All publications - prof. Ing. Daniel Sýkora, Ph.D.

2021

• FaceBlit: Instant Real-time Example-based Style Transfer to Facial Videos

  Texler, A. - Texler, O. - Kučera, M. - Chai, M., - Sýkora, D.

  Proceedings of the ACM on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques. 2021, 4(1), ISSN 2577-6193.

• STALP: Style Transfer With Auxiliary Limited Pairing

  Futschik, D. - Kučera, M. - Lukáč, M. - Wang, Z. - Shechtman, E., - Sýkora, D.

  Computer Graphics Forum. 2021, 40(2), 563-573. ISSN 0167-7055.

2020

• Interactive style transfer to live video streams

  Texler, O. - Futschik, D. - Kučera, M. - Jamriška, O. - Sochorová, Š. - Chai, M. - Tulyakov, S., - Sýkora, D.

  In: SIGGRAPH '20: ACM SIGGRAPH 2020 Real-Time Live!. New York: ACM, 2020. ISBN 978-1-4503-8060-7.

• Generating a stylized image or stylized animation by matching semantic features via an appearance guide, a segmentation guide, and/or a temporal guide

  Fišer, J. - Jamriška, O. - Simons, D. - Shechtman, E. - Lu, J. - Asente, P. - Lukáč, M., - Sýkora, D.

  United States. Patent US10783691. 2020-09-22.

• Generating target-character-animation sequences based on style-aware puppets patterned after source-character-animation sequences

  Dvorožňák, M. - Li, W. - Kim, V., - Sýkora, D.

  United States. Patent US10789754. 2020-09-29.

• StyleProp: Real-time Example-based Stylization of 3D Models

  Hauptfleisch, F. - Texler, O. - Texler, A. - Křivánek, J., - Sýkora, D.

  COMPUTER GRAPHICS FORUM. 2020, 39(7), 575-586. ISSN 0167-7055.

• Monster Mash: A Single-View Approach to Casual 3D Modeling and Animation

  Dvorožňák, M. - Sýkora, D. - Curtis, C. - Curless, B. - Sorkine-Hornung, O., - Salesin, D.

  ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG). 2020, 39(6), ISSN 0730-0301.

• Interactive Video Stylization Using Few-Shot Patch-Based Training

  Texler, O. - Futschik, D. - Kučera, M. - Jamriška, O. - Sochorová, Š. - Chai, M. - Tulyakov, S., - Sýkora, D.

  ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG). 2020, 39(4), ISSN 0730-0301.

• Arbitrary style transfer using neurally-guided patch-based synthesis

  Texler, O. - Futschik, D. - Fišer, J. - Lukáč, M. - Lu, J. - Shechtman, E., - Sýkora, D.

  Computers & Graphics. 2020, 87(1), 62-71. ISSN 0097-8493.

2019

• Generating a stylized image or stylized animation by matching semantic features via an appearance guide, a segmentation guide, and/or a temporal guide

  Fišer, J. - Jamriška, O. - Simons, D. - Shechtman, E. - Lu, J. - Asente, P. - Lukáč, M., - Sýkora, D.

  United States. Patent 10,504,267. 2019-12-10.

• Controlling patch-usage in image synthesis

  Fišer, J. - Jamriška, O. - Lukáč, M. - Shechtman, E. - Asente, P. - Lu, J., - Sýkora, D.

  United Kingdom. Patent 2551256. 2019-01-09.

• StyleBlit

  Jamriška, O. - Sýkora, D.

  [Software] 2019.

• Illumination-guided example-based stylization of 3D renderings

  Fišer, J. - Jamriška, O. - Lukáč, M. - Shechtman, E. - Asente, P. - Lu, J., - Sýkora, D.

  United States. Patent 10,176,624. 2019-01-08.

• Stylizing Video by Example

  Jamriška, O. - Sochorová, Š. - Texler, O. - Lukáč, M. - Fišer, J. - Lu, J. - Shechtman, E., - Sýkora, D.

  ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG). 2019, 38(4), ISSN 0730-0301.

• Building anatomically realistic jaw kinematics model from data

  Yang, W. - Marshak, N. - Sýkora, D. - Ramalingam, S., - Kavan, L.

  The Visual Computer. 2019, 35(6-8), 1105-1118. ISSN 0178-2789.

