MIRALab / University of Geneva

Staff

WonSook Lee

Senior Assistant

Resume:

WonSook LEE is a senior research assistant at MIRALab, CUI, University of Geneva. She works mainly on Swiss national research projects and international research projects, specialized in animatable virtual human modeling (cloning). She obtained her Ph.D. in Center University of Information, Faculty of Science, University of Geneva in 2000. She received the Bachelor Degree and Master degree in Mathematics from POSTECH in south Korea, where she also worked as a teaching assistant for two years. She spent one term as an exchange student, 1989 in School of Mathematics & Statistics, The University of Birmingham , Birmingham, Britain, fully supported by POSTECH. After completing her B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees she worked at Korea Telecom Research Center in South Korea as a computer science researcher in software lab. Then she studied Medical imaging in CieMed group (on collaboration with Johns Hopkins University) at Institute of Systems Science, the National University of Singapore in Singapore where she obtained one more M.Sc in Systems Science. After moving to MIRALab as a research assistant in 1996, she has created the 3D face cloning system with either photographs or range data (VRML format) input. As an application of 3D face cloning program, she also made 3D face-morphing system. She  also created 3D body cloning program (animatable and seamless) from photographs with Jin Gu together, which produces the results in H-Anim 1.1 format. She is a coordinator of an European project (medical field) TREMOR , concerning a Virtual Therapist who demonstrates given tests defined by Clinical partners and guides a patient for correct performance. She participates too on several other projects such as FNRS, eRENA, VPARK, London Millennium Dome and several public demonstrations in Orbit'98, Cebit'99,Telecom'99 and Millennium Dome'2000 being responsible for cloning parts. The latest information can be found in http://personal.miralab.unige.ch:1312/w.lee/

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Public demos with face cloning and morphing systems:

There are hundreds faces reconstructed using the cloning system. They are clones of miralab staff members, visitors, and several public demonstrations. The first public demonstration was Orbit'98, Basel, Switzerland where about 70 people are cloned during 5 days demonstration on a PC platform, thanks to Hyewon Seo who has ported the program from SGI to PC. In these events, several kinds of looking of people (Asian/Caucasian/Africa, female/male, young/old) were cloned and animated in a virtual world.

Publications:

http://personal.miralab.unige.ch:1312/w.lee/publication.html

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Address:
MIRALab, CUI
University of Geneva,
24 rue du General Dufour
CH-1211 Geneva
SWITZERLAND

Phone:

+41 (22) 705 76 18

Fax:

+41 (22) 705 77 80

Email:

wslee@email.com : life-time email address
wslee@miralab.unige.ch