Chul Lee–이철

I am an Associate Professor with the Division of AI Software Convergence, Dongguk University, Seoul, Korea. I received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees all in the School of Electrical Engineering from Korea University, Seoul, Korea, in 2003, 2008, and 2013, respectively. From 2002 to 2006, I was with Biospace Inc., where I was involved in the development of medical equipment. From 2013 to 2014, I was a Postdoctoral Scholar with the Department of Electrical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA. From 2014 to 2015, I was a Research Scientist with the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. From 2015 to 2019, I was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Engineering, Pukyong National University, Busan, Korea. My research interests are image restoration, power-constrained image/video processing, and high dynamic range imaging.

Graduate Student Opening

• 저희 연구실에서는 영상처리 및 컴퓨터비전 분야의 다양한 주제로 연구를 진행할 1) 석/박사과정 대학원생, 2) 학부 연구생 및 3) 박사후 연구원을 모집합니다. 관심있는 분들은 이철 교수(chullee@dongguk.edu)에게 연락하기 바랍니다.

• We are looking for M.S. and Ph.D. students who are interests in research topics in image processing and computer vision. If you're interested, please contact Prof. Chul Lee (chullee@dongguk.edu).

Latest News

• Oct. 2024 – Accepted: “Image enhancement based on histogram-guided multiple transformation function estimation,” IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics.

• Sep. 2024 – Accepted: “Cloud removal in hyperspectral satellite images using low-rank tensor completion,” APSIPA Annual Summit and Conference (ASC), 2024.

• Aug. 2024 – Student Sanga is heading to Carnegie Mellon University for the AI Excellence Global Innovative Leader Education Program.

• Jul. 2024 – Accepted: “Attention-guided low-rank tensor completion,” IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. [Media Coverage]

• Jun. 2024 – Accepted: We will present two papers at IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, this October.

• Apr. 2024 – Accepted: “Deep unfolding tensor rank minimization with generalized detail injection for pansharpening,” IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing.

• Dec. 2023 – Accepted: Our journal paper “Multiscale coarse-to-fine guided screenshot demoiréing” will be presented at IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2024.

• Dec. 2023 – Accepted: “Learned kernel-based interpolation for efficient RGBW remosaicing,” IEEE Access.

• Aug. 2023 – Accepted: “Deep unfolded underwater image enhancement based on extreme channels prior,” APSIPA Annual Summit and Conference (ASC), 2023.

• Jul. 2023 – Accepted: “Multiscale coarse-to-fine guided screenshot demoiréing,” IEEE Signal Processing Letters.

• Jun. 2023 – Three papers accepted to IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2023.

• Jun. 2023 – A new grant awarded from Institute of Information & Communications Technology Planning & Evaluation (IITP).

• Jun. 2023 – Accepted: “Cross-modal transformers for infrared and visible image fusion,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology.

• May 2023 – Accepted: “Multiple transformation function estimation for image enhancement,” Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation.

• Nov. 2022 – Accepted: “Multiscale progressive fusion of infrared and visible images,” IEEE Access.

• Oct. 2022 – Accepted: “Orientation prediction for VR and AR devices using inertial sensors based on Kalman-like error compensation,” IEEE Access.

• Sep. 2022 – Accepted: “Enhanced bidirectional motion estimation using feature refinement for HDR imaging,” APSIPA Annual Summit and Conference (ASC), 2022.

• Aug. 2022 – Accepted: “Deep unrolled low-rank tensor completion for high dynamic range imaging,” IEEE Transactions on Image Processing.

• Jul. 2022 – Two papers accepted to European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2022.

• Jun. 2022 – Two papers accepted to IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2022.

• May 2022 – A new grant awarded from National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF).

• Apr. 2022 – A new grant awarded from Korea Creative Content Agency (KOCCA).

• Feb. 2022 – Accepted: “Unpaired screen-shot image demoiréing with cyclic moiré learning,” IEEE Access.

• Nov. 2021 – Accepted: “Monocular human depth estimation via pose estimation,” IEEE Access.

• Sep. 2021 – Accepted: “Human visual system model-based optimized tone mapping of high dynamic range images,” IEEE Access.

• Sep. 2021 – Accepted: “Unpaired image demoiréing based on cyclic moiré learning,” APSIPA Annual Summit and Conference (ASC), 2021.

• Jul. 2021 – Two papers accepted to IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2021.

• May 2021 – Accepted: “Ghost-free HDR imaging via unrolling low-rank matrix completion,” IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2021.

• May 2021 – Accepted: “Single-shot high dynamic range imaging via multiscale convolutional neural network,” IEEE Access.

• Feb. 2021 – Accepted: “Single maritime image defogging based on illumination decomposition using texture and structure priors,” IEEE Access.

• Oct. 2020 – Accepted: “Moiré artifacts removal in screen-shot images via multiple domain learning,” APSIPA Annual Summit and Conference (ASC), 2020.

• Aug. 2020 – A new grant awarded from National IT Industry Promotion Agency (NIPA).

• Jul. 2020 – Accepted: “BMBC: Bilateral motion estimation with bilateral cost volume for video interpolation,” European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2020.

• May 2020 – Accepted: “Optimized color contrast enhancement for dichromats using local and global contrast,” IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2020.

• Apr. 2020 – A new grant awarded from Institute of Information & Communications Technology Planning & Evaluation (IITP).

• Jan. 2020 – Accepted: “High dynamic range video synthesis using superpixel-based illuminance-invariant motion estimation,” IEEE Access.

• Aug. 2019 – Accepted: “Property-specific aesthetic assessment with unsupervised aesthetic property discovery,” IEEE Access.

• Aug. 2019 – Accepted: “Deep learning approach to video frame rate up-conversion using bilateral motion estimation,” APSIPA Annual Summit and Conference (ASC), 2019.

• Jul. 2019 – Accepted: “Nonlocal means filtering based speckle removal utilizing the maximum a posteriori estimation and the total variation image prior,” IEEE Access.

• May 2019 – A new grant awarded from National Research Foundation (NRF) of Korea.

• Mar. 2019 – We moved to the Department of Multimedia Engineering, Dongguk University, Seoul, Korea.

• Feb. 2019 – Best Paper Award: “Low-light video enhancement based on optimal gamma correction parameter estimation,” IW-FCV 2019.

• Dec. 2018 – Elected as APSIPA Image, Video, and Multimedia Technical Committee (IVM-TC) Member, 2019–2021

• Aug. 2018 – Accepted: “Optimized tone mapping of HDR images via HVS model-based 2D histogram equalization,” APSIPA Annual Summit and Conference (ASC), 2018.

• May 2018 – Accepted: “Photographic composition classification and dominant geometric element detection for outdoor scenes,” Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation.

• Oct. 2017 – Book Chapter Available Online: “Computational Color Imaging,” in Handbook of Convex Optimization Methods in Imaging Science.

• Sep. 2017 – Accepted: “Single-shot high dynamic range imaging via deep convolutional neural network,” APSIPA Annual Summit and Conference (ASC), 2017.

• Jul. 2017 – Accepted: “Semantic line detection and its applications,” IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2017.

• Feb. 2017 – Accepted: “Contrast enhancement of noisy low-light images based on structure-texture-noise decomposition,” Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation.

• Dec. 2016 – Accepted: “Computationally efficient brightness compensation and contrast enhancement for transmissive liquid crystal displays,” Journal of Real-Time Image Processing.

• Dec. 2016 – Appointed as an Editorial Board Member of Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation.

• Dec. 2016 – Accepted: “A maximum a posteriori estimation framework for robust high dynamic range video synthesis,” IEEE Transactions on Image Processing.

• Sep. 2016 – Accepted: “Enhancement of noisy low-light images via structure-texture-noise decomposition,” APSIPA Annual Summit and Conference (ASC), 2016.

• Jun. 2016 – Accepted: “Computationally efficient truncated nuclear norm minimization for high dynamic range imaging,” IEEE Transactions on Image Processing.

• Jun. 2016 – A new grant awarded from National Research Foundation (NRF) of Korea.

• Dec. 2015 – Accepted: “High dynamic range imaging via truncated nuclear norm minimization of low-rank matrix,” IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2016.

• Oct. 2015 – I joined the Department of Computer Engineering, Pukyong National University, Busan, Korea, as an Assistant Professor.

• Aug. 2015 – Accepted: “Power-constrained RGB-to-RGBW conversion for emissive displays: Optimization-based approaches,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology.

• Apr. 2015 – Two papers have been accepted to IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) 2015.

• Sep. 2014 – I received the Best Paper Award: “An MMSE approach to nonlocal image denoising: Theory and practical implementation,” Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, 2012.

• May 2014 – I joined the Imaging Systems Laboratory at The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

• May 2014 – Accepted: “Ghost-free high dynamic range imaging via rank minimization,” IEEE Signal Processing Letters.

• Feb. 2014 – Accepted: “Power-constrained RGB-to-RGBW conversion for emissive displays,” IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2014.

• Sep. 2013 – Accepted: “Contrast enhancement based on layered difference representation of 2D histograms,” IEEE Transactions on Image Processing.

• Sep. 2013 – Recognized as one of the Top 25 Hottest Articles: “An MMSE approach to nonlocal image denoising: Theory and practical implementation,” Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, 2012.

• Jul. 2013 – Accepted: “Motion-compensated frame interpolation based on multihypothesis motion estimation and texture optimization,” IEEE Transactions on Image Processing.

• Jun. 2013 – Accepted: “Reliable optical flow estimation in motion-blurred regions,” IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP), 2013.

• Jun. 2013 – Accepted: “Optimized brightness compensation and contrast enhancement for transmissive liquid crystal displays,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology.

• May 2013 – Two papers have been accepted to IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) 2013.