Machine Perception and Intelligence Lab


Welcome to MPIL! Machine Perception and Intelligence Lab. (MPIL) is located at S1-215, Department of Mechanical and Robotics Engineering and Department of AI Convergence, GIST, Gwangju 61005, South Korea.

Our research and education mainly focus on 3D computer vision with a particular focus on geometric aspects. Our goal is to give the capability to a computer system (e.g., robots, autonomous vehicles, and drones) for understanding and interpreting data in a manner that is similar to the way humans use their senses to relate to the world around them. To achieve this goal, we focus on the processing and analysis of various sensory data such as image, video, point cloud, acceleration, etc. Our primary research lines are the following:

  1. 3D Computer Vision for Spatial Computing
  2. Urban Scene Understanding
  3. Visual-Inertial Odometry with Sensor Fusion
  4. Deep Learning for Visual Navigation

You can follow us on Youtube or click the Publications tab to find out details of our research.

I am always looking for passionate and self-motivated students to join my group. Please reach out to me via email if you are interested in. For more details, please refer to the following:

News

2025-06 Our SPLiCE: Single-Point LiDAR & Camera Calibration gets accepted to IEEE IROS 2025.
2025-06 Our 2D Graph SoMaSLAM gets accepted to IEEE RA-L.
2025-05 Prof. Kim has been selected as one of five Outstanding Associate Editors at ICRA 2025.
2025-03 Minji starts a research internship at NUS Temasek Laboratories this winter, thanks to GIST-IREF.
2025-03 Hyeonji joins MPIL. Welcome! :)
2024-10 Our San Francisco World gets accepted to IEEE RA-L.
2024-10 Our team is selected as a part of the New Generation Star Project at IROS sponsored by NOKOV.
2024-09 Jungil starts a research internship at NASA Ames Research Center this fall, thanks to GIST-IREF.