WonSook LEE
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Biography
Resume:
WonSook LEE is a Full Professor at
EECS,
Faculty of Engineering,
University of Ottawa, Canada. She majored Mathematics for her BSc and
MSc at the Pohang Univeresity of Science and Technology in South Korea
(one semester in the Birmingham University in UK) and then switched to
Computer Science when she spent two years in the Institute of
Systems Science in the National University of Singapore. She
was involved in CieMed group, which is basically medical imaging
research in collaboration with Johns Hopkins University. Then she moved
to Geneva, Swizterland to do her PhD in MIRALab at the University of
Geneva where her topic became Computer Graphics focusing on
Virtual Human Modeling for Animation. After that, she
has worked on
computer modeling and animation, face recognition, haptic, computer
games, medical imaging
and application and etc. Through the years in the University of Ottawa,
she has awarded several research grants such as NSERC DISCOVERY, NSERC
RTI, CFI, ORF, ORNEC, CIHR/NSERC CHRP, NSERC Engage, SME4SME, NCE
GRAND and Global Frontier R&D program by the National Research
Foundation of Korea. Most of grants, she is the Principal Investigator.
Before coming to Canada, she also worked in several industries such as
Korea Telecom and Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology in South
Korea and Eyematic Interfaces, Inc in U.S.A.
Working
experience:
- 1993 - 1994 : Computer Science Researcher in
software lab, Korea Telecom
Research
Center, Seoul, South Korea
- 1991 - 1993 : Teaching Assistant in POSTECH, Pohang, South
Korea.
Diplomas:
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- Enjoy
a movie from the PhD defense! Very big.
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- March, 1999: Postgraduate Certificate
- Nov. 1997: DESSI (Diplôme d'Etudes
Supérieures en
Systèmes d'Information)
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- Oct. 1997: Master of Science
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- Feb.
1993: Master of Science
- Feb. 1991: Bachelor of Science
in Dept. of Mathematics,
POSTECH, Korea
Academic Honors:
- 1992
- POSTECH Excellent Graduate Student Scholarship (selected as the
best in
the Dept. of the year)
- 1989 (2nd Semester)
- POSTECH International Exchange Student Scholarship (funded by
donations
from the B.H.O. and Harmersley Iron and Steel Co. of Australia) –
selected to spend one semester in School of Mathematics &
Statistics, The University of Birmingham, Birmingham, U.K., fully
supported by POSTECH
- 1987–1990
- POSTECH General Scholarship
Professional activities:
- NSERC Strategic Project Pre-Selection committee - ACMI-A panel, 2013
- NSERC Strategic Project Selection committee - ACMI-A panel,
2009-2012 (4 years)
- Keynote speech : Computer Graphics International 2012, Bournemouth, UK, June, 2012
- International conference/workshop Program Committee
- GRAND 2013 (Posters/Demos Chair)
- Computer Graphics International 2011 (Program Co-Chair)
- Graphics Interface 2010 (Posters Chair)
- IEEE Virtual Reality 2009-2013
- ACM SIGGRAPH VRCAI 2008 - 2013
- The Workshop on 3D Physiological Human 2009
- Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA) 2004- 2013
- Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (GRAPP) 2007- 2011
- Computer Graphics International (CGI) 2008-2013
- IEEE International Workshop on HAVE 2004-2005, 2007- 2010, 2013
- FuturePlay 2006, 2007
- IASTED-HCI 2007
- Editorial Review Board
- Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds, Wiley, ISSN: 1546-4261
- International Journal of Creative Interfaces and Computer Graphics, ISSN: 1947-3117
- Journal of Computational Design and Engineering, ISSN: 2288-4300 (Print), ISSN: 2288-5048 (Online)
- Journal of the Korea Computer Graphics Society,ISSN : 1975-7883
- Reviewer for conferences : All the conferences with duty as PC
member and Eurographics
2004, PG 2006, The Workshop on 3D Physiological Human 2008.
- Reviewer for journals : Visual Computer,
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, IEEE
Transactions on
Multimedia, Computer
Graphics Forum, Real-Time
Imaging, Pattern Recognition, IEEE TVCG, IEEE Transactions
on Instrumentation & Measurement
- Reviewer for projects : Canada, Austria
Projects involved
(1996-2003):
- in Human Vision TG, Samsung
A.I.T., South Korea:
- Video surveillance
- Multi-view face
recognition/descriptor (MEPG-7 Korean delegate) : using descriptor
optimization, image-based feature extraction (PCA/LDA and image
processing filters) and/or 3D morphing technology
- in Eyematic Interfaces, Inc.,
USA:
- FaceStation: Real-time
markerless Facial Tracking for 3D avatar animation software
- Xpression: 3D character
creation and animation for web-pages
- in MIRALab, Univ. of Geneva,
Switzerland:
- Swiss projects: FNRS, CO-ME
(medical project for biomechanical diagnosis for human articulation)
- European projects: eRENA
(deliverable)(population
generation), VPARK
(distributed virtual environments), eTailor
(clothes on the web), SONG
(virtual worlds, multi-user
platforms and intelligent agents), Crosses
(population generation), TREMOR (medical
training project with virtual therapist - main coordinator for MIRALab).
- Developed an adaptive mesh
method, which converts any human body shape mesh to an avatar based on
an international standard (H-Anim 1.1 format). This method immediately
animates a laser-scanned human body in 3D Studio Max, with animation
parameters produced by the system.
- Created body-morphing
system to enable hybrid virtual avatars.
- Coordinator for the CO-ME*
Swiss medical project for human articulation diagnosis.
(Collaboration with EPFL and University Hospital of Geneve, *CO-ME: The National Centre for Competence
in Research Computer Aided
and Image Guided Medical Interventions
- Supported several European
projects in University of Geneva.
- 3D reconstruction of
animatable body from three photographs.
- 3D face morphing of
animatable face in real time.
- Adaptive mesh methods to
create animation on 3D-scanned face.
- 3D reconstruction of
animatable faces from two photographs.
- Coordinator of the TREMOR
EU medical training project, concerning a Virtual Therapist that
demonstrates the giving of tests previously defined by Clinical
partners, and guides a patient for correct performance.
- Participated in several
Swiss and European projects (contributed to proposals and deliverables,
attending international meetings) and international public
demonstrations.
Public demonstrations
participated:
- Participated the final demonstration for Korean national Research
project ‘HCI’, 2002, Dec. (SAIT, KR)
- Invited for participation (& supported) by third party
- ORBIT'98 in Basel (CH)
- CEBIT'99 in Hannover
(DE)
- SMAU'99 in Milan (IT)
- TELECOM'99 in Geneva
(CH)
- Computer-expo 2000 at Lausanne (CH)
- Bilan (2000, 29–30 May) at Geneva and Zurich (CH)
- Interactive show, “The Utopians”, (June 2001) at Casino Hilton
Geneva (CH)
- Participated inside festival program in university or conference
- Uni-Mail Fete'99 in Geneva (CH)
- CA2000 (June 21–23) Geneva
- Provided systems to commercial parties
- L'Oreal booth in Millennium Dome 2000 in London (GB)
(one year
demonstration)
- Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Neuchâtel
(long-term demonstration starting from 2000)
Companies who use my
methodology (body-cloning) with my approval:
WonSook Lee - Contact information
Professor WonSook LEE, Ph.D.
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS)
University of Ottawa 800 King Edward Avenue
P.O. Box 450, Stn A Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1N 6N5
Office: CBY A509
Tel: (613) 562-5800 ext. 2501
Fax: (613) 562-5664
Email: wslee@uottawa.ca
Web: http://www.eecs.uottawa.ca/~wslee
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