Ayoung
@_ayoungk
Associate professor, SNU SLAM computer vision lidar underwater unconventional sensors
📢 Introducing GenSfM – a generic Structure-from-Motion pipeline built on COLMAP, with smooth, invertible, and universal calibration for diverse cameras — from pinhole to catadioptric! Thanks @don2qian @visionviktor @mapo1 for the great collaboration. 🔗 ivonne320.github.io/yihan.home/Gen…
Visual SLAM has made major success in static scenes — now let’s explore the dynamic world we live in! At #CVPR2025, we introduce 4DTAM, 4D Tracking & Mapping using dynamic surface Gaussians optimized through diff. rendering. muskie82.github.io/4dtam/ w/ @BaeGwangbin @AjdDavison
It was a great pleasure to visit @WHOI and give a talk at the AOPE seminar. Grateful to @robobzbz for coordinating the talk.

Joined as a panel to have a fruitful discussion on the past, present and the future of robotics at RSS 2025!
The past, present and future of robotics panel chaired by @maththrills at #RSS2025 is underway on a philosophical note with wonderful panelists Fabio Ramos @chelseabfinn @RussTedrake @HollingerG90964 Ayoung Kim and @haroldsoh . @lucacarlone1 and @aprorok - great innovation at RSS
New IF and ranking. RA-L Q2->Q1 and IJRR Q1->Q2. jcr.clarivate.com/jcr/

What if a Transformer could render? Not text → image. But mesh → image — with global illumination. No rasterizers. No ray-tracers. Just a Transformer without per-scene training. RenderFormer does exactly that. #SIGGRAPH2025 🔗microsoft.github.io/renderformer
AnySplat: Feed-forward 3D Gaussian Splatting from Unconstrained Views @jiang_juanan, Yucheng Mao, @EvenEveno, @isaac__lt, Kerui Ren, Yichen Jin, Xudong Xu, Mulin Yu, @pangjiangmiao, Feng Zhao, @lindahua, @doubledaibo tl;dr: VGGT->base & geometry priors arxiv.org/abs/2505.23716
ICRA is toward the end. Our group did a great job presenting 2 RAL, 6 ICRA, 3 workshops, 1 LBR. Kudos to all!

With two SLAM legends — soon to write the foreword of the SLAM Handbook! 🤖📕

Thank you very much for joining us at ICRA! Here is our thermal group photo from the workshop 🎉 🎯Our group also releases the TIR project page with essential modules for TIR. rpm-robotics-lab.github.io/tirgroup/
Exploring beyond RGB? Join us at ICRA 2025 for an exciting workshop on Thermal Infrared in Robotics (TIRO)! 🔥🤖 Share your latest thermal imaging projects in robotics or take part in our competition. 🔥 Workshop webpage sites.google.com/view/tiro25/
All three parts of the SLAM handbook are finally available to the public.
We (authors and editors) worked very hard to finalize Part III of the SLAM Handbook before #ICRA2025. It is available for public comment, link below. Please keep flagging issues coming as we work towards finalizing the draft for the Cambridge UP print version. #SLAMHandbook