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News

📄 Papers

• Feb. 2026 - Two papers (KISS-IMU, GSAT) accepted at ICRA 2026! (Jiwon and Dongjin)
• Dec. 2025 - One paper (CUTE-Planner) accepted at International Conference on Space Robotics (iSpaRo) 2025! (Miryeong)
• Nov. 2025 - One paper (MSG-Loc) accepted at IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)! (Gihyeon)
• Oct. 2025 - One paper (StaticNeRF) accepted at IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)! (Juhui)
• Jun. 2025 - One paper (MARSCalib) accepted at IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2025! (Seokhwan)
• Jun. 2025 - One paper (Uni-Mapper) accepted at IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles (T-IV). (Gilhwan)
• Feb. 2025 - Two papers (Diter++ and PoLaRIS) accepted at ICRA 2025! (Juwon, Jiwon and Dongjin)
• Oct. 2024 - One paper about underwater image enhancement and depth estimation (TRIDENT) has been accepted by IEEE Sensors Journal. (Geonmo)
• Sep. 2024 - One paper about Radar-based localization (ReFeree) is accepted by IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L). (Hogyun and Byunghee)
• Aug. 2024 - One paper about LiDAR-based localization (SOLiD) is accepted by IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L). (Hogyun)
• Feb. 2024 - One paper about robust localization for delivery robots accepted at ICRA 2024! (Jooyoung)
• Jan. 2024 - One paper (DiTer) accepted by IEEE Sensors Letters! (Seokhwan and Hogyun)
• Nov. 2023 - One paper (Joint-ID) accepted by IEEE Sensors Journal! (Geonmo)
• Feb. 2023 - Two papers (Sonar Context and Thermal to RGB-to-TIR image Translation) are accepted at ICRA 2023! (Hogyun)
• Jan. 2023 - One paper is accepted to MDPI Sensors! (Geonmo and Juhui)
• Aug. 2022 - One paper accepted to T-ITS (Nonparametric background model-based LiDAR SLAM)!
• Apr. 2022 - One paper accepted to RA-L (ViViD++)!

🏆 Awards

• Feb. 2026 - Hogyun received a silver prize at the 32nd Samsung HumanTech Paper Award. Congrats!
• Feb. 2026 - Dongjin received an AFCV award at KRoC 2026. Congrats!
• Jan. 2026 - Geonmo, Hogyun, Jiwon, and Juwon received a Graduate Research Award at Inha Univ. (Grand Prize). Congrats!
• Jan. 2026 - Hogyun and Geonmo received a Graduate Research Presentation Award at Inha Univ. (Grand Prize and Honorable Mention). Congrats!
• Oct. 2025 - Prof. Younggun received the New Generation Star Project Award at IROS.
• Aug. 2025 - Hogyun received a Ph.D Candidate Fellowship at the National Research Foundation (NRF). Congrats!
• Apr. 2025 - Jiwon received an excellent research award at 2025 Korean Institute of ITS Conference. Congrats!
• 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!
• Dec. 2024 - Jungwoo, Dongjin, Minho, and Gihyeon received the Minister of Trade, Industry and Energy Award at the 2024 Embedded Software Competition! Congrats!
• July. 2024 - Juwon, Euncheol, Minho, and Gihyeon won the competition at Hanhwa Aerospace for the future tech challenge! Congrats!
• 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!
• Nov. 2023 - Our lab (4-luca team) won the industry-academia collaboration challenge (한국산업기술진흥원장상. Ranked in the Top 20 teams out of 489 teams. Congrats!
• Oct. 2023 - Ugrad. Autonomous Driving Team (VI2RE) received an excellent algorithm award at the Virtual Seoul Driving Challenge. Congrats!
• Aug. 2023 - Seungjun got a scholarship from Hyundai Motors Company. Congrats!
• Jun. 2023 - Ugrad. project received the Excellent paper award(우수논문상) in ICROS 2023! Congrats!
• Jan. 2023 - Gilhwan got a scholarship from Hyundai Motors Company. Congrats!
• Dec. 2022 - NeRd-four team (Jooyong, Gilhwan, Geonmo, and Juhui) won the embedded software competition! Congrats!
• Jul. 2022 - Seungjun and Seokhwan received the Excellent paper award(우수논문상)! Congrats!
• Jun. 2022 - Prof. Cho receives 우수신진연구자상 at ICROS 2022. Congrats!

💼 Projects

• May. 2025 - SPARO Lab won a big grant from NRF (NRF Basic Research Lab. 기초연구실).
• Oct. 2023 - SPARO Lab won a big grant from NRF-STEAM (미래유망융합기술파이오니어).
• Jun. 2022 - SPARO Lab (with HD-DNA Lab.) won a big grant from NRF (NRF Basic Research Lab. 기초연구실).
• Apr. 2022 - SPARO Lab started the joint project (Industry-academy collaboration, Partner: Neubility).
• Apr. 2022 - SPARO Lab won a big grant from IITP (Deep Total Recall: Continual Learning for Human-Like Recall of Artificial Neural Networks).

👥 New Members

• Mar. 2026 - Woonyoung joined our lab. Welcome!
• Sep. 2025 - Taehu and Seunghee joined our lab. Welcome!
• Mar. 2025 - Miryeong and Jiyun joined our lab. Welcome!
• Sep. 2024 - Minho and Juwon joined our lab. Welcome!
• Mar. 2024 - Jiwon, Gihyeon, and Dongjin joined our lab. Welcome!
• Mar. 2023 - Six members joined SPARO Lab! Hogyun, Seungjun, Seokhwan, Byunghee, Euncheol, and Jungwoo welcome!
• Sep. 2022 - Gilhwan joined SPARO Lab! Welcome!
• Mar. 2022 - Geonmo, Jooyong, and Juhui joined SPARO Lab! Welcome!