Prof. Gunho Sohn Joins the Panel at Industry Night: Computing & Mechanics 2026
Prof. Gunho Sohn joined the industry panel at Industry Night: Computing & Mechanics 2026, a student-run networking event at York University.
News & Events
SEP 21, 2026 · DEFENCE
Dr. Mohammadjavad Ghorbanalivakili successfully defends his Ph.D. dissertation
Mohammadjavad Ghorbanalivakili successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation, “Route-Structured Perception for Railway Scene Understanding Using Forward-Looking Camera Data,” on September 21, 2026. The examining committee recommended the dissertation for a Dissertation Prize.
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Dr. Mohammadjavad Ghorbanalivakili successfully defends his Ph.D. dissertation
Mohammadjavad Ghorbanalivakili successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation, “Route-Structured Perception for Railway Scene Understanding Using Forward-Looking Camera Data,” on September 21, 2026. The examining committee recommended the dissertation for a Dissertation Prize.
Paper Published in Geoscientific Model Development: Measuring Smokestack Plume Rise with Deep Learning
Our joint paper with Prof. Mark Gordon’s group uses a deep convolutional neural network to measure smokestack plume rise in images and test how the GEM-MACHv2 air-quality model predicts it.
Welcome to our new members
Md. Ehsan Shahmi Chowdhury joins as a Ph.D. student and Merna Tamer Youssef as an M.Sc. student.
Dr. Afnan Ahmad successfully defends his Ph.D. dissertation
Afnan Ahmad successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation, “Online Adaptive Deep Learning for Multi-Sensor WiFi Indoor Localization,” on August 20, 2026.
AUSMLab at the XXV ISPRS Congress 2026 in Toronto
Our lab had a strong presence at the XXV ISPRS Congress, held July 4-11, 2026 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre under the theme “From Imagery to Understanding.” Four papers from AUSMLab were presented, with Jacob…
Prof. Gunho Sohn Appointed Director of the Mobility Innovation Centre (MOVE)
Prof. Gunho Sohn has been appointed Director of the Mobility Innovation Centre (MOVE) at York University’s Lassonde School of Engineering. Prof. Sohn founded MOVE and previously served as its inaugural director, and now…
Prof. Gunho Sohn Awarded OCI C2C Grant for AI-Enhanced Aerial Mapping of Infrastructure
We are pleased to share that Prof. Gunho Sohn has been awarded an Ontario Centre of Innovation (OCI) Collaborate 2 Commercialize (C2C) grant, supporting industry-partnered research that advances commercialization in…
Congratulations to Dr. Zahra Arjmandi on Her Faculty Appointment at Lassonde
Warmest congratulations to Dr. Zahra Arjmandi, who has been appointed Sessional Assistant Professor in Mechatronics Engineering at York University’s Lassonde School of Engineering, effective July 1, 2026. Dr. Arjmandi…
MOVE Hosts “AI for Urban Mobility: Connecting Data, Research & Industry”
The Mobility Innovation Centre (MOVE), directed by Prof. Gunho Sohn, brought researchers and industry together for a one-day event on AI for urban mobility.
Youssef Korny successfully defends his M.Sc. thesis
Youssef Korny successfully defended his M.Sc. thesis, “A Two-Stage Diffusion Framework for 3D Building Reconstruction from Single Nadir Images,” on June 11, 2026. The thesis has been recommended for an M.Sc. Thesis Prize.
New MTO-Funded Project on Winter Materials Management Awarded Under MOVE
Prof. Gunho Sohn has been awarded funding from the Ontario Ministry of Transportation (MTO) under the 2026-27 Highway Infrastructure Innovation Funding Program (HIIFP) for a new research project, “Winter Materials…
GeoPriorPC Presented at the CVPR 2026 USM3D Workshop
Youssef Korny presented GeoPriorPC, which reconstructs 3D building point clouds from a single top-down image, at the USM3D Workshop at CVPR 2026 in Denver.
