Ph.D. candidate Sungjae Shin, Master candidates Wanhee Kim, and Jinsung Choi from Prof. Hyun Myung’s laboratory in the School of Electrical Engineering at KAIST has achieved an outstanding accomplishment by receiving the Best Paper Award at the 25th International Conference on Control, Automation, and Systems (ICCAS 2025), organized by the Institute of Control, Robotics, and Systems (ICROS).
This year’s conference, held in Incheon Sondo ConvensiA during Nov. 4 – 7, featured 800 participants and 487 presented papers, among which five were selected for the Outstanding Paper Award Finalist. Among these, only one paper was ultimately honored with the Best Paper Award.
The award-winning paper, titled “GSDB: A Lightweight Database for Gaussian Splatting Map-based Visual Localization Leveraging Edge-aware and Quality-guided View Filtering,” introduces a novel lightweight database construction framework that achieves over 90% size reduction by applying edge-aware and quality-guided view filtering to the learned Gaussian Splatting map. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed approach maintains localization accuracy while significantly improving estimation speed compared with conventional approaches.
