Kok-Lim Low

Dr. Low Kok Lim is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science of the School of Computing at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He received his Ph.D. degree (2006) in Computer Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He holds a B.Sc. (Honours) degree (1996) in Computer and Information Sciences and a M.Sc. degree (1997) in Computer Science from the National University of Singapore.

Dr. Low's main research area is in Computer Graphics. One of his research interests is the use of computational methods to design and create artworks. His research in this has produced interesting methods to automate the design of various types of artistic papercraft. His interest in computational art has also extended into computational photography, where he applies computational methods to enhance aesthetics in photographs. Dr. Low has also been working on real-time computer graphics rendering, especially on the adaptation of traditional global illumination effects for real-time rendering on the GPU.

Dr. Low has served as dissertation advisor for Ph.D. and Master's students in the School of Computing, NUS. He has also been on numerous graduate students' thesis committees, and has guided many undergraduate students in their undergraduate research projects. As a lecturer, besides teaching advanced undergraduate courses in computer graphics, real-time rendering, and GPGPU, he also enjoys teaching basic computing courses to fresh undergraduate students. For his commitment to good teaching, Dr. Low has been awarded the Faculty Teaching Excellence Award several times, and has been placed on the Faculty Teaching Excellence Honour Roll.

Education

• Ph.D. (Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, U.S.A, 2006)
• M.Sc. (Computer Science, National University of Singapore, 1997)
• B.Sc. (Computer Science, Honours, National University of Singapore, 1996)

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Computational Art
• Real-Time 3D Rendering
• Computational Photography / Image Manipulation

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• Aesthetics-Driven Stereoscopic 3D Image Recomposition with Depth Adaptation. Md Baharul Islam, Lai-Kuan Wong, Kok-Lim Low, and Chee-Onn Wong. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia TMM, March 2018.
• Generating Animated Paper Pop-ups from the Motion of Articulated Characters. Conrado R. Ruiz Jr., Sang N. Le, and Kok-Lim Low. In The Visual Computer, Volume 31, Proceedings of Computer Graphics International Conference 2015 CGI 2015.
• Multi-style Paper Pop-up Designs from 3D Models. Conrado R. Ruiz Jr., Sang N. Le, Jinze Yu, and Kok-Lim Low. In Computer Graphics Forum, 332, 2014, Proceedings of EUROGRAPHICS 2014.
• Surface and Contour-Preserving Origamic Architecture Paper Pop-Ups. Sang N. Le, Su-Jun Leow, Tuong-Vu Le-Nguyen, Conrado Ruiz Jr., and Kok-Lim Low. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics TVCG, Volume 20 Issue 2, February 2014.
• Automatic Paper Sliceform Design from 3D Solid Models. Tuong-Vu Le-Nguyen, Kok-Lim Low, Conrado Ruiz Jr., and Sang N. Le. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics TVCG, Volume 19 Issue 11, November 2013.
• Aligning Images in the Wild. Wen-Yan Lin, Linlin Liu, Yasuyuki Matsushita, Kok-Lim Low, and Siying Liu. IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2012 CVPR 2012.
• Enhancing Visual Dominance by Semantics-Preserving Image Recomposition. Lai-Kuan Wong and Kok-Lim Low. ACM International Conference on Multimedia 2012 ACM Multimedia 2012.
• Tearable Image Warping for Extreme Retargeting. Lai-Kuan Wong and Kok-Lim Low. Computer Graphics International Conference 2012 CGI 2012.
• SandCanvas: A Multi-touch Art Medium Inspired by Sand Animation. R. H. Kazi, K.-C. Chua, S. Zhao, R. C. Davis, Kok-Lim Low. ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2011 CHI 2011.
• Saliency Retargeting: An Approach to Enhance Image Aesthetics. Lai-Kuan Wong and Kok-Lim Low. IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision 2011 WACV 2011.
• Multi-Resolution Screen-Space Ambient Occlusion. Thai-Duong Hoang and Kok-Lim Low. Computer Graphics International Conference 2011 CGI 2011.
• Saliency-Enhanced Image Aesthetics Class Prediction. Lai-Kuan Wong and Kok-Lim Low*. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing 2009 ICIP 2009.
• Fast Visualization of Complex 3D Models Using Displacement Mapping. The-Kiet Lu, Kok-Lim Low*, and Jianmin Zheng. Graphics Interface Conference 2009 GI 2009.
• An Adaptive Hierarchical Next-Best-View Algorithm for 3D Reconstruction of Indoor Scenes. Kok-Lim Low* and Anselmo Lastra. Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications 2006 Pacific Graphics 2006.
• Combining Head-Mounted and Projector-Based Displays for Surgical Training. Kok-Lim Low*, Adrian Ilie, Greg Welch and Anselmo Lastra. IEEE Virtual Reality Conference 2003 VR’03.
• Blending Multiple Views. Ramesh Raskar and Kok-Lim Low*. Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications 2002 Pacific Graphics 2002.
• Shader Lamps: Animating Real Objects with Image-Based Illumination. Ramesh Raskar, Greg Welch, Kok-Lim Low* and Deepak Bandyopadhyay. Eurographics Workshop on Rendering Techniques 2001 EGWR’01.
• Model Simplification Using Vertex-Clustering. Kok-Lim Low* and Tiow-Seng Tan. ACM Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics 1997 I3DG’97.

AWARDS & HONOURS

2017 — Faculty Teaching Excellence Award (for AY2016/2017), School of Computing, NUS

2016 — Faculty Teaching Excellence Award (for AY2015/2016), School of Computing, NUS

2014 — Faculty Teaching Excellence Award (for AY2013/2014), School of Computing, NUS

2015 — Best Paper Award, Computer Graphics International Conference 2015

2011 — Honorable Mention Award, ACM CHI 2011