Myeonghyeon Kim / Academic CV

Research projects

From infrastructure perception to communication-assisted robot navigation: research prototypes, field experiments and system integration.

Selected work

2026Field experiments

SPaT / R2X-assisted crosswalk navigation

Integrated ROS 2, Nav2 and a hybrid safety node to make crossing decisions from signal phase and remaining green time. Compared SPaT and vision-based navigation under daytime, nighttime and dynamic occlusion conditions.

  • ROS 2
  • Nav2
  • SPaT / R2X
  • Time-to-Cross
2026Thesis research

VLM-based intersection context understanding

Investigating infrastructure-camera scene understanding for AMR waiting, entry and crossing decisions. The thesis plan covers pedestrians, vehicles, crosswalk occupancy and occlusion, with simulation and scenario-based evaluation.

  • VLM
  • Infrastructure cameras
  • AMR
  • Simulation
2026System integration

LiDAR navigation & cloud robot experiments

Worked on LiDAR mapping, localization and Nav2 integration for mobile robots, including FAST-LIO navigation experiments at KAIST Munji Campus.

  • FAST-LIO
  • LiDAR
  • SLAM
  • Nav2
2026Simulation development

Delivery robot digital twin

Configured an Isaac Sim delivery robot pipeline with LiDAR, IMU, camera, odometry, joint states and ROS 2 communication for navigation scenarios.

  • Isaac Sim
  • ROS 2
  • Sensor integration
2025Research prototype

LLM-guided planning in nuPlan

Prototyped an LLM context interpreter that adjusts rule-based PDM planner parameters. Implemented an uncooperative overtaking scenario in nuPlan and compared behavior with a mode-selection baseline.

  • nuPlan
  • LLM
  • PDM planner
  • Long-tail scenarios
2025Research & conference posters

Multi-camera pedestrian trajectory perception

Combined YOLOv8, DeepSORT, Re-ID and homography across five CCTV views to study consistent global IDs and pedestrian trajectory recovery.

  • YOLOv8
  • DeepSORT
  • Re-ID
  • Homography
2024Journal publication

V2X / C-ITS intersection field experiments

Contributed to scenario design, GNSS trajectory collection and analysis of driving behavior around intersection blind spots.

  • V2X
  • C-ITS
  • GNSS
  • Field experiments
2024Conference research

Infrastructure-based pedestrian recognition

Compared object detection models for real-time pedestrian recognition in infrastructure-based path prediction systems.

  • Object detection
  • Pedestrian perception
  • ITS
2023KIST internship

Face recognition for automatic door control

Developed motion detection with Gaussian Mixture Models, evaluated face detectors and integrated RetinaFace with WebSocket-based face recognition for automatic access control.

  • RetinaFace
  • GMM
  • WebSocket
2022–2023Team projects & awards

Driver attention & abnormal vehicle detection

Developed vision-based driver gaze and hazardous-object detection components for warning systems. Work included gaze data acquisition and abnormal vehicle behavior analysis.

  • Driver gaze
  • Deep learning
  • Computer vision