Young Hoon Lee Contact Information

Santa Clara, CA, USA

email : [email protected] web : https://sites.google.com/site/younghoonleehome

Keywords

Computer Vision based SLAM, Mobile robotics, Virtual reality, Augmented Reality

Professional Experience

NVIDIA, Santa Clara, CA Senior software engineer Feb 29 2016 - Present • Drone project: (1) Created a user interface using QtCreator software (2) Design and implement an autonomous aerial vehicle (PI) control algorithm using ROS • Self driving car project: (1) Implemented a sensor data capture programs for CAN, (D)GPS, IMU and camera sensors (2) Generated synthetic lane dataset and lane matching algorithm for localization (3) Designed and implemented sign matching algorithm for localization (4) Participated in demos for major conferences (CES, GTC, ...) and software release University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Research Assistant Jan 10 2011 - Dec 31 2015 • Robot Vision for the Visually Impaired: (1) Designed wearable navigation system consisting of computer vision system, tactile user interface, and wireless communication module. (2) Designed and implemented real-time 3D SLAM software performing image rectification, feature extraction/tracking on RGB images / 3D point clouds, camera motion estimation, 3D map building, and path planning HP Labs, Palo Alto, CA Research Intern • Developed a real-time projected augmented reality algorithm

Jun 01 2015 - Aug 21 2015

Qualcomm Corporate R&D, San Diego, CA Engineering Intern May 19 2014 - Aug 08 2014 • Geometric Scene Understanding: Developed a 3D Object detection algorithm from a moving RGB-D camera KLA-Tencor, CTO Special Project Dept., Milpitas, CA Technical Intern Jun 03 2013 - Aug 09 2013 • Smart camera system: (1) Wrote a video processing software that grabs video frames from a camera, compresses the videos using on-board DSP module, and transfers using Gstreamer library over Wi-Fi (C++) (2) Wrote an interface software between the video streaming software and existing OpenCV projects (C++) Korea University, Seoul, Korea Research Assistant Sep 01 2008 - Aug 05 2010 • Minimal Grasper: Designed and experimented a prototype of Minimal Grasper and its controller • VPass: (1) Proposed an EKF-based 2D SLAM algorithm using vanishing points of lines extracted from 2D point clouds from SICK LMS 200 laser sensor (2) Implemented a mobile robotics simulation program that works in the Extended Kalman Filter frame with vanishing point landmarks (MATLAB) MELFAS Inc., Seoul, Korea Hardware Engineer Apr 04 2005 - Jan 06 2006 • Designed an IR remote controller (MPCS-1000) and a receiver equipped with touch sensors introduced in CES 2007, and several test boards for various touch sensors Education

University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Ph.D., Electrical Engineering

Aug 2010 - Dec 2015

• Advisor: Professor Gerard M´edioni M.S., Computer Science

Aug 2010 - May 2012

• High Performance Computing and Simulations Track • Advisor: Professor Gerard M´edioni

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Korea University, Seoul, South Korea M.S., Electrical Engineering

Sep 2008 - Aug 2010

• Thesis Topic: On the Consistency of the EKF SLAM • Advisor: Nakju Doh, Ph.D B.S., Electrical Engineering Selected Publications and Patents

Mar 2000 - Feb 2008

Young Hoon Lee and Gerard M´edioni, RGB-D camera based wearable navigation system for the visually impaired, Computer Vision and Image Understanding Vol. 149, pp. 320. Aug. 2016. Bojan Vrcelj, Young Hoon Lee and Gerhard Reitmayr, 3d object segmentation, US20160196659 A1, Jul 7, 2016 Young Hoon Lee and Gerard M´edioni, Wearable RGBD indoor navigation system for the blind (Oral paper), ECCV 2014 Workshop on Assistive Computer Vision and Robotics 2014, Zurich, Switzerland, Sep. 12, 2014. JingFu Jin, Shang Li Yuen, Young Hoon Lee, ChangHyun Jeon, Youngji Kim, S.O. Lee, B.J. You, and Nakju Lett Doh, Design of a Simple Robotic Grasper with Stable and Robust Performance for Pick and Place Tasks, IEEE Trans. on Industrial Electronics, Vol. 60 (9), pp. 3796-3805. Sep. 2013. Young Hoon Lee, Tung-sing Leung and Gerard M´edioni, Real-time staircase detection from a wearable stereo system, ICPR 2012 (Oral paper), Tsukuba, Japan, Nov. 11-15, 2012. Young Hoon Lee and Gerard M´edioni, A RGB-D camera Based Navigation for the Visually Impaired, RSS 2011 RGB-D: Advanced Reasoning with Depth Camera Workshop, Jun 27, 2011. Young Hoon Lee, Changjoo Nam, Keon Yong Lee, Yuen Shang Li, Soo Yong Yeon, and Nakju Lett Doh, VPass: Algorithmic Compass using Vanishing Points in Indoor Environments, IROS 2009, pp. 936-941, St. Louis, USA, Oct. 11-15, 2009. Young Hoon Lee, Jing Fu Jin, Changjoo Nam, Jinhyun Kim and Nakju Lett Doh, The Development of Minimal Grasper: Preliminary result of a simple and flexible enveloping grasper, IROS 2009, pp. 1779-1784, St. Louis, USA, Oct. 11-15, 2009. N. L. Doh, J. Jin, Changjoo Nam, Young Hoon Lee, Robot hand with connection part that undergoes stretching deformation according to object shape and method for controlling robot hand, US8523254 B2, May 14, 2010.

Awards

Best Research Demo Award, 2012 Ming Hsieh Dept. of EE Research Festival, USC Apr Finalist, Cornell Cup USA, presented by Intel. May Korea Government Scholarship for Students Study Abroad Aug Viterbi Fellowship, University of Southern California Aug 2010 - Jul Korea Science and Engineering foundation scholarships Sep 2009 - Aug The 2nd stage of Brain Korea 21 Scholarship, Korea University Sep 2008 - Aug Alumni Scholarship, Korea University Alumni Association Sep Best Honors Scholarship, Korea University Sep

Skills

Programming Language C++, C, MATLAB, PYTHON

2012 2012 2010 2014 2010 2009 2006 2001

Programming libraries OpenCV, Boost, OpenGL, CEREAL, Eigen, CERES, PCL, OpenNI, OpenMesh, RapidXML Hardware (Sensors) RGB-D sensors, Monocular and stereo cameras, SICK LMS 200, GPS, DGPS, IMU sensors, Microcontrollers Graduate level Analysis of Algorithms, Computer Vision, Random Processes in Engineering, Numerical Analysis and courses Computation, Scientific Computing and Visualization, 3D Graphics and Rendering, Digital Geometry Processing, Computational Differential Geometry for Engineers References

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