Minwoo Jung

Robust Perception and Mobile Robotics Lab. / Seoul National University

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I am a Ph.D. candidate in Mechanical Engineering at Seoul National University (SNU), advised by Prof. Ayoung Kim in the Robust Perception and Mobile Robotics Lab. My research focuses on LiDAR SLAM, sensor fusion, and place recognition for robust robot localization across heterogeneous sensors and long-term environments.

Before starting my Ph.D., I received my M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from SNU and my B.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from KAIST. During my graduate studies, I have worked on multiple LiDAR-inertial odometry, heterogeneous LiDAR place recognition, radar-LiDAR localization, and large-scale datasets for autonomous navigation.

I was a visiting research student with the Oxford Robotics Institute DRS Group in 2025, where I collaborated on LiDAR place recognition with vision foundation models and geometric localization in forest environments.

news

Oct 2026 Gave an invited talk on TreeLoc++ in the Physical AI session at the International Symposium on AI Convergence and Applications (AICA) 2026 in Jeju, Korea.
Aug 2026 Attended the Korean Conference on Computer Vision (KCCV) 2026 at BEXCO, Busan, Korea.
Aug 2026 ELite++ was accepted to the International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems (ICCAS) 2026 (corresponding author).
Aug 2026 Are Visual Place Recognition Models Recognizing Places or Conditions? is available as an arXiv preprint (2nd author).
Jul 2026 Attended the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2026 in Seoul, Korea.
Jul 2026 Attended the Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems (ICROS) Annual Conference 2026 in Daegu, Korea.
Jul 2026 TreeLoc++ was accepted to IEEE Transactions on Field Robotics (T-FR) (1st author).
May 2026 Will present TreeLoc at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2026 in Vienna, Austria.

selected publications

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    TreeLoc++: Robust 6-DoF LiDAR Localization in Forests with a Compact Digital Forest Inventory
    Minwoo Jung, Dongjae Lee, Nived Chebrolu, Haedam Oh, Maurice Fallon, and Ayoung Kim
    IEEE Transactions on Field Robotics (T-FR), Jul 2026
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    TreeLoc: 6-DoF LiDAR Global Localization in Forests via Inter-Tree Geometric Matching
    Minwoo Jung, Nived Chebrolu, Lucas Carvalho Lima, Haedam Oh, Maurice Fallon, and Ayoung Kim
    In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Feb 2026
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    ImLPR: Image-based LiDAR Place Recognition using Vision Foundation Models
    Minwoo Jung, Lanke Frank Tarimo Fu, Maurice Fallon, and Ayoung Kim
    In Proceedings of The 9th Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), Aug 2025
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    HeLiOS: Heterogeneous LiDAR Place Recognition via Overlap-based Learning and Local Spherical Transformer
    Minwoo Jung, Sangwoo Jung, Hyeonjae Gil, and Ayoung Kim
    In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2025
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    HeLiPR: Heterogeneous LiDAR Dataset for inter-LiDAR Place Recognition under Spatiotemporal Variations
    Minwoo Jung, Wooseong Yang, Dongjae Lee, Hyeonjae Gil, Giseop Kim, and Ayoung Kim
    The International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR), 2024
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    Asynchronous Multiple LiDAR-Inertial Odometry using Point-wise Inter-LiDAR Uncertainty Propagation
    Minwoo Jung, Sangwoo Jung, and Ayoung Kim
    IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2023
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    Intensity and Ambient Enhanced LiDAR-Inertial SLAM for Unstructured Construction Environment
    Minwoo Jung, Sangwoo Jung, Hyesu Jang, and Ayoung Kim
    The Journal of Korea Robotics Society, 2021
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