Team ROBI

Team ROBI is a research team of three graduate students — Hye-Jung Yoon, Yesol Park, and Juno Kim — at the Biointelligence Lab, Seoul National University, advised by Prof. Byoung-Tak Zhang.

We work on Embodied AI, Robot Perception, Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, 3D Scene Understanding, Robot Learning, and Sim2Real Transfer, with a focus on integrating explicit 3D perception with policy learning for robust manipulation and mobile robotics.

See our people, publications, and awards pages to learn more.

news소식

Jul 2026 2026년 7월	🏆 We won the Minister of Trade, Industry and Resources Award (1st place) at the 2026 Humanoid AI Challenge. 📰 Press
Jun 2026 2026년 6월	🎉 Our paper “Scene-Q: Confidence-Aware Coarse-to-Fine Querying of 3D Scenes with Selective VLM Reasoning” has been accepted to IROS 2026 (Pittsburgh, USA).
May 2026 2026년 5월	🏆 We won an award at the 2026 AI Co-Scientist Challenge Korea. 📰 Press
Oct 2025 2025년 10월	🎉 Our paper “CDIS: Cross-Dimensional Class-Agnostic 3D Instance Segmentation via 2D Mask Tracking and 3D–2D Projection Merging” was presented at IROS 2025 (Hangzhou, China).
May 2025 2025년 5월	🎉 Our paper “DA-Fusion: Deformable Attention-Based RGB-D Fusion Transformer for Unseen Object Instance Segmentation” was presented at ICRA 2025 (Atlanta, USA).
Oct 2024 2024년 10월	🎉 Our paper “Seg2Grasp: A Robust Modular Suction Grasping in Bin Picking” was presented at IROS 2024 (Abu Dhabi, UAE). See the project page for code, demo footage, and results.
Oct 2024 2024년 10월	🎉 Our paper “Ov-Map: Open-Vocabulary Zero-Shot 3D Instance Segmentation Map for Robots” was presented orally at IROS 2024 (Abu Dhabi, UAE).
Jun 2024 2024년 6월	🏆 We won an award at the 2024 National University Disaster and Safety Data Hackathon.
Dec 2023 2023년 12월	🏆 We won the Minister of Science and ICT Award (1st place) at the AI Competition for Space Radio Disaster Prediction. 📰 Press
Jul 2023 2023년 7월	🏆 We won both the DSPL and OPL leagues at RoboCup@Home. 📰 Press
May 2023 2023년 5월	🎉 Our paper “Visual Perception-Based Assistive Mobile Robot System for Manipulation Tasks” was presented at an ICRA 2023 workshop (London, UK).
Nov 2022 2022년 11월	🏆 We won the Presidential Award (1st place) at the ZEUS Arm-Robot Challenge. 📰 Press

selected publications대표 논문

IROS

Scene-Q: Confidence-Aware Coarse-to-Fine Querying of 3D Scenes with Selective VLM Reasoning

Juno Kim^*, Yesol Park^*, Hye-Jung Yoon^*, and 1 more author

In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2026

* Equal contribution

Website Code Bib

@inproceedings{kim2026sceneq,
  title = {Scene-Q: Confidence-Aware Coarse-to-Fine Querying of 3D Scenes with Selective VLM Reasoning},
  author = {Kim, Juno and Park, Yesol and Yoon, Hye-Jung and Zhang, Byoung-Tak},
  booktitle = {IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)},
  year = {2026},
  note = {* Equal contribution},
}

IROS

OV-MAP: Open-Vocabulary Zero-Shot 3D Instance Segmentation Map for Robots

Juno Kim^*, Yesol Park^*, Hye-Jung Yoon^*, and 1 more author

In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) (Oral) , 2024

* Equal contribution

Website arXiv Code Bib

@inproceedings{kim2024ovmap,
  title = {OV-MAP: Open-Vocabulary Zero-Shot 3D Instance Segmentation Map for Robots},
  author = {Kim, Juno and Park, Yesol and Yoon, Hye-Jung and Zhang, Byoung-Tak},
  booktitle = {IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)},
  year = {2024},
  note = {* Equal contribution},
}