Daniel Sýkora

Assistant Professor

e-mail: sykorad @ fel.cvut.cz

Department of Computer Graphics and Interaction
Faculty of Electrical Engineering
Czech Technical University in Prague

Karlovo náměstí 13
121 35 Prague 2
Czech Republic

phone: +420 2 2435 7501
fax: +420 2 2435 7556


Publications:

Daniel Sýkora, Mirela Ben-Chen, Martin Čadík, Brian Whited, and Maryann Simmons
TexToons: Practical Texture Mapping for Hand-drawn Cartoon Animations 
In Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Non-photorealistic Animation and Rendering (NPAR'11), pages 75-83, Vancouver, Canada, August 2011, ACM SIGGRAPH, Best Paper Award.
Gioacchino Noris, Daniel Sýkora, Stelian Coros, Brian Whited, Maryann Simmons, Alexander Hornung, Marcus Gross, and Robert Sumner
Temporal Noise Control for Sketchy Animation 
In Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Non-photorealistic Animation and Rendering (NPAR'11), pages 93-98, Vancouver, Canada, August 2011, ACM SIGGRAPH.
Daniel Sýkora, David Sedláček, Sun Jinchao, John Dingliana, and Steven Collins
Adding Depth to Cartoons Using Sparse Depth (In)equalities 
In Computer Graphics Forum 29(2), [Eurographics 2010], pages 615-623, Norrköping, Sweden, May 2010, Eurographics, Günter Enderle Best Paper Award.
Daniel Sýkora, John Dingliana, and Steven Collins
As-Rigid-As-Possible Image Registration for Hand-drawn Cartoon Animations 
In Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering (NPAR'09), pages 25-33, New Orleans, USA, August 2009, ACM SIGGRAPH.
Daniel Sýkora, John Dingliana, and Steven Collins
LazyBrush: Flexible Painting Tool for Hand-drawn Cartoons 
In Computer Graphics Forum 28(2), [Eurographics 2009], pages 599-608, Munich, Germany, March 2009, Eurographics.
Juraj Obert, Jaroslav Křivánek, Fabio Pellacini, Daniel Sýkora, and Sumanta Pattanaik
iCheat: A Representation for Artistic Control of Indirect Cinematic Lighting 
In Computer Graphics Forum 27(4), [EGSR'08], pages 1217-1223, Sarajevo, Bosnia, June 2008, Eurographics.
Daniel Sýkora, David Sedláček, and Kai Riege
Real-time Color Ball Tracking for Augmented Reality 
In Proceedings of the 14th Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments (EGVE'08), pages 9-16, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, May 2008, Eurographics.
Daniel Sýkora
Computer Assisted Analysis of Classical Cartoon Animations 
PhD thesis, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, September 2006, Outstanding Dissertation Award.
Daniel Sýkora, Jan Buriánek, and Jiří Žára
Video Codec for Classical Cartoon Animations with Hardware Accelerated Playback 
In Proceedings of the 1st International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC'05), pages 43-50, Lake Tahoe, USA, December 2005, Springer.
Daniel Sýkora, Jan Buriánek, and Jiří Žára
Colorization of Black-and-White Cartoons 
In Image and Vision Computing 23(9), pages 767-852, September 2005, Elsevier.
Daniel Sýkora, Jan Buriánek, and Jiří Žára
Sketching Cartoons by Example 
In Proceedings of the 2nd Eurographics Workshop on Sketch-Based Interfaces and Modeling (SBM'05), pages 27-34, Dublin, Ireland, August 2005, Eurographics.
Daniel Sýkora, Jan Buriánek, and Jiří Žára
Unsupervised Colorization of Black-and-White Cartoons 
In Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering (NPAR'04), pages 121-127, Annecy, France, June 2004, ACM SIGGRAPH.
Jan Buriánek and Daniel Sýkora
Jak Rumcajs k barvám příšel
In PiXEL 89(5), pages 30-33, May 2004.
Daniel Sýkora, Jan Buriánek, and Jiří Žára
Color for Black-and-White Cartoons   
In Proceedings of the ČVUT Workshop, pages 184-185, Prague, Czech republic, March 2004.
Daniel Sýkora, Jan Buriánek, and Jiří Žára
Segmentation of Black-and-White Cartoons 
In Proceedings of the 19th Spring Conference on Computer Graphics (SCCG'03), pages 223-230, Budmerice, Slovakia, April 2003, ACM SIGGRAPH.
Daniel Sýkora
Inking Old Black-and-White Cartoons 
MSc thesis, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, January 2003, ACM Student Award.
Daniel Sýkora and Josef Jelínek
Efficient View Frustum Culling 
In Proceedings of the 6th Central European Seminar on Computer Graphics (CESCG'02), pages 55-64, Budmerice, Slovakia, April 2002.


Teaching:

Master course taught at Faculty of Electrical Engineering (in Czech):
A4M39AIM: Advanced Interactive Image Manipulation 

Bilateral filter, geodesic distance, partial differential equations and their applications,
interactive image segmentation/colorization/matting, as-rigid-as-possible deformation.

Master course taught at Faculty of Information Technology (in Czech):
MI-DZO: Digital Image Processing 

Monadic operations, Fourier transform, (de)convolution, linear filtering, non-linear filtering,
image editing/deformation/registration/segmentation.



Video:




Adding Depth to Cartoons
 
As-Rigid-As-Possible Image Registration
   
LazyBrush
 
Example-based Shape Deformation
   
LightShop
 
Cartoon by Example


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