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
H-GenPO: Hierarchical Generative Policy Optimization via the Option-Critic Framework. Wonhyeok Choi, Minwoo Choi, Jaeyeul Kim, Kyumin Hwang, Jongmin Gim, Sunghoon Im. Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2026.
Prof. Im will serve as an Area Chair for ICLR 2027.
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!
Prof. Im will serve as a Senior Program Committee (SPC) member for AAAI 2027. https://aaai.org/conference/aaai/aaai-27/
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<sup>†</sup>, Sunghoon Im<sup>†</sup> ACM SIGGRAPH Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques in Asia ( SIGGRAPH Asia ), 2026
Learning to Forget: Emotional Salience as a Compression Mechanism for Long-Term AI Memory SoYeop Yoo, Sunghoon Im<sup>†</sup> ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge DIscovery and Data Minig ( KDD ), 2026