• StyleBlit: Fast Example-Based Stylization with Local Guidance

  Sýkora, D. - Jamriška, O. - Texler, O. - Fišer, J. - Lukáč, M. - Lu, J., - Shechtman, E.

  COMPUTER GRAPHICS FORUM. 2019, 38(2), 83-91. ISSN 0167-7055.

• Real-Time Patch-Based Stylization of Portraits Using Generative Adversarial Network

  Futschik, D. - Chai, M. - Cao, C. - Ma, C. - Stoliar, A. - Korolev, S. - Tulyakov, S. - Kučera, M., - Sýkora, D.

  In: Proceedings of the 8th ACM/EG Expressive Symposium. Aire-la-Ville: Eurographics Association, 2019. p. 33-42. ISBN 978-3-03868-078-9.

• Enhancing Neural Style Transfer using Patch-Based Synthesis

  Texler, O. - Fišer, J. - Lukáč, M. - Lu, J. - Shechtman, E., - Sýkora, D.

  In: Proceedings of the 8th ACM/EG Expressive Symposium. Aire-la-Ville: Eurographics Association, 2019. p. 43-50. ISBN 978-3-03868-078-9.

2018

• Let's make digital animation great again!

  Sýkora, D.

  [Unpublished Lecture] Tschechischen Zentrum. 2018-02-27.

• Can a Machine Become an Artist?

  Sýkora, D.

  [Unpublished Lecture] Future Port Prague 2018. 2018-09-07.

• Let the machine become the next Rembrandt!

  Sýkora, D.

  [Unpublished Lecture] The 42nd Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision Colloquium, Spring 2018. 2018-04-05.

• Artistic Style Transfer Demystified

  Sýkora, D.

  [Unpublished Lecture] EuroVis 2018. 2018-06-08.

• Seamless Reconstruction of Part-Based High-Relief Models from Hand-Drawn Images

  Dvorožňák, M. - Nejad, S. - Jamriška, O. - Jacobson, A. - Kavan, L., - Sýkora, D.

  In: Proceedings of the Joint Symposium on Computational Aesthetics and Sketch-Based Interfaces and Modeling and Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering. New York: ACM, 2018. ISBN 978-1-4503-5892-7.

• FTP-SC: Fuzzy Topology Preserving Stroke Correspondence

  Yang, W. - Seah, H.-S. - Chen, Q. - Liew, H.-Z., - Sýkora, D.

  Computer Graphics Forum. 2018, 37(8), 125-135. ISSN 0167-7055.

• Automated Outdoor Depth-Map Generation and Alignment

  Čadík, M. - Sýkora, D., - Lee, S.

  Computers & Graphics. 2018, 74 109-118. ISSN 0097-8493.

• ToonSynth: Example-Based Synthesis of Hand-Colored Cartoon Animations

  Dvorožňák, M. - Li, W. - Kim, V., - Sýkora, D.

  ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG). 2018, 37(4), ISSN 0730-0301.

• Illumination-guided example-based stylization of 3D renderings

  Fišer, J. - Jamriška, O. - Lukáč, M. - Shechtman, E. - Asente, P. - Lu, J., - Sýkora, D.

  United States. Patent 9,881,413. 2018-01-30.

• Controlling patch usage in image synthesis

  Fišer, J. - Jamriška, O. - Lukáč, M. - Shechtman, E. - Asente, P. - Lu, J., - Sýkora, D.

  United States. Patent 9,905,054. 2018-02-27.

• Appearance transfer techniques

  Jamriška, O. - Fišer, J. - Asente, P. - Lu, J. - Shechtman, E., - Sýkora, D.

  United States. Patent 9,870,638. 2018-01-16.

2017

• Appearance transfer techniques maintaining temporal coherence

  Jamriška, O. - Fišer, J. - Asente, P. - Lu, J. - Shechtman, E., - Sýkora, D.

  United States. Patent 9,852,523. 2017-12-26.

• Nautilus: Recovering Regional Symmetry Transformations for Image Editing

  Lukáč, M. - Sýkora, D. - Sunkavalli, K. - Shechtman, E. - Jamriška, O. - Carr, N., - Pajdla, T.

  ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG). 2017, 36(4), ISSN 0730-0301.

• Example-Based Expressive Animation of 2D Rigid Bodies

  Dvorožňák, M. - Bénard, P. - Barla, P. - Wang, O., - Sýkora, D.

  ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG). 2017, 36(4), ISSN 0730-0301.

• Example-Based Synthesis of Stylized Facial Animations

  Fišer, J. - Jamriška, O. - Simons, D. - Shechtman, E. - Lu, J. - Asente, P. - Lukáč, M., - Sýkora, D.

  ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG). 2017, 36(4), ISSN 0730-0301.

• Back to the Roots: Bridging the Gap Between Hand-Drawn and Computer-Generated

  Sýkora, D.

  [Unpublished Lecture] SCCG 2017. 2017-05-15.

• Helping Charming Hand-Drawn to Survive in Cruel CG

  Sýkora, D.

  [Unpublished Lecture] Demobit 2017. 2017-01-28.

• StyLit: Example-Based Stylization of 3D Renderings

  Sýkora, D.

  [Unpublished Lecture] FMX 2017. 2017-05-02.

• Syntéza obrazu založená na předloze

  Sýkora, D.

  Vesmír. 2017, 96(5), 268-269. ISSN 1214-4029.

2016

• Algoritmus StyLit

  Sýkora, D.

  Pražská technika. 2016, 18(6), 26-27. ISSN 1213-5348.

• Bridging the Gap Between Hand-Drawn and Computer-Generated

  Sýkora, D.

  [Unpublished Lecture] Walt Disney Animation Studios. 2016-07-29.

• StyLit: Illumination-Guided Example-Based Stylization of 3D Renderings

  Fišer, J. - Jamriška, O. - Lukáč, M. - Shechtman, E. - Asente, P. - Lu, J., - Sýkora, D.

  ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG). 2016, 35(4), ISSN 0730-0301.

• Time Lapse Paintings

  Sýkora, D.

  [Unpublished Lecture] Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg. 2016-04-29.

• Advanced drawing beautification with ShipShape

  Fišer, J. - Asente, P. - Schiller, S., - Sýkora, D.

  Computers & Graphics. 2016, 56 46-58. ISSN 0097-8493.

• LazyFluids: Breaking the myth about flow-guided texture synthesis

  Sýkora, D.

  [Unpublished Lecture] VUT Brno. 2016-02-03.

2015

• Kostilam

  Jamriška, O. - Krupka, T. - Dvorožňák, M., - Sýkora, D.

  [Software] 2015.

• Brushables: Example-based Edge-aware Directional Texture Painting

  Lukáč, M. - Fišer, J. - Asente, P. - Lu, J. - Shechtman, E., - Sýkora, D.

  Computer Graphics Forum. 2015, 34(7), 257-267. ISSN 0167-7055.

• Renesance kresleného filmu

  Sýkora, D.

  Vesmír. 2015, 94(10), 576-579. ISSN 0042-4544.

• Temporal noise control for sketchy animation

  Noris, G. - Sýkora, D. - Coros, S. - Hornung, A. - Whited, B. - Simmons, M. - Gross, M., - Sumner, R.

  United States. Patent 9,123,145. 2015-09-01.

• Smart Scribbles for Sketch Segmentation

  Noris, G. - Sýkora, D. - Shamir, A. - Coros, S. - Hornung, A. - Sumner, R. - Simmons, M. - Whited, B., - Gross, M.

  United States. Patent 9,082,005. 2015-07-14.

• ShipShape: A Drawing Beautification Assistant

  Fišer, J. - Asente, P., - Sýkora, D.

  In: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Sketch-Based Interfaces and Modeling. Aire-la-Ville: Eurographics Association, 2015. p. 49-58. ISBN 978-3-905674-90-3.

• Decomposing Time-lapse Paintings into Layers

  Tan, J. - Dvorožňák, M. - Sýkora, D., - Gingold, Y.

  ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG). 2015, 34(4), ISSN 0730-0301.

• LazyFluids: Appearance Transfer for Fluid Animations

  Jamriška, O. - Fišer, J. - Asente, P. - Lu, J. - Shechtman, E., - Sýkora, D.

  ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG). 2015, 34(4), ISSN 0730-0301.

• Kreslený film jako počítačová věda

  Sýkora, D.

  [Unpublished Lecture] Obcanské sdružení pro podporu animovaného filmu, z.s.. 2015-05-07.

