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Samuli Laine

Samuli Laine joined NVIDIA Research in 2007 after receiving his Ph.D. at Helsinki University of Technology. His research interests have ranged from photorealistic and real-time rendering to voxel-based graphics, GPU ray tracing, and 3D content creation. Currently Dr. Laine focuses on deep learning and its applications in computer graphics.

Research Area(s)
Algorithms and Numerical Methods
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Computer Graphics
Computer Vision
Generative AI
High Performance Computing
Real-Time Rendering
Google Scholar
https://scholar.google.fi/citations?user=UCXJOTUAAAAJ

Publications

2023

A Hybrid Generator Architecture for Controllable Face Synthesis
Dann Mensah, Nam Hee Kim, Miika Aittala, Samuli Laine, Jaakko Lehtinen
SIGGRAPH 2023

2022

Elucidating the Design Space of Diffusion-Based Generative Models
Tero Karras, Miika Aittala, Timo Aila, Samuli Laine
NeurIPS 2022 (oral)
NeurIPS Outstanding Paper

2021

Alias-Free Generative Adversarial Networks
Tero Karras, Miika Aittala, Samuli Laine, Erik Härkönen, Janne Hellsten, Jaakko Lehtinen, Timo Aila
NeurIPS 2021
Appearance-Driven Automatic 3D Model Simplification
Jon Hasselgren, Jacob Munkberg, Jaakko Lehtinen, Miika Aittala, Samuli Laine
EGSR 2021

2020

Training Generative Adversarial Networks with Limited Data
Tero Karras, Miika Aittala, Janne Hellsten, Samuli Laine, Jaakko Lehtinen, Timo Aila
NeurIPS 2020
Modular Primitives for High-Performance Differentiable Rendering
Samuli Laine, Janne Hellsten, Tero Karras, Yeongho Seol, Jaakko Lehtinen, Timo Aila
ACM Transactions on Graphics 39(6) (Proc. SIGGRAPH Asia 2020)
Analyzing and Improving the Image Quality of StyleGAN
Tero Karras, Samuli Laine, Miika Aittala, Janne Hellsten, Jaakko Lehtinen, Timo Aila
CVPR 2020

2019

Improved Precision and Recall Metric for Assessing Generative Models
Tuomas Kynkäänniemi, Tero Karras, Samuli Laine, Jaakko Lehtinen, Timo Aila
NeurIPS 2019
High-Quality Self-Supervised Deep Image Denoising
Samuli Laine, Tero Karras, Jaakko Lehtinen, Timo Aila
NeurIPS 2019
A Style-Based Generator Architecture for Generative Adversarial Networks
Tero Karras, Samuli Laine, Timo Aila
IEEE CVPR 2019
NVGaze: An Anatomically-Informed Dataset for Low-Latency, Near-Eye Gaze Estimation
Joohwan Kim, Michael Stengel, Alexander Majercik, Shalini De Mello, David Dunn, Samuli Laine, Morgan McGuire, David Luebke
ACM Conference on Human-Computer-Interaction (CHI) 2019

2018

Noise2Noise: Learning Image Restoration without Clean Data
Jaakko Lehtinen, Jacob Munkberg, Jon Hasselgren, Samuli Laine, Tero Karras, Miika Aittala, Timo Aila
Proc. ICML 2018
Progressive Growing of GANs for Improved Quality, Stability, and Variation
Tero Karras, Timo Aila, Samuli Laine, Jaakko Lehtinen
ICLR 2018

2017

Audio-Driven Facial Animation by Joint End-to-End Learning of Pose and Emotion
Tero Karras, Timo Aila, Samuli Laine, Antti Herva, Jaakko Lehtinen
SIGGRAPH 2017
Efficient Incoherent Ray Traversal on GPUs Through Compressed Wide BVHs
Henri Ylitie, Tero Karras, Samuli Laine
High-Performance Graphics 2017
Production-Level Facial Performance Capture Using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks
Samuli Laine, Tero Karras, Timo Aila, Antti Herva, Shunsuke Saito, Ronald Yu, Hao Li, Jaakko Lehtinen
Symposium on Computer Animation 2017

