Hee Seok LEE
Computer vision engineer @Woowa Brothers Corp.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Computer vision, Machine learning, Visual SLAM, Deep learning, Autonomous driving, Robotics
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Woowa Brothers Corp. (Feb. 2023 - Present)
Tech Lead Manager
Computer vision system development for delivery robots,
Feb. 2023 - present
NVIDIA (Feb. 2021 - Feb. 2023)
Engineering Manager
Obstacle perception with camera and radar for NVIDIA DRIVE Perception [link],
Feb. 2021 - Feb. 2023
EDUCATION
Seoul National University (Mar. 2006 ~ Feb. 2013)
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Dissertation title: Simultaneous 3D Reconstruction, Deblurring, and Super-resolution using a Single Moving Camera
Advisor: Prof. Kyoung Mu Lee
Seoul National University (Mar. 2002 ~ Feb. 2006)
B.S., Electrical Engineering
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
Seoul National University (Mar. 2006 - Feb. 2013)
Research Assistant, Computer Vision Lab.
PUBLICATIONS
Journal papers
H.S. Lee and K. Kim, ”Simultaneous Traffic Sign Detection and Boundary Estimation using Convolutional Neural Network,” IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (T-ITS), 2018. [PDF]
J. Kwon, H.S. Lee, F.C. Park, and K.M. Lee, “A geometric particle filter for template-based visual tracking,” IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (T-PAMI), vol. 36, no. 4, 2014. [PDF]
Y.K. Baik, J. Kwon, H.S. Lee, and K.M. Lee, “Geometric particle swarm optimization for robust visual ego-motion estimation via particle filtering,” Image and Vision Computing, vol. 31, no. 8, 2013. [PDF]
Peer-reviewed conference papers
A. Popov, P. Gebhardt, K. Chen, R. Oldja, H.S. Lee, S. Murray, R. Bhargava, and N. Smolyanskiy, "NVRadarNet: Real-Time Radar Obstacle and Free Space Detection for Autonomous Driving," Proc. International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2023. [PDF]
K. Kim and H.S. Lee, ”Probabilistic Anchor Assignment with IoU Prediction for Object Detection,” Proc. European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2020. [PDF]
T.H. Kim, H.S. Lee, and K.M. Lee, ”Optical Flow via Locally Adaptive Fusion of Complementary Data Costs,” Proc. International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2013. [PDF]
H.S. Lee and K.M. Lee, ”Dense 3D Reconstruction from Severely Blurred Images Using a Single Moving Camera,” Proc. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2013. [PDF]
H.S. Lee and K.M. Lee, ”Simultaneous Depth Reconstruction and Image Super-Resolution with a Single Camera,” Proc. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2013. [PDF]
H.S. Lee, J. Kwon and K.M. Lee, ”Simultaneous Localization, Mapping and Deblurring,” Proc. International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2011. [PDF]
HS. Lee and K.M. Lee, ”Multi-robot SLAM Using Ceiling Vision,” Proc. Int’l Conf. on Intelligent Robots & Systems (IROS), 2009. [PDF]
H.S. Lee and K.M. Lee, ”Multiswarm Particle Filter for Vision Based SLAM,” Proc. Int’l Conf. on Intelligent Robots & Systems (IROS), 2009. [PDF]
Other conference papers
S. Yoo, H.S. Lee, H. Myeong, S. Yun, H. Park, J. Cho, and D.H. Kim, ”End-to-End Lane Marker Detection via Row-wise Classification,” Proc. CVPR Workshop on Autonomous Driving (WAD), 2020. [PDF]
H.S. Lee and K.M. Lee, ”Mutiswarm Particle Filter for Robust Tracking under Observation Ambiguity,” Proc. Frontiers of Computer Vision (FCV), Feb. 2011. [PDF]
이희석, 이경무, ”영상 기반 SLAM을 위한 3차원 모델 정합 기법,” 제24회 영상처리 및 이해에 관한 워크샵, 2012.
이희석, 이경무, ”다중 로봇의 위치 인식과 3차원 지도 작성,” 제20회 영상처리 및 이해에 관한 워크샵, 2008
PATENTS
International patents
Y.K. Baik, H.M. Cho, D.H. Kim, J.K. Lee, C. Lim, H.S. Lee, ”Bounding box estimation and object detection,” Qualcomm Incorporated, US Patent, 11,508,122, 2022
H. Myeong, H.S. Lee, D.H. Kim, S. Yoo, K. Kim, ”Lane marker detection and lane instance recognition,” Qualcomm Incorporated, US Patent, 11,475,678, 2022
S. Yoo, H. Myeong, H.S. Lee, ”Lane marker detection,” Qualcomm Incorporated, US Patent Application, 17/200,592, 2021
H.S. Lee, H Myeong, H. Cho, "Adaptive multiple region of interest camera perception," Qualcomm Incorporated, US Patent Application, 16/723,925, 2021
S. Yoo, H. Myeong, H.S. Lee, H.M. Cho, ”Efficient dropout inference for Bayesian deep learning,” Qualcomm Incorporated, US Patent Application, 16/168,015, 2020
H.S. Lee, K. Kim, D.H. Kim, S. Kim, S.S. Hong, ”Method and device for capturing image of traffic sign,” Qualcomm Incorporated, US Patent, 10,325,339, 2019
H.S. Lee, D.H. Kim, ”Simultaneous object detection and rigid transform estimation using neural network,” Qualcomm Incorporated, US Patent, 10,262,218, 2019
S. Yoo, H.S. Lee, J. Kim, ”Text-based image resizing,” Qualcomm Incorporated, US Patent, 10,002,451, 2018
S. Yoo, H.M. Cho, H.S. Lee, D.H. Kim, ”Activating flash for capturing images with text,” Qualcomm Incorporated, US Patent, 9,667,880, 2017
Domestic patents
이희석, 이경무, ”영상의 모션 블러를 제거하는 방법 및 장치”, 서울대학교산학협력단, 등록번호: 1013504600000, 2014
백영기, 권정현, 이희석, 이경무, ”카메라포즈 결정방법”, 울대학교산학협력단, 등록번호: 1011077350000, 2012
AWARDS
Bronze prize, 17th Samsung Humantech Thesis Prize, Feb. 2011
Gold prize, 16th Samsung Humantech Thesis Prize, Feb. 2010
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Programming: C, C++, Python, Matlab