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Junwoon Lee

Incoming Ph.D. student in Robotics
University of Michigan

junwoon@umich.edu

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  • Research interests : Collaborative SLAM, Semantic SLAM, Field Robotics

I will be pursuing a Ph.D. in Robotics at the University of Michigan starting in Fall 2025, supervised by Prof. Yulun Tian. I received my Master's degree in Human & Engineered Environmental Studies from the University of Tokyo, supervised by Prof. Atsushi Yamashita, working on research in LiDAR-visual-inertial / thermal-inerital SLAM. Previously, I received Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from Osaka University. At the Osaka University, I was supervised by Prof. Masamitsu Kurisu, working on research in 3-D mapping system for mining sites using LiDAR-camera system.

Here is my Research Summary .

Selected Publications

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Self-TIO: Thermal-Inertial Odometry via Self-supervised 16-bit Feature Extractor and Tracker


Junwoon Lee, Taisei Ando, Mitsuru Shinozaki, Toshihiro Kitajima, Qi An, and Atsushi Yamashita
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2025
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TC-LTIO: Tightly-coupled LiDAR Thermal Inertial Odometry for LiDAR or Visual Odometry Degraded Environments


Junwoon Lee, Taisei Ando, Mitsuru Shinozaki, Toshihiro Kitajima, Qi An, and Atsushi Yamashita
International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems (ICCAS), 2024
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Switch-SLAM: Switching-based LiDAR-Inertial-Visual SLAM for Degenerate Environments


Junwoon Lee, Ren Komatsu, Mitsuru Shinozaki, Toshihiro Kitajima, Hajime Asama, Qi An, and Atsushi Yamashita
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2024
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Three‐dimensionalized feature‐based LiDAR‐visual odometry for online mapping of unpaved road surfaces


Junwoon Lee, Masamitsu Kurisu, and Kazuya Kuriyama
Journal of Field Robotics, 2024
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Honors

• Dean's Award for Academic Achievement (2025)

• ICCAS 2024 Best Paper Award (2024)

• IEEE RAS Travel Grant (2024)

• Rotary Yoneyama Memorial Foundation Scholarship (2023-2025)

• Korea-Japan Joint Government Scholarship (2017-2023)

Miscellaneous

• Reviewer Service - RA-L, ICRA, T-ASE, Sensors (IEEE), ICCAS

• Military Service at Republic of Korea Army - Frontline Guardian in the 23rd Security Brigade (2020-2021)

*Names in other languages: 이준원, 李晙源, イ・ジュンウォン