I lead the Creative and Applied AI Tools (CAAT) group within NVIDIA Toronto AI Lab, with the focus on 1) application of AI to creative tools and research to enable such applications, 2) efforts to accelerate 3D Deep Learning research. Our goal is both to develop new research, and release cutting-edge technology that fuels practical tools for researchers and artists.

News
Oct 2023
Our new demo is accepted to SIGGRAPH Asia Real-Time Live in Sydney.
Kudos Anita & team!
Aug 2023
Our AI Material Demo won Best-In-Show at SIGGRAPH Real-Time Live!
Kudos Hassan & team!
Jul 2023
Pip install it today! Kudos Clement & team!
Tools From My Group and Partners
AI Materials in NVIDIA Picasso
APIs for creative PBR material authoring
NVIDIA Kaolin Library
PyTorch library for 3D Deep Learning research
NVIDIA Kaolin Wisp
PyTorch library for Neural Fields research
AI Animal Explorer
NVIDIA Omniverse AI Toybox Extension
Talks
AI Materials Demo at SIGGRAPH
Best-In-Show Winner
SIGGRAPH Real-Time Live! 2023
Computer Graphics and AI: A New Perspective
Panel with industry researchers
SIGGRAPH 2023
Creative Tools in the Age of AI
Talk at the Sketching for Human Expressivity Workshop
ECCV 2022
3D Art Meetup: The Future of AI
Discussion with game industry
Room 8 Studio 2021
Designing Playful and Intelligent Creative Tools
Doctorate thesis award talk
GI 2021
Playful Palette at Adobe MAX Sneaks
Live demo presentation
Adobe MAX 2017
Publications
Designing Intelligent Tools for Creative People
M. Shugrina IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications 2023
Neural Brushstroke Engine: Learning a Latent Style Space of Interactive Drawing Tools
M. Shugrina, C. Li and S. Fidler SIGGRAPH Asia (TOG) 2022
XDGAN: Multi-Modal 3D Shape Generation in 2D Space
H. Abu Alhaija, A. Dirik, A. Knörig, S. Fidler and M. Shugrina BMVC 2022
ATISS: Autoregressive Transformers for Indoor Scene Synthesis
D. Paschalidou, A. Kar, M. Shugrina, K. Kreis, A. Geiger and S. Fidler NeurIPS 2021
3DStyleNet: Creating 3D Shapes with Geometric and Texture Style Variations
K. Yin, J. Gao, M. Shugrina, S. Khamis and S. Fidler ICCV 2021
Nonlinear Color Triads for Approximation, Learning and Direct Manipulation of Color Distributions
M. Shugrina, A. Kar, S. Fidler and K. Singh SIGGRAPH 2020
Live Demo
Neural Turtle Graphics for Modeling City Road Layouts
Hang Chu, D. Li, D. Acuna, A. Kar, M. Shugrina, X. Wei, M. Liu, A. Torralba, S. Fidler ICCV 2019
Creative Flow+ Dataset
M. Shugrina, Z. Liang, A. Kar, J. Li, A. Singh, K. Singh and S. Fidler CVPR 2019
Color Builder: a Direct Manipulation Interface for Versatile Color Theme Authoring
M. Shugrina, W. Zhang, F. Chevalier, S. Fidler and K. Singh CHI 2019
Live Demo
Generating Playful Palettes from Images
S. DiVerdi, J. Lu, J. Echevarria and M. Shugrina Expressive 2019
Playful Palette: An Interactive Parametric Color Mixer for Artists
M. Shugrina, J. Lu, and S. DiVerdi SIGGRAPH 2017
In the Press:
Fab Forms: Customizable Objects for Fabrication with Validity and Geometry Caching
M. Shugrina, A. Shamir, and W. Matusik SIGGRAPH 2015
In the Press:
Large Scale Language Modeling in Automatic Speech Recognition
C. Chelba, D. Bikel, M. Shugrina, P. Nguyen, and S. Kumar Google Technical Report 2012
Formatting Time-aligned ASR Transcripts for Readability
M. Shugrina NAACL HLT 2010
An Audio Indexing System for Election Video Material
C. Alberti, M. Bacchiani, A. Bezman, C. Chelba, A. Drofa, H. Liao, P. Moreno, T. Power, A. Sahuguet, M. Shugrina, O. Siohan ICASSP 2009
Empathic Painting: Interactive Stylization through Observed Emotional State
M. Shugrina, M. Betke, and J. Collomosse NPAR 2006
In the Press:
Doctorate Work
My thesis The Design of Playful and Intelligent Creative Tools is here. Digital technology offers an unprecedented ability to craft our own creative media, and machine intelligence holds boundless potential for empowering creativity. How does one approach design when nearly anything is possible? This thesis addresses the problem of building new creative tools, with intelligence in the interactive loop, without losing sight of the human creators and their needs. Work collected here has been published as first author paper in the top-tier venues of three major domains, including twice at SIGGRAPH (graphics), CVPR (computer vision), and CHI (human computer interaction).
Go to colorsandbox.com for demos of my work on color.