Paul Debevec
Associate Director, Graphics Research
Research Associate Professor
USC
ICT
/www.debevec.org
Bio | Films | Publication List | Resources | News Clippings

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.

Upcoming Events:
8/10Lab Open House for PROCAMS2008
8/12Morning SIGGRAPH 2008 Class on HDRI/IBL
8/12Afternoon SIGGRAPH 2008 Class on Computational Photography
8/13SIGGRAPH 2008 Exhibitor Tech Talk on Photoreal Face Collaboration with Image Metrics, Hall G Room 2
Jobs in the ICT Graphics Lab: Graphics Researcher, Intern

Recent Projects


Postproduction Facial Performance Relighting Using Reflectance Transfer
SIGGRAPH 2007

Rendering for an
(Award Winning!)
Interactive 360º Light Field Display
SIGGRAPH 2007

Rapid Acquistion of Specular and Diffuse Normal Maps from Polarized Spherical Gradient Illumination
EGSR2007

Fast Image-Based Separation of Diffuse and Specular Reflections
ICT-TR-02.2007
SIGGRAPH 2007 Sketch

SIGGRAPH 2007 Computer Animation Festival



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

Light Stage Data Gallery
Released
SIGGRAPH 2006

High-Res Light Probe Gallery
Released
SIGGRAPH 2006


High-Dynamic Range Imaging
Morgan Kaufmann Publishers
Available Now!

Simulating Spatially Varying Lighting on a Live Performance
CVMP 2006
SIGGRAPH 2005 Sketch

A Median Cut Algorithm for Light Probe Sampling
SIGGRAPH 2005 Poster

Virtual Cinematography: Relighting Through Computation
IEEE Computer Aug 2006
Films


The Campanile Movie
SIGGRAPH 97 ET

Rendering with Natural Light
SIGGRAPH 98 ET

Fiat Lux
SIGGRAPH 99 ET

Image-Based Lighting
SIGGRAPH 2000 ET

The Parthenon
SIGGRAPH 2004 ET
Graphics Research


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

Online Resources


Light Probe Image Gallery

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

HDR Shop:
High Dynamic Range Image Processing and Manipulation
Other 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


More Pictures and Movies

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