Bowon Lee received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea in 2000, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2003 and 2006 respectively. From 2007 to 2014, he worked as a research scientist at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories in Palo Alto, California. He joined the faculty of the Department of Electronic Engineering at Inha University in March 2014, where he served as the department head from 2021 to 2023. He has also held a position of affiliate professor in the Department of Artificial Intelligence since 2020. His research interests include speech signal processing, speech analysis, and speech-based inclusive technologies. He is currently serving as General Chair for Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU) 2025. In the past, he has served as Awards Chair for the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2018, Local Operations Chair for Interspeech 2022, and a member of the organizing committee for Young Female Researchers in Speech Workshop (YFRSW) 2022, along with the technical program committee of numerous conferences and workshops. He is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and a member of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), the Korean Society of Speech Sciences (KSSS), and the Korean Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication (KSAAC).
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Non-Temporal Lightweight Fire Detection Network for Intelligent Surveillance Systems
Hunjun Yang, Hyeok Jang, Taeyong Kim, and Bowon Lee
IEEE Access, Vol. 7, pp. 169257–169266, November 2019
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Knocker: Vibroacoustic-based Object Recognition with Smartphones
Taesik Gong, Hyunsung Cho, Bowon Lee, and Sung-Ju Lee
Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT), Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 1–21, September 2019
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Appliance Classification by Power Signal Analysis Based on Multi-Feature Combination Multi-Layer LSTM
Jin-Gyeom Kim and Bowon Lee
Energies, Vol. 12, No. 14, July 2019
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Opto-Electric Analog SRAM Device Based on Commercial LEDs and Photodetectors
Minjong Lee, Minku Choi, Tae Wook Kim, Bowon Lee, and Young Tack Lee
Journal of the Korean Physical Society, Vol. 74, No. 12, pp. 1166–1170, June 2019
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Wireless Acoustic Sensor Networks and Applications
Maximo Cobos, Fabio Antonacci, Athanasios Mouchtaris, and Bowon Lee
Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, December 2017
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Acoustic Sensor Self-Localization: Models and Recent Results
Diego B. Haddad, Wallace A. Martins, Maurício V. M. Costa, Luiz W. P. Biscainho, Leonardo O. Nunes, and Bowon Lee
Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, October 2017
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A Survey of Sound Source Localization Methods in Wireless Acoustic Sensor Networks
Maximo Cobos, Fabio Antonacci, Anastasios Alexandridis, Athanasios Mouchtaris, and Bowon Lee
Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, August 2017
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Deformable Object Matching Algorithm Using Fast Agglomerative Binary Search Tree Clustering
Jaehyup Jeong, Insu Won, Hunjun Yang, Bowon Lee, and Dongseok Jeong
Symmetry, Vol. 9, No. 2, February 2017
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A Parametric Objective Quality Assessment Tool for Speech Signals Degraded by Acoustic Echo
Leonardo O. Nunes, Flávio R. Ávila, Alan F. Tygel, Luiz W. P. Biscainho, Bowon Lee, Amir Said, and Ronald W. Schafer
IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, Vol. 20, No. 8, pp. 2181–-2190, October 2012
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A Blind Algorithm for Reverberation-Time Estimation Using Subband Spectral Analysis of Speech Signals
Thiago de M. Prego, Amaro A. de Lima, and Sergio L. Netto, Bowon Lee, Amir Said, and Ronald W. Schafer, and Ton Kalker
Journal of Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 131, No. 4, pp. 2811–2816, April 2012
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On the Quality-Assessment of Reverberated Speech
Amaro A. de Lima, Thiago de M. Prego, Sergio L. Netto, Bowon Lee, Amir Said, Ronald W. Schafer, Ton Kalker, and Majid Fozunbal
Speech Communication, Vol. 54, No. 3, pp. 393–401, March 2012
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Voice Activity Detection and Speaker Localization using Audiovisual Cues
Dante A. Blauth, Vicente P. Minotto, Claudio R. Jung, Bowon Lee, Ton Kalker
Pattern Recognition Letters, Vol. 33, No. 4, pp. 373–380, March 2012
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Multiview Image and Video Interpolation Using Weighted Vector Median Filters
Guilherme Fickel, Claudio R. Jung, and Bowon Lee
In Proceedings of International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2014), Paris, France, October 27–30, 2014
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Objective Quality Assessment of Echo-Impaired Full-Band Speech Signals
Flávio R. Ávila, Leonardo O. Nunes, Luiz W. P. Biscainho, Alan F. Tygel, and Bowon Lee
In Proceedings of International Telecommunications Symposium (ITS 2014), São Paulo, Brazil, August 17–20, 2014
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Impact of View Angular Density on the User Experience in a Multiview Interactive 3D Environment
Felipe M. L. Ribeiro, Jose F. L. de Oliveira, Alexandre Ciancio, Eduardo A. B. da Silva, Luiz G. C. Tavares, Jonathan N. Gois, Cassius D. Estrada, Amir Said, and Bowon Lee
In Proceedings of Eighth International Workshop on Video Processing and Quality Metrics for Consumer Electronics (VPQM 2014), Chandler, Arizona, January 30–31, 2014
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The Sound of Silence
Wai-tian Tan, Mary Baker, Bowon Lee, and Ramin Samadani
In Proceedings of ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2013), Rome, Italy, November 11–15, 2013
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Closed-Form Solutions for Robust Acoustic Sensor Localization
Diego B. Haddad, Leonardo O. Nunes, Wallace A. Martins, Luiz W. P. Biscainho, and Bowon Lee
In Proceedings of IEEE International Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA 2013), New Paltz, New York, October 20–23, 2013.