Prof. Gunho Sohn Featured in York’s Ascend Magazine on AI for Urban Mobility
Prof. Gunho Sohn is featured in the latest edition of York University’s Ascend Magazine, in an article highlighting York’s leadership in developing AI-powered solutions for safer, smarter, and more sustainable urban…
Prof. Gunho Sohn Recognized at Lassonde 2026 Research Awards Celebration
Prof. Gunho Sohn was recognized at the Lassonde School of Engineering’s 2026 Research Awards Celebration, an annual event celebrating outstanding scientific, creative, and scholarly achievements across the Faculty.…
Paper Published in Scientific Data: An On-Orbit Star Tracker Benchmark (DUST)
Scientific Data published our benchmark of on-orbit star-tracker images for resident space object detection and attitude estimation, led by Vithurshan Suthakar with Prof. Regina Lee’s lab.
Prof. Gunho Sohn Awarded NSERC Discovery Grant for Embodied Spatial Intelligence Research
Prof. Gunho Sohn has been awarded an NSERC Discovery Grant for his research program “Embodied Spatial Intelligence for Autonomous Infrastructure Monitoring.” The five-year grant provides $260,000 ($52,000 per year) from…
SMART CREATE Completes Its First Year
The NSERC CREATE SMART training program, led by Prof. Gunho Sohn, has completed its first year with ten co-investigators, fifteen trainees and more than twenty partners.
Prof. Gunho Sohn Joins Panel at the Korea–Canada Transpacific Relations Forum
Prof. Gunho Sohn and Prof. Regina Lee took part in the Korea–Canada Transpacific Relations Forum in Toronto, discussing knowledge-led innovation between the two countries.
Paper Published in Aerospace: A Scoping Review of Light-Curve Classification for Space Situational Awareness
Our scoping review in Aerospace surveys how the brightness changes of satellites and debris (light curves) are used to classify resident space objects.
2025
Prof. Gunho Sohn Receives KOFST Overseas Scientist and Engineer of the Year Award at CKC 2025
Prof. Gunho Sohn has been honoured with the Overseas Scientist and Engineer of the Year Award from the Korean Federation of Science and Technology Societies (KOFST, 한국과학기술단체총연합회). The award was presented at the 2025…
AUSM Lab Awarded $1.65M NSERC CREATE Grant to Lead the SMART Training Program
We are delighted to share that Prof. Gunho Sohn has been awarded a $1.65-million grant from NSERC’s Collaborative Research and Training Experience (CREATE) program to develop and lead Smart Mobility Advanced Research &…
Dr. Muhammad Kamran completes his Ph.D.
Deep learning for 3D building model reconstruction.
YUTO MMS published in The International Journal of Robotics Research
A 20.1 km SLAM benchmark for urban mobile mapping.
2024
AUSM Lab Holiday Gathering 2024
2023
Harmonizing Human-Robot Coexistence: An Exploration into Sidewalk Autonomous Delivery Robots
As urban spaces evolve and technology advances, the concept of human-robot interaction becomes not just a science fiction trope but a part of our reality. This transformation is manifesting in various forms, one of them…
Human Vision Based 3D Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation of Large-Scale Outdoor Scenes
Authors: Sunghwan Yoo, Yeongjeong Jeong, Maryam Jameela, Gunho Sohn Department of Earth and Space Science and Engineering, York University Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Canada CVPR PCV Workshop 2023 Abstract We proposed EyeNet, a…
3DMMAI: Utility Semantic Segmentation Network
Authors: Maryam Jameela, Gunho Sohn, Sunghwan Yon Department of Earth and Space Science and Engineering, York University Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Canada The 3DMMAI pipeline includes several stages of post-data acquisition…
2022
All Aboard! Next Stop, the Autonomous Train
Lassonde features Prof. Gunho Sohn’s work with Thales Canada and Lumibird Canada on trains that can sense their surroundings, tested on a 16 km track.
Lassonde, Lumibird Canada and Thales Demonstrate Autonomous Rail Vehicle Recovery
The OnTRAC project team, including Prof. Gunho Sohn’s lab, successfully demonstrated autonomous rail vehicle recovery with Thales and Lumibird Canada.
2021
ICAR 2021 RPV SLAM (3DMMAI) Paper Accepted
Dr. Jungwon Kang, Dr Yujia Zhang and Zhen Liu (2nd Year PhD Student) in the lab published their paper on RPV-SLAM: Range-augmented Panoramic Visual SLAM for Mobile Mapping System with Panoramic Camera and Tilted LiDAR…
OnTRAC Wins Second Place in PEO’s Project of the Year Award
Prof. Gunho Sohn and Thales Canada received second place in the Professional Engineers Ontario Project of the Year competition for the OnTRAC autonomous train project.
