Hello, I’m Hyungtae Lim!

Currently a postdoc in Urban Robotics Labaratory in Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). Previously worked as a visiting student in StachnissLab and research intern in Naver Labs.

Obtained my Ph.D and M.S in Electrical Engineering from KAIST (supervised by academic father, Prof. Hyun Myung) and my Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering from KAIST

I'm a robotics researcher and an enthusiast of open source as well. So I enjoy open-sourcing my researches regarding robotics to help others — check out my Github repository.

(Korean version is also available on my Notion page)

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Field of Research Interest

My research interest includes, but not confined to:

  • SLAM using LiDAR, camera, or radar sensors
  • Robust 3D point cloud registration
  • Mobile robotics including autonomous vehicles
  • All kinds of perception that help perceiving neighbor situations
    • In particular, ground segmentation as pre-processing by using a 3D point cloud
    • Instance segmentation and clustering
  • Localization including visual localization (i.e. visual place recognition)
  • Static map building by updating a prior 3D point cloud map
  • Robust visual(-inertial) odometry
  • Analytical redundancy

Detailed Education

  • Ph.D candidate Electrical Engineering(also complete Robotics Program) / KAIST - 2020.03~ 2023.02
    • Thesis (Eng.) - Robust LiDAR SLAM Framework for Autonomous Vehicles Leveraging Ground Segmentation
    • Thesis (Kor.) - 지면 인식 기반 지상형 자율주행 로봇을 위한 강인한 라이다 SLAM 프레임워크
  • M.S Electrical Engineering(also complete Robotics Program) / KAIST - 2018.03~2020.02
    • Thesis (Eng.) - Two-stage Depth Prediction using a 2D LiDAR and a Monocular Camera via Deep Learning
    • Thesis (Kor.) - 2D 라이다와 단일 카메라를 이용한 이단식 딥러닝 네트워크 기반 3D 깊이 추정 방법
  • B.S Mechanical Engineering / KAIST - 2013.03~2018.02

Experience

  • Invited Visiting Scholar at StachnissLab, Univ. Bonn, Germany - 2022.11 ~ 2023.02
  • Ouside Expert of CTO Division of LG Electronics - 2022.03 ~
  • CV / Deep Learning Research Intern, NAVER LABS Corp. 2021.04 ~ 2021.09 (6 months)

Honors & Awards

  • CES 2023 Innovation Awards With Hills Robotics - 2022.10
  • 2nd Prize among academia in HILTI SLAM Challenge 2022 (workshop in IEEE ICRA) - 2022.05
  • Student Best Paper Award in ICCAS 2020 - 2020.10
  • Received Kim Sung-bue Creative Activity Award, from KAIST - 2020.07
  • Hitachi-LG LiDAR application Competition, Grand Prize ($ 5,000) - 2019.08
  • Received Han Cheolhui Augustine Scholarship, from EE, KAIST - 2019.04
  • 2018 Smart City Service and Start-up Competition, Excellence Prize - 2018.09
  • Listed on Dean’s list of ME, KAIST (GPA 4.23/4.3 at the semester) - Fall semester, 2015

Fun Facts

I won the grand prize at Taeul Singing Competition, which is the largest singing competition of Chungcheong four years in a row!

Contact

shapelim dot kaist dot ac dot kr