The National University's automotive artificial intelligence club, ‘KaAI (Kai)’, has achieved the honor of having its paper selected for an oral presentation at the IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium 2025 (IV 2025), hosted by the world-renowned Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). IEEE IV is one of the most prestigious international academic conferences in the field of autonomous driving and intelligent vehicle technology, serving as a global platform where researchers from around the world share the latest technologies and research findings annually.

The paper titled “Map-Free Trajectory Prediction via Deformable Attention in Bird's-Eye View Space,” co-authored by undergraduate students from KaAI, proposes a deep learning-based technology that predicts the movement paths of various objects on roads using only sensor data without the need for high-definition maps (HD Maps). This technology has been evaluated as demonstrating the potential to enable stable autonomous driving not only on general roads but also in complex urban environments.

The paper was selected for an oral presentation at the Plenary Session, where only 25 papers (approximately 7%) were chosen from 366 papers submitted to IV 2025, demonstrating its technical completeness and research excellence on an international level.

Professor LEE, SANG HUN, the advisor, commented, “It is very unusual for a paper by an undergraduate research team to be selected for an oral presentation at a world-class academic conference. This achievement demonstrates the passion of the team members and the excellence of Kookmin University's automotive IT convergence talent training program.”

KaAI is a research-oriented club consisting mainly of undergraduate students from Kookmin University's Automotive Convergence College who conduct research and actual projects in the fields of autonomous driving and artificial intelligence. The club has achieved outstanding results in domestic and international competitions, including winning the Grand Prize at the “Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers IT Convergence Division Spring Capstone Design Competition” and securing first place at the AI Competition hosted by the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society (ITSS). As a result of these achievements, the club is receiving support from the Advanced Field Innovation Convergence University Project, which is managed by the Future Automotive Business Division at Kookmin University.