The KAIST Robotics and Vision Lab, led by Prof. Sunghoon Im, advances Physical AI for machines that perceive, reason, and act in the real world. Our research spans computer vision, robot learning, and multimodal generative AI — from 3D perception and scene understanding to vision-language-action models for robots and autonomous systems.
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Recent achievements, publications, and lab activities
Sep 2026 — Dr. Jaeyeul Kim has been appointed as an Assistant Professor in the Division of Computer and AI Engineering at Pukyong National University. Congratulations! July 2026 — Dr. Jungwan Woo has joined the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI). Congratulations! Jun 2026 — Dr. Seunghun Lee has joined Huawei Singapore. Congratulations!
CRAFT: Constrained Reward via Attention Fine-Tuning for Subject Personalization without Composed Targets Jihun Park, Kyoungmin Lee, Jongmin Gim, Hyeonseo Jo, Jaeyeul Kim, Han Zou, Zhenpeng Zhan, Yan Zhang†, Sunghoon Im† ACM SIGGRAPH Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques in Asia ( SIGGRAPH Asia ), 2026
ReAL: Reference-to-Image (R2I) Aware Latent Diffusion for Image Super-Resolution Byeonghun Lee, Hyunmin Cho, Sunghoon Im†, and Kyong Hwan Jin† European Conference on Computer Vision ( ECCV ), 2026
Learning to Forget: Emotional Salience as a Compression Mechanism for Long-Term AI Memory SoYeop Yoo, Sunghoon Im† ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge DIscovery and Data Minig ( KDD ), 2026
Our lab has been selected for the Core Research (Type C) Project. Title: Adaptive Policy Learning Technology for Collaborative Robots Understanding Physical Tacit Knowledge Duration: March 1, 2026 – February 28, 2029 (3 Years) Support: National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF)
Our project has been selected for 2026 Infrastructure Supporting Grants for Young Scientist Program. Through this program, we are planning to purchase Unitree H1‑2 humanoid robot to support our robotics and embodied AI research. Unitree H1-2 robot
