Spatial AI and Robotics Lab
(SPARO Lab)

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Spatial AI and Robotics (SPARO) Lab focuses on spatial intelligence of robot fields. Targeting the long-term autonomy of robots in many domains, we solve for spatial perception dealing with various sensors and algorithms. Main research interests and detailed topics include robust sensing perception in various fields, physical-based learning for robot navigation, and robotic operation in limited environments. 

News

• [Feb. 2025] Hogyun received outstanding research awards at Inha Univ. (Excellence of journal publication and Most-applied patent). Congrats!

• [Feb. 2025] Jiyun received AFCV award at KRoC 2025. Congrats! 

• [Feb. 2025] Miryeong  and Jiyun joined our lab. Welcome!

• [Jan. 2025] Two papers (Diter++ and PoLaRIS) are accepted at ICRA 2025! Congrats Jiwon, Dongjin, and Juwon!

• [Oct. 2024] One paper about underwater image enhancement and depth estimation (TRIDENT) has been accepted by IEEE Sensors Journal. Congrats Geonmo!

• [Sep. 2024] One paper about RADAR-based localization (Referee) is accepted by IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L). Congrats Byunghee and Hogyun!

• [Aug. 2024] One paper about LiDAR-based localization (Solid) is accepted by IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L). Congrats Hogyun!

• [July. 2024] Juwon, Euncheol, Minho, and Gihyeon won the competition at Hanhwa Aerospace for the future tech challenge!

• [June. 2024] Gihyeon and Dongjin received the best paper award at ICROS 2024! Congrats!

• [May. 2024] Uni-mapper received the best research award (3rd prize) at ICRA 2024 Construction Robotics Workshop! Congrats!

• [Feb. 2024] One paper  is accepted to ICRA 2024!

• [Jan. 2024] One paper is accepted by IEEE Sensors Letters!

• [Nov. 2023] One paper is accepted by IEEE Sensors Journal!

• [Nov. 2023] Our lab (4-luca team) won the industry-academia collaboration challenge (한국산업기술진흥원장상. Ranked in the Top 20 teams out of 489 teams)

• [Oct. 2023] Ugrad. Autonomous Driving Team (VI2RE) received an excellent algorithm award (우수 알고리즘 상) from the Virtual Seoul Driving Challenge.  (7th-8th rank among 70 teams)

• [Oct. 2023] SPARO Lab won a big grant from NRF-STEAM (미래유망융합기술파이오니어)

• [Jun. 2023] Ugrad. project received the Excellent paper award (우수논문상) in ICROS 2023! Congrats!

• [Mar. 2023] Six members joined SPARO Lab! Hogyun, Seungjun, Seokhwan, Byunghee, Euncheol, and Jungwoo welcome!

• [Feb. 2023] Three papers are accepted to ICRA 2023 (2 Regular, 1 RA-L)

• [Jan. 2023] One paper is accepted to Sensors

• [Jan. 2023] Gilhwan got scholarship from Hyundai Motors Company. 

• [Dec. 2022]NeRd-four team (Jooyong, Gilhwan, Geonmo, and Juhui) won the embedded software competition! Congrats!

• [Aug. 2022] One paper is accepted to T-ITS (Nonparametric background model-based LiDAR SLAM)

• [Aug. 2022] Gilhwan join SPARO Lab! Welcome!

• [Jun. 2022] SPARO Lab (with HD-DNA Lab.) won a big grant from NRF (NRF Basic Research Lab. 기초연구실)

• [Jun. 2022] Prof. Cho receives 우수신진연구자상 at ICROS 2022

• [Jun. 2022] Prof. Cho presents at ICROS (제어로봇시스템학회) 2022

• [Jul. 2022]  Seungjun and Seokhwan receive the Excellent paper award (우수논문상)! Congrats!

• [Apr. 2022] SPARO Lab won a big grant from IITP (Deep Total Recall: Continual Learning for Human-Like Recall of Artificial Neural Networks )

• [Apr. 2022] SPARO Lab started the joint project (Industry-academy collaboration, Partner: Neubility)

• [Apr. 2022] One paper is accepted to RA-L (Vivid++)

• [Mar. 2022] Geonmo, Jooyong, and Juhui joined SPARO Lab! Welcome!