Samuli Laine  

 



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 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](/research-area/algorithms)

[Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning ](/research-area/machine-learning-artificial-intelligence)

[Computer Graphics](/research-area/computer-graphics)

[Computer Vision](/research-area/computer-vision)

[Generative AI](/research-area/generative-ai)

[High Performance Computing](/research-area/high-performance-computing)

[Real-Time Rendering](/research-area/real-time-rendering)

 

 

  

 Google Scholar

<https://scholar.google.fi/citations?user=UCXJOTUAAAAJ>

 

  

 

 

 



 ### Publications

 

### 2023 

[A Hybrid Generator Architecture for Controllable Face Synthesis](/publication/2023-08_hybrid-generator-architecture-controllable-face-synthesis)

Dann Mensah, Nam Hee Kim, [Miika Aittala](/person/miika-aittala), [Samuli Laine](/person/samuli-laine), [Jaakko Lehtinen](/person/jaakko-lehtinen)



[SIGGRAPH 2023](https://s2023.siggraph.org/)









### 2022 

[Elucidating the Design Space of Diffusion-Based Generative Models](/index.php/publication/2022-11_elucidating-design-space-diffusion-based-generative-models)

[Tero Karras](/index.php/person/tero-karras), [Miika Aittala](/index.php/person/miika-aittala), [Timo Aila](/index.php/person/timo-aila), [Samuli Laine](/index.php/person/samuli-laine)



[NeurIPS 2022 (oral)](https://nips.cc/Conferences/2022)



NeurIPS Outstanding Paper





### 2021 

[Alias-Free Generative Adversarial Networks](/publication/2021-12_alias-free-generative-adversarial-networks)

[Tero Karras](/person/tero-karras), [Miika Aittala](/person/miika-aittala), [Samuli Laine](/person/samuli-laine), Erik Härkönen, [Janne Hellsten](/person/janne-hellsten), Jaakko Lehtinen, [Timo Aila](/person/timo-aila)



[NeurIPS 2021](https://nips.cc/Conferences/2021)









[Appearance-Driven Automatic 3D Model Simplification](/publication/2021-04_appearance-driven-automatic-3d-model-simplification)

[Jon Hasselgren](/person/jon-hasselgren), [Jacob Munkberg](/person/jacob-munkberg), [Jaakko Lehtinen](/person/jaakko-lehtinen), [Miika Aittala](/person/miika-aittala), [Samuli Laine](/person/samuli-laine)



EGSR 2021









### 2020 

[Training Generative Adversarial Networks with Limited Data](/publication/2020-12_training-generative-adversarial-networks-limited-data)

[Tero Karras](/person/tero-karras), [Miika Aittala](/person/miika-aittala), [Janne Hellsten](/person/janne-hellsten), [Samuli Laine](/person/samuli-laine), [Jaakko Lehtinen](/person/jaakko-lehtinen), [Timo Aila](/person/timo-aila)



[NeurIPS 2020](https://nips.cc/Conferences/2020)









[Modular Primitives for High-Performance Differentiable Rendering](/index.php/publication/2020-11_modular-primitives-high-performance-differentiable-rendering)

[Samuli Laine](/index.php/person/samuli-laine), [Janne Hellsten](/index.php/person/janne-hellsten), [Tero Karras](/index.php/person/tero-karras), Yeongho Seol, [Jaakko Lehtinen](/index.php/person/jaakko-lehtinen), [Timo Aila](/index.php/person/timo-aila)



[ACM Transactions on Graphics 39(6) (Proc. SIGGRAPH Asia 2020)](https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3414685.3417861)









[Analyzing and Improving the Image Quality of StyleGAN](/publication/2020-06_analyzing-and-improving-image-quality-stylegan)

[Tero Karras](/person/tero-karras), [Samuli Laine](/person/samuli-laine), [Miika Aittala](/person/miika-aittala), [Janne Hellsten](/person/janne-hellsten), Jaakko Lehtinen, [Timo Aila](/person/timo-aila)



[CVPR 2020](http://cvpr2020.thecvf.com/)









### 2019 

[High-Quality Self-Supervised Deep Image Denoising](/publication/2019-12_high-quality-self-supervised-deep-image-denoising)

[Samuli Laine](/person/samuli-laine), [Tero Karras](/person/tero-karras), Jaakko Lehtinen, [Timo Aila](/person/timo-aila)



NeurIPS 2019









[Improved Precision and Recall Metric for Assessing Generative Models](/publication/2019-12_improved-precision-and-recall-metric-assessing-generative-models)

Tuomas Kynkäänniemi, [Tero Karras](/person/tero-karras), [Samuli Laine](/person/samuli-laine), Jaakko Lehtinen, [Timo Aila](/person/timo-aila)



NeurIPS 2019









[A Style-Based Generator Architecture for Generative Adversarial Networks](/index.php/publication/2019-06_style-based-generator-architecture-generative-adversarial-networks)

[Tero Karras](/index.php/person/tero-karras), [Samuli Laine](/index.php/person/samuli-laine), [Timo Aila](/index.php/person/timo-aila)



[IEEE CVPR 2019](http://cvpr2019.thecvf.com/)









[NVGaze: An Anatomically-Informed Dataset for Low-Latency, Near-Eye Gaze Estimation](/index.php/publication/2019-05_nvgaze-anatomically-informed-dataset-low-latency-near-eye-gaze-estimation)

[Joohwan Kim](/index.php/person/joohwan-kim), [Michael Stengel](/index.php/person/michael-stengel), Alexander Majercik, [Shalini De Mello](/index.php/person/shalini-de-mello), David Dunn, [Samuli Laine](/index.php/person/samuli-laine), Morgan McGuire, [David Luebke](/index.php/person/david-luebke)



ACM Conference on Human-Computer-Interaction (CHI) 2019









### 2018 

[Noise2Noise: Learning Image Restoration without Clean Data](/index.php/publication/2018-07_noise2noise-learning-image-restoration-without-clean-data)

Jaakko Lehtinen, [Jacob Munkberg](/index.php/person/jacob-munkberg), [Jon Hasselgren](/index.php/person/jon-hasselgren), [Samuli Laine](/index.php/person/samuli-laine), [Tero Karras](/index.php/person/tero-karras), Miika Aittala, [Timo Aila](/index.php/person/timo-aila)



[Proc. ICML 2018](https://icml.cc/)









[Progressive Growing of GANs for Improved Quality, Stability, and Variation](/publication/2018-04_progressive-growing-gans-improved-quality-stability-and-variation)

[Tero Karras](/person/tero-karras), [Timo Aila](/person/timo-aila), [Samuli Laine](/person/samuli-laine), Jaakko Lehtinen



[ICLR 2018](https://iclr.cc/Conferences/2018)









### 2017 

[Audio-Driven Facial Animation by Joint End-to-End Learning of Pose and Emotion](/publication/2017-07_audio-driven-facial-animation-joint-end-end-learning-pose-and-emotion)

[Tero Karras](/person/tero-karras), [Timo Aila](/person/timo-aila), [Samuli Laine](/person/samuli-laine), Antti Herva, Jaakko Lehtinen



[SIGGRAPH 2017](http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3072959&picked=prox)









[Efficient Incoherent Ray Traversal on GPUs Through Compressed Wide BVHs](/publication/2017-07_efficient-incoherent-ray-traversal-gpus-through-compressed-wide-bvhs)

Henri Ylitie, [Tero Karras](/person/tero-karras), [Samuli Laine](/person/samuli-laine)



[High-Performance Graphics 2017](http://www.highperformancegraphics.org/2017/)









[Production-Level Facial Performance Capture Using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks](/publication/2017-07_production-level-facial-performance-capture-using-deep-convolutional-neural)

[Samuli Laine](/person/samuli-laine), [Tero Karras](/person/tero-karras), [Timo Aila](/person/timo-aila), Antti Herva, Shunsuke Saito, Ronald Yu, Hao Li, Jaakko Lehtinen



[Symposium on Computer Animation 2017](http://sca17.cs.columbia.edu/index.html)









### 2016 

[Temporal Ensembling for Semi-Supervised Learning](/index.php/publication/2016-10_temporal-ensembling-semi-supervised-learning)

