San Francisco

Wilmot Li
Research Scientist

I completed my Ph.D. in computer science at the University of Washington, where I was a member of the Graphics and Imaging Laboratory (GRAIL) from 2000-2007. My thesis work presents new interactive visualization techniques that help users understand and explore complex 3D objects with many constituent parts (e.g., CAD models, anatomical datasets). I have also worked on interactive texture synthesis, adaptive document layout, and non-photorealistic rendering for virtual environments. From 1996-2000, I attended Princeton University, where I earned a BSE in computer science. I was born and raised in Toronto, Canada.

Projects

• Generating Photo Manipulation Tutorials and Macros by Demonstration
• Interactive Illustrations for Visualizing Complex 3D Objects
• Painting with Texture

Publications

• Karpenko, O., Li, W., Mitra, N., and Agrawala. M. 2010. Exploded View Diagrams of Mathematical Surfaces. In IEEE Vis 2010.
• Secord, A., Winnemoeller, H., Li, W., and Dontcheva. M. 2010. Creating Collection with Automatic Suggestions and Example-Based Refinement. In UIST 2010.
• Mitra, N., Yang, Y., Yan, D., Li, W., and Agrawala, M. 2010. Illustrating How Mechanical Assemblies Work. ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH), 29(4), 58:1–58:12.
• Hurst, N., Li, W., and Marriott, K. 2009. Review of Automatic Document Formatting.
  In DocEng 2009.
• Grabler, F., Agrawala, M., Li, W., Dontcheva. M., and Igarashi, T. 2009. Generating Photo Manipulation Tutorials by Demonstration. ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH). 28(3), 66:1–66:9.
• Li, W., Agrawala, M., Curless, B., and Salesin, D. H. 2008. Automated Generation of Interactive 3D Exploded View Diagrams. ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH), 27(3), 101:1–101:7.
• Li, Wilmot 2007. Interactive Illustrations for Visualizing Complex 3D Objects, PhD Thesis, University of Washington.
• Li, W., Ritter, L., Agrawala, M., Curless, B., and Salesin, D. H. 2007. Interactive Cutaway Illustrations of Complex 3D Models. ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH), 26(3), 31:1–31:11.
• Ritter, L., Li, W., Curless, B., Agrawala, M., and Salesin, D. H. 2006. Painting with Texture. In Rendering Techniques 2006: 17th Eurographics Workshop on Rendering, 371–376.
• Li, W., Agrawala, M., and Salesin, D. H. 2004. Interactive Image-based Exploded View Diagrams. In Graphics Interface 2004, 203–212.
• Jacobs, C., Li, W., Schrier, E., Bargeron, D., and Salesin, D. H. 2004. Adaptive document Layout. Communications of the ACM, 47(8), 60–66.
• Jacobs, C., Li, W., and Salesin, D. H. 2003. Adaptive Document Layout via Manifold Content. In Proc. Workshop on Web Document Analysis.
• Jacobs, C., Li, W., Schrier, E., Bargeron, D., and Salesin, D. H. 2003. Adaptive Grid-based Document Layout. ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH), 22(3), 838–847.
• Klein, A. W., Li, W., Kazhdan, M. M., Correa, W. T., Finkelstein, A., and Funkhouser, T. A. 2000. Non-photorealistic Virtual Environments. In Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH 2000, 527–534.