Gyeongsang National University master's student Hwang Seongtae selected for the National Research Foundation of Korea Research Encouragement Grant Program

-Supported by the Ministry of Education and the National Research Foundation of Korea… KRW 12 million for one year

-Pursuing development of a lightweight 3D Gaussian Splatting model

Gyeongsang National University (President Kwon Jin-hoe) announced that Hwang Seongtae, a master's student in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, College of IT Engineering (advisor: Prof. Hyun Myung-han), was selected for the "2026 Research Encouragement Grant Program for Master's and Doctoral Students." Through this program, Hwang plans to develop a lightweight 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) model.

This program is funded by the Ministry of Education and supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea. It helps graduate students take the lead in researching creative and challenging ideas linked to their theses. For master's programs in science and engineering, it provides a total of KRW 12 million in research funding for one year.

Hwang's research topic is ▲ "Enhanced geometry-based anchor merging for lightweight 3D Gaussian splatting (Enhanced geometry-based anchor merging for lightweight 3D Gaussian splatting)." While accurately reflecting the complex geometric structures of real-world environments, it lightweights Gaussians (anchors) with low visual contribution during scene reconstruction. Through this, they plan to develop a high-quality, real-time 3DGS optimization model capable of rendering even with limited resources.

The Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering plans to use this selection as an opportunity to strengthen an environment where graduate students can identify creative research topics and take the lead throughout the entire research process. It will also continue to support the training of next-generation researchers with research capabilities in image processing and computer graphics.

·Photo description:Hwang Seongtae, master's student, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, College of IT Engineering

Department in charge:Prof. Hyun Myung-han, Department of Control and Robotics Engineering | 055-772-1743 | drwise@gnu.ac.kr

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