Publication

International Papers

(* presents corresponding author)

• Wongi Park, Myeongseok Nam, Siwon Kim, Sangwoo Jo, and Soomok Lee* "ForestSplats: Deformable transient field for Gaussian Splatting in the Wild." is accepted to the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) March 2026.

• Sungeun Cho, Seonghoon Ryoo, Chiwoo Roh, Soomok Lee, Johannes Betz, Martin Margreiter, Jaehyun So "LiDAR on the Move: Extracting Lane Level Traffic Indicators from Autonomous Vehicles" is accepted to TRB (Transportation Research Board) Annual Meeting 2026

• Younggun Kim, Mohamed Abdel-Aty, Beomsik Cho, Seonghoon Ryoo, and Soomok Lee*, “Multi-view Structural Convolution Network for Domain-Invariant Point Cloud Recognition of Autonomous Vehicles,” is accepted for IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles 2026 (SCI Impact factor 14.3, Q1)

• Seonghoon Ryoo, Jaejin Jeon and Soomok Lee*, "SV-RCNN: Robust Structural-Encoded Voxel Features for 3D Object Detection on Sparse Point Clouds" is accepted to IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2025. (SCI Impact factor 5.3, Q1)

• Jaejin Jeon, Seonghoon Ryoo, Sang-Duck Lee, Soomok Lee*, and Seungwoo Jeong, "RoboLoc: A Benchmark Dataset for Point Place Recognition and Localization in Indoor-Outdoor Integrated Environments" is accepted to IET Image Processing. 

• Sangyeon So, Sungjun Kim, Sanghyun Lee, Ilsoo Yoon, and Soomok Lee* "Query-centric Structural Transformer for Cross-source Robust Place Recognition" IEEE Access, Vol 13, pp. 184531-184542,  2025.

• Myeongseok Nam†, Wongi Park†, Minsol Kim, Hyejin Hur, and Soomok Lee*, "Veta-GS : View-dependent deformable 3D Gaussian Splatting for thermal infrared Novel-view Synthesis" IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Alaska, USA, 2025.

• Sungeun Cho, Seonghoon Ryoo, Chiwoo Roh, Jaehyun So and Soomok Lee "Monitoring and Measurement Estimation Using LiDAR Sensors on Autonomous Vehicles" 2025 IEEE 28th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), Gold Coast Austrailia, 2025.

• Hee-Yeun Kim, Byeonggyu Park, Byonghyok CHOI, Hansang Cho, Byungkwan Kim, Soomok Lee, Mingu Jeon, Seung-Woo Seo, and Seong-Woo Kim "Radar-Based NLoS Pedestrian Localization for Darting-Out Scenarios Near Parked Vehicles with Camera-Assisted Point Cloud Interpretation,"  is accepted to IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2025.

• Byeonggyu Park, Hee-Yeun Kim, Byonghyok CHOI, Hansang Cho, Byungkwan Kim, Soomok Lee, Mingu Jeon, Seong-Woo Kim "mmWave Radar-Based Non-Line-of-Sight Pedestrian Localization at T-Junctions Utilizing Road Layout Extraction via Camera," is accepted to 2025 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2025.

• Mingu Jeon, Byeonggyu Park, Hee-Yeun Kim, Yujeong Kang, Byonghyok Choi, Hansang Cho, Byungkwan Kim, Soomok Lee, Seung-Woo Seo, and Seong-Woo Kim, "Non-Line-of-Sight Multi-Target Localization in T-Junctions Using Ray Tracing of mmWave Radar," is accepted to IEEE Intelligent Vehicle Symposium (IV) 2025.

• Sanghyun Lee, Soomok Lee* and Ilsoo Yoon, "Mosaic-Interactive Attention-based Unexpected Traffic Scene Classification," IEEE Access, Vol 13, 15712-15722 pp, 2025.  (SCI Impact factor 3.4)

• Junyong Kim, Soomok Lee*, "Hybrid Spatial and Channel Attention for Pruning in Object Detection." IET Intelligent Transport Systems 19.1 (2025): e12594. (SCI Impact factor 2.3)

• Beomsik Cho, Seoyeung Choi and Soomok Lee*,"Domain Separation Aided Data Efficiency Enhancement for Thermal Object Detection", International Conference on Electronics, Information, and Communication (ICEIC) 2025, Osaka, Japan

• Jaehyun Lee, Suhwan Jeong, Wooyoung Yun, Jaehun Lee and Soomok Lee* "Multi-object Trajectory prediction using iTransformer for Infra-guided Intersection" International Conference on Electronics, Information, and Communication (ICEIC) 2025, Osaka, Japan

• Younggun Kim, and Soomok Lee* "3D Adaptive Structural Convolution Network for Domain-Invariant Point Cloud Recognition" the Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV) Dec.2024, Hanoi, Vietnam (BK21 Distinguished Conference Paper List)

• Siwon Kim, Wooyung Yun, Jeongbin Oh and Soomok Lee* "Efficient Deep Learning Approaches for Processing Ultra-Widefield Retinal Imaging," Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) Workshop, Oct 2024, Morocco. 

• Woori Ko, Minkyu Shim, Sangmin Park*, Soomok Lee, Ilsoo Yun "Development of Test Cases for Automated Vehicle Driving Safety Assessment Using Driving", Sensors, VOL 24, NO. 24, pp. 7981-7994 (SCI Impact factor 3.9).

• Yunhun Nam and Soomok Lee*, "Domain-Invariant 3D Structural Convolution and Pooling for Place Recognition", IEEE Access, Vol 13, 147310 - 147319 pp, Sep., 2024. (SCI Impact factor 3.4).

• Soomok Lee, "m-ABCNet: Multi-modal Attention-Based Attribute Classification Network" IEEE Access, Vol 12, 133982 - 133993 pp, Sep., 2024 (SCI Impact factor 3.4)

• Rohee Lee, Seonghoon Ryoo, and Soomok Lee*, "Domain-Invariant 3D Structural Convolutional Network for Autonomous Driving Point Cloud Dataset," In 2024 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV) (pp. 1542-1547), Jeju, Korea.

• Sanghyun Lee, Jongmin Noh, Soomok Lee, Hwanpil Lee and Ilsoo Yun  "C-ITS-based emergency situation information collection system" 30th ITS World Congress, Sep. 2024 Dubai, UAE.

• Inyoung Kim, Donghyo Kang, Harim Jeong, and Soomok Lee*, and Ilsoo Yun, "Method of Evaluating Multiple Scenarios in a Single Simulation Run for Automated Vehicle Assessment",  Sensors VOL 23, NO 19, Oct., 2023 (SCI Impact factor 3.9).

• Soomok Lee, Sanghyun Kim, Jongmin Noh, Jinyoung Kim, and Harim Jeong, "Traffic Event Detection: Framework, Dataset Generation, and Deep Neural Network Perspectives", Sensors VOL 23, NO 19, Sep., 2023 (SCI Impact factor 3.9).

• Soomok Lee, Sanghyun Kim, Jinyoung Kim, Jongmin Noh, Hwanpil Lee, Ilsoo Yoon*, "Road Event Detection and Situation Classification Framework," Journal of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies 15 (2024): 2305-2314.

• Sanghyun Kim, Hwanpil Lee, Jongmin Noh, Ilsoo Yoon, Soomok Lee* "Development of a sudden situation detection algorithm based on a vehicle terminal." Korean Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems, VOL. 22, NO. 04, Aug. 2023.

• Soomok Lee*, Seung-Woo Seo, "Sensor Fusion for Aircraft Detection at Airport Ramps using Conditional Random Fields." IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, VOL. 23, NO. 10, Oct. 2022.  (SCI Impact factor 9.551, Q1)

• Soomok Lee and Seung-woo Seo, "Fail-Safe Multi-modal Localization Framework using Multiple Map-matching Sources",  IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, VOL. 23, NO. 5, May 2022. (SCI Impact factor 9.551, Q1)

• Soomok Lee, Seung-Woo Seo, "Probabilistic context integration-based aircraft behaviour intention classification at airport ramps" IET Intelligent Transport Systems, Feb, 2022. (SCI Impact factor 2.568)

• Soomok Lee, Jinwoo Choi and Seung-Woo Seo, "Ego-lane Index-aware Vehicular Localization using DeepRoad Network for Urban Environments,"  IET Intelligent Transport Systems, Jan., 2021.  (SCI Impact factor 2.568)

(Written research activities were put on hold during my involvement as a founding member of ThorDrive US, a self-driving platform start-up company.)

• Soomok Lee, Jung-Hoon Kim, Jung-Woo Kim, GyuMin Oh and Seung-Woo Seo, "Decentralized Localization Framework using Heterogeneous Map-matchings,"IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Oct 2018, Madrid, Spain.

• Seong-Woo Kim, Gi-Poong Gwon, Woo-Sol Hur, Daejin Hyeon, Dae-Young Kim, Sung-Hyun Kim, Dong-Kyoung Kye, Sang-Hyun Lee, Soomok Lee, Myung-Ok Shin, and Seung-Woo Seo, "Autonomous Campus Mobility Services using Driverless Taxi," IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Vol. 18, No. 12, pp. 3513 - 3526, Dec. 2017.

• Soomok Lee, Daejin Hyeon, Gikwang Park, Il-joo Baek, Seong-woo Kim and Seung-woo Seo, "Directional-DBSCAN: Parking-slot Detection using a Clustering Method in Around-View Monitoring System," IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium(IV) June 2016, Gothenburg, Sweden.

• Daejin Hyeon, Soomok Lee, Soonhong Jung, Seong-woo Kim and Seung-woo Seo, "Robust Road Marking Detection Using Convex Grouping Method in Around-View Monitoring System," IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium(IV) June 2016, Gothenburg, Sweden.

• Soomok Lee and Seung-woo Seo, "Available Parking Slot Recognition based on Slot Context Analysis", IET Intelligent Transport Systems, Vol. 10, No.9, pp.594-604, October 2016.

• Soomok Lee, Gikwang Park and Seung-woo Seo, "Lane Information Fusion Scheme using Multiple Lane Sensors",  Journal of The Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers Vol.52, No.12, December 2015. (Korean domestic)

• Soomok Lee, Seong-woo Kim and Seung-woo Seo, "Accurate Ego-Lane Recognition utilizing Multiple Road Characteristics in a Bayesian Network Framework," IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium(IV) June 2015, Seoul, Korea. 

• Dong-Kyoung Kye, Myungok Shin, Gi-Poong Gwon, Seung-Tak Choi, In-Sub Yoo, Soomok Lee, Hanseul Lee, Yeonjun Lee, Bokyung Seo, Gyumin Oh and Seong-Woo Kim, "Development of an Autonomous Vehicle: Baby In Car," International Conference on Electronics, Information and Communication(ICEIC),  Jan. 2015, Singapore. 

• Seung-Nam Kang, Soomok Lee, Junhwa Hur and Seung-woo Seo, "Multi-lane Detection based on Accurate Geometric Lane Estimation in Highway Scenarios," IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium(IV) June 2014, Dearborn, Michigan, USA. 

Patent

• Soomok Lee, "Sensor fusion-based object detection system and method for objects with a complex shape or large-size." U.S. Patent 12,406,482, issued September 2, 2025.

• Yooyoung Yoon, and  Soomok Lee "Method and Device for LiDAR Data Refinement for Monocular Camera-Based Depth Learning" is applied for KR patent 2025.

• Yooyoung Yoon, and  Soomok Lee "Pretrained Monocular Camera Depth Prediction Model-Based Radar Noise Removal Method and Device" is applied for KR patent 2025.

•  Dongwook Kim, and Soomok Lee "Device and Method for Constructing Sparse Traffic Accident Image Dataset Through Prompt-Based Data Refinement Technique" is applied for KR patent 2025.

• Soomok Lee, Seonghoon Ryoo, Wooyoung Yoon, "Method, device and system for instance-matching-based camera-lidar calibration," is applied for KR patent 2024.

• Soomok Lee, Ilsoo Yoon, "Recording medium recording computer-readable program for performing a method for detecting a road emergency situation based on a vehicle terminal, and method," applied for KR patent 2023.

• Soomok Lee, "Sensor fusion-based object detection system and method especially for big-size or complex shape object," KR102346304B1, issued in 2022.

• Soomok Lee, "Method for estimating position of ego vehicle for autonomous driving apparatus," US11073399B1, issued in 2021.

• Soomok Lee, "Own vehicle location prediction method and autonomous driving device for autonomous driving," KR20200100810A, 2019.

• Soomok Lee, Soonhong Jung, Seung-Woo Seo, "Vehicle control method," KR102030693B1, issued in 2017.

• Soomok Lee, Il-joo Baek, Seung-Woo Seo, "Parking assist apparatus and method for assisting parking,"  KR101850794B1, issued in 2015.

Invited Talks

• Invited speaker 한국자동차공학회 춘계학술대회 신진연구자 발표, Jeju, Korea, May 2025.

• Invited speaker and panel for 2024 BrainLink X-Lab Day, Korean Federation of Science and Technology Societies, Incheon, Korea, Nov. 2024.

• Invited panel for International Symposium on Smart Mobilities in Future, ITS Conference, Seoul, Korea, May 2024.

• Invited panel for AI towards Transportation, Highways USA, Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center, Dallas, TX,  Oct. 2023.

• 대한전자공학회 인공지능신호처리 워크샵 신진연구자 발표, Keimyung University, Daegu, Korea, Sep. 2023.

• 정보과학회 SWCC(Summer Workshop on Computer Communications) 신진 연구자 발표, Korea University, Seoul, Korea, Aug. 2023.

• 아주대학교 소프트웨어중심대학 AI융합워크숍, Ajou University, Suwon, Korea, June 2023.

• 부산대학교 초감각 인지기술 선도연구센터 기술 워크샵, Pusan University, Pusan, Korea, Nov. 2022.

 Acknowledged by Collaboration 

• Elizabeth H. Ehleringer, Si Jung Kim, "The Wearable Lullaby: Improving Sleep Quality of Caregivers of Dementia Patients", CHI '13 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Paris, France.

• BRIGHT POWER, INC. "The Negative Impact of Cold Water Bypass on Solar Domestic Hot Water Systems." Final Report August 2011,  published by the NEW YORK STATE ENERGY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY & NEW YORK CITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION