The research team led by Professor Hojung Cha from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Yonsei University has received the Best Paper Award at ACM MobiSys 2025, the world's most prestigious conference in the field of mobile systems. The conference was held in Anaheim, California, USA, from June 23 to 27.

Their award-winning paper, titled "ARIA: Optimizing Vision Foundation Model Inference on Heterogeneous Mobile Processors for Augmented Reality" (Authors: Chanyoung Jung, Jeho Lee, Geonjung Kim, Jiweon Kim, Sunghoon Park, and Hojung Cha), proposes a groundbreaking system that significantly accelerates on-device inference performance of vision foundation models (VFMs) for high-quality, real-time visual prediction in mobile augmented reality (AR) applications.

By leveraging the heterogeneity of mobile processors equipped with GPUs and NPUs, and applying parallel and selective inference techniques, the research team successfully designed a system that maintains both prediction accuracy and real-time performance for complex VFMs on mobile devices. The originality and technical excellence of this work were highly recognized by the conference.

This research marks a significant technological advancement essential for enabling immersive and high-quality mobile AR experiences, and it is expected to contribute greatly to the future development of mobile AI and AR technologies.

Winning the Best Paper Award at the most influential international conference in mobile systems and computing not only demonstrates the global competitiveness of Korean research in this field but also serves as a representative achievement proving that Yonsei University's School of Computing is leading the way in world-class research and global talent development.

[Conference link: https://www.sigmobile.org/mobisys/2025/accepted_papers/]

[Paper link: https://mobed.yonsei.ac.kr/mobed_pages/pdf/aria-mobisys25.pdf]

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