Recent News:

• 2013.04 - (SIGGRAPH) 2013 Paper : Acquiring Reflectance and Shape from Continuous Spherical Harmonic Illumination
• 2013.05 - (SIGGRAPH) 2013 Realtime Live : Digital Ira : Creating a Real-Time Photoreal Digital Actor
• 2012.09 - (SIGGRAPH) 2012 Talks : A single-shot light probe
• 2012.09 - (SIGGRAPH) 2012 Posters : Estimating diffusion parameters from polarized spherical gradient illumination
• 2012.09 - (SIGGRAPH) 2012 Posters : Estimating specular normals from spherical Stokes reflectance fields
• 2012.09 - (SIGGRAPH) 2012: Talks : High Fidelity Facial Hair Capture
• 2011.01 - Eurographics 2011 : Comprehensive Facial Performance Capture
• 2011.09 - (SIGGRAPH) 2011 Talks : Facial cartography: interactive high-resolution scan correspondence
• 2010.09 - (SIGGRAPH) Asia 2010 papers : Circularly polarized spherical illumination reflectometry
• 2010.07 - (SIGGRAPH) 2010 Posters : Combining spherical harmonics and point-source illumination for efficient image-based relighting

The Graphics Lab:

The ICT Graphics Laboratory develops new techniques for creating and displaying photorealistic computer graphics of people, objects, and environments. We specialize in developing image-based methods for acquiring shape, reflectance, and motion from digital photography and video. The results are computer-generated virtual models which look and behave as realistically as possible, viewable from any viewpoint and in any illumination conditions.

• High Dynamic Range Imaging, which uses standard digital cameras to record the full range of illumination in real environments.
• Image-Based Lighting, which illuminates virtual objects with lighting conditions captured from the real world.
• Light Stages, a set of lighting devices that record how faces, objects, and bodies appear under computer-controlled illumination conditions.

• Presenting academic research papers in venues such as ACM SIGGRAPH.
• Collaborating on applications with companies such as Sony Pictures Imageworks, WETA Digital, and Image Metrics.
• Creating short films demonstrating new computer graphics techniques such as The Parthenon.
• Developing software tools which implement techniques from our research such as HDR Shop.
• Technology licensing through the USC Stevens Institute for Innovation.

This web site contains links to our research papers, videos, online datasets, software packages, and online demonstrations.