Alvin Jinsung Choi

Seeking PhD position in the US!

I am a Master student in the School of Electrical Engineering at KAIST, advised by Prof. Hyun Myung.

I am interested in Computer Vision, Robotics, and Embodied AI, focusing on building machines that percepts, reason, and interact with the physical world.

Previously, I completed my Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering at KAIST.

Email: alvinjinsung [at] kaist [dot] ac [dot] kr
Office: RM3237, E3-2, 291, Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, Republic of Korea.

Research Interests

My research goal is to advance robotics system to perceive the physical world in a way that is similar to how humans do. Specifically, I am interested in learning representations of the physical world through uncertainty-aware perception and action, and aligning them with human expectations. To this end, I am currently focusing on the following topics, but not limited to:

Neural 3D Reconstruction
Implicit Neural Representations
Embodied AI
3D Scene Understanding
Active Perception

News

[Nov 2025] I defended my master thesis! A huge thanks to my master's committe Prof. Hyun Myung, Prof. Kuk-Jin Yoon, and Prof. Sung-Eui Yoon for their time, feedback, and guidance throughout the thesis process. My thesis is based on my work NeuDonatello which leverages estimated SDF uncertainty to improve 3D surface reconstruction.

[Nov 2025] One paper accepted to ICCAS 2025! GSDB is a lightweight database construction pipeline for Gaussian splatting map-based visual localization. (Selected as Best Paper Award)

[Oct 2025] Participated in IROS 2025!

[Oct 2025] Our Vision-Language-Autonomy model ranked 4th in CMU VLA Challenge, part of IROS 2025 workshop on AI Meets Autonomy!

[Oct 2025] One poster accepted to Humanoids 2025 workshop on Bridging Humanoid Robotics and Foundation Models! ActiveGrounder is a framework that transforms 3D visual grounding from a passive recognition task into an active exploration paradigm.

[Sep 2025] Participated in CoRL 2025 as a student volunteer!

Publications

NeuDonatello: Uncertainty-Aware SDF Learning for High-Hidelity Neural Surface Reconstruction

Alvin Jinsung Choi, Wanhee Kim, Taeyun Kim, Dasol Hong, Wooju Lee, Hyun Myung
CVPR 2026 (Under Review)
Webpage • Paper (Coming Soon) • Code (Coming Soon)

CLUE: Adaptively Prioritized Contextual Cues by Leveraging a Unified Semantic Map for Effective Zero-Shot Object-Goal Navigation

Taeyun Kim, Alvin Jinsung Choi, Dasol Hong, Hyun Myung
ICRA 2026 (Under Review)
Webpage • Paper (Coming Soon) • Code (Coming Soon)

ActiveGrounder: 3D Visual Grounding with Object-Hull-Guided Active Observation

Dasol Hong, Juhye Park, Taeyun Kim, Jeewon Kim, Jei Kong, Wanhee Kim, Alvin Jinsung Choi, Wooju Lee, Hyun Myung
Humanoids 2025 Workshop on Bridging Humanoid Robotics and Foundation Models
Webpage

GSDB: A Lightweight Database for Gaussian Splatting Map-based Visual Localization Leveraging Edge-aware and Quality-guided View Filtering

Sungjae Shin, Wanhee Kim, Alvin Jinsung Choi, Hyun Myung
ICCAS 2025
Best Paper Award • Webpage • Paper (Coming Soon) • Code (Coming Soon)

Projects

Vision-Language-Autonomy: CMU VLA Challenge on IROS'25 Workshop on AI Meets Autonomy (4th place)

Dasol Hong, Juhye Park, Taeyun Kim, Alvin Jinsung Choi, Jeewon Kim, Jei Kong, Wooju Lee, Hyun Myung
IROS'25 Workshop on AI Meets Autonomy: CMU VLA Challegne (4th place)
Webpage • Code