Capturing the World

Talks

Capturing the World

Monday, 10 August 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | Los Angeles Convention Center, Room 403AB Session Chair: Kenny Mitchell, Disney Research

Panocam & Postvis for the Chicago Chase in "Jupiter Ascending"

Details of how Double Negative created a dynamic, action packed, and photoreaslistic sequence combining footage from a green-screen stage, a multi-camera array, and complex CG animation.

Tom Proctor
Double Negative Visual Effects

Christopher Sweet
Double Negative Visual Effects

Kyle Goodsell
Double Negative Visual Effects

Daniel Rauchwerger
Double Negative Visual Effects

Roundshot Pipeline at MPC for "Godzilla"

For "Godzilla" and many upcoming films at MPC, hundreds of panoramic images were acquired and a proper pipeline was needed to supply departments with quick previews and automated stitching.

Daniel Vasquez
Moving Picture Company

Kirk Chantraine
Moving Picture Company

FlashMob: Near-Instant Capture of High-Resolution Facial Geometry and Reflectance

A near-instant method for acquiring facial geometry, diffuse color, specular intensity, specular exponent, and surface orientation. Six flashes are fired in rapid succession with subsets of 24 DSLR cameras, which are arranged to produce an even distribution of specular highlights. Total capture time is below the 67ms blink reflex.

Paul Graham
USC Institute for Creative Technologies

Graham Fyffe
USC Institute for Creative Technologies

Borom Tunwattanapong
USC Institute for Creative Technologies

Abhijeet Ghosh
Imperial College London

Paul Debevec
USC Institute for Creative Technologies

Blendshapes From Commodity RGB-D Sensor

This talk demonstrates a near-automatic technique for generating a set of photorealistic blendshapes from facial scans using commodity RGB-D sensors, such as the Microsoft Kinect or Intel RealSense. The method has the potential to expand the number of photoreal, individualized faces that are available for simulation.

Dan Casas
USC Institute for Creative Technologies

Oleg Alexander
USC Institute for Creative Technologies

Andrew Feng
USC Institute for Creative Technologies

Graham Fyffe
USC Institute for Creative Technologies

Ryosuke Ichikari
USC Institute for Creative Technologies

Paul Debevec
USC Institute for Creative Technologies

Ruizhe Wang
University of Southern California

Evan Suma
USC Institute for Creative Technologies

Ari Shapiro
USC Institute for Creative Technologies