Younggun Cho

  • Assistant Professor

  • Inha University

    • Department of Electrical


  • E-mail: yg.cho [at] inha.ac.kr, yg.b.cho [at] gmail.com

Research Interest

  • Long-term Autonomy

    • SLAM in extreme environments

    • Learning-based map representation

    • Vision for navigation

  • Robust Sensing

    • Visibility enhancement

    • Thermal imaging in turbid medium

    • Informative feature selection

News

  • The new paper of "HDMI-Loc (Localization on HD-map)" is accepted for IEEE RA-L (Robotics and Automation Letters) 2020

  • The new paper of "Proactive camera attributes control" is accepted for IEEE T-RO (IEEE Transactions on Robotics) 2020

  • The new paper of deep LiDAR odometry is accepted for ICRA 2020

  • The new paper of underwater image enhancement is accepted for International Journal of Control, Automation and Systems (IJCAS) 2020

  • Best Paper Award at ICRA Dataset Generation and Benchmarking of SLAM Algorithms for Robotics and VR/AR workshop (ICRA 2019)

Personal Projects

The curated list of awesome SLAM data sets

The curated list of dehazing methods and datasets

Publications

International Journals

Underwater Image Dehazing via Unpaired Image-to-image Translation

International Journal of Control, Automation and Systems (IJCAS), 2020

Younggun Cho*, Hyesu Jang*, Ram Malav, Grurav Pandey and Ayoung Kim (*: Equal Contribution)


Complex Urban Dataset with Multi-level Sensors from Highly Diverse Urban Environments

International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR), 2019

Jinyong Jeong, Younggun Cho, Young-Sik Shin, Hyunchul Roh and Ayoung Kim


Validation of a Multi–Sensor-Based Kiosk for Short Physical Performance Battery

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (JAGS) , 2019

HeeWon Jung, Hyunchul Roh, Younggun Cho, Jinyong Jeong, YoungSik Shin, JaeYoung Lim, Jack M Guralnik, and Jihong Park


Model Assisted Multi-band Fusion for Single Image Enhancement and Applications to Robot Vision

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L with IROS), 2018

Younggun Cho, Jinyong Jeong and Ayoung Kim


Channel Invariant Online Visibility Enhancement for Visual SLAM in a Turbid Environment

Journal of Field Robotics (JFR), 2018

Younggun Cho and Ayoung Kim

Accurate Mobile Urban Mapping via Digital Map-Based SLAM

MDPI SENSORS, 2016

Hyunchul Roh, Jinyong Jeong, Younggun Cho and Ayoung Kim

International Conferences

Unsupervised Geometry-Aware Deep LiDAR Odometry

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2020

Younggun Cho, Giseop Kim and Ayoung Kim


DeepLO: Geometry-Aware Deep LiDAR Odometry

Arxiv preprint, 2019

Younggun Cho, Giseop Kim and Ayoung Kim


ViViD : Vision for Visibility Dataset (Best Poster Award)

ICRA Workshop on Dataset Generation and Benchmarking of SLAM Algorithms for Robotics and VR/AR , 2019

Alex Junho Lee, Younggun Cho, Sungho Yoon, Youngsik Shin and Ayoung Kim

Complex Urban LiDAR Data Set

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2018

Jinyong Jeong, Younggun Cho, Young-Sik Shin, Hyunchul Roh and Ayoung Kim

Exposure Control using Bayesian Optimization based on Entropy Weighted Image Gradient

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2018

Joowan Kim, Younggun Cho and Ayoung Kim

DejavuGAN: Multi-temporal Image Translation toward Long-term Robot Autonomy

ICRA Workshop on Long-term Autonomy and Deployment of Intelligent Robots in the Real-world, 2018

Younggun Cho, Jinyong Jeong, Youngsik Shin and Ayoung Kim

Visibility Enhancement for Underwater Visual SLAM based on Underwater Light Scattering Model

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2017

Younggun Cho and Ayoung Kim

LiDAR Configuration Comparison for Urban Mapping System

IEEE Ubiquitous Robots and Ambient Intelligence (URAI), 2017

Joowan Kim, Jinyong Jeong, Young-Sik Shin, Younggun Cho, Hyunchul Roh and Ayoung Kim

Road-SLAM : Road Marking based SLAM with Lane-level Accuracy

IEEE Intelligent Vehicle Symposium (IV), 2017

Jinyong Jeong, Younggun Cho and Ayoung Kim

Online Depth Estimation and Application to Underwater Image Dehazing

IEEE/MTS OCEANS Conference and Exhibition (Oceans), 2016

Younggun Cho, Young-Sik Shin and Ayoung Kim

Estimation of Ambient Light and Transmission Map with Common Convolutional Architecture

IEEE/MTS OCEANS Conference and Exhibition (Oceans), 2016

Young-Sik Shin, Younggun Cho, Gaurav Pandey and Ayoung Kim