Paul Debevec
Paul Debevec (born around 1972 in Princeton ) is an American computer scientist. He works in the field of computer graphics at the University of Southern California (USC) .
Scientific work
In 1996 Debevec wrote his doctoral thesis at UC Berkeley . It describes the algorithms of the software Façade , with the help of a series of photos, the textured 3D model of a building can be reconstructed, a process known as image-based modeling is called (image-based modeling).
Debevec presented this technology to a broader public for the first time at SIGGRAPH 97 with the famous Campanile video, a virtual flyby of the Sather Tower , which he had created as part of his doctoral thesis. The results shown there are also well received in the film industry and have been used, for example, for the computer-generated locations in The Matrix or most recently in Batman Begins .
After his dissertation, Debevec devoted himself to image-based lighting . This technology enables light values to be sampled directly from high dynamic range photographs and imported into computer-generated scenes. This can be used to create very natural-looking images. This idea was used, for example, in the films Matrix Reloaded , X-Men 2 or The Time Machine . Together with industry, Debevec also developed so-called light stages , which make it possible to immerse computer-generated actors in realistic light. Such stages were used, among other things, for the production of Spider-Man 2 .
literature
- Debevec, Paul E. (1996): Modeling and Rendering Architecture from Photographs. (= Dissertation, UC Berkeley)
- Reinhard, Erik; Ward, Greg; Pattanaik, Sumanta; Debevec, Paul (2006): High Dynamic Range Imaging. Acquisition, Display, and Image-based Lighting. Amsterdam: Elsevier / Morgan Kaufmann.
Web links
- Paul Debevec's biography
- Paul Debevec in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Paul Debevec: Modeling and Rendering Architecture from Photographs
- ^ The Campanile Movie
- ↑ Real-word Illumination
- ^ Illuminating synthetic objects with real light
- ↑ Light Stages
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Debevec, Paul |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American computer scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1972 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Princeton |