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Time-of-Flight Selection for Improved Acoustic Sensor Localization Using Multiple Loudspeakers
Wallace A. Martins, Leonardo O. Nunes, Diego B. Haddad, Luiz W. P. Biscainho, Markus V. S. Lima, Mauricio do V. M. da Costa, and Bowon Lee
In Proceedings of SBrT 2013
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Determining Co-location Using A Sequential Hypothesis Test on Patterns of Silence
Wai-tian Tan, Ramin Samadani, Bowon Lee, and Mary Baker
In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2013), Vancouver, BC, Canada, pp. 503–507, May 26–31, 2013
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Robust User Context Analysis for Multimodal Interfaces
Prasenjit Dey, Muthuselvam Selvaraj, and Bowon Lee
In Proceedings of 13th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2011), Alicante, Spain, pp. 81–88, November 14–18, 2011
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A System Approach to Acoustic Echo Cancellation in Robust Hands-Free Teleconferencing
Jason Wung, Ted Wada, Biing-Hwang Juang, Bowon Lee, Mitch Trott, and Ronald Schafer
In Proceedings of IEEE International Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA 2011), New Paltz, New York, pp. 101–104, October 16–19, 2011
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Monitoring Scenario for Non-Intrusive Quality Assessment of Teleconference Systems
Leonardo O. Nunes, Flávio R. Ávila, Luiz W. P. Biscainho, Bowon Lee, Amir Said, and Ronald W. Schafer
In Proceedings of SBrT 2011
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Correlogram Template Matching for Time-Delay Estimation
Bowon Lee, Ton Kalker, and Ronald W. Schafer
In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2011), Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 2456–2459, May 22–27, 2011
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A System Approach to Residual Echo Suppression In Robust Hands-Free Teleconferencing
Jason Wung, Ted Wada, Biing-Hwang Juang, Bowon Lee, Ton Kalker, and Ronald Schafer
In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2011), Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 445–448, May 22–27, 2011
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Spectral Entropy-Based Voice Activity Detector for Videoconfencing Systems
Bowon Lee and Debargha Muhkerjee
In Proceedings of 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH 2010), Makuhari, Japan, pp. 3106–3109, September 26–30, 2010
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A Vectorized Method for Computationally Efficient SRP-PHAT Sound Source Localization
Bowon Lee and Ton Kalker
In Proceedings of 12th International Workshop on Acoustic Echo and Noise Control (IWAENC 2010), Tel Aviv, Israel, August 30–September 2, 2010
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A GPU Implementation of the SRP-PHAT Sound Source Localization Algorithm
Luiz Gonzaga da Silveira Jr., Vicente Peruffo Minotto, Claudio Rosito Jung, and Bowon Lee
In Proceedings of 12th International Workshop on Acoustic Echo and Noise Control (IWAENC 2010), Tel Aviv, Israel, August 30–September 2, 2010
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Speech enhancement based on log-spectral amplitude estimator and a postfilter derived from clean speech codebook
Jason Wung, Biing-Hwang (Fred) Juang, and Bowon Lee
In Proceedings of European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2010), Aalborg, Denmark, August 23–27, 2010
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Massively Parallel Processing of Signals in Dense Microphone Arrays
Amir Said, Ton Kalker, Bowon Lee, and Majid Fozunbal
In Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS 2010), Paris, France, pp. 3080–3083, May 30–June 2, 2010
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Multichannel Voice Activity Detection With Spherically Invariant Sparse Distributions
Bowon Lee and Ton Kalker
In Proceedings of IEEE International Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA 2009), New Paltz, New York, October 18–21, 2009
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A Teleconference Model with Acoustic Impairments Suitable for Speech Quality Assessment
Flávio R. Ávila, Luiz W. P. Biscainho, Leonardo de O. Nunes, Alan F. Tygel, Bowon Lee, Amir Said, Ton Kalker, and Ronald W. Schafer
In Proceedings of SBrT 2009
