Paul Debevec
Paul Debevec leads the graphics laboratory at the University of Southern California's Institute for Creative Technologies. His 1996 Ph.D. thesis from UC Berkeley presented Façade, an image-based modeling and rendering system for creating photoreal architectural models from photographs. Using Façade he led the creation of virtual cinematography of the Berkeley campus for his 1997 film The Campanile Movie which premiered at the SIGGRAPH 97 Electronic Theater.
Subsequently, Debevec pioneered high dynamic range image-based lighting techniques in his films Rendering with Natural Light (1998), Fiat Lux (1999), and The Parthenon (2004); he also led the design of HDR Shop, the first high dynamic range image editing program.
At USC ICT, Debevec has developed of a series of Light Stage devices for recording the appearance and reflectance properties of human faces, used in creating photoreal digital actors in movies such as Spider Man 2 (2004), Superman Returns (2006), and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) as well as 2008's "Digital Emily" project.
He co-authored the 2005 book High Dynamic Range Imaging, chaired the SIGGRAPH 2007 Computer Animation Festival, and is a member of the Visual Effects Society and the ACM SIGGRAPH Executive Committee. His website is at www.debevec.org