• Ink-and-Ray: Adding Global Illumination Effects to Hand-Drawn Characters

  Sýkora, D.

  [Unpublished Lecture] Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg. 2015-05-08.

2014

• Adding Depth to Hand-drawn Images

  Sýkora, D.

  [Unpublished Lecture] VUT Brno. 2014-11-19.

• Computational Hand-Drawn Animation

  Sýkora, D.

  Defense date 2014-11-12. Associate Professor Thesis. CTU FEE. Department of Computer Graphics and Interaction.

• Color Me Noisy: Example-based Rendering of Hand-colored Animations with Temporal Noise Control

  Fišer, J. - Lukáč, M. - Jamriška, O. - Čadík, M. - Gingold, Y. - Asente, P., - Sýkora, D.

  COMPUTER GRAPHICS FORUM. 2014, 33(4), 1-10. ISSN 0167-7055.

• Ink-and-Ray: Bas-Relief Meshes for Adding Global Illumination Effects to Hand-Drawn Characters

  Sýkora, D. - Kavan, L. - Čadík, M. - Jamriška, O. - Jacobson, A. - Whited, B. - Maryann, S., - Sorkine-Hornung, O.

  ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG). 2014, 33(2), ISSN 0730-0301.

2013

• Implementation of LazyBrush and TexToons algorithms

  Jamriška, O. - Fišer, J. - Dvorožňák, M., - Sýkora, D.

  [Research Report] Praha: České vysoké učení technické v Praze, Fakulta elektrotechnická, 2013.

• TexToons

  Fišer, J. - Sýkora, D.

  [Software] 2013.

• LazyBrush

  Jamriška, O. - Sýkora, D.

  [Software] 2013.

• Painting by Feature: Texture Boundaries for Example-based Image Creation

  Lukáč, M. - Fišer, J. - Bazin, J.-C. - Jamriška, O. - Sorkine-Hornung, A., - Sýkora, D.

  ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG). 2013, 32(4), ISSN 0730-0301.

• Computer-Assisted Repurposing of Existing Animations

  Sýkora, D. - Dingliana, J.

  In: Image and Video-based Artistic Stylisation. 2 ed. London: Springer, 2013. p. 285-308. Computational Imaging and Vision. vol. 42. ISBN 978-1-4471-4518-9.

• Optimizing Computation of Minimum Cut in Graphs with Grid Topology

  Jamriška, O. - Sýkora, D.

  United States. Patent 8,533,139. 2013-09-10.

2012

• GridCut

  Jamriška, O. - Sýkora, D.

  [Software] 2012.

• Smart Scribbles for Sketch Segmentation

  Noris, G. - Sýkora, D. - Shamir, A. - Coros, S. - Whited, B. - Simmons, M. - Hornung, A. - Gross, M., - Sumner, R.

  Computer Graphics Forum. 2012, 31(8), 2516-2527. ISSN 0167-7055.

• LazyBrush: Flexible Painting Tool for Hand-drawn Cartoons

  Sýkora, D.

  [Unpublished Lecture] Laboratory Imaging. 2012-09-17.

• Cache-efficient graph cuts on structured grids

  Jamriška, O. - Sýkora, D., - Hornung, A.

  In: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2012 IEEE Conference on. New York: IEEE Press, 2012. p. 3673-3680. ISSN 1063-6919. ISBN 978-1-4673-1228-8.

• TexToons: Practical Texture Mapping for Hand-drawn Cartoon Animations

  Sýkora, D.

  [Unpublished Lecture] Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg. 2012-05-09.

2011

• Towards 3D-like Look of Hand-drawn Cartoons

  Sýkora, D.

  [Unpublished Lecture] University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria. 2011-12-05.

• BallCam

  Bittner, J. - Sýkora, D.

  [Functional Sample] 2011.

• TexToons: Practical Texture Mapping for Hand-drawn Cartoon Animations

  Sýkora, D.

  [Unpublished Lecture] MFF UK. 2011-11-03.

• Towards 3D-like Look of Hand-drawn Cartoons

  Sýkora, D.

  [Unpublished Lecture] ČVUT FEL. 2011-10-13.

• Temporal Noise Control for Sketchy Animation

  Noris, G. - Sýkora, D. - Coros, S. - Whited, B. - Simmons, M. - Hornung, A. - Gross, M., - Sumner, R.

