Paul Debevec’s Photo-Real Digital Face

A new TEDxUSC talk from Paul Debevec gets into the details of “Digital Emily”, a digitally reconstructed face so realistic is can withstand multiple takes.

Paul Debevec’s digital inventions have powered the breathtaking visual effects in films like The Matrix, Superman Returns, King Kong and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.

Called “Hollywood’s Master of Light” by MIT’s Technology Review, Paul Debevec leads the Graphics Laboratory at USC’s Institute for Creative Technologies, where he directs the development of the Light Stage systems, which capture and simulate how people and objects appear in real-world illumination.

See the talk after the break.

via Daily Exchange.

This story written by Randall Hand

Randall Hand is a visualization scientist working for a federal research lab, aiding researchers to discover the insights buried within their terabyte datasets generated on some of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. He also runs VizWorld.com .