David C. Lee

Ph.D. Student
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Email: dclee -at- cs -dot- cmu -dot- edu

I am a Ph.D student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. My advisor is Dr. Takeo Kanade and I also work closely with Dr. Martial Hebert. I work in the area of Computer Vision, with particular interest in 3D interpretation of an environment from a single image. I completed my undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). I was at Microsoft Research Silicon Valley as an intern in 2009.

Projects



Partition min-hash for partial duplicate image discovery [ECCV10 pdf]
A fast scalable method for discovering partial duplicate images in a web-scale image database. Potential applications include identifying popular images on the web, grouping similar images, and unsupervised discovery of objects.
(Work done during internship at Microsoft Research)
3D Scene Analysis [project page] [CVPR09 pdf] [NIPS10 pdf] [code]
Three dimensional interpretation of an indoor environment to determine the structure of the building and locate doors, people, and other objects from a single image
Personal Mobility Manipulation Assistant (PerMMA) [see video]
Team project sponsored by the Quality of Life Technology Center (QoLT) to get a wheelchair with an arm manipulator to autonomously open a door. Contributed a three dimensionial door detection module.
Car Detection [report]
Car detection in a street scene using Adaboost
PASCAL Visual Object Classes Challenge 2006 [report]
Course project for 16-721 Advanced Perception and submitted to a challenge hosted by the PASCAL group. Bag-of-words model, feature extraction(color, texture, shape) and feature combination using boosted classifiers.

Publications

  • David C. Lee, Abhinav Gupta, Martial Hebert, and Takeo Kanade. "Estimating Spatial Layout of Rooms using Volumetric Reasoning about Objects and Surfaces." Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 24 (NIPS) 2010. [pdf]
  • David C. Lee, Qifa Ke, and Michael Isard. "Partition Min-hash for Partial Duplicate Image Discovery." 11th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2010. [pdf]
  • David C. Lee, Martial Hebert, and Takeo Kanade. "Geometric Reasoning for Single Image Structure Recovery." IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2009. [pdf]
  • David C. Lee. "Continuous Speech Recognition using Modified Stack Decoding Algorithm", Proceedings of the Twentieth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Student Abstract, July 2005, pp. 1614-1615.

Unpublished reports

  • David C. Lee, and Takeo Kanade. "Boosted Classifier for Car Detection." 2007 [report]
  • David C. Lee, and Nik Melchior. "Linear Combination of Simple Classifiers for the PASCAL Challenge." 2006 [report]