Research Interests

• Current Interests: Robot Learning,  Reinforcement Learning,  Representation Learning,  Machine Learning,  Robotic Manipulation

• Previous Interests: Self-Driving Cars,  Autonomous Driving,  Decision-Making,  Task and Path Planning,  Navigation,  Robotics

Timeline

• 2022+ Ph.D. Student, Electrical Engineering, KAIST, Daejeon, South Korea

• 2018 Principal Investigator, ETRI, Daejeon, South Korea

• 2012+ Researcher / Senior Researcher, ETRI, Daejeon, South Korea

• 2012 M.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering, UCSD, La Jolla, San Diego, CA, USA

• 2009 Research Scientist, KIST, Seoul, South Korea

• 2009 B.E., Systems Science, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

where ETRI and KIST are national research institutes, South Korea.

Selected Publications

• Samyeul Noh, Seonghyun Kim, Ingook Jang, and Hyun Myung, "An Investigation into Value-Implicit Pre-Training for Task-Agnostic, Sample-Efficient Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning," Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) GCRL Workshop, 2023. [Link]

• Samyeul Noh and Hyun Myung, "Coupling Vision and Proprioception for Sample-Efficient, Object-Occlusion-Robust Robotic Manipulation," International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) OOD-CV Workshop, 2023. [Link]

• Samyeul Noh and Hyun Myung, "Toward Effective Deep Reinforcement Learning for 3D Robotic Manipulation: Multimodal End-to-End Reinforcement Learning from Visual and Proprioceptive Feedback," Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) Deep RL Workshop, 2022. [Link]

• Samyeul Noh and Kyounghwan An, "Reliable, Robust, and Comprehensive Risk Assessment Framework for Urban Autonomous Driving," Journal of Computational Design and Engineering (JCDE), 9 (5), 2022. [Link]

• Seonghyun Kim, Ingook Jang, Samyeul Noh, and Hyunseok Kim, "Stochastic Policy Optimization with Heuristic Information for Robot Learning," Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2021. [Link]

• Samyeul Noh, "Decision-Making Framework for Autonomous Driving at Road Intersections: Safeguarding Against Collision, Overly Conservative Behavior, and Violation Vehicles," IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (TIE), 66 (4), 2019. [Link]

• Samyeul Noh and Kyounghwan An, "Decision-Making Framework for Automated Driving in Highway Environments," IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (TITS), 19 (1), 2018. [Link]

• Samyeul Noh, "Probabilistic Collision Threat Assessment for Autonomous Driving at Road Intersections Inclusive of Vehicles in Violation of Traffic Rules," IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2018. [Link]

• Samyeul Noh and Kyounghwan An, "Risk Assessment for Automatic Lane Change Maneuvers on Highways," IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA),  2017. [Link]

• Samyeul Noh, Kyounghwan An, and Wooyong Han, "High-Level Data Fusion Based Probabilistic Situation Assessment for Highly Automated Driving," IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), 2015. [Link]

• Samyeul Noh, Kyounghwan An, and Wooyong Han, "Situation Assessment and Behavior Decision for Vehicle/Driver Cooperative Driving in Highway Environments," IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), 2015. [Link]

• Samyeul Noh, Byungjae Park, Kyounghwan An, Yongbon Koo, and Wooyong Han, "Co-Pilot Agent for Vehicle/Driver Cooperative and Autonomous Driving," ETRI Journal (ETRIJ), 37 (5), 2015. [Link]

• Samyeul Noh, "χ 2 Metric Learning for Nearest Neighbor Classification and its Analysis," IEEE International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), 2012. [Link]

• Seokwon Lee, Samyeul Noh, YongKwun Lee, and Jong Hyeon Park, "Development of Bio-Mimetic Robot Hand using Parallel Mechanisms," IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), 2009. [Link]

A full list of publications is available at [Publications].

Research Projects

• Multi-Task and Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning, ETRI, 2020–Present

• Intelligent Interaction, ETRI, 2019

• Video Description, ETRI, 2018

• Autonomous Driving (Self-Driving Car), ETRI, 2012–2017

• Distance Metric Learning, UCSD, Sep. 2011–Mar. 2012

• Biomimetic Robotic Hand Development and Control, KIST, May 2009–Nov. 2009

• Parallel Robotic Mechanism Planning and Control, Osaka University, Apr. 2008–Mar. 2009

• Inverted Pendulum Control, Osaka University, Apr. 2008–Jul. 2008

• Vision-Based Robotic Manipulation, Osaka University, Apr. 2008–Jul. 2008

Projects Details are available at [Research].

Research Grants

• ETRI Funding (PI: Samyeul Noh), "Video Description," $420,000 for 12 months, 2018

Awards and Honors

• Best Research Achievement Award (Paper Division), ETRI, Apr. 2021

• Best Presentation Award, Institute of Embedded Engineering of Korea, Nov. 2017

• Best Presentation Award, Korean Institute of Information Scientists and Engineers, Dec. 2013

• Government-Sponsored Full Scholarship, Korean and Japanese governments, Mar. 2004–Mar. 2009

Talks and Media Highlights

• Chungcheong Today, Published an article about the future of autonomous driving with reinforcement learning technology, Apr. 2021

Academic Experience

• Reader/Grader, "Mechanics: Statics" in Structural Engineering, UCSD, Winter 2012

• Reader/Grader, "Linear Control System Theory" in Electrical and Computer Engineering, UCSD, Fall 2011

• Reader/Grader, "Mechanics: Dynamics" in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, UCSD, Spring 2011

• Reader/Grader, "Mechanics: Statics" in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, UCSD, Winter 2011

• Tutor, "Linear Algebra" and "Calculus" in Systems Science, Osaka University, Apr. 2008–Mar. 2009

Professional Services

Journal Reviewer

• IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2017–2020

• IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 2017–2021

• IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 2018–2022

• IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine, 2019–2021

• IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 2021

• IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 2019

• Optics Express, 2022

Conference Reviewer

• International Conference on Robot Learning 2022 (CoRL'22), 2022

• IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation 2020 (ICRA'20), 2019