2016

Temporal Ensembling for Semi-Supervised Learning
Samuli Laine, Timo Aila
ICLR 2017

2015

Apex Point Map for Constant-Time Bounding Plane Approximation
Samuli Laine, Tero Karras
Eurographics Symposium on Rendering 2015

2014

Occluder Simplification using Planar Sections
Ari Silvennoinen, Hannu Saransaari, Samuli Laine, Jaakko Lehtinen
Computer Graphics Forum 33(1)

2013

On Quality Metrics of Bounding Volume Hierarchies
Timo Aila, Tero Karras, Samuli Laine
Proc. High-Performance Graphics
Megakernels Considered Harmful: Wavefront Path Tracing on GPUs
Samuli Laine, Tero Karras, Timo Aila
High-Performance Graphics 2013
Gradient-Domain Metropolis Light Transport
Jaakko Lehtinen, Tero Karras, Samuli Laine, Miika Aittala, Frédo Durand, Timo Aila
ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH 2013)
A Topological Approach to Voxelization
Samuli Laine
Eurographics Symposium on Rendering 2013

2012

Reconstructing the Indirect Light Field for Global Illumination
Jaakko Lehtinen, Timo Aila, Samuli Laine, Frédo Durand
ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH 2012)
Understanding the Efficiency of Ray Traversal on GPUs - Kepler and Fermi Addendum
Timo Aila, Samuli Laine, Tero Karras
NVIDIA Technical Report NVR-2012-002

2011

Improved Dual-Space Bounds for Simultaneous Motion and Defocus Blur
Samuli Laine, Tero Karras
NVIDIA Technical Report NVR-2010-004
Efficient Triangle Coverage Tests for Stochastic Rasterization
Samuli Laine, Tero Karras
NVIDIA Technical Report NVR-2010-003
Temporal Light Field Reconstruction for Rendering Distribution Effects
Jaakko Lehtinen, Timo Aila, Jiawen Chen, Samuli Laine, Frédo Durand
ACM Transactions in Graphics 30(4) (Proc. SIGGRAPH 2011)
High-Performance Software Rasterization on GPUs
Samuli Laine, Tero Karras
High-Performance Graphics 2011
Clipless Dual-Space Bounds for Faster Stochastic Rasterization
Samuli Laine, Timo Aila, Tero Karras, Jaakko Lehtinen
ACM Transactions in Graphics 30(4) (Proc. SIGGRAPH 2011)
Stratified Sampling for Stochastic Transparency
Samuli Laine, Tero Karras
Computer Graphics Forum 30(4) (EGSR 2011)
A Local Image Reconstruction Algorithm for Stochastic Rendering
Peter Shirley, Timo Aila, Jonathan Cohen, Eric Enderton, Samuli Laine, David Luebke, Morgan McGuire
i3D

2010

Two Methods for Fast Ray-Cast Ambient Occlusion
Samuli Laine, Tero Karras
Eurographics Symposium on Rendering 2010
Restart Trail for Stackless BVH Traversal
Samuli Laine
High-Performance Graphics 2010
Efficient Sparse Voxel Octrees
Samuli Laine, Tero Karras
ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games (I3D)
Efficient Sparse Voxel Octrees - Analysis, Extensions, and Implementation
Samuli Laine, Tero Karras
NVIDIA Technical Report NVR-2010-001

2009

Understanding the Efficiency of Ray Traversal on GPUs
Timo Aila, Samuli Laine
Proc. High-Performance Graphics

2007

Incremental Instant Radiosity for Real-Time Indirect Illumination
Samuli Laine, Hannu Saransaari, Janne Kontkanen, Jaakko Lehtinen, Timo Aila
Eurographics Symposium on Rendering