Daniel Sýkora

Courses

• Pokročilé metody interaktivní editace obrazu

  Předmět srozumitelným způsobem prezentuje řadu moderních metod interaktivní editace digitálního obrazu a videa. Důraz je kladen především na algoritmy, které vynikají jednoduchostí implementace, ale zároveň mají zajímavý teoretický základ. Umožňuje tak skrze vizuálně atraktivní aplikace proniknout k hlubším…

  https://moodle.fel.cvut.cz/course/B4M39AIM
  

 

Selected publications

• STALP: Style Transfer With Auxiliary Limited Pairing

  David Futschik, Michal Kučera, Michal Lukáč, Zhaowen Wang, Eli Schechtman, Daniel Sýkora

  Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of Eurographics 2021) 40(2):563-573, 2021.
  

• Fluidymation: Stylizing Animations Using Natural Dynamics of Artistic Media

  Adam Platkevič, Cassidy Curtis, Daniel Sýkora

  Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of Pacific Graphics 2021) 40(7):21-32, 2021.
  

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

  Aneta Texler, Ondřej Texler, Michal Kučera, Menglei Chai, Daniel Sýkora

  Proceedings of the ACM in Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques (Proceedings of I3D 2021) 4(1):14, 2021.
  

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

  Marek Dvorožňák, Daniel Sýkora, Cassidy Curtis, Brian Curless, Olga Sorkine-Hornung, David Salesin

  ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH Asia 2020) 39(6):214, 2020.
  

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

  Filip Hauptfleisch, Ondřej Texler, Aneta Texler, Jaroslav Křivánek, Daniel Sýkora

  Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of Pacific Graphics 2020) 39(7):575-586, 2020.
  

• Arbitrary Style Transfer Using Neurally-guided Patch-based Synthesis

  Ondřej Texler, David Futschik, Jakub Fišer, Michal Lukáč, Jingwan Lu, Eli Shechtman, Daniel Sýkora

  Computers & Graphics 87(1):62-71, 2020.
  

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

  Ondřej Texler, David Futschik, Michal Kučera, Ondřej Jamriška, Šárka Sochorová, Meglei Chai, Sergey Tulyakov, Daniel Sýkora

  ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2020) 39(4):73, 2020.
  

• Stylizing Video by Example

  Ondřej Jamriška, Šárka Sochorová, Ondřej Texler, Michal Lukáč, Jakub Fišer, Jingwan Lu, Eli Shechtman, Daniel Sýkora

  ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2019) 38(4):107, 2019.
  

• StyleBlit: Fast Example-Based Stylization with Local Guidance

  Daniel Sýkora, Ondřej Jamriška, Ondřej Texler, Jakub Fišer, Michal Lukáč, Jingwan Lu, Eli Shechtman

  Comuter Graphics Forum (Proceedings of Eurographics 2019) 38(2):83-91, 2019.
  

• Building Anatomically Realistic Jaw Kinematics Model from Data

  Wenwu Yang, Nathan Marshak, Daniel Sýkora, Srikumar Ramalingam, Ladislav Kavan

  The Visual Computer (Proceedings of CGI 2019) 35(6-8):1105-1118, 2019.
  

• Automated Outdoor Depth-Map Generation and Alignment

  Martin Čadík, Daniel Sýkora, Sungkil Lee

  Computers & Graphics 74(1):109-118, 2018.
  

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

  Marek Dvorožňák, Wilmot Li, Vova Kim, Daniel Sýkora

  ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2018) 37(4):167, 2018.
  

• FTP-SC: Fuzzy Topology Preserving Stroke Correspondence

  Wenwu Yang, Hock-Soon Seah, Quan Chen, Hong-Ze Liew, Daniel Sýkora

  Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of SCA 2018) 37(8):125-135, 2018.
  

• Example-Based Expressive Animation of 2D Rigid Bodies

  Marek Dvorožňák, Pierre Bénard, Pascal Barla, Oliver Wang, Daniel Sýkora

  ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2017) 36(4):127, 2017.
  

