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TORONTO AI LAB


INTRODUCTION

Welcome to the homepage of the NVIDIA Toronto Artificial Intelligence Lab led by
Professor Sanja Fidler. Our research group was founded in 2018, and is primarily
based in Toronto.

The research interests of our lab lie at the intersection of computer vision,
machine learning and computer graphics. Our group members are also part of or
closely collaborate with academic labs such as the University of Toronto and
Vector Institute.

We invite applications for the following positions:

 * full time research scientist
 * full time research engineer
 * research scientist intern
 * research engineer intern

Graduate and senior undergraduate students interested in doing an internship in
the NVIDIA Toronto AI Lab can directly fill this form. See this link for open
positions, or contact our members for more details.




NEWS

April 2021 - Our work was presented at GTC 2021.

December 2020 - New version of the website.

May 2020 - 40 Years on, PAC-MAN Recreated with AI by NVIDIA Researchers

December 2019 - 2D or Not 2D: NVIDIA Researchers Bring Images to Life with AI

November 2019 - NVIDIA Makes 3D Deep Learning Research Easy with Kaolin PyTorch
Library

November 2019 - NVIDIA Research at ICCV: Generating New City Road Layouts with
AI

October 2019 - NVIDIA Research at ICCV: Meta-Sim: Learning to Generate Synthetic
Datasets

June 2019 - NVIDIA Research Released at CVPR Helps Developers Create Better
Visual Datasets




MEMBERS


SANJA FIDLER


HASSAN ABU ALHAIJA


DAVID ACUNA


WENZHENG CHEN


CLEMENT FUJI TSANG


JUN GAO


ZAN GOJCIC


AMLAN KAR


SAMEH KHAMIS


SEUNG WOOK KIM


KARSTEN KREIS


MARC LAW


DAIQING LI


HUAN LING


OR LITANY


JAMES LUCAS


OR PEREL


JONAH PHILION


MASHA SHUGRINA


TINGWU WANG


FRANCIS WILLIAMS


KEVIN XIE


KANGXUE YIN


AI RESIDENTS


RAFID MAHMOOD


CURRENT INTERNS


MATAN ATZMON


SOURAV BISWAS


ZHIQIN CHEN


TIM DOCKHORN


MOHAMED HASSAN


ALICE LI


MICHAEL LI


DEREK LIU


JASON PENG


DAVIS REMPE


GOPAL SHARMA


FRANK SHEN


AO TANG


ZIAN WANG


JUNLIN YANG


XIAOHUI ZENG


RESEARCH TOPICS

Our research combines machine learning, computer vision and computer graphics
for innovative applications such as video games, simulations, film industry,
data servers, medical imaging and self-driving cars. A non-exhaustive list of
research topics studied in our group include:

 * Machine Learning for Computer Graphics: Differentiable rendering, 3D deep
   learning, computational shape analysis, manipulation of color distributions

 * Generative modeling: Synthetic data generation, dynamic environment
   simulation, 3D models.

 * Representation Learning: Semantic segmentation, road layout modeling, complex
   continuous data structures to represent hierarchies and graphs, motion
   planning, planner-centric metrics, numerical Optimization, federated
   simulation

 * Machine Learning with limited supervision: active learning, self-supervised
   learning, few-shot learning, domain adaptation, learning with noisy labels

Here are some of our projects:






HIGHLIGHTED PROJECTS

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SCORE-BASED GENERATIVE MODELING WITH CRITICALLY-DAMPED LANGEVIN DIFFUSION

ICLR 2022 (Spotlight)

Score-based generative models (SGMs) have demonstrated remarkable synthesis
quality. SGMs rely on a diffusion process that gradually …
Tim Dockhorn, Arash Vahdat, Karsten Kreis
PDF Code Project



TACKLING THE GENERATIVE LEARNING TRILEMMA WITH DENOISING DIFFUSION GANS

ICLR 2022 (Spotlight)

A wide variety of deep generative models has been developed in the past decade.
Yet, these models often struggle with simultaneously …
Zhisheng Xiao, Karsten Kreis, Arash Vahdat
PDF Code Project



ATISS: AUTOREGRESSIVE TRANSFORMERS FOR INDOOR SCENE SYNTHESIS

NeurIPS 2021

The ability to synthesize realistic and diverse indoor furniture layouts
automatically or based on partial input, unlocks many …
Despoina Paschalidou, Amlan Kar, Maria Shugrina, Karsten Kreis, Andreas Geiger,
Sanja Fidler
PDF Code Project Poster Video



DEEP MARCHING TETRAHEDRA: A HYBRID REPRESENTATION FOR HIGH-RESOLUTION 3D SHAPE
SYNTHESIS

NeurIPS 2021

We introduce DMTet, a deep 3D conditional generative model that can synthesize
high-resolution 3D shapes using simple user guides such …
Tianchang Shen, Jun Gao, Kangxue Yin, Ming-Yu Liu, Sanja Fidler
PDF Project Video



SCORE-BASED GENERATIVE MODELING IN LATENT SPACE

NeurIPS 2021

Score-based generative models (SGMs) have recently demonstrated impressive
results in terms of both sample quality and distribution …
Arash Vahdat, Karsten Kreis, Jan Kautz
PDF Code Project

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PUBLICATIONS

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GENERATING USEFUL ACCIDENT-PRONE DRIVING SCENARIOS VIA A LEARNED TRAFFIC PRIOR

CVPR 2022

Evaluating and improving planning for autonomous vehicles requires scalable
generation of long-tail traffic scenarios. To be useful, …
Davis Rempe, Jonah Philion, Leonidas Guibas, Sanja Fidler, Or Litany
PDF Project



LEARNING SMOOTH NEURAL FUNCTIONS VIA LIPSCHITZ REGULARIZATION

SIGGRAPH 2022

Neural implicit fields have recently emerged as a useful representation for 3D
shapes. These fields are commonly represented as neural …
Derek Liu, Francis Williams, Alec Jacobson, Sanja Fidler, Or Litany
PDF Project



ASE: LARGE-SCALE REUSABLE ADVERSARIAL SKILL EMBEDDINGS FOR PHYSICALLY SIMULATED
CHARACTERS

SIGGRAPH 2022

The incredible feats of athleticism demonstrated by humans are made possible in
part by a vast repertoire of general-purpose motor …
Xue Bin Peng, Yunrong Guo, Lina Halper, Sergey Levine, Sanja Fidler
PDF Project



SCORE-BASED GENERATIVE MODELING WITH CRITICALLY-DAMPED LANGEVIN DIFFUSION

ICLR 2022 (Spotlight)

Score-based generative models (SGMs) have demonstrated remarkable synthesis
quality. SGMs rely on a diffusion process that gradually …
Tim Dockhorn, Arash Vahdat, Karsten Kreis
PDF Code Project



TACKLING THE GENERATIVE LEARNING TRILEMMA WITH DENOISING DIFFUSION GANS

ICLR 2022 (Spotlight)

A wide variety of deep generative models has been developed in the past decade.
Yet, these models often struggle with simultaneously …
Zhisheng Xiao, Karsten Kreis, Arash Vahdat
PDF Code Project



DOMAIN ADVERSARIAL TRAINING: A GAME PERSPECTIVE

ICLR 2022

The dominant line of work in domain adaptation has focused on learning invariant
representations using domain-adversarial training. In …
David Acuna, Marc T. Law, Guojun Zhang, Sanja Fidler
PDF



LOW-BUDGET ACTIVE LEARNING VIA WASSERSTEIN DISTANCE: AN INTEGER PROGRAMMING
APPROACH

ICLR 2022

Active learning is the process of training a model with limited labeled data by
selecting a core subset of an unlabeled data pool to …
Rafid Mahmood, Sanja Fidler, Marc T. Law
PDF



SPECTRAL UNIONS OF PARTIAL DEFORMABLE 3D SHAPES

Eurographics 2022

Spectral geometric methods have brought revolutionary changes to the field of
geometry processing – however, when the data to be …
Luca Moschella, Simone Melzi, Luca Cosmo, Filippo Maggioli, Or Litany, Maks
Ovsjanikov, Leonidas Guibas, Emanuele Rodolà
PDF



CONTRAST TO DIVIDE: SELF-SUPERVISED PRE-TRAINING FOR LEARNING WITH NOISY LABELS

WACV 2022

The success of learning with noisy labels (LNL) methods relies heavily on the
success of a warm-up stage where standard supervised …
Evgenii Zheltonozhskii, Chaim Baskin, Avi Mendelson, Alex M. Bronstein, Or
Litany
PDF Code



ATISS: AUTOREGRESSIVE TRANSFORMERS FOR INDOOR SCENE SYNTHESIS

NeurIPS 2021

The ability to synthesize realistic and diverse indoor furniture layouts
automatically or based on partial input, unlocks many …
Despoina Paschalidou, Amlan Kar, Maria Shugrina, Karsten Kreis, Andreas Geiger,
Sanja Fidler
PDF Code Project Poster Video



DEEP MARCHING TETRAHEDRA: A HYBRID REPRESENTATION FOR HIGH-RESOLUTION 3D SHAPE
SYNTHESIS

NeurIPS 2021

We introduce DMTet, a deep 3D conditional generative model that can synthesize
high-resolution 3D shapes using simple user guides such …
Tianchang Shen, Jun Gao, Kangxue Yin, Ming-Yu Liu, Sanja Fidler
PDF Project Video



SCORE-BASED GENERATIVE MODELING IN LATENT SPACE

NeurIPS 2021

Score-based generative models (SGMs) have recently demonstrated impressive
results in terms of both sample quality and distribution …
Arash Vahdat, Karsten Kreis, Jan Kautz
PDF Code Project



TOWARDS OPTIMAL STRATEGIES FOR TRAINING SELF-DRIVING PERCEPTION MODELS IN
SIMULATION

NeurIPS 2021

Autonomous driving relies on a huge volume of real-world data to be labeled to
high precision. Alternative solutions seek to exploit …
David Acuna, Jonah Philion, Sanja Fidler
PDF Project



ULTRAHYPERBOLIC NEURAL NETWORKS

NeurIPS 2021 (Spotlight)

Riemannian space forms, such as the Euclidean space, sphere and hyperbolic
space, are popular and powerful representation spaces in …
Marc T. Law
PDF



DIB-R++: LEARNING TO PREDICT LIGHTING AND MATERIAL WITH A HYBRID DIFFERENTIABLE
RENDERER

NeurIPS 2021

We consider the challenging problem of predicting intrinsic object properties
from a single image by exploiting differentiable …
Wenzheng Chen, Joey Litalien, Jun Gao, Zian Wang, Clement Fuji Tsang, Sameh
Khamis, Or Litany, Sanja Fidler
PDF Project



DON'T GENERATE ME: TRAINING DIFFERENTIALLY PRIVATE GENERATIVE MODELS WITH
SINKHORN DIVERGENCE

NeurIPS 2021

Although machine learning models trained on massive data have led to
breakthroughs in several areas, their deployment in …
Tianshi Cao, Alex Bie, Arash Vahdat, Sanja Fidler, Karsten Kreis
PDF Project



EDITGAN: HIGH-PRECISION SEMANTIC IMAGE EDITING

NeurIPS 2021

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have recently found applications in image
editing. However, most GAN based image editing methods …
Huan Ling, Karsten Kreis, Daiqing Li, Seung Wook Kim, Antonio Torralba, Sanja
Fidler
PDF Project



MIX3D: OUT-OF-CONTEXT DATA AUGMENTATION FOR 3D SCENES

3DV 2021 (Oral)

We present Mix3D, a data augmentation technique for segmenting large-scale 3D
scenes. Since scene context helps reasoning about object …
Alexey Nekrasov, Jonas Schult, Or Litany, Bastian Leibe, Francis Engelmann
PDF Code Project



LEARNING INDOOR INVERSE RENDERING WITH 3D SPATIALLY-VARYING LIGHTING

ICCV 2021 (Oral)

In this work, we address the problem of jointly estimating albedo, normals,
depth and 3D spatially-varying lighting from a single …
Zian Wang, Jonah Philion, Sanja Fidler, Jan Kautz
PDF Project



3DSTYLENET: CREATING 3D SHAPES WITH GEOMETRIC AND TEXTURE STYLE VARIATIONS

ICCV 2021 (Oral)

We propose a method to create plausible geometric and texture style variations
of 3D objects in the quest to democratize 3D content …
Kangxue Yin, Jun Gao, Maria Shugrina, Sameh Khamis, Sanja Fidler
PDF Project



VECTOR NEURONS: A GENERAL FRAMEWORK FOR SO(3)-EQUIVARIANT NETWORKS

ICCV 2021 (Oral)

Invariance and equivariance to the rotation group have been widely discussed in
the 3D deep learning community for pointclouds. Yet …
Congyue Deng, Or Litany, Yueqi Duan, Adrien Poulenard, Andrea Tagliasacchi,
Leonidas Guibas
PDF Code Project



PHYSICS-BASED HUMAN MOTION ESTIMATION AND SYNTHESIS FROM VIDEOS

ICCV 2021

Human motion synthesis is an important problem with applications in graphics,
gaming and simulation environments for robotics. Existing …
Kevin Xie, Tingwu Wang, Umar Iqbal, Yunrong Guo, Sanja Fidler, Florian Shkurti
PDF Project



SELF-SUPERVISED REAL-TO-SIM SCENE GENERATION

ICCV 2021

Synthetic data is emerging as a promising solution to the scalability issue of
supervised deep learning, especially when real data are …
Aayush Prakash, Shoubhik Debnath, Jean-Francois Lafleche, Eric Cameracci,
Gavriel State, Stan Birchfield, Marc T. Law
PDF Project



F-DOMAIN-ADVERSARIAL LEARNING: THEORY AND ALGORITHMS

ICML 2021

Unsupervised domain adaptation is used in many machine learning applications
where, during training, a model has access to unlabeled …
David Acuna, Guojun Zhang, Marc T. Law, Sanja Fidler
PDF Code Project



IMAGE-LEVEL OR OBJECT-LEVEL? A TALE OF TWO RESAMPLING STRATEGIES FOR LONG-TAILED
DETECTION

ICML 2021

Training on datasets with long-tailed distributions has been challenging for
major recognition tasks such as classification and …
Nadine Chang, Zhiding Yu, Yu-Xiong Wang, Anima Anandkumar, Sanja Fidler, Jose M.
Alvarez
PDF



DATASETGAN: EFFICIENT LABELED DATA FACTORY WITH MINIMAL HUMAN EFFORT

CVPR 2021 (Oral)

We introduce DatasetGAN: an automatic procedure to generate massive datasets of
high-quality semantically segmented images requiring …
Yuxuan Zhang, Huan Ling, Jun Gao, Kangxue Yin, Jean-Francois Lafleche, Adela
Barriuso, Antonio Torralba, Sanja Fidler
Project



DRIVEGAN: TOWARDS A CONTROLLABLE HIGH-QUALITY NEURAL SIMULATION

CVPR 2021 (Oral)

Realistic simulators are critical for training and verifying robotics systems.
While most of the contemporary simulators are …
Seung Wook Kim, Jonah Philion, Antonio Torralba, Sanja Fidler
PDF Project



NEURAL GEOMETRIC LEVEL OF DETAIL: REAL-TIME RENDERING WITH IMPLICIT 3D SURFACES

CVPR 2021 (Oral)

Neural signed distance functions (SDFs) are emerging as an effective
representation for 3D shapes. State-of-the-art methods typically …
Towaki Takikawa, Joey Litalien, Kangxue Yin, Karsten Kreis, Charles Loop, Derek
Nowrouzezahrai, Alec Jacobson, Morgan Mcguire, Sanja Fidler
PDF Code Project Video



WEAKLY SUPERVISED LEARNING OF RIGID 3D SCENE FLOW

CVPR 2021 (Oral)

We propose a data-driven scene flow estimation algorithm exploiting the
observation that many 3D scenes can be explained by a …
Zan Gojcic, Or Litany, Andreas Wieser, Leonidas J Guibas, Tolga Birdal
PDF Project



SEMANTIC SEGMENTATION WITH GENERATIVE MODELS: SEMI-SUPERVISED LEARNING AND
STRONG OUT-OF-DOMAIN GENERALIZATION

CVPR 2021

Training deep networks with limited labeled data while achieving a strong
generalization ability is key in the quest to reduce human …
Daiqing Li, Junlin Yang, Karsten Kreis, Antonio Torralba, Sanja Fidler
PDF Project



3DIOUMATCH: LEVERAGING IOU PREDICTION FOR SEMI-SUPERVISED 3D OBJECT DETECTION

CVPR 2021

3D object detection is an important yet demanding task that heavily relies on
difficult to obtain 3D annotations. To reduce the …
He Wang, Yezhen Cong, Or Litany, Yue Gao, Leonidas J. Guibas
PDF Project



IMAGE GANS MEET DIFFERENTIABLE RENDERING FOR INVERSE GRAPHICS AND INTERPRETABLE
3D NEURAL RENDERING

ICLR 2021 (Oral)

Differentiable rendering has paved the way to training neural networks to
perform ‘inverse graphics’ tasks such as …
Yuxuan Zhang, Wenzheng Chen, Huan Ling, Jun Gao, Yinan Zhang, Antonio Torralba,
Sanja Fidler
PDF Project



VAEBM: A SYMBIOSIS BETWEEN VARIATIONAL AUTOENCODERS AND ENERGY-BASED MODELS

ICLR 2021 (Spotlight)

Energy-based models (EBMs) have recently been successful in representing complex
distributions of small images. However, sampling from …
Zhisheng Xiao, Karsten Kreis, Jan Kautz, Arash Vahdat
PDF Code



GRADSIM: DIFFERENTIABLE SIMULATION FOR SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION AND VISUOMOTOR
CONTROL

ICLR 2021

We consider the problem of estimating an object’s physical properties such as
mass, friction, and elasticity directly from video …
Krishna Murthy Jatavallabhula, Miles Macklin, Florian Golemo, Vikram Voleti,
Linda Petrini, Martin Weiss, Breandan Considine, Jérôme Parent-Lévesque, Kevin
Xie, Kenny Erleben, Liam Paull, Florian Shkurti, Derek Nowrouzezahrai, Sanja
Fidler
PDF Code Project Video



RELMOGEN: INTEGRATING REINFORCEMENT LEARNING AND MOTION GENERATION FOR
INTERACTIVE NAVIGATION

ICRA 2021

Many Reinforcement Learning (RL) approaches use joint control signals
(positions, velocities, torques) as action space for continuous …
Fei Xia, Chengshu Li, Roberto Martin-Martin, Alexander Toshev, Or Litany, Silvio
Savarese
PDF Project



UNICON: UNIVERSAL NEURAL CONTROLLER FOR PHYSICS-BASED CHARACTER MOTION

UniCon

The field of physics-based animation is gaining importance due to the increasing
demand for realism in video games and films, and has …
Tingwu Wang, Yunrong Guo, Maria Shugrina, Sanja Fidler
PDF Project Video



KAOLIN: A PYTORCH LIBRARY FOR ACCELERATING 3D DEEP LEARNING RESEARCH

Pytorch Library

Kaolin is a PyTorch library aiming to accelerate 3D deep learning research.
Kaolin provides efficient implementations of differentiable …
Krishna Murthy Jatavallabhula, Edward Smith, Jean-Francois Lafleche, Clement
Fuji Tsang, Artem Rozantsev, Wenzheng Chen, Tommy Xiang, Rev Lebaredian, Sanja
Fidler
PDF Code Project Source Document



VARIATIONAL AMODAL OBJECT COMPLETION

NeurIPS 2020

Huan Ling, David Acuna, Karsten Kreis, Seung Wook Kim, Sanja Fidler
PDF



LEARNING DEFORMABLE TETRAHEDRAL MESHES FOR 3D RECONSTRUCTION

NeurIPS 2020

3D shape representations that accommodate learning-based 3D reconstruction are
an open problem in machine learning and computer …
Jun Gao, Wenzheng Chen, Tommy Xiang, Alec Jacobson, Morgan Mcguire, Sanja Fidler
PDF Code Project Video



ULTRAHYPERBOLIC REPRESENTATION LEARNING

NeurIPS 2020

In machine learning, data is usually represented in a (flat) Euclidean space
where distances between points are along straight lines. …
Marc T. Law, Jos Stam
PDF Code



FEDERATED SIMULATION OR MEDICAL IMAGING

MICCAI 2020 (Nominated for the Young Scientist Award)

Labelling data is expensive and time consuming especially for domains such as
medical imaging that contain volumetric imaging data and …
Daiqing Li, Amlan Kar, Nishant Ravikumar, Alejandro Frangi, Sanja Fidler
PDF Project



META-SIM2: UNSUPERVISED LEARNING OF SCENE STRUCTURE FOR SYNTHETIC DATA
GENERATION

ECCV 2020

Procedural models are being widely used to synthesize scenes for graphics,
gaming, and to create (labeled) synthetic datasets for ML. …
Jeevan Devaranjan*, Amlan Kar, Sanja Fidler
PDF Project



LIFT, SPLAT, SHOOT: ENCODING IMAGES FROM ARBITRARY CAMERA RIGS BY IMPLICITLY
UNPROJECTING TO 3D

ECCV 2020

The goal of perception for autonomous vehicles is to extract semantic
representations from multiple sensors and fuse these …
Jonah Philion, Sanja Fidler
PDF Code Project Video



LEARNING TO SIMULATE DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENTS WITH GAMEGAN

CVPR 2020

Simulation is a crucial component of any robotic system. In order to simulate
correctly, we need to write complex rules of the …
Seung Wook Kim, Yuhao Zhou, Jonah Philion, Antonio Torralba, Sanja Fidler
PDF Project Video



LEARNING TO PREDICT 3D OBJECTS WITH AN INTERPOLATION-BASED DIFFERENTIABLE
RENDERER

NeurIPS 2019

Many machine learning models operate on images, but ignore the fact that images
are 2D projections formed by 3D geometry interacting …
Wenzheng Chen, Jun Gao, Huan Ling, Edward J. Smith, Jaakko Lehtinen, Alec
Jacobson, Sanja Fidler
PDF Code Project Video



NEURAL TURTLE GRAPHICS FOR MODELING CITY ROAD LAYOUTS

ICCV 2019 (Oral)

We propose Neural Turtle Graphics (NTG), a novel gen- erative model for spatial
graphs, and demonstrate its ap- plications in modeling …
Hang Chu, Daiqing Li, David Acuna, Amlan Kar, Maria Shugrina, Xinkai Wei,
Ming-Yu Liu, Antonio Torralba, Sanja Fidler
PDF Project Video



META SIM: LEARNING TO GENERATE SYNTHETIC DATASETS

ICCV 2019 (Oral)

Training models to high-end performance requires availability of large labeled
datasets, which are expensive to get. The goal of our …
Amlan Kar, Aayush Prakash, Ming-Yu Liu, Eric Cameracci, Justin Yuan, Matt
Rusiniak, David Acuna, Antonio Torralba, Sanja Fidler
PDF Code Project



GATED-SCNN GATED SHAPE CNNS FOR SEMANTIC SEGMENTATION

ICCV 2019

Current state-of-the-art methods for image segmentation form a dense image
representation where the color, shape and texture …
Towaki Takikawa, David Acuna, Varun Jampani, Sanja Fidler
PDF Code Project



DEVIL IS IN THE EDGES: LEARNING SEMANTIC BOUNDARIES FROM NOISY ANNOTATIONS

CVPR 2019 (Oral)

We tackle the problem of semantic boundary prediction, which aims to identify
pixels that belong to object(class) boundaries. We notice …
David Acuna, Amlan Kar, Sanja Fidler
PDF Code Project



CONTACT

Our lab is located in Downtown Toronto (20 minutes away from the St-George
campus of the University of Toronto) and hosts many students for their co-op
programs. Motivated candidates can contact our members to apply for internships
and research positions.

Unauthorized visitors are not permitted in the Toronto office.

 * 431 King St W, 6th floor, Toronto, ON M5V 3M4
 * Monday-Friday 9:00 to 18:00


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