Boyoon Jung

About

Boyoon Jung is a robotics researcher whose work sits at the intersection of mobile robotics, computer vision, and multi-robot coordination. His research has made significant contributions to two interconnected challenges: enabling robots to perceive and track moving targets in real-world environments, and coordinating teams of autonomous robots for complex surveillance and situational awareness tasks. Jung's most influential work addresses the difficult problem of detecting and tracking moving objects from mobile platforms — particularly challenging because both the robot and its targets are in motion simultaneously. His probabilistic approaches to this problem, developed across multiple papers, have collectively garnered hundreds of citations, with his 2004 outdoor detection work alone receiving 153 citations. Equally impactful is his research on heterogeneous multi-robot systems, including aerial-ground robot teams for urban surveillance (149 citations), where he tackled the formidable integration challenges of deploying adaptive, autonomous robot networks. His region-based frameworks for cooperative multi-target tracking represent another lasting contribution, offering scalable solutions applicable to both structured and unstructured environments. Additional work on autonomous robot recharging reflects his attention to practical, long-term deployment challenges. With over 700 cumulative citations, Jung's research has meaningfully shaped how autonomous robots navigate, perceive, and collaborate in complex, dynamic environments.

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Top Papers

1. 1
   Detecting Moving Objects using a Single Camera on a Mobile Robot in an Outdoor Environment

   153 citations · 2004
2. 2
   Adaptive teams of autonomous aerial and ground robots for situational awareness

   149 citations · 2007
3. 3
   Tracking Targets Using Multiple Robots: The Effect of Environment Occlusion

   138 citations · 2002
4. 4
   Real-time Motion Tracking from a Mobile Robot

   99 citations · 2009
5. 5
   Cooperative Multi-robot Target Tracking

   52 citations · 2007
6. 6
   A region-based approach for cooperative multi-target tracking in a structured environment

   36 citations · 2003
7. 7
   Staying Alive Longer: Autonomous Robot Recharging Put to the Test

   34 citations · 2003
8. 8
   A generalized region-based approach for multi-target tracking in outdoor environments

   30 citations · 2004
9. 9
   Cooperative tracking using mobile robots and environment-embedded, networked sensors

   19 citations · 2002
10. 10
    Cooperative target tracking using mobile robots

    17 citations · 2005

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