• Example-Based Synthesis of Stylized Facial Animations

  Jakub Fišer, Ondřej Jamriška, David Simons, Eli Shechtman, Jingwan Lu, Paul Asente, Michal Lukáč, Daniel Sýkora

  ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2017) 36(4):155, 2017.
  

• Nautilus: Recovering Regional Symmetry Transformations for Image Editing

  Michal Lukáč, Daniel Sýkora, Kalyan Sunkavalli, Eli Shechtman, Ondřej Jamriška, Nathan Carr, Tomáš Pajdla

  ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2017) 36(4):108, 2017.
  

• Advanced Drawing Beautification with ShipShape

  Jakub Fišer, Paul Asente, Stephen Schiller, Daniel Sýkora

  Computers & Graphics 34(1):46-58, 2016.
  

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

  Jakub Fišer, Ondřej Jamriška, Michal Lukáč, Eli Shechtman, Paul Asente, Jingwan Lu, Daniel Sýkora

  ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2016) 35(4):92, 2016.
  

• LazyFluids: Appearance Transfer for Fluid Animations

  Ondřej Jamriška, Jakub Fišer, Paul Asente, Jingwan Lu, Eli Shechtman, Daniel Sýkora

  ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2015) 34(4):92, 2015.
  

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

  Michal Lukáč, Jakub Fišer, Paul Asente, Jingwan Lu, Eli Shechtman, Daniel Sýkora

  Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of PG 2015) 34(7):257-268, 2015.
  

• Decomposing Time-lapse Paintings into Layers

  Jianchao Tan, Marek Dvorožňák, Daniel Sýkora, Yotam Gingold

  ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2015) 34(4):61, 2015.
  

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

  Jakub Fišer, Michal Lukáč, Ondřej Jamriška, Martin Čadík, Yotam Gingold, Paul Asente, Daniel Sýkora

  Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of EGSR 2014) 33(4):1-10, 2014.
  

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

  Daniel Sýkora, Ladislav Kavan, Martin Čadík, Ondřej Jamriška, Alec Jacobson, Brian Whited, Maryann Simmons, Olga Sorkine-Hornung

  ACM Transactions on Graphics 33(2):16, 2014.
  

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

  Michal Lukáč, Jakub Fišer, Jean-Charles Bazin, Ondřej Jamriška, Alexander Sorkine-Hornung, Daniel Sýkora

  ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2013) 32(4):116, 2013.
  

• Cache-efficient Graph Cuts on Structured Grids

  Ondřej Jamriška, Daniel Sýkora, Alexander Hornung

  Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pp. 3673-3680, 2012.
  

• Smart Scribbles for Sketch Segmentation

  Gioacchino Noris, Daniel Sýkora, Ariel Shamir, Stelian Coros, Brian Whited, Maryann Simmons, Alexander Hornung, Marcus Gross, Robert Sumner

  Computer Graphics Forum 31(8):2516-2527, 2012.
  

• Temporal Noise Control for Sketchy Animation

  Gioacchino Noris, Daniel Sýkora, Stelian Coros, Brian Whited, Maryann Simmons, Alexander Hornung, Marcus Gross

  Proceedings of International Symposium on Non-photorealistic Animation and Rendering, pp. 93-98, 2011.
  

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

  Daniel Sýkora, Mirela Ben-Chen, Martin Čadík, Brian Whited, Maryann Simmons

  Proceedings of International Symposium on Non-photorealistic Animation and Rendering, pp. 75-83, 2011.
  

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

  Daniel Sýkora, David Sedláček, Sun Jinchao, John Dingliana, Steven Collins

  Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of Eurographics 2010) 29(2):615-623, 2010.
  

• LazyBrush: Flexible Painting Tool for Hand-drawn Cartoons

  Daniel Sýkora, John Dingliana, Steven Collins

  Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of Eurographics 2009) 28(2):599-608, 2009.
  