[Samuli Laine](/index.php/person/samuli-laine), [Timo Aila](/index.php/person/timo-aila)



[ICLR 2017](http://www.iclr.cc/doku.php?id=iclr2017:main)









### 2015 

[Apex Point Map for Constant-Time Bounding Plane Approximation](/publication/2015-06_apex-point-map-constant-time-bounding-plane-approximation)

[Samuli Laine](/person/samuli-laine), [Tero Karras](/person/tero-karras)



[Eurographics Symposium on Rendering 2015](https://diglib.eg.org/handle/10.2312/sre20151166)









### 2014 

[Occluder Simplification using Planar Sections](/publication/2014-02_occluder-simplification-using-planar-sections)

Ari Silvennoinen, Hannu Saransaari, [Samuli Laine](/person/samuli-laine), [Jaakko Lehtinen](/person/jaakko-lehtinen)



[Computer Graphics Forum 33(1)](http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cgf.12271/abstract)









### 2013 

[On Quality Metrics of Bounding Volume Hierarchies](/publication/2013-09_quality-metrics-bounding-volume-hierarchies)

[Timo Aila](/person/timo-aila), [Tero Karras](/person/tero-karras), [Samuli Laine](/person/samuli-laine)



[Proc. High-Performance Graphics](http://highperformancegraphics.org)









[Gradient-Domain Metropolis Light Transport](/publication/2013-07_gradient-domain-metropolis-light-transport)

[Jaakko Lehtinen](/person/jaakko-lehtinen), [Tero Karras](/person/tero-karras), [Samuli Laine](/person/samuli-laine), Miika Aittala, Frédo Durand, [Timo Aila](/person/timo-aila)



[ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH 2013)](http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2461912.2461943)









[Megakernels Considered Harmful: Wavefront Path Tracing on GPUs](/index.php/publication/2013-07_megakernels-considered-harmful-wavefront-path-tracing-gpus)

[Samuli Laine](/index.php/person/samuli-laine), [Tero Karras](/index.php/person/tero-karras), [Timo Aila](/index.php/person/timo-aila)



[High-Performance Graphics 2013](http://highperformancegraphics.org/)









[A Topological Approach to Voxelization](/publication/2013-06_topological-approach-voxelization)

[Samuli Laine](/person/samuli-laine)



[Eurographics Symposium on Rendering 2013](http://egsr2013.unizar.es/)









### 2012 

[Reconstructing the Indirect Light Field for Global Illumination](/publication/2012-08_reconstructing-indirect-light-field-global-illumination)

[Jaakko Lehtinen](/person/jaakko-lehtinen), [Timo Aila](/person/timo-aila), [Samuli Laine](/person/samuli-laine), Frédo Durand



[ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH 2012)](http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2185520.2185547)









[Understanding the Efficiency of Ray Traversal on GPUs - Kepler and Fermi Addendum](/publication/2012-06_understanding-efficiency-ray-traversal-gpus-kepler-and-fermi-addendum)

[Timo Aila](/person/timo-aila), [Samuli Laine](/person/samuli-laine), [Tero Karras](/person/tero-karras)



[NVIDIA Technical Report NVR-2012-002](http://research.nvidia.com/publication/understanding-efficiency-ray-traversal-gpus-kepler-and-fermi-addendum)









### 2011 

[Improved Dual-Space Bounds for Simultaneous Motion and Defocus Blur](/publication/2011-11_improved-dual-space-bounds-simultaneous-motion-and-defocus-blur)

[Samuli Laine](/person/samuli-laine), [Tero Karras](/person/tero-karras)



[NVIDIA Technical Report NVR-2010-004](http://research.nvidia.com/publication/improved-dual-space-bounds-simultaneous-motion-and-defocus-blur)









[Efficient Triangle Coverage Tests for Stochastic Rasterization](/publication/2011-09_efficient-triangle-coverage-tests-stochastic-rasterization)

[Samuli Laine](/person/samuli-laine), [Tero Karras](/person/tero-karras)



[NVIDIA Technical Report NVR-2010-003](http://research.nvidia.com/publication/efficient-triangle-coverage-tests-stochastic-rasterization)









[Clipless Dual-Space Bounds for Faster Stochastic Rasterization](/publication/2011-08_clipless-dual-space-bounds-faster-stochastic-rasterization)

[Samuli Laine](/person/samuli-laine), [Timo Aila](/person/timo-aila), [Tero Karras](/person/tero-karras), [Jaakko Lehtinen](/person/jaakko-lehtinen)



[ACM Transactions in Graphics 30(4) (Proc. SIGGRAPH 2011)](http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1965001)









[Temporal Light Field Reconstruction for Rendering Distribution Effects](/index.php/publication/2011-08_temporal-light-field-reconstruction-rendering-distribution-effects)

[Jaakko Lehtinen](/index.php/person/jaakko-lehtinen), [Timo Aila](/index.php/person/timo-aila), Jiawen Chen, [Samuli Laine](/index.php/person/samuli-laine), Frédo Durand



[ACM Transactions in Graphics 30(4) (Proc. SIGGRAPH 2011)](http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1964950)









[High-Performance Software Rasterization on GPUs](/publication/2011-08_high-performance-software-rasterization-gpus)

[Samuli Laine](/person/samuli-laine), [Tero Karras](/person/tero-karras)



[High-Performance Graphics 2011](http://highperformancegraphics.org/)









[Stratified Sampling for Stochastic Transparency](/publication/2011-06_stratified-sampling-stochastic-transparency)

[Samuli Laine](/person/samuli-laine), [Tero Karras](/person/tero-karras)



[Computer Graphics Forum 30(4) (EGSR 2011)](http://egsr2011.mff.cuni.cz/)









[A Local Image Reconstruction Algorithm for Stochastic Rendering](/index.php/publication/2011-02_local-image-reconstruction-algorithm-stochastic-rendering)

Peter Shirley, [Timo Aila](/index.php/person/timo-aila), Jonathan Cohen, Eric Enderton, [Samuli Laine](/index.php/person/samuli-laine), [David Luebke](/index.php/person/david-luebke), Morgan McGuire



[i3D](http://graphics.cs.umass.edu/i3d2011/)









### 2010 

[Two Methods for Fast Ray-Cast Ambient Occlusion](/publication/2010-06_two-methods-fast-ray-cast-ambient-occlusion)

[Samuli Laine](/person/samuli-laine), [Tero Karras](/person/tero-karras)



[Eurographics Symposium on Rendering 2010](http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/egsr2010/)









[Restart Trail for Stackless BVH Traversal](/publication/2010-06_restart-trail-stackless-bvh-traversal)

[Samuli Laine](/person/samuli-laine)



[High-Performance Graphics 2010](http://www.highperformancegraphics.org/previous/www_2010/)









[Efficient Sparse Voxel Octrees - Analysis, Extensions, and Implementation](/publication/2010-02_efficient-sparse-voxel-octrees-analysis-extensions-and-implementation)

[Samuli Laine](/person/samuli-laine), [Tero Karras](/person/tero-karras)



[NVIDIA Technical Report NVR-2010-001](http://research.nvidia.com/publication/efficient-sparse-voxel-octrees-analysis-extensions-and-implementation)









[Efficient Sparse Voxel Octrees](/publication/2010-02_efficient-sparse-voxel-octrees)

[Samuli Laine](/person/samuli-laine), [Tero Karras](/person/tero-karras)



[ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games (I3D)](http://graphics.cs.williams.edu/i3d10/)









### 2009 

[Understanding the Efficiency of Ray Traversal on GPUs](/publication/2009-08_understanding-efficiency-ray-traversal-gpus)

[Timo Aila](/person/timo-aila), [Samuli Laine](/person/samuli-laine)



[Proc. High-Performance Graphics](http://www.highperformancegraphics.org/)









### 2007 

[Incremental Instant Radiosity for Real-Time Indirect Illumination](/publication/2007-06_incremental-instant-radiosity-real-time-indirect-illumination)

[Samuli Laine](/person/samuli-laine), Hannu Saransaari, Janne Kontkanen, Jaakko Lehtinen, [Timo Aila](/person/timo-aila)



[Eurographics Symposium on Rendering](http://www.inrialpes.fr/1187685533478/1/fiche___actualite/)