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ConnectBoard: A remote collaboration system that supports gaze-aware interaction and sharing (Top 10% Award)
Kar-Han Tan, Ian Robinson, Ramin Samadani, Bowon Lee, Dan Gelb, Alex Vorbau, Bruce Culbertson, and John Apostolopoulos
In Proceedings of IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP 2009), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, October 5–7, 2009
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Quality Assessment of Audio: Increasing Applicability Scope of Objective Methods via Prior Identification of Impairment Types
Paulo A. A. Esquef, Luiz W. P. Biscainho, Leonardo O. Nunes, Bowon Lee, Amir Said, Ton Kalker, and Ronald W. Schafer
In Proceedings of IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP 2009), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil October 5–7, 2009
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An Objective Method for Quality Assessment of Ultra-Wideband Speech Corrupted by Echo (Top 10% Award)
Luiz W. P. Biscainho, Paulo A. A. Esquef, Fábio P. Freeland, Leonardo O. Nunes, Alan F. Tygel, Bowon Lee, Amir Said, Ton Kalker, and Ronald W. Schafer
In Proceedings of IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP 2009), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, October 5–7, 2009
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Feature Analysis for Quality Assessment of Reverberated Speech
Amaro A. de Lima, Thiago de M. Prego, Sergio L. Netto, Bowon Lee, Amir Said, Ronald W. Schafer, Ton Kalker, and Majid Fozunbal
In Proceedings of IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP 2009), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, October 5-7, 2009
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A Phonemic Restoration Approach for Automatic Speech Recognition With Highly Nonstationary Background Noise
Bowon Lee and Mark Hasegawa-Johnson
In Proceedings of the 4th Biennial Workshop on DSP for In-Vehicle Systems and Safety, Dallas, Texas, June 2009
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Maximum a posteriori Multimodal 3D Object Localization With a Depth Sensor and Stereo Microphones
Bowon Lee and Kar-Han Tan
In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Immersive Telecommunications (IMMERSCOM 2009), Berkeley, California, May 27–29, 2009
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Solving the Acoustic Echo Cancellation Problem in Double-Talk Scenario Using Non-Guassianity of the Near-End Signal
Intae Lee, Charles E. Kinney, Bowon Lee and Antonius A. C. M. Kalker
In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Independent Component Analysis and Signal Separation (ICA 2009), Paraty, Brazil, March 15–18, 2009
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Maximum-Likelihood Sound Source Localization With a Multivariate Complex Laplacian Distribution
Bowon Lee, Ton Kalker, and Ronald W. Schafer
In Proceedings of 11th International Workshop on Acoustic Echo and Noise Control (IWAENC 2008), Seattle, Washington, September 14–17. 2008
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Reverberation Assessment in Audioband Speech Signals for Telepresence Systems
Amaro A. Lima, Fábio 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, and Antonius Kalker
In Proceedings of International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications (SIGMAP 2008), Porto, Portugal, pp. 257–262, July 26–29, 2008
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Quality Evaluation of Reverberation in Audioband Speech Signals
Amaro A. Lima, Sergio, L. Netto, Luiz W. P. Biscainho, Fábio P. Freeland, Bruno C. Bispo, Rafael A. de Jesus, Ronald Schafer, Amir Said, Bowon Lee, and Ton Kalker
In Proceedings of International Conference on E-Business and Telecommunications (ICETE 2008), Porto, Portugal, pp. 384–396, July 26–29, 2008
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On the Quality Assessment of Sound Signals
Amaro A. Lima, Fábio 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
In Proceedings of International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS 2008), Seattle, Washington, pp. 416–419, May 18–21, 2008
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Maximum Likelihood Time Delay Estimation with Phase Domain Analysis in the Generalized Cross Correlation Framework
Bowon Lee, Amir Said, Ton Kalker, Ronald W. Schafer
In Proceedings of Hands-Free Speech Communication and Microphone Arrays, (HSCMA 2008), Trento, Italy, pp.89–92, May 6–8, 2008