Robotic Intelligence & Perception Lab (RIPL, a.k.a. 인식기반 지능로봇 연구실) is a research group, literally, focused on robotic intelligence and robotic perception. We are performing research on advanced autonomy and perception algorithms for manned/unmanned vehicle systems by combining various principles and techniques in the fields of mobile robotics, computer vision, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. Our current research interests and ongoing projects can be found here.

• We are looking for qualified and highly motivated graduate students and undergraduate interns.
  To join our group, if interested, please feel free to contact us. (email to sh.hong@kmu.ac.kr)  

• 📄 (2026.04.28) Our recent work on ping-level landmark detection for side-scan sonar SLAM by Jinho Im has been accepted to the S2S Workshop at ICRA 2026.

• 🎤 (2026.04.27) We participated in a technical workshop on UUV SLAM technologies with POSTECH (HERO Lab.) and KNU (FURO Lab.).

• 📄 (2026.04.20) A paper on side-scan sonar SLAM by Jinho Im has been accepted to IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L).

• 🎤 (2026.02.24) Our research was presented at the Korea Research Institute of Ships and Ocean Engineering (KRISO) (친환경해양개발연구본부).
  (Title: "Towards Spatial AI for Field Robotics")

• 📄 (2026.01.11) A paper on deep learning-based underwater object detection by Eunsoo Kim (now at KETI) has been accepted to Remote Sensing Letters. (Link)

• 🏆 (2026.01.09) Seonghyun Choi received an Excellence Award at the RISE Conference. (Link)

• 📄 (2025.12.22) A paper on quadruped robot SLAM by Roun Lee (now at Riiotics) has been accepted to Robotics and Autonomous Systems (RAS). (Link1) (Link2) (Link3)

• 🏆 (2025.11.27) Minseong Kwon received an Excellence Award at the undergraduate research paper competition. (Link)

• 🏆 (2025.10.30) Dongwoon Yang received the Best Student Paper Award at the 2025 KSOE Spring Conference. (Link1) (Link2) (Link3) 

• 🏆 (2025.10.30) Minseong Kwon and Jaehoon Park received the Excellence Award in the Programming Track at the 2025 CAE Competition of the KSOE. (Link1) (Link2)

• 🎤 (2025.08.20) Our research was presented at the Korea Electronics Technology Institute (KETI) (지능로보틱스연구센터).
  (Title: "Towards Legged Robot Autonomy in Challenging Field Environments")

• 🏆 (2025.05.13) RIPL was selected as an Excellent Research Laboratory at Keimyung University.

• 📄 (2024.12.27) A paper on remote situational awareness by Chaewon Kim has been accepted to Applied Ocean Research (AOR) (Link1) (Link2) (Link3)

• 🎤 (2024.12.20) Our research was presented at the Daegu AI Researchers' Forum (DARF).
  (Title: "Application of SLAM Technology for Vehicle Autonomy: From Underwater to Terrestrial Robotic Vehicles") (Link1) (Link2)

• 🎤 (2024.07.19) Our research was presented at the Korea Electronics Technology Institute (KETI) (지능로보틱스연구센터)
  (Title: "Application of SLAM Technology for Vehicle Autonomy: From Underwater to Terrestrial Robotic Vehicles")

• 🎤 (2024.03.22) Our research was presented at the Korea Electronics Technology Institute (KETI) (지능로보틱스연구센터)
  (Title: "Towards Robust Perception and Estimation for Autonomous Mobile Robots")