Academic Profile : Faculty

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Assoc Prof Lu Shijian
Associate Professor, College of Computing & Data Science
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Biography

Shijian received his PhD in electrical and computer engineering from the National University of Singapore. He is currently an Associate Professor with the College of Computing & Data Science, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. His major research interests include image and video analytics, visual intelligence, and machine learning. He has published more than 100 international refereed journal and conference papers and co-authored up to10 patents in these research areas. Before joining NTU, he took a number of leadership roles in the Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), under the Agency for Science, Technology, and Research (A*STAR) in Singapore, including Head of Visual Attention Lab, Deputy Head of Satellite Department, Co-Chair of the Image and Pervasive Access Laboratory. He is currently an Associate Editor for the journal Pattern Recognition (PR) and Neurocomputing. He has also served in the program committee of a number of conferences such as the Senior Program Committee of the International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence and Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence.

Research Interests

Computer Vision and Sensing
Image and Video Analytics
Visual Intelligence
Deep Learning
 

Current Grants

  • Automated Synthesis of High-Fidelity Images for Deep Network Training
  • LADIS: Learnable Augmentation for Data-Limited Image Synthesis
  • Simple and Efficient 3D Modelling with Neural Radiance Fields
  • Toward Ubiquitous 3D Perception and Recognition via Generation and Adaptation of Point Cloud Data

Awards & Recognition

Awards
1st position in Document Image Binarization Competition 2009.
1st position in Handwritten Document Image Binarization Competition 2010.
1st position in Document Image Binarization Competition 2013.
1st and 2nd position in subtasks in the Robust Reading Contest 2013.
 

Teaching

Courses Taught
Computer Vision