Michal Lukáč

Research Scientist

San Jose

Mike is a recent addition to the Imagination Lab, having joined in October 2016. His research interests centre on image analysis, example-based image creation and editing, as well as 3D rendering and traditional fabrication.

He received his Ph.D. from the Czech Technical University in Prague under the supervision of doc. Daniel Sýkora. In his studies, he conducted research in the areas of example-based painting and image and video stylisation.

Through his research, he hopes to empower users to create art both digital and physical by breaking down the boundaries between these worlds of creativity.

My Projects

FaceStyle / Puppetron: Example-Based Synthesis of Stylized Facial Animations

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

My Publications

Stylizing Video by Example

Jamriška, O., Sochorová, S., Texler, O., Lukáč, M., Fišer, J., Lu, J., Shechtman, E., Sýkora, D. (Aug. 1, 2019)
ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH'19)

Texture Mixer: A Network for Controllable Synthesis and Interpolation of Texture

Yu, N., Barnes, C., Shechtman, E., Amirghodsi, S., Lukáč, M. (Jun. 18, 2019)
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'19)

Enhancing Neural Style Transfer using Patch-Based Synthesis

Texler, O., Fišer, J., Lukáč, M., Lu, J., Shechtman, E., Sýkora, D. (May. 6, 2019)
Expressive 2019

Nautilus: Recovering Regional Symmetry Transformations for Image Editing

Lukáč, M., Sykora, D., Sunkavalli, K., Shechtman, E., Jamriška, O., Carr, N., Pajdla, T. (Jul. 30, 2017)
ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. of SIGGRAPH 2017)

Example-Based Synthesis of Stylized Facial Animations

Fišer, J., Jamriška, O., Simons, D., Shechtman, E., Lu, J., Asente, P., Lukáč, M., Sýkora, D. (Jul. 30, 2017)
ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. of SIGGRAPH 2017)

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

Fišer, J., Jamriška, O., Lukáč, M., Shechtman, E., Asente, P., Lu, J., Sýkora, D. (Aug. 1, 2016)
ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. of SIGGRAPH 2016)

Brushables: Example-based Edge-aware Directional Texture Painting

Lukáč, M., Fišer, J., Asente, P., Lu, J., Shechtman, E., Sýkora, D. (Oct. 8, 2015)
Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. Pacific Graphics 2015)

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. (Jun. 25, 2014)
EGSR 2014 - 25th Eurographics Symposium on Rendering