Bowon Lee

Bowon Lee (2011)

Bowon Lee
Research Scientist
Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
1501 Page Mill Rd, MS 1181
Palo Alto, CA 94304

Tel: 650.857.2396
Fax: 650.852.3791

Email: email

Introduction

 

Bowon Lee is a research scientist at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories in Palo Alto, California. Prior to joining HP Labs, he received B.S. from Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea in 2000, and M.S. and Ph.D from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagin in 2003 and 2006.

 

Research Interests

  • Microphone array signal processing
  • Auditory models for signal processing
  • Acoustic event detection and localization
  • Accelerometer signal processing
  • Multimodal signal processing
  • Musical/Room acoustics

 

Education

 

Honors & Awards

  • Senior Member, IEEE (Student 2000, Member 2007, Senior 2011)
  • Top 10% Award for a paper "ConnectBoard: A remote collaboration system that supports gaze-aware interaction and sharing" at the IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP), 2009
  • Top 10% Award for a paper "An Objective Method for Quality Assessment of Ultra-Wideband Speech Corrupted by Echo," IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP), 2009
  • Scholarship from the Institute of Information Technology Assessment, Seoul, Korea, 2000 – 2003.
  • Army Commendation Medal (ARCOM) by the United States Army, 1997

 

Professional Activities

Technical Program Committee

  • IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA) 2011
  • IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME) 2010, 2011, 2012
  • IEEE Joint Digital Signal Processing Workshop / Signal Processing Education Workshop (DSP/SPE) 2011

Technical Referee

  • IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing
  • IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
  • IEEE Signal Processing Letters
  • Computer Speech and Language

Membership

 

Publications

Book Chapters

  1. Bowon Lee and Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, "Estimation of High Variance Vehicular Noise," Processing of In-Vehicle Signals: Data Collection and Driver Behavior, K. Takeda, J. H.L. Hansen, H. Erdogan, and H. Abut eds., pp. 221–232, Springer, 2009.
  2. Amaro A. de Lima, Sergio L. Netto, Luiz, W. P. Biscainho, Fabio P. Freeland, Bruno C. Bispo, Rafael A. de Jesus, Ronald W. Schafer, Amir Said, Bowon Lee, Antonius Kalker, "Quality Evaluation of Reverberation in Audioband Speech Signals," e-Business and Telecommunications ICETE 2008, Communications in Computer and Information Science Series, Obaidat, M. S., Filipe, J., eds. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2009.

Journal Papers

  1. Amaro A. de Lima, Thiago de M. Prego, Sergio L. Netto, Bowon Lee, Amir Said, Ronald W. Schafer, Ton Kalker, and Majid Fozunbal, "On the Quality-Assessment of Reverberated Speech," accepted for publiation at Speech Communication, 2011.
  2. Dante A. Blauth, Vicente P. Minotto, Claudio R. Jung, Bowon Lee, Ton Kalker, "Voice Activity Detection and Speaker Localization using Audiovisual Cues," accepted for publication at Pattern Recognition Letters, 2011.
  3. Leonardo de O. Nunes, Luiz W. P. Biscainho, Bowon Lee, Amir Said, Ton Kalker, Ronald W. Schafer, “Degradation Type Classifier for Full Band Speech Contaminated with Echo, Broadband Noise, and Reverberation.” accepted for publication at IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, 2011.
  4. Bruno C. Bispo, Paulo A. A. Esquef, Luiz W. P. Biscainho, Amaro A. de Lima, Fabio P. Freeland, Rafael A. de Jesus, Amir Said, Bowon Lee, Ronald W. Schafer, and Ton Kalker, "EW-PESQ: A Quality Assessment Method for Speech Signals Sampled at 48 kHz," Journal of Audio Engineering Society, Vol. 58, No. 4, pp 251-268, April 2010.

Conference Proceedings

  1. Prasenjit Dey, Muthuselvam Selvaraj, and Bowon Lee, “Robust User Context Analysis for Multimodal Interfaces,” in Proc. 13th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI), Alicante, Spain, November 14 – 18, 2011.
  2. Jason Wung, Ted Wada, Biing-Hwang Juang, Bowon Lee, Mitch Trott, and Ronald Schafer, “A System Approach to Acoustic Echo Cancellation in Robust Hands-Free Teleconferencing,” in Proc. IEEE International Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA), New Paltz, New York, October 16–19, 2011.
  3. Leonardo O. Nunes, Fl´avio R. ´Avila, Luiz W. P. Biscainho, Bowon Lee, Amir Said, Ronald W. Schafer, "Monitoring Scenario for Non-Intrusive Quality Assessment of Teleconference Systems," In Proc. SBrT 2011.
  4. Bowon Lee, Ton Kalker, and Ronald W. Schafer, "Correlogram Template Matching for Time-Delay Estimation," in Proc. ICASSP 2011, May 22-27, 2011, Prague, Czech Republic.
  5. Jason Wung, Ted Wada, Biing-Hwang Juang, Bowon Lee, Ton Kalker, and Ronald Schafer, "A System Approach to Residual Echo Suppression In Robust Hands-Free Teleconferencing," in Proc. ICASSP 2011, May 22-27, 2011, Prague, Czech Republic.
  6. Bowon Lee and Debargha Muhkerjee, "Spectral Entropy-Based Voice Activity Detector for Videoconfencing Systems," in Proc. INTERSPEECH 2010, September 26 - 30, 2010, Makuhari, Japan.
  7. Bowon Lee and Ton Kalker, "A Vectorized Method for Computationally Efficient SRP-PHAT Sound Source Localization," in Proc. 12th International Workshop on Acoustic Echo and Noise Control (IWAENC 2010), August 30 - September 2, 2010, Tel Aviv, Israel.
  8. Luiz Gonzaga da Silveira Jr., Vicente Peruffo Minotto, Claudio Rosito Jung, Bowon Lee, "A GPU Implementation of the SRP-PHAT Sound Source Localization Algorithm," in Proc. 12th International Workshop on Acoustic Echo and Noise Control (IWAENC 2010), August 30 - September 2, 2010, Tel Aviv, Israel.
  9. Jason Wung, Biing-Hwang (Fred) Juang, and Bowon Lee, "Speech enhancement based on log-spectral amplitude estimator and a postfilter derived from clean speech codebook," in Proc. European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2010), August 23-27 2010, Aalborg, Denmark.
  10. Amir Said, Ton Kalker, Bowon Lee, and Majid Fozunbal, "Massively Parallel Processing of Signals in Dense Microphone Arrays," in Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS 2010), May 30 - June 2, 2010.
  11. Bowon Lee and Ton Kalker, "Multichannel Voice Activity Detection With Spherically Invariant Sparse Distributions," in Proc. IEEE International Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA 2009), October 18-21, 2009, New Paltz, New York.
  12. Fl´avio R. ´Avila, Luiz W. P. Biscainho, Leonardo de O. Nunes, Alan F. Tygel, Bowon Lee, Amir Said, Ton Kalker, and Ronald W. Schafer, "A Teleconference Model with Acoustic Impairments Suitable for Speech Quality Assessment," In Proc. SBrT 2009.
  13. Kar-Han Tan, Ian Robinson, Ramin Samadani, Bowon Lee, Dan Gelb, Alex Vorbau, Bruce Culbertson, John Apostolopoulos, "ConnectBoard: A remote collaboration system that supports gaze-aware interaction and sharing," in Proc. IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP 2009), October 5-7, 2009, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
  14. Paulo A. A. Esquef, Luiz W. P. Biscainho, Leonardo O. Nunes, Bowon Lee, Amir Said, Ton Kalker, and Ronald W. Schafer, "Quality Assessment of Audio: Increasing Applicability Scope of Objective Methods via Prior Identification of Impairment Types," in Proc. IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP 2009), October 5-7, 2009, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
  15. Luiz W. P. Biscainho, Paulo A. A. Esquef, Fabio P. Freeland, Leonardo de O. Nunes, Alan F. Tygel, Bowon Lee, Amir Said, Ton Kalker, and Ronald W. Schafer, "An Objective Method for Quality Assessment of Ultra-Wideband Speech Corrupted by Echo," in Proc. IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP 2009), October 5-7, 2009, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
