In April, 2024, a group of 12 WASP PhD students from five universities, along with a senior WASP researcher, participated in a study trip to Seoul, South Korea. They visited the 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2024), well known research labs at the outstanding Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST) and Seoul National University (SNU).
The study trip was organized by Gustav Zetterqvist, PhD student at Linköping University. Gustav and the group believe it was a rewarding adventure:
“The study trip was well received by all the participants. It was a pleasure to be able to visit an outstanding conference in signal processing, with top researchers, great presenters and fantastic social events. A key part of the trip was also to make connections with the universities in Seoul, SNU and KAIST. All the professors we met were very welcoming and enthusiastic about future collaboration within WASP! All in all, a great and rewarding trip!”
World’s largest technical conference focused on signal processing
The main event of the trip was to visit the 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2024). ICASSP is the world’s largest and most comprehensive technical conference focused on signal processing and its applications. It offered a comprehensive technical program presenting all the latest developments in research and technology in the industry that attracted over 4 400 attendants this year.
Xavante Erickson presented his paper “A Concept for a Slam Back End Hardware Accelerator”.
Shivam Mehta presented his paper called “Matcha-TTS: A Fast TTS Architecture with Conditional Flow Matching”.
Visit to SNU Robotics
“Our first lab visit was the Robust Perception and Mobile Robotics lab at SNU, led by Associate Professor Ayoung Kim. The lab specializes in simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) across various sensor modalities and environments. Their research encompasses applications such as tracking progress on large construction sites, underwater SLAM for hull inspection, autonomous vehicles, and sensor calibration”, says Gustav.
The visit concluded with an open discussion with the students and Ayoung Kim.
Group before presentation, outside of SNU.
Group together with Ayoung’s students.
Visit to Control and Dynamic Systems Lab (SNU)
The group also had the opportunity to visit the Control and Dynamic System Lab, which is under the leadership of Prof. Hyungbo Shim. This lab is renowned for its theoretical analysis of control systems and their applications.
The lab’s primary research areas include:
- Disturbance observer.
- Multi-agent system
- Cyber-physical system security.
- Homomorphic encryption-based controller.
- Parallel feedforward compensator for zero assigning problem.
- Hybrid and switched system.
- Nonlinear observers and output feedback problems.
Group photo with WASP Korea Group and Prof. Hyungbo Shim’s research group.
Visit to Urban Robotics Lab
“During our last visit, we went to the Urban Robotics Lab at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). First, each WASP student gave a brief presentation about their research interests and background. After that, Professor Hyun Myung, the director of the Urban Robotics Lab, gave us a comprehensive introduction to their lab. They have a large and impressive group that works on various projects such as autonomous navigation for different types of robots, object recognition for smart cities in different environments, and developing robot systems for future robotics”, says Gustav.
Photo of the group together with Urban Robotics research group.
The quadrupedal robot, here balancing on two legs.
The mole-bot.