publications

Selected journal and conference publications in thermal infrared perception, robotics, and computer vision.

An up-to-date list is available on Google Scholar.

International Journals

2024

  1. Thermal Chameleon: Task-Adaptive Tone-Mapping for Radiometric Thermal-Infrared Images
    Dong-Guw Lee, Jeongyun Kim, Younggun Cho, and 1 more author
    IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2024

2023

  1. Night-to-day thermal image translation for deep thermal place recognition
    Dong-Guw Lee, Hyeonjae Gil, Seungsang Yun, and 2 more authors
    Intelligent Service Robotics, 2023
  2. Motion Similarity-based Safety Hook Fastening State Recognition via Deep Siamese Neural Networks
    Kyu-Seob Song, Jong Gwan Lim, Dong-Guw Lee, and 1 more author
    IEEE Sensors Letters, 2023

2022

  1. A motion similarity measurement method of two mobile devices for safety hook fastening state recognition
    Kyu-Seob Song, Sangseung Kang, Dong-Guw Lee, and 3 more authors
    IEEE Access, 2022

International Conferences

2026

  1. Thera: Thermal-Aware Visual-Language Prompting for Controllable RGB-to-Thermal Infrared Translation
    Dong-Guw Lee, Tai Hyoung Rhee, Hyunsoo Jang, and 3 more authors
    In IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2026
  2. Tidy: Thermal Infrared Image Denoising via Wavelet Domain Entropy and Directional Stripe Index
    Tai Hyoung Rhee, Dong-Guw Lee, and Ayoung Kim
    In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2026

2025

  1. TIR-Diffusion: Diffusion-Based Thermal Infrared Image Denoising via Latent and Wavelet Domain Optimization
    Tai Hyoung Rhee, Dong-Guw Lee, and Ayoung Kim
    In ICRA 2025 Thermal Infrared in Robotics Workshop, 2025
  2. Transplat: Surface Embedding-Guided 3D Gaussian Splatting for Transparent Object Manipulation
    Jeongyun Kim, Jeongho Noh, Dong-Guw Lee, and 1 more author
    In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 2025

2023

  1. Edge-Guided Multi-Domain RGB-to-TIR Image Translation for Training Vision Tasks with Challenging Labels
    Dong-Guw Lee, Myung-Hwan Jeon, Younggun Cho, and 1 more author
    In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 2023

2022

  1. Sequential Thermal Image-Based Adult and Baby Detection Robust to Thermal Residual Heat Marks
    Dong-Guw Lee, Kyu-Seob Song, Young-Hoon Nho, and 2 more authors
    In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Oct 2022

Domestic Journals