Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST) said on the 14th that the research team of startup "TORIS" led by Choi Ji-ung, a professor in the Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, and Oh Dae-gun, a senior researcher at the Intelligent Robotics Research Section, was selected as a presenter for the Industry Day Talks at CIKM 2025, one of the top conferences in artificial intelligence (AI).
The CIKM conference is an international academic conference in data mining, information retrieval, and AI, and global leading corporations such as Google, Meta, OpenAI, and Amazon participate. This year's CIKM 2025 will be held in Seoul from Nov. 10 to 14, and 13 corporations were selected for the Industry Day Talks.
The DGIST-TORIS team, the only one selected from Asia, will present on "AI anti-drone technology." Small drones appear as tiny dots from long distances, so they cannot be identified by shape alone. Noting that drones, unlike birds, show consistent flight patterns, the researchers proposed a new AI approach that distinguishes drones by differences in motion.
As a result, the researchers expanded the detectable distance for identifying small drones to 8 km for the first time in the world. Existing technology remains at the 2–3 km level. The technology developed by the researchers operated reliably even in low-resolution environments and identified previously unseen drone models with high accuracy. It also greatly reduced false alarms caused by non-threatening objects such as birds.
Oh Dae-gun, senior researcher and TORIS CEO, said, "This achievement shows that combining DGIST's AI technology with TORIS's world-class hardware can solve tough problems in defense and security." Choi Ji-ung said, "This study is a representative success story of industry-academia-research collaboration and will be a great motivator for students," adding, "We will continue research that contributes to national and regional industrial development."