Daeun Song

I'm a postdoctoral associate in Robotixx group at George Mason University, USA, working with Dr. Xuesu Xiao. I was a former postdoc at University of Maryland, working with Dr. Dinesh Manocha. I recieved my Ph.D. degree at Ewha Womnas University, Korea in 2023, advised by Dr. Young J. Kim in Computer Graphics Lab.

I am interested in Human-Robot Interaction problems and many other fun automated systems that works in real world!

        


News

OCT 2025

Our report on The 4th BARN Challenge at ICRA 2025 has been accepted for publication in IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine

OCT 2025

Our paper "Towards Human-Like Instruction Navigation in Real-World" has won the Best Poster Award at the Human-aware Embodied AI (HEAI) Workshop at IROS 2025!

OCT 2025

I gave a talk, "Socially and Contextually Aware Navigation for Robots in Human-Centric Environments", at KARA and at the University of Delaware

SEP 2025

Verti-Arena has been accepted to IEEE SSRR 2025

AUG 2025

I gave a talk at the Workshop on Semantic Maps and Autonomous Robotics Standardization at IEEE RO-MAN 2025

JUL 2025

I gave a talk and demo for K-12 students in Edu-Futuro 2025 robotics session

JUN 2025

SocialLLaVA and AutoSpatial has been accepted to IEEE IROS 2025

MAY 2025

MOSU has been accepted to ISER 2025

MAR 2025

VL-TGS has been published in IEEE RA-L and will be presetned at IEEE IROS 2025

JAN 2025

GND has been accepted to IEEE ICRA 2025

DEC 2024

VLM-Social-Nav has been published in IEEE RA-L and will be presetned at IEEE ICRA 2025

SEP 2024

I am very excited to continue my postdoc journey in Robotixx @GMU, Virginia, USA!

JUN 2024

DTG and AGL-NET has been accepted to IEEE IROS 2024

APR 2024

TSP-Bot has been accepted to UR 2024

AUG 2023

I am every excited to join GAMMA @UMD, Maryland, USA!

AUG 2023

SSK has been published in IEEE T-RO

JUN 2023

Stroke-based Rendering and Planning has been accepted to IEEE IROS 2023

MAY 2023

We held a robotic drawing art exhibition, CO-DRAW with Dr. Joo-Haeng Lee  

APR 2023

I am very honored to recieve MRC Postdoctoral Fellowship. I will be joing UMD soon!

DEC 2022

I successfully completed the defense of my Ph.D. thesis talk  

JUL 2021

TSPArt won the Best Undergrad Paper Award at KCGS 2021

JUL 2021

extended version of SL1M has been published in IEEE RA-L

JAN 2021

LEAS has been accepted to IEEE ICRA 2021

JAN 2020

SL1M has been accepted to IEEE ICRA 2020

JUN 2019

I am very happy to join Gepetto @LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, FR for a 4-month summer internship!  

APR 2019

I am very honored to recieve Solvay Scholarship Award

JAN 2019

Our paper has been accepted to IEEE ICRA 2019

FEB 2018

SSK won the Best Paper Award at KRoC 201  

JAN 2018

Our paper has been accepted to IEEE ICRA 2018


Selected Publications


VL-TGS: Trajectory Generation and Selection using Vision Language Models in Mapless Outdoor Environments

D. Song*, J. Liang*, X. Xiao, D. Manocha
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2025
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VLM-Social-Nav: Socially Aware Robot Navigation through Scoring Using Vision-Language Models

D. Song, J. Liang, A. Payandeh, A. H. Raj, X. Xiao, D. Manocha
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2025
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SSK: Robotic Pen-art System for Large, Non-planar Canvas

D. Song, J. Kim, Y. J. Kim
IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO), 2023
Webpage• Paper• Video• Code

Solving Footstep Planning as a Feasibility Problem using L1-norm Minimization

D. Song, P. Fernbach, T. Flayols, A. D. Prete, N. Mansard, S. Tonneau, Y. J. Kim
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2021
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