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Paul Debevec
Electronic Theater @ Purdue - Nov. 9, 2007 @ 4:30 in Class of 1950 lecture hall.
Paul Debevec is the associate director of graphics research at USC's Institute for Creative Technologies (USC ICT) and a research associate professor at USC's Department of Computer Science. His Ph.D. thesis at UC Berkeley presented Façade, an image-based modeling and rendering system for creating photoreal virtual camera motion through architectural scenes from photographs.
Using Façade, he led the creation of a photoreal animation of the Berkeley campus for his 1997 film "The Campanile Movie" whose techniques were later used to create virtual backgrounds for the "The Matrix". He went on to demonstrate new image-based lighting techniques in his animations "Rendering with Natural Light", "Fiat Lux", and "The Parthenon". He also led the design of HDR Shop, the first widely used high dynamic range image editing program.
Paul received ACM SIGGRAPH's Significant New Researcher Award in 2001 and co-authored the book "High Dynamic Range Imaging" in 2005. Most recently, he chaired the SIGGRAPH 2007 Computer Animation Festival.
Using Façade, he led the creation of a photoreal animation of the Berkeley campus for his 1997 film "The Campanile Movie" whose techniques were later used to create virtual backgrounds for the "The Matrix". He went on to demonstrate new image-based lighting techniques in his animations "Rendering with Natural Light", "Fiat Lux", and "The Parthenon". He also led the design of HDR Shop, the first widely used high dynamic range image editing program.
Paul received ACM SIGGRAPH's Significant New Researcher Award in 2001 and co-authored the book "High Dynamic Range Imaging" in 2005. Most recently, he chaired the SIGGRAPH 2007 Computer Animation Festival.
SIGGRAPH 2007 Electronic Theater Trailer
