vizNET Research Computing ESNW Presentation by Paul Debevec

'New Techniques for Acquiring, Rendering, and Displaying Human Performances'

Speaker: Paul Debevec University of Southern California Institute for Creative Technologies
Date: Monday 22nd September 2008
Time: 1400 - 1500
Location: 1:10 Kilburn Building (ESNW Access Grid Node)
Chair: Mashhuda Glencross, Martin Turner and Mary Mmcderby.
URL: http://manchester.siggraph.org

 

This talk by Paul Debevec will present recent work in the USC ICT graphics laboratory on acquiring, rendering and displaying photoreal models of people, objects and dynamic performances. It will begin with an overview of image-based lighting techniques for photorealistic compositing and reflectance acquisition techniques (which have been used to create realistic digital actors in films such as Spiderman 2 and Superman Returns).

Paul will present the first Light Stage 6 project combining image-based relighting with free-viewpoint video to capture and render full-body performances, as well as a new 3D face scanning processes that capture high-resolution facial geometry and reflectance from a small number of photographs.

The presentation will conclude with a new 3D display that leverages 5,000 frames per second video projection to show auto-stereoscopic, interactive 3D imagery to any number of viewers simultaneously.