USC ICT Light Stage

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The USC ICT Light Stage is a facility at the University of Southern California’s Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT) that is used for capturing and generating high-quality, photorealistic 3D facial models. It is a specialized studio that uses a combination of structured light and image-based techniques to capture detailed 3D geometry and reflectance information of a person’s face.

The USC ICT Light Stage is used for a variety of applications, including facial animation, facial performance capture, virtual reality, and computