New Techniques for Acquiring, Rendering, and Displaying Human Performances

Google Tech Talks February, 29 2008 ABSTRACT I will present recent work for acquiring, rendering, and displaying photoreal models of people, objects, and dynamic performances. I will overview image-based lighting techniques for photorealistic compositing and reflectance acquisition techniques which have been used to create realistic digital actors in films such as “Spider Man 2“ and “Superman Returns“. I will then describe initial work with our lab’s Light Stage 6 system to combine image-based relighting