Giseop Kim, PhD

Info

• Contact: gsk@dgist.ac.kr

• Current Positions

  • PI of Autonomy and Perceptual Robotics Lab (APRL) (lab website)

  • Assistant Professor of Robotics and Mechatronics Engineering Dept. of DGIST.

• Education: PhD (KAIST, 2022), advised by Dr. Ayoung Kim

• CV (maybe delayed updated w.r.t this page)

• Research Statement, Teaching Statement

Publications (as DGIST) (bold: APRL members)

• 2026, Book Chapter, Chapter 8: LiDAR SLAM of SLAM Handbook (From Localization and Mapping to Spatial Intelligence). Jens Behley, Maurice Fallon, Shibo Zhao, Giseop Kim, Ji Zhang, Fu Zhang, Ayoung Kim

• 2026, ICRA, Have We Mastered Scale in Deep Monocular Visual SLAM? The ScaleMaster Dataset and Benchmark. Hyoseok Ju*, Bokeon Suh, Giseop Kim†

• 2026, ICLR, Inlier-Centric Post-Training Quantization for Object Detection Models. Minsu Kim*, Dongyeun Lee, Jaemyung Yu, Jiwan Hur, Giseop Kim, Junmo Kim†

• 2025, RA-L, LAMP: Implicit Language Map for Robot Navigation. Sibaek Lee*, Hyeonwoo Yu, Giseop Kim, Sunwook Choi†

• 2025, ICCV, 2D Gaussian Splatting-based Sparse-view Transparent Object Depth Reconstruction via Physics Simulation for Scene Update. Jeongyun Kim*, Seunghoon Jeong*, Giseop Kim, Myung-Hwan Jeon, Eunji Jun, Ayoung Kim†

• 2025, ICRA, Ephemerality meets LiDAR-based Lifelong Mapping. Hyeonjae Gil*, Dongjae Lee*, Giseop Kim, Ayoung Kim†

Awards 

• 2026, An early-career researcher for KRoC 2026 (The 21st Korea Robotics Conference).

• 2025, Best Poster Award at the HEAI Workshop of IROS 2025

Academic Services 

• Tutorial Organizer, Spatial AI Tutorial, KRoC 2026

• Reviewers: ICRA, IROS, RSS, CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, RA-L, T-RO, etc.

Academic Talks (bold: selected)

• (2026.02.05-06) Spatial AI Tutorial Organizer & Speaker, KRoC 2026 (Pyeongchang, South Korea): IMU Basics and Inertial Aided Navigation [slide] 

• (2026.02.05) Early-career Researcher Award session, KRoC 2026 (Pyeongchang, South Korea): Memory-Augmented Spatial Intelligence for Autonomous Robot Navigation [slide] 

• (2026.02.05) Special Session 3: AI-based Autonomous Systems, KRoC 2026 (Pyeongchang, South Korea): CoT/Scene-graph/and Recent Paradigms for Mobile Robot Navigation: A Short Survey and Real-World Lessons [slide] 

• (2026.02.02) 초청강연, 달서구청 월례회 특강, 제목: 대구의 혁신, 로봇·미래모빌리티 도시로 나아가다

• (2026.01.19) Invited Tutorial, ICEIC 2026 (Macau, China): An Invitation to 3D Vision, Spatial AI, and Physical AI [slide]

• (2025.12.10) Invited Talk, Department of Intelligent Robotics, SKKU (Suwon, South Korea), Title: SLAM, Spatial AI, and Human-Robot Interactive Navigation

• (2025.12.09) Invited Talk, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, KAIST (Daejeon, South Korea), Title: Robotics and Spatial AI for Construction

• (2025.12.08) Invited Talk, Dept. of Industrial Machinery DX, KIMM (Daejeon, South Korea), Title: SLAM, Spatial AI, and Human-Robot Interactive Navigation

• (2025.10.30) 초청강연, 2025년 한국섬유공학회 추계학술대회 (conference, domestic) (Busan, South Korea), 제목: 피지컬AI for 스마트팩토리 (부제: 휴머노이드, 센싱, 공간지능)  

Funded Projects

• Refer to the lab website.