Sunglok Choi (최성록) [Curriculum Vitae] Senior Researcher, Ph.D. Intelligent Robotics Research Division, AI Research Laboratory Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) Republic of Korea Contact E-mail: sunglok (at) etri (dot) re (dot) kr sunglok (at) hanmail (dot) net Tel: +82-42-860-5775 Homepage: http://sites.google.com/site/sunglok Github: http://github.com/sunglok

RESEARCH INTERESTS [Show Details]

• Robot Navigation: Localization, SLAM, Path Planning, Path Following
• Computer Vision: Robust Regression, 3D Vision (Visual Odometry, Visual SLAM, SFM)

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
• 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 PDF (in Korean) KAIST Library (Errata)
• It is written in Korean, but it is partially summarized in my SMC 2008 paper in English.
• It is maintained by two project pages, RANSAC Template Library and Triangulation Toolbox.
• 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 PDF (in Korean) Project Page "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 PDF (in Korean) SNU Library Project Page
• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science Engineering (Minor)

WORK EXPERIENCE

• 2015/03 - : Senior Researcher, Intelligent Robotics Research Division, ETRI
• 2020/08 -: Professor, ETRI AI Academy
• 2008/02 - 2015/02: Researcher, Intelligent Robotics Research Division, ETRI
• 2011/08 - 2011/09: Visiting Researcher, FutureRobot
• 2012/03 - 2012/06: Visiting Researcher, Robotever
• 2012/10 - 2012/11: Visitor, Field Robotics Center, Robotics Institute, CMU
• 2006/02 - 2008/01: Research Assistant, RIT Lab., KAIST
• 2004/06 - 2004/07: Intern, SoC Team, Hynix Semiconductor
• 2004/02 - 2004/12: Undergraduate Research Assistant, CDSL, SNU

SELECTED PUBLICATION [Show All] [Google Scholar] | [Google Patents]

• Sunglok Choi and Jong-Hwan Kim, Leveraging Localization Accuracy with Off-centered GPS, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Vol. 21, No. 6, 2020 PDF 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 PDF 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 PDF 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 PDF 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 PDF DOI
• Sunglok Choi, Jae-Yeong Lee, and Wonpil Yu, uRON v1.5: A Device-Independent and Reconfigurable Robot Navigation Library, in Proceedings of IEEE Workshop on Advanced Robotics and Its Social Impacts (ARSO), 2010 PDF DOI
• Sunglok Choi, Taemin Kim, and Wonpil Yu, Performance Evaluation of RANSAC Family, in Proceedings of British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), 2009 PDF DOI (Errata) Project Page

SELECTED HONOR AND AWARDS [Show All]

• 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 ICCAS 2014
• 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 URAI 2009
• 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