• As-rigid-as-possible Image Registration for Hand-drawn Cartoon Animations

  Daniel Sýkora, John Dingliana, Steven Collins

  Proceedings of International Symposium on Non-photorealistic Animation and Rendering, pp. 25-33, 2009.
  

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

  Juraj Obert, Jaroslav Křivánek, Fabio Pellacini, Daniel Sýkora, Sumanta Pattanaik

  Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of EGSR 2008) 27(4):1217-1223, 2008.
  

• Real-time Color Ball Tracking for Augmented Reality

  Daniel Sýkora, David Sedláček, Kai Riege

  Proceedings of Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments, pp. 9-16, 2008.
  

• Colorization of Black-and-White Cartoons

  Daniel Sýkora, Jan Buriánek, Jiří Žára

  Image and Vision Computing 23(9):767-782, 2005.
  

• Video Codec for Classical Cartoon Animations with Hardware Accelerated Playback

  Daniel Sýkora, Jan Buriánek, Jiří Žára

  Advances in Visual Computing (Proceedings of ISVC 2005) 1(43):50, 2005.
  

• Sketching Cartoons by Example

  Daniel Sýkora, Jan Buriánek, Jiří Žára

  Proceedings of Eurographics Workshop on Sketch-Based Interfaces and Modeling, pp. 27-34, 2005.
  

• Unsupervised Colorization of Black-and-White Cartoons

  Daniel Sýkora, Jan Buriánek, Jiří Žára

  Proceedings of International Symposium on Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering, pp. 121-128, 2004.
  

• Segmentation of Black-and-White Cartoons

  Daniel Sýkora, Jan Buriánek, Jiří Žára

  Proceedings of Spring Conference on Computer Graphics, pp. 223-230, 2003.
  

Selected theses

• Example-based Non-photorealistic Rendering using Game Engine

  Jiří Burýšek, Master thesis, 2019

  This work presents a solution for video game scene art stylization in video game engine Unity. The example-based stylization implements the StyleBlit algorithm and is able to provide results for an…

  

• Qualitative comparison of methods for example-based style transfer

  Michal Kučera, Master thesis, 2018

  In this thesis, I provide insight into the current state-of-the-art of example-based style transfer methods, and design and perform a series of tests to compare the differences in output qualities of…

  

• Production-Ready Pipeline for Example-Based Stylization of Animated Sequences

  Šárka Sochorová, Master thesis, 2018

  In my thesis I develop an Adobe Photoshop extension module which uses StyLit, a tool for artistic 3D render stylisation based on a simple sphere painting. The texture synthesis that StyLit performs…

  

• Graph cut based optimization

  Lenka Saidlová, Master thesis, 2015

  Many problems of early vision and computer graphics can be formulated in terms of energy minimization. In this thesis, we focus on improvement of an algorithm, that solves the energy minimization for…

  

• Painting hand-drawn images using mobile devices

  Jan Brejcha, Master thesis, 2014

  This thesis deals with the implementation of iOS application for colorization of hand-drawn images captured with the built-in camera. For image colorization the LazyBrush algorithm has been studied,…

  

• As-Rigid-As-Possible Image Registration

  Marek Dvorožňák, Master thesis, 2014

  This thesis deals with image registration method that can be employed for image pre-processing for the purpose of facilitating the process of feature extraction. This method is particularly suitable…

  

• Gradient domain editation

  Pavlína Ulrichová, Bachelor thesis, 2013

  This thesis tackles the issue of gradient editing of digital pictures and realization of a simple gradient picture editor. We describe elementary information about gradients, their use in practical…

  

• Intelligent Algorithms for Image Inpainting

  Jakub Fišer, Master thesis, 2012

  The problem of synthesis of missing image parts represents an interesting area of image processing with significant potential. This thesis focuses on methods addressing the image inpainting problem…

  

• Solving large sparse systems of linear equations on GPU

  Petra Kalinová, Master thesis, 2011

  This thesis focuses on solving large sparse linear systems which formulate problems, defined on a two dimensional grid, described by elliptic partial differential equations, the general Laplace…