Chul Lee

Contact

10118 Engineering Building II

Dongguk University

04620 Seoul, Korea

chullee_{at}_dongguk.edu

Research Interests

• Image restoration

• Power-constrained image/video processing

• Computational imaging

• High dynamic range(HDR) imaging

Professional Experience

• Associate Professor

  • Division of AI Software Convergence

  • Dongguk University, Seoul, Korea, Mar. 2023–

• Assistant/Associate Professor

  • Department of Multimedia Engineering

  • Dongguk University, Seoul, Korea, Mar. 2019–

• Assistant Professor

  • Department of Computer Engineering

  • Pukyong National University, Busan, Korea, Oct. 2015–Feb. 2019

• Research Scientist

  • Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

  • The University of Hong Kong, Hong Hong, May 2014–Sep. 2015

    • Advisor: Prof. Edmund Y. Lam

• Postdoctoral Scholar

  • Department of Electrical Engineering

  • The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA, Apr. 2013–Apr. 2014

    • Advisor: Prof. Vishal Monga

• Research Assistant

  • Korea University, Seoul, Korea, Sep. 2006–Feb. 2013

• H/W and Firmware Development Engineer
  Manufacturing Technology Engineer

  • Biospace Inc., Seoul, Korea, Sep. 2002–Jun. 2006

    • Developed medical equipment including body composition analyzers and automatic standiometers.

• Intern

  • Biospace Inc., Seoul, Korea, Jul. 2001–Aug. 2001

    • Developed a user identification system using RFID.

Education

• Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Feb. 2013

  • Korea University, Seoul, Korea

  • Advisor: Prof. Chang-Su Kim

  • Dissertation: Image restoration with MMSE nonlocal means filtering

• M.S., Electrical Engineering, Aug. 2008

  • Korea University, Seoul, Korea

  • Advisor: Prof. Chang-Su Kim

  • Thesis: Tone mapping and encoding algorithms for HDR video sequences

• B.S., Electrical Engineering, Feb. 2003

  • Korea University, Seoul, Korea

Publications

Professional Activities

• Society Activities

  • Member of IEEE

  • TC Member, Image, Video, and Multimedia Technical Committee (IVM-TC), APSIPA, 2019 –

  • Distinguished Lecturer, APSIPA, Jan. 2023 – Dec. 2024

• Associate Editor

  • Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, Jan. 2017 –

  • IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing, Jan. 2020 –

  • ICT Express, Jul. 2021 –

• Conference Committee Member

  • APSIPA Annual Summit and Conference (ASC), 2019

  • IEEE/IEIE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE)-Asia, 2020, 2022

  • International Workshop on Frontiers of Computer Vision (IW-FCV), 2019–2023

• Reviewer for Journals

  • IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

  • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

  • IEEE Transactions on Multimedia

  • IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

  • IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems

  • IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

  • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs

  • IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics

  • IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems

  • IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics

  • IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing

  • IEEE Signal Processing Magazine

  • IEEE Signal Processing Letters

  • IEEE/OSA Journal of Display Technology

  • IEEE Access

  • IET Image Processing

  • Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation

  • Signal Processing: Image Communication

  • Expert Systems With Applications

  • The Visual Computer

  • Digital Signal Processing

  • Multimedia Tools and Applications

  • Journal of Signal Processing Systems

  • SPIE Journal of Electronic Imaging

  • SPIE Optical Engineering

  • Displays

  • Current Optics and Photonics

• Reviewer for Conferences

  • IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2022–2024

  • IEEE International Conference on Image Procesisng (ICIP), 2022–2024

  • IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), 2017

  • IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS), 2017, 2019–2020, 2022–2023

  • IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Signal Processing and Communication Systems (ISPACS), 2017

  • IEEE International Conference on Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP), 2020–2022

  • IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), 2023–2025

  • IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2022–2024

  • IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2023

  • European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2022–2024

  • IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2022, 2024–2025

  • Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV), 2024

  • AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2025

  • IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE), 2022, 2024

  • APSIPA Annual Summit and Conference (ASC), 2015, 2018–2024

Awards and Honors

• Best Editor Award, Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, Aug. 2024.

• Best Paper Award, International Workshop on Frontiers of Computer Vision (IW-FCV), Feb. 2019.

• Best Paper Award, Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, Sep. 2014.

• Best Student Paper Award, Korean Society of Broadcasting Engineers (KOSBE) Conference, Nov. 2011.

• Outstanding Research Award, Research Institute for Information and Communication Technology, Korea University, Feb. 2011.

• Brain Korea (BK) 21 Graduate Student Fellowship, National Research Foundation of Korea (2006–2011).

• Prize of the Year, Biospace Inc., Jul. 2003.

• First Prize, 8051 Microcontroller Application Contest for university students, sponsored by: MDS Technology Corporation and Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea, Feb. 2003.

• Second Prize, Robot Soccer Central League, Oct. 2001.

• Scholarship for Entrance Exam, Top 10% in College of Engineering, Korea University, 1999.