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Paul Debevec
Associate Director, Graphics Research, USC ICT
Research Professor, USC Computer Science

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Welcome! This site presents most of the work I have been involved with in computer graphics, including research papers, computer animations, art projects, software, and educational resources.

2012 Events:

4/30	Talk at U Darmstadt, Germany
5/8	Keynote at LIGHTFAIR, Las Vegas, Nevada
5/15	Keynote at Eurographics 2012, Cagliari, Italy
7/5-7	Presentation at Mundos Digitales, A Coruna, Spain
8/30-9/2	Keynote at TECHNICHE, Guwahati, India

Latest Research
Multiview Face Capture using Polarized Spherical Gradient Illumination SIGGRAPH Asia 2011	Practical Image-Based Relighting and Editing with Spherical-Harmonics and Local Lights CVMP 2011	Facial Cartography: Interactive High-Resolution Scan Correspondence SCA 2011	Prototyping a Light Field Display Involving Direct Observation of a Video Projector Array PROCAMS 2011 Best Paper Award	Comprehensive Facial Performance Capture Eurographics 2011	Circularly Polarized Spherical Illumination Reflectometry SIGGRAPH Asia 2010

Favorite Projects
The Light Stages at UC Berkeley and USC ICT 2010 Academy Awards	Digital Emily: Achieving a Photoreal Digital Actor SIGGRAPH 2008 Expo CVMP 2009 IEEE CG&A 2010	The Parthenon SIGGRAPH 2004 Electronic Theater	Rendering for an (Award Winning!) Interactive 360º Light Field Display SIGGRAPH 2007	Live 3D Teleconferencing ASC2008 SIGGRAPH 2009

Resources
High Dynamic Range Imaging: Acquisition, Display, and Image-Based Lighting, 2ed. Morgan Kaufmann 2010	Virtual Cinematography: Relighting Through Computation IEEE Computer Aug 2006	HDR Shop: High Dynamic Range Image Processing and Manipulation	Light Probe Image Gallery Released SIGGRAPH 99	High-Res Light Probe Gallery Released SIGGRAPH 2006	Light Stage Data Gallery Released SIGGRAPH 2006

Films
The Campanile Movie SIGGRAPH 97 Electronic Theater	Rendering with Natural Light SIGGRAPH 98 Electronic Theater	Fiat Lux SIGGRAPH 99 Electronic Theater	Image-Based Lighting SIGGRAPH 2000 Electronic Theater	The Parthenon SIGGRAPH 2004 Electronic Theater

Graphics Research 1996-2009
Dynamic Shape Capture using Multi-View Photometric Stereo SIGGRAPH Asia 2009	Estimating Specular Roughness and Anisotropy from Second Order Spherical Gradient Illumination EGSR 2009	Separation of Diffuse and Specular Reflections using Environmental Illumination ICCP 2009	Compressive Light Transport Sensing ACM TOG 2009	Practical Modeling and Acquisition of Layered Facial Reflectance SIGGRAPH Asia 2008	Facial Performance Synthesis using Polynomial Displacement Maps SIGGRAPH Asia 2008
A Framework for Capture and Synthesis of High Resolution Facial Geometry and Performance NTU PhD Thesis, 2008	Viewfinder: How to Seamlessly "Flickrize" Google Earth 2008	Real-time Geometry and Reflectance Capture for Digital Face Replacement ICT-TR-04-2008	Postproduction Facial Performance Relighting Using Reflectance Transfer SIGGRAPH 2007	Rendering for an Interactive 360º Light Field Display SIGGRAPH 2007	Specular and Diffuse Normal Maps from Polarized Spherical Gradient Illumination EGSR2007
Relighting Human Locomotion with Flowed Reflectance Fields EGSR 2006 SIGGRAPH 2006 CAF	Efficient Estimation of Spatially-Varying SSS Parameters Live Capture Now Online! VMV 2006	Concave Surround Optics for Rapid Multiview Imaging ASC 2006 SIGGRAPH 2006 Poster	A Reflective Light Stage ICT-TR-04.2006	Simulating Spatially Varying Lighting on a Live Performance CVMP 2006 SIGGRAPH 2005 Sketch	A Median Cut Algorithm for Light Probe Sampling SIGGRAPH 2005 Poster
Performance Relighting with Time-Multiplexed Illumination SIGGRAPH 2005	Acquisition of Time-Varying Participating Media SIGGRAPH 2005	A Dual Light Stage EGSR 2005	Direct HDR Capture of the Sun and Sky AFRIGRAPH 2004	Estimating Reflectance Properties under Natural Illumination ICT-TR-06-2004	Animatable Facial Reflectance Fields EGSR 2004
Real-time High Dynamic Range Texture Mapping EGWR 2001	A Photometric Approach to Digitizing Cultural Artifacts VAST 2001	A Lighting Reproduction Approach to Live-Action Compositing SIGGRAPH 2002	Capturing and Rendering with Incident Light Fields EGSR 2003	Optimizing Color Matching in a Lighting Reproduction System EGSR 2003	Linear Light Source Reflectometry SIGGRAPH 2003
Modeling and Rendering Architecture from Photographs SIGGRAPH 96	Recovering High Dynamic Range Radiance Maps from Photographs SIGGRAPH 97	Efficient View-Dependent IBR with Projective Texture-Mapping EGRW 98	Rendering Synthetic Objects into Real Scenes SIGGRAPH 98	Inverse Global Illumination SIGGRAPH 99	Acquiring the Reflectance Field of a Human Face [+Demo!] SIGGRAPH 2000
complete list of publications

Additional Online Resources
SIGGRAPH 2007 Computer Animation Festival	SIGGRAPH 98-2000 Course on Image-Based Modeling, Rendering, and Lighting	The Story of Reflection Mapping	SIGGRAPH 2003 Course on Image-Based Lighting	The Parthenon Sculpture Gallery

Early Image-Based Projects
The Chevette Project 1991	Immersion '94 1994	Rouen Revisited SIGGRAPH 96 Art Gallery	St. Paul's Cross 1997

Miscellany
Pinhole Photography with a Regular Camera 1997	3D Drawing in Microsoft Office 1992-1995	Knee Visualization from MR Images 1993	Facial Feature Recognition with Neural Networks 1992	Chaotic Dynamic Simulation of Free-Throw Space 1992
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