Professor
Kyungdon Joo
Associate Professor
Email: [email protected]
🏛️ Affiliation
Artificial Intelligence Graduate School
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
🧐 Research Area
- 3D computer vision: 3D reconstruction from single / multi-images, 3D generative model
- Robot vision: Sensor fusion, Sensor calibration, 3D perception for intelligent agents
👨🏻🎓 Short Bio
Kyungdon Joo is an associate professor of the Graduate School of Artificial Intelligence and the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at UNIST, South Korea. Before joining UNIST, he was a postdoctoral researcher at CMU RI, US. He was a member of Team KAIST, which won first place in the DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals 2015. He was a research intern at Oculus Research (Facebook Reality Labs), Pittsburgh in 2017. He received the B.E. degree in School of Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Seoul, South Korea in 2012, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in the Robotics Program and School of Electrical Engineering from KAIST, South Korea in 2014 and 2019, respectively.
📝 Experience
Associate Professor, UNIST
Artificial Intelligence Graduate School
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Mar. 2024 ~ Present
Assistant Professor, UNIST
Artificial Intelligence Graduate School
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Nov. 2020 ~ Feb. 2024
Post-Doctoral Researcher, CMU
The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Supervisor: Prof. Martial Hebert / Co-supervisor: Prof. Jean Oh
Sep. 2019 ~ Aug. 2020
Post-Doctoral Researcher, KAIST
Supervisor: Prof. In So Kweon
Feb. 2019 ~ Sep. 2019
Research Intern
Oculus Research (current Facebook Reality Labs), USA
Supervisor: Dr. Michal Perdoch
Jun. 2017 ~ Dec. 2017
🏫 Education
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, KAIST
Dissertation: Directional Perception in Man-made Environments
Mar. 2014 ~ Feb. 2019
M.S. in Robotics Program, KAIST
Thesis: Hierarchical 3D Line Restoration and 3D Planar Reconstruction in Structured Environments
Feb. 2012 ~ Feb. 2014
B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Seoul
Mar. 2006 ~ Feb. 2012
🏆 Awards and Honors
Humantech Paper Awards: Special Prize (Silver Award Advisor)
SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., South Korea
2025
Outstanding Faculty Award (Research)
UNIST, South Korea
2024
ICCV 2023 Outstanding reviewers
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), France
2023
RSS Pioneers
Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), USA
2020
Doctoral Consortium
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), USA
2019
KAIST Achievement Award
KAIST, South Korea
Team: Team KAIST
2015
First Place of DARPA Robotics Challenge (Team KAIST)
DARPA Robotics Challenge Final, USA
Prize: $ 2 millions
2015
🔍 Reviewers
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
’18, ’19, ’20, ’21, ’23, ’24
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
’19, ’21, ’23
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)
’20
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
’20
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)
’20
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
’20
Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV)
’18
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI)
The Visual Computer