Inwook Shim Ph.D (2016. 11. 30.) [CV]

INHA University, College of Software and Convergence

Department of Smart Mobility Engineering, Assistant Professor

Thesis Title: High-Quality Visual Sensing via Sensor Fusion for Intelligent Robotic Systems

- Robotics and Computer Vision Lab., Division of Future Vehicle, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

Email: iwshim [at] inha.ac.kr, inugi00 [at] gmail.com, iwshim [at] rcv.kaist.ac.kr

Research Interests

    • Computer Vision and Deep Neural Network for Autonomous Robotic Systems

    • Active Camera Control / Point Cloud & Depth Processing

    • Real-time Computer Vision / Software Architecture

Honors & Awards

    • KAIST EE Top 10 Research Title: Vision system of DRC-HUBO+ for DARPA Robotics Challenge, Apr. 2016

    • KAIST Creativity and Challenge Award, (Top two persons or teams of whole KAIST's graduate student, 전체 카이스트 대학원생 중 2명(팀) 선정), Feb. 2016

    • KAIST Achievement Award of Robotics (공로패), June. 2015

    • 1st place($2,000,000) in DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals, “Chief at vision team of Team KAIST,” June. 7, 2015. [project page]

    • NI finalist, NI Student Design Showcase, “EureCar, KAIST Self-Driving Car”, 2014. [link]

    • Qualcomm Innovation Award, “An Effective Hierarchical Sensor-Fusion Framework for Autonomous Vehicle,” Sep. 2013.

    • Best Poster Award, The 7th International Workshop on Robust Computer Vision, “Implementation of Driverless Car: Efficient Sensor Network for High Speed Robot,” Jan. 2013.

    • LSI Innovator Prize($1,000), “Interactive Memory Pad,” Dec. 2012.

    • 5th place($5,000) in Autonomous Vehicle Competition, “Chief at vision team of EureCar: Team KAIST,” Dec. 2012. [project page]

International Journals

ScaTE: A Scalable Framework for Self-Supervised Traversability Estimation in Unstructured Environments

Junwon Seo, Taekyung Kim, Kiho Kwakm Jihong Min, and Inwook Shim*

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 6. Jan. 2023 (*Corresponding authors)

Parallel Recurrent Module With Inter-Layer Attention for Capturing Long-Range Feature Relationships

Eunseok Kim, Jihwan Bae and Inwook Shim*

IEEE Access, 13 June. 2022 (*Corresponding authors)

Geometry Guided Network for Point Cloud Registration [pdf]

Taewon Min, Eunseok Kim, and Inwook Shim*

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (IROS'21 option), 14. July. 2021 (*Corresponding authors)

Curriculum Learning for Vehicle Lateral Stability Estimations [pdf]

Jihwan Bae, Taekyung Kim, Wonsuk Lee*, and Inwook Shim*

IEEE Access, 21. June. 2021 (*Corresponding authors)

MEXN: Multi-Stage Extraction Network for Patent Document Classification [pdf]

Juho Bai, Inwook Shim*, and Seog Park*

MDPI-Applied Sciences, Sep. 2020 (*Corresponding authors)

High-fidelity Depth Upsampling using Self-learning Framework [pdf][video] ( [video1][video2] of the previous work. )

Inwook Shim, Tae-Hyun Oh, and In So Kweon

MDPI-Sensors, Dec. 2018

Gradient-based Camera Exposure Control for Outdoor Mobile Platforms [pdf][project page]

Inwook Shim, Tae-Hyun Oh, Joon-Young Lee, Jinwook Choi, Dong-Geol Choi, and In So Kweon

IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT),(5 years impact factor:4.046)

*supple. can be accessed to media tab in the IEEE page.

Geometry Guided Three-Dimensional Propagation for Depth From Small Motion [pdf][bibtex]

Seunghak Shin, Sunghoon Im, Inwook Shim, Hae-Gon Jeon, In So Kweon

IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Dec. 2017

Structure-From-Motion in 3D Space Using 2D Lidars [pdf][bibtex]

Dong-Geol Choi, Yunsu Bok, Jun-Sik Kim, Inwook Shim, and In So Kweon

MDPI-Sensors, 3 Feb. 2017

Robot System of DRC-HUBO+ and Control Strategy of Team KAIST in DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals [pdf][bibtex]

Jeongsoo Lim, Inho Lee, Inwook Shim, Hyobin Jung, Hyun Min Joe, Hyoin Bae, Okkee Sim, Jaesung Oh, Taejin Jung, Seunghak Shin, Kyungdon Joo, Mingeuk Kim, Kangkyu Lee, Yunsu Bok, Dong-Geol Choi, Buyoun Cho, Sungwoo Kim, Jungwoo Heo, Inhyeok Kim, Jungho Lee, In So Kweon, and Jun-Ho Oh

Journal of Field Robotics (JFR), 29 Sep. 2016

An Autonomous Driving System for Unknown Environments using a Unified Map [pdf] [bibtex] [video]

Inwook Shim, Jongwon Choi, Seunghak Shin, Tae-Hyun Oh, Unghui Lee, Byungtae Ahn, Dong-Geol Choi, David Hyunchul Shim, and In So Kweon,

IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (T-ITS) Vol.16 Issue.4, pp.1999-2013, 20 Feb. 2015

Urban structure classification using the 3D normal distribution transform for practical robot applications [pdf] [bibtex]

Yungeun Choe, Inwook Shim, and Myung Jin Chung

Advanced Robotics (AR), 4 Feb. 2013.

International Conferences

SLiDE: Self-supervised LiDAR De-snowing through Reconstruction Difficulty

Gwangtak Bae, Byungjun Kim, Seongyoung Ahn, Jihong Min, and Inwook Shim*

European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Oct. 2022 (*Corresponding authors)

Distinctiveness oriented Positional Equilibrium for Point Cloud Registration [pdf]

Taewon Min, Chonghyuk Song, Eunseok Kim, and Inwook Shim*

International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Oct. 2021 (*Corresponding authors)

Google Scholar Category: Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition, 2nd Ranking (h5-index: 197)

Improving Gradient Flow with Unrolled Highway Expectation Maximization [pdf]

Chonghyuk Song, Eunseok Kim, and Inwook Shim*

Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Feb. 2021 (*Corresponding authors)

Google Scholar Category: Artificial Intelligence, 4th Ranking (h5-index: 157)

Object Proposal Using 3D Point Cloud for DRC-HUBO+ [pdf] [bitex] [dataset]

Seunghak Shin, Inwook Shim, Jiyung Jung, Yunsu Bok, Jun-Ho Oh, and In So Kweon

In Proc. of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Oct. 2016.

Google Scholar Category: Robotics, 3rd Ranking (h5-index: 73)

Vision System and Depth Processing for DRC-HUBO+ [pdf] [supple] [bibtex] [project page] [dataset][video1][video2]

Inwook Shim, Seunghak Shin, Yunsu Bok, Kyungdon Joo, Dong-Geol Choi, Joon-Young Lee, Jaesik Park, Jun-Ho Oh, and In So Kweon

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May. 2016.

Google Scholar Category: Robotics, 1st Ranking (h5-index: 105)

Robotics Software System for the Disaster Circumstances: System of Team KAIST in the DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals [pdf] [bibtex]

Jeongsoo Lim, Inwook Shim, Okkee Sim, Inhyeok Kim, Jungho Lee, and Jun-Ho Oh

IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), Nov. 2015.

Combinatorial Approach for Lane Detection using Image and LIDAR Reflectance [pdf] [bibtex]

Seunghak Shin, Inwook Shim, and In So Kweon

International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots and Ambient Intelligence (URAI), Oct. 2015.

Auto-adjusting Camera Exposure for Outdoor Robotics using Gradient Information [pdf] [bibtex] [video]

Inwook Shim, Joon-Young Lee, and In So Kweon

In Proc. of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Sep. 2014.

Google Scholar Category: Robotics, 3rd Ranking (h5-index: 73)

Implementation of Driverless Car: Efficient Sensor Network for High Speed Robot

Seunghak Shin, Inwook Shim, Byungtae Ahn, Tae-Hyun Oh, Jongwon Choi, and In So Kweon

The 7th International Workshop on Robust Computer Vision, Jan. 2013.

Multi Lidar System for fast obstacle detection [pdf] [bibtex]

Inwook Shim, Dong-Geol Choi, Seunghak Shin, and In So Kweon

International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots and Ambient Intelligence (URAI), Nov. 2012.

Autonomous Homing based on Laser-Camera Fusion System [pdf] [bibtex]

Dong-Geol Choi, Inwook Shim, Yunsu Bok, Tae-Hyun Oh, and In So Kweon

IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Oct. 2012

Google Scholar Category: Robotics, 3rd Ranking (h5-index: 73)

Other Publications

Inwook Shim, Yungeun Choe, and Myung Jin Chung, \3D Mapping in Urban Environment using Geometric Featured Voxel, The 8th International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots and Ambient Intelligence (URAI), Nov, 2011

Sangun Park, Inwook Shim, and Myung Jin Chung, "Hole Filled 3D Map Using Mobile Robots in the Urban Environment," The 8th International Conference on Ubiquitous robots and Ambient Intelligence (URAI), Nov, 2011

Yungeun Choe, Inwook Shim, and Myung Jin Chung, "Geometric-featured voxel maps for 3D mapping in urban environments," IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR), Nov, 2011

Jungwon Kang, Sijong Kim, Yungeun Choe, Sangun Park, Inwook Shim, Seunguk Ahn, and Myung Jin Chung, "Building a Mobile Platform for Spatiotemporal Integration of 3D Outdoor World Models," 17th Korea-Japan Workshop on Frontiers of Computer Vision, Feb, 2011

Seunguk. Ahn, Yungeun Choe, Inwook Shim, Sijong Kim, and Myung Jin Chung, "Probabilistic 3D Mapping in Outdoor Environments for Mobile Robot Navigation,” Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems (ICROS), pp. 130-132, May, 2011

Sijong Kim, Jungwon Kang, Inwook Shim, Sangun Park, and Myung Jin Chung, "Stereo Vision based 3D World Modeling for Intelligent Vehicle Navigation," The 7th International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots and Ambient Intelligence (URAI), Nov, 2010

Yungeun Choe, Sangun Park, Inwook Shim, and Myung Jin Chung, \Enhanced Robot Pose Estimation for 3-D Mapping in Urban with Multi-Rate Fusion of GPS, MEMS-IMU, and Compass," The 7th International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots and Ambient Intelligence (URAI), Novemeber, 2010

Seunguk. Ahn, Jungwon Kang, Inwook Shim, and Myung Jin Chung, “Analysis of GPU Performance on Implementation of Dense Stereo Matching,” The Institute of Control, Robotics, and Systems Conference, Dec, 2010

Inwook Shim, Yungeun Choe, Sangun Park, Jungwon Kang, and Myung Jin Chung, “Enhanced Sensor Architecture with Fusion of LIDAR and Camera for a Robotic Vehicle in Urban Environments,” The Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea Conference, Nov, 2010

Sangun Park, Inwook Shim, Yungeun Choe, Sijong Kim, and Myung Jin Chung, “Implementation of 3D Colored Point Cloud using multi-sensor in Urban Environments,” The Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea Conference, Nov, 2010

Sijong Kim, Jungwon Kang, Inwook Shim, Sangun Park, and Myung Jin Chung, “Stereo Vision based 3D World Modeling for Unmanned Ground Vehicle Navigation,” The Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea Conference, Nov, 2010

Yungeun Choe, Sangun Park, Inwook Shim, and Myung Jin Chung, “Laser and GPS/IMU based 3-D World Modeling System for Robot Navigation,” The Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea Conference, Nov, 2010

Inwook Shim, Sangun Park, Jungwon Kang, Sijong Kim, Yeongeol Ryu, and Myung Jin Chung, “Introduction to Parallel Processing Techniques for Computer Vision,” Workshop on Image Processing and Image Understanding, Jan, 2010

Sangun Park, Inwook Shim, Jungwon Kang, Sijong Kim, Yeongeol Ryu, and Myung Jin Chung, “Implementation of Dense Stereo Matching using GPU,” Workshop on Image Processing and Image Understanding, Jan, 2010

Patent

  • 10-2012-0099952(KR), SENSOR SYSTEM, AND SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PREPARING ENVIRONMENT MAP

  • 10-2015-0128416 (KR, 2016.11.18.), APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ADJUSTING CAMERA EXPOSURE

  • 10-2141-6470000 (KR, 2020.07.30.) METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SYNCHRONIZATION OF ROTATING LIDAR AND MULTIPLE CAMERAS

  • US10419684B2 (US, 2019.09.17) Apparatus and method for adjusting camera exposure

  • US10230900B2 (US, 2019.03.12) Apparatus for controlling exposure of multi-view camera, system including the same, and method for controlling exposure of multi-view camera

Last Update Oct. 2021