Yong Hyeok Seo

I am a Senior Researcher at the Intelligent Robotics Research Center, Korea Electronics Technology Institute (KETI), and a Ph.D. Student in the Department of Artificial Intelligence at Korea University. I am also affiliated with Robot Intelligence Lab (RILAB).

My research focuses on robot learning and embodied intelligence for real-world robotic manipulation. I am broadly interested in vision-language-action models, multimodal perception, dexterous manipulation, and intelligent robot systems that integrate perception and control in complex environments.

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Portrait of Yong Hyeok Seo

Research Interests

Robot Learning, Robotic Manipulation, Vision-Language-Action Models, Dexterous Manipulation, Robot Vision, and Foundation Models for Robotics.

Experience

Senior Researcher, Intelligent Robotics Research Center
Korea Electronics Technology Institute (KETI), Mar 2021 - Present
Research on robot learning, vision-language-action models, and intelligent robot systems for real-world manipulation tasks.
Undergraduate Research Intern, BMIPL
Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Feb 2018 - Feb 2019
Worked on robotic grasp detection and object detection under the supervision of Prof. SeYoung Chun.

Education

Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence
Korea University, Mar 2026 - Present
M.S. in Electrical Engineering
UNIST, Mar 2019 - Feb 2021
Focus: object detection, grasp detection, super-resolution, and computer vision.
B.S. in Electrical Engineering
UNIST, Mar 2013 - Feb 2019

Selected Publications

For a fuller list, see my Google Scholar profile.

A Shared Autonomy System for Construction Robot Teleoperation
D. M. Kim, K. M. B. Lee, YH. Seo, N. Raicevic, R. B. Li, K. Long, C. S. Yoon, D. M. Kang, B. J. Lim, Y. P. Kim, N. Atanasov, T. Nguyen, S. W. Jun, and Y. W. Kim
Workshop on Construction Robots, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2025 ยท 3rd Place Award
Person Re-Identification With Self-Supervised Teacher for In-Box Noise
YH. Seo and S-H. Kim
IEEE Access, vol. 13, pp. 39800-39812, 2025
NTIRE 2020 Challenge on Real-World Image Super-Resolution: Methods and Results
A. Lugmayr et al. (including YH. Seo and S. Y. Chun)
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, 2020
A Single Multi-Task Deep Neural Network with Post-Processing for Object Detection with Reasoning and Robotic Grasp Detection
YH. Seo, DW. Park, DJ. Shin, JS. Choi, and SY. Chun
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2020
Real-Time, Highly Accurate Robotic Grasp Detection using Fully Convolutional Neural Network with Rotation Ensemble Module
DW. Park, YH. Seo, and SY. Chun
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2020

Lab Affiliation

I am affiliated with Robot Intelligence Lab (RILAB) at Korea University as part of my Ph.D. studies.