Congratulation on Dr. Pio Cloudio’s New Position
Pio’s virtual farewell party with his lab colleagues and friends from James Elder’s lab and Gunho Sohn’s lab Dr. Pio Claudio joined the lab in September 2017 as a Postdoctoral Fellow. Since then, Pio has worked as a…
Congratulations on Dr. Sungho Yang’s New Faculty Position
Our lab member, Dr. Seungho Yang, will start his new career as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Urban Engineering in the Hanbat National University, South Korea, effectively starting on March 1st, 2021. Dr.…
2020
York University-Teledyne Optech AI Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Deep Learning for Computer Vision
Position Description Area: Deep Learning for Computer Vision Duration: 1 year (PDF) (could be extended to two years) Starting Date: December 31st, 2021 Dr. Gunho Sohn’s Lab ( www.yorku.ca/~gsohn ) in the Department of…
Introducing the GeoTalks Webinar Series
York’s Geomatics Engineering program launched GeoTalks, a webinar series coordinated by Prof. Gunho Sohn.
Welcome New Project Coordinator, Ms. Mercedes Boateng
Ms. Mercedes Boateng joined our lab from September 10th, 2020 as a project coordinator. Mercedes will contribute to our ongoing research projects as the project coordinator, particularly for 3D Mobile Mapping Artificial…
3D Mobile Mapping AI Project
3D Mobile Mapping AI (3DMMAI) Project 3D Mobile Mapping AI Project is a collaborative large-scale research program supported by Teledyne Optec Inc and the NSERC Collaborative Research Development (CRD) Program. A total…
3DMMAI: Noise Filtering
The 3DMMAI pipeline includes several stages of post data acquisition processing, and the first significant step is noise filtering. LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) mounted with static and mobile vehicles has been…
3DMMAI: Semantic Segmentation
The next natural step of the pipeline for scene understanding and classification is semantic segmentation, which labels every point and pixel in the point cloud and image respectively of their enclosing object or…
Indoor Spatial Navigation with Augmented Reality for the Visually Impaired
A LURA (Lassonde Undergraduate Research Assistant) Undergraduate Student, Sidharth Sudrasan in the Software Engineering Program at York University, has been working on a spatial navigation research project using…
Dr. Sohn Received York the Research Leaders Award 2019
Dr. Sohn received the York Research Leaders Award 2019 from the President’s Office and the Office of the Vice-President Research & Innovation (VPRI) for his outstanding research achievement in 2019. Dr. Sohn is the…
ITSC 2020 Paper and Releasing Q-Drone UWB Benchmark
Zahra Arjmandi (2nd year Ph.D. student), Dr. Jungwon Kang and Kunwoo Park (M.Sc. Student graduated in 2020) in the lab published her paper on a novel benchmark dataset for Ultra-wideband (UWB)-based positioning of the…
Lassonde Geomatics Engineering PhD Student presents AI research at Marine Technology Society Webinar
A second-year Ph.D. student, Maryam Jameela, was recently invited by the Marine Technology Society to present her research in partnership with Teledyne CARIS. Her online talk was titled: Leveraging AI Technology on The…
Dr. Connie Ko’s Special Session of AI in CSRS
Session Chairs: Dr. Connie Ko , and Dr. Gunho Sohn, York University, Department of Earth and Space and Engineering, Lassonde School of Engineering Description: The expansion in accessibility of remote sensing data…
Ultra-wideband aided UAV positioning using incremental smoothing with ranges and multilateration
Our paper (“Ultra-wideband aided UAV positioning using incremental smoothing with ranges and multilateration”) was accepted by the IROS 2020 (https:// www.iros2020.org/) in collaboration with Centre de géomatique du…
Congratulations on the success of the thesis defence – Eros Gulo
Eros Gulo successfully defended his oral thesis examinations on May 28, 2020. The title of his Master’s thesis is “ Indoor positioning using WLAN signal fingerprint matching and path evaluation with retroactive…
NSERC CRD Project with Teledyne Optech Featured in YFile
Two York University professors receive large NSERC grants for research and development January 12, 2020 Two York University professors have received Natural Sciences & Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)…
2019
York U researchers play major role in advancing autonomous rail travel
This article was published in YFile – York University’s News ( http://yfile.news.yorku.ca/2019/11/29/york-u-researchers-play-major-role-in-advancing-autonomous-rail-travel/ ) It is no secret that technology is…
Layout SLAM
In this project, we study the role of high-level geometric topological cues such as 3D primitive representation of indoor corridors to improve the performance of simultaneous localization and modelling (SLAM) using a…
2019 TAC-ITS Canada Joint Conference & Exhibition
Our lab presented two posters at 2019 TAC-ITS Canda Joint Conference & Exhibition held in Halifax from September 22-25, 2019. This joint conference was hosted by the Transportation Association of Canada (TAC) and…
York University – Teledyne Optech Postdoctoral Fellowship and Ph.D. Studentship in Computer Vision, Machine Learning and SLAM
Position Description Area: Deep Learning and SLAM Duration: 2 years (PDF); 4 years (Ph.D.) Starting Date: Anytime (PDF); September 1st, 2021 (Ph.D.) Salary: Providing a competitive salary benefit package Application…
Progressive 3D Building Reconstruction
Dr. Jaewoo Jung published his research work on 3D building modelling methods in the ISPRS Journal ( doi.org/10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2019.01.003) . This journal suggests an innovative method for automatically updating an…
Ali Baligh’s PhD Defense
On August 20th, Ali successfully defended his PhD thesis, entitled with “3D reconstruction of indoor corridor model using single imagery and video sequences”. Ali’s dissertation oral exam was conducted by an examining…
LAB BBQ Party 1
A group photo taken by Sun Park at BBQ party on August 16th, 2019. Our lab members enjoyed a BBQ party this Summer. This party was for celebrating Afnan’s birthday – happy birthday, Afnan and we hope everyone will enjoy…
Brian Diep – LURA Student 2019
Brian Diep is a first year student at the University of Toronto specializing in in Computer Science and Linguistics. Brian joined our lab as Lassonde Undergraduate Research Assistant (LURA) student during this Summer.…
Kang Zhao’s Master Thesis Defense
A group photo was taken with Kang’s thesis exam committee members. From left Professors Costas Armenakis (Supervisory Committee) and Mojgan Zadidi (Exam Committee Chair), Kang Zhao, Professors Gunho Sohn (Supervisor)…
Hosting high-school girls for the Helen Carswell STEAM Program for Women
Our lab hosted two talented high school girls in July as part of the Helen Carswell STEAM Program for Women. We are happy to have Aisha Yusuf from Kipling Collegiate Institute (Grade 11) and Queenie Castasus from St.…
54th Annual Canadian Transportation Research Forum May 26-29, 2019
Dr. Seungho Yang will give a presentation at the 54th Annual Canadian Transportation Research Forum, which will happen on May 26-29, 2019 in Vancouver, Canada. Dr. Yang will give his presentation on “Public Transit…
ESRI App Challenge 2019
Two Undergraduate Students (David Recchia and Sun Park) Postdoctoral Research Fellows (Drs. Seungho Yang and Pio Claudio) from our lab participated in the ESRI APP Challenge 2019. The name of this team is “Tim Hortons”…
Ontario Train Autonomy Collaboration (OnTRAC) Project
We are very pleased to announce that our lab will participate in Ontario Train Autonomy Collaboration (OnTRAC) Project (April 2019 – March 2021) through the OCE/AVIN Stream 2 Program. The OnTRAC project is to develop…
2018
Summer Research Internship Project 2018 – David Recchia
BIO David Recchia is a 3rd year student in the Geomatics Engineering program at the Lassonde School of Engineering at York University. Having extensive experience in land surveying, this summer he chose to explore other…
Summer Research Internship Project 2018 – Sun Park
BIO Sun Park is a third-year student at the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies at York University. Having specialized in Geography and Urban Studies, Sun is spending the summer in the GeoICT lab, under the…
2016
2015
Lassonde Researchers Receive $6.5 Million from the Ontario Government
Prof. Gunho Sohn is part of the team led by Prof. Jianhong Wu that received $1.45 million for a disaster simulation program, part of $6.5 million in Ontario funding for Lassonde researchers.