  In: Proceedings of International Symposium on Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering. New York: ACM SIGGRAPH, 2011. p. 93-98. ISBN 978-1-4503-0907-3.

• TexToons: Practical Texture Mapping for Hand-drawn Cartoon Animations

  Sýkora, D. - Ben-Chen, M. - Čadík, M. - Whited, B., - Simmons, M.

  In: Proceedings of International Symposium on Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering. New York: ACM SIGGRAPH, 2011. p. 75-83. ISBN 978-1-4503-0907-3.

2010

• LazyBrush: Twilight of the Flood Fill

  Sýkora, D.

  [Unpublished Lecture] MFF UK. 2010-11-29.

• Adding Depth to Cartoons Using Sparse Depth (In)equalities

  Sýkora, D. - Sedláček, D. - Jinchao, S. - Dingliana, J., - Collins, S.

  Computer Graphics Forum. 2010, 29(2), 615-623. ISSN 0167-7055.

2009

• LazyBrush: Flexible Painting Tool for Hand-drawn Cartoons

  Sýkora, D. - Dingliana, J., - Collins, S.

  Computer Graphics Forum. 2009, 28(2), 599-608. ISSN 0167-7055.

• As-rigid-as-possible image registration for hand-drawn cartoon animations

  Sýkora, D. - Dingliana, J., - Collins, S.

  In: NPAR '09: Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering. New York: ACM SIGGRAPH, 2009. p. 25-33. ISBN 978-1-60558-604-5.

2008

• Real-time Color Ball Tracking for Augmented Reality

  Sedláček, D. - Sýkora, D., - Riege, K.

  In: Virtual Environments 2008. EGVE 2008 - EG Symposium Proceedings. Aire-la-Ville: Eurographics Association, 2008. p. 9-16. ISSN 1727-530X. ISBN 978-3-905674-06-4.

• iCheat: A Representation for Artistic Control of Indirect Cinematic Lighting

  Obert, J. - Křivánek, J. - Pellacini, F. - Sýkora, D., - Pattanaik, S.

  Computer Graphics Forum. 2008, 27(4), 1217-1224. ISSN 0167-7055.

2007

• Interactive light transport editing for flexible global illumination

  Obert, J. - Křivánek, J. - Sýkora, D., - Pattanaik, S.

  In: International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, ACM SIGGRAPH 2007 sketches. New York: ACM, 2007. pp. 57.

2006

• Computer Assisted Analysis of Classical Cartoon Animations

  Sýkora, D.

  Praha: 2006. PhD Thesis. Czech Technical University in Prague.

2005

• Video Codec for Classical Cartoon Animations with Hardware Accelerated Playback

  Sýkora, D. - Buriánek, J., - Žára, J.

  In: Advances in Visual Computing. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2005. pp. 43-50. ISSN 0302-9743. ISBN 3-540-30750-8.

• Sketching Cartoons by Example

  Sýkora, D. - Buriánek, J., - Žára, J.

  In: Eurographics Workshop on Sketch-Based Interfaces and Modeling. Aire-la-Ville: Eurographics Association, 2005. p. 27-34. ISSN 1812-3503.

• Colorization of Black-and-White Cartoons

  Sýkora, D. - Buriánek, J., - Žára, J.

  Image and Vision Computing. 2005, 23(9), 767-782. ISSN 0262-8856.

2004

• Jak Rumcajs k barvám příšel

  Buriánek, J. - Sýkora, D.

  Pixel. 2004, 5(89), 30-33. ISSN 1211-5401.

• Color for Black-and-White Cartoons

  Sýkora, D. - Buriánek, J., - Žára, J.

  In: Workshop CVUT 2004. Praha: CTU. Publishing House, 2004. p. 184-185.

• Unsupervised Colorization of Black-and-White Cartoons

  Sýkora, D. - Buriánek, J., - Žára, J.

  In: Proceedings NPAR 2004 - 3rd International Symposium on Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering. New York: ACM SIGGRAPH, 2004. p. 121-128. ISBN 1-58113-887-3.

2003

• Segmentation of Black and White Cartoons

  Sýkora, D. - Buriánek, J., - Žára, J.

  In: Proceedings - Spring Conference on Computer Graphics 2003. New York: ACM SIGGRAPH, 2003. pp. 223-230. ISBN 1-58113-861-X.