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Krittin Chaowakarn

chaowkri [at] cvut [dot] cz

Krittin Chaowakarn is an MSc student in Open Informatics at the Czech Technical University in Prague. He also works as a researcher with the Intelligent Machine Perception (IMPACT) group at the Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics, with a focus on robot simulation.

Previously, he completed his B.Eng. in Electrical Engineering from Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology, Thammasat University, and spent a semester at the Technical University of Munich. During this time, he conducted research on multi-object detection for autonomous vehicles.

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Research

Real-Time Object Detection for Autonomous Driving: An Empirical Study in a Small-Scale Urban Environment

Krittin Chaowakarn, Michael Meidinger (PhD advisor), Andreas Herkersdorf (supervisor)
Bachelor's Thesis (TUM), 2025

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A comprehensive study on object detection using Duckietown and YOLO, covering latency, throughput, and hardware utilization across YOLO versions 8–12 on NVIDIA Jetson Nano 4GB.

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Autonomous Human Following Robot System for Multi-Perspective Visualization

Tongroth Thorng, Krittin Chaowakarn, Ned Sureechainirun, Itthisek Nilkhamhang (advisor)
Senior Project (SIIT), 2025

Contributed to multi-robot formation research using Yahboom robots and ROS 2, simulating in Gazebo, and deployed a vision-based target tracking system integrating YOLO (detection), DeepSORT (tracking), and face recognition for human-following robots.

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NV3D: Leveraging Spatial Shape Through Normal Vector-based 3D Object Detection

Krittin Chaowakarn, Paramin Sangwongngam, Nang Htet Htet Aung, Chalie Charoenlarpnopparut
arXiv, 2025

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Redundant LiDAR point clouds can be removed up to 55% through normal vector density-based and FOV-aware bin-based sampling.

Presented at a bilateral meeting between the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology and the National Electronics and Computer Technology Center as part of a smart city research collaboration between Thailand and Japan.

Teaching and Academic Service

He served as a teaching assistant for four laboratories and in five grading roles. He currently serves as a grader for a master's-level course*.

  • Control Systems Laboratory (Jan–May 2026)
  • Electronics and Microelectronics Laboratories (Jan–May 2026)
  • Electrical Engineering Crafting Skill (Jan–May 2026)
  • Digital Circuits Laboratory (Aug–Dec 2024)
  • Computational Mathematics: Probability — Master's Level (Mar 2026–Present)*
  • Electromagnetics (Jan–May 2024, Jan–May 2025)
  • Linear Algebra and Optimization Methods (Aug–Dec 2024)
  • Computational Tools in Electrical Engineering (Aug–Dec 2023)
  • Basic Electrical Engineering (Jan–May 2023)