  16. Amaro A. de Lima, Thiago de M. Prego, Sergio L. Netto, Bowon Lee, Amir Said, Ronald W. Schafer, Ton Kalker, and Majid Fozunbal, "Feature Analysis for Quality Assessment of Reverberated Speech," in Proc. IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP 2009), October 5-7, 2009, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
  17. Bowon Lee and Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, "A Phonemic Restoration Approach for Automatic Speech Recognition With Highly Nonstationary Background Noise," in Proc. the 4th Biennial Workshop on DSP for In-Vehicle Systems and Safety, June 25-27, 2009, Dallas, Texas.
  18. Bowon Lee and Kar-Han Tan, "Maximum a posteriori Multimodal 3D Object Localization With a Depth Sensor and Stereo Microphones," in Proc. the 2nd International Conference on Immersive Telecommunications (IMMERSCOM 2009), May 27-29, 2009, Berkeley, California.
  19. Intae Lee, Charles E. Kinney, Bowon Lee and Antonius A. C. M. Kalker, "Solving the Acoustic Echo Cancellation Problem in Double-Talk Scenario Using Non-Guassianity of the Near-End Signal," in Proc. the 8th International Conference on Independent Component Analysis and Signal Separation (ICA 2009), March 15-18, 2009, Paraty, Brazil.
  20. Bowon Lee, Ton Kalker, Ronald W. Schafer, "Maximum-Likelihood Sound Source Localization With a Multivariate Complex Laplacian Distribution," in Proc. 11th International Workshop on Acoustic Echo and Noise Control (IWAENC 2008), September 14-17. 2008, Seattle, Washington.
  21. Amaro A. de Lima, Fabio P. Freeland, Paulo A. A. Esquef, Luiz W. P. Biscainho, Bruno C. Bispo, Rafael A. de Jesus, Sergio, L. Netto, Ronald Schafer, Amir Said, Bowon Lee, Antonius Kalker, "Reverberation Assessment in Audioband Speech Signals for Telepresence Systems," in Proc. International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications (SIGMAP 2008), pp. 257-262, July 26-29, 2008, Porto, Portugal.
  22. Amaro A. de Lima, Fabio P. Freeland, Rafael A. de Jesus, Bruno C. Bispo, Luiz W. P. Biscainho, Sergio L. Netto, Amir Said, Antonius Kalker, Ronald Schafer, Bowon Lee, and Merhban Jam, "On the Quality Assessment of Sound Signals," in Proc. International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS 2008), pp. 416-419, May 18-21, 2008, Seattle, Washington.
  23. Bowon Lee, Amir Said, Ton Kalker, Ronald W. Schafer, "Maximum Likelihood Time Delay Estimation with Phase Domain Analysis in the Generalized Cross Correlation Framework," in Proc. Hands-Free Speech Communication and Microphone Arrays, (HSCMA 2008), pp.89-92, May 6-8, 2008, Trento, Italy.
  24. Bowon Lee and Ton Kalker, "Maximum A Posteriori Estimation of Time Delay," in Proc. the 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing (CAMPSAP 2007), pp.285-288, 12-14 Dec. 2007, St. Thomas, U.S Virgin Islands.
  25. Bowon Lee and Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, "Minimum Mean Squared Error A Posteriori Estimation of High Variance Vehicular Noise," in Proc. Biennial on DSP for In-Vehicle and Mobile Systems, June 2007, Istanbul, Turkey.
  26. Bowon Lee, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, Camille Goudeseune, Suketu Kamdar, Sarah Borys, Ming Liu, and Thomas Huang, “AVICAR: An Audiovisual Speech Corpus in a Car Environment,” in Proc. Int. Conf. Spoken Lang. Process.(ICSLP 2004), Jeju, Korea, October 4-8, 2004.
  27. Bowon Lee, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, and Camille Goudeseune,“Open-Loop Dereverberation of Multichannel Room Impulse Responses,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am., vol. 113, No. 4, pp. 2202-2203, April 2003.
  28. James Beauchamp, Hua Zheng, Bowon Lee, and Stephen Lakatos, “A Versatile Wavetable-Based Model for Synthesis of Piano Tones,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am., vol. 110, No. 5, pp. 2691-2692, November 2001.

 

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Last updated on 10/06/2011