individuals who provide outstanding contributions to the Conference Editorial Board. 

And it gives us great pleasure to affirm that our own Prof. Jee-Hwan Ryu has been conferred with the Outstanding Reviewer Award at ICRA 2020. This award repesents going over and beyond what is typically expected from an associate editor (ICRA 2020 Awards ceremony highlights).  

Our 2020 Winter Lab Retreat

16, January 2020. 

As our IRiS family grows (17 members already!), we headed out for our winter lab retreat this week to warmly welcome the newbies over some delicious pizza and pasta.

Here’s to the new beginnings! And a happy new year!

Our 2019 Fall Lab Retreat

11, December 2019. 

With everyone now well settled into our new abode at KAIST, we welcomed our two new members this week over some delicious Italian pizza and pasta in Daejeon. Here’s to our new beginnings!