AUGMENTED URBAN SPACE MODELING LABORATORY
EMBODIED SPATIAL INTELLIGENCE
3D DIGITAL TWINS · AUTONOMOUS MAPPING · SPACE AWARENESS
160+Research papers
17Ph.D. graduates
14Postdoctoral fellows trained
6Open datasets
RESEARCH DIRECTION
Structured Spatial World Models
Drones and robots sense the world, build accurate 3D world models, and use those models to predict, decide and act. What they learn from acting flows back to update the model.
The AUSM Lab develops solutions for representing and understanding urban environments through visual and spatial data.
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Structured Spatial World Models
Flagship direction: Autonomous mapping agents
- Sensing · Autonomy See the world now
- 3D World Model Know what the world looks like
- Prediction · Action Predict what happens before acting
Results of action feed back into sensing, closing the loop.
News & Events
All news →- Sep 2026Welcome to our new members
- Aug 6, 2026AUSMLab at the XXV ISPRS Congress 2026 in Toronto
- Aug 6, 2026Prof. Gunho Sohn Appointed Director of the Mobility Innovation Centre (MOVE)
- Aug 6, 2026Prof. Gunho Sohn Awarded OCI C2C Grant for AI-Enhanced Aerial Mapping of Infrastructure
- Jul 1, 2026Congratulations to Dr. Zahra Arjmandi on Her Faculty Appointment at Lassonde
- Jun 3, 2026New MTO-Funded Project on Winter Materials Management Awarded Under MOVE
Recent Publications
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Open Datasets
All datasets & code →Dataset preview
YUTO MMS
SLAM benchmark for urban mobile mapping with tilted LiDAR and a panoramic camera; four sequences totalling 20.1 km.
2025 · IJRR
Dataset preview
YUTO Semantic
Aerial LiDAR for 3D semantic segmentation: about 738 million points over 9.46 km² of York campus, nine classes.
2023
Q-Drone UWB Benchmark
Benchmark for ultra-wideband radio-based UAV positioning.
2020 · IROS
FUNDERS & PARTNERS
- NSERC
- CFI
- Ontario Research Fund
- Mitacs
- Transport Canada
- MTO
- OCI
- KRRI
- KICT
- Teledyne Optech
- Thales
- Fugro
- Esri Canada
- Autodesk
JOIN US
We are recruiting Ph.D. and M.Sc. students.
The AUSM Lab is recruiting Ph.D. and M.Sc. students. We also welcome inquiries from prospective postdoctoral fellows. Positions are supported by NSERC Discovery Grants, the NSERC CREATE SMART program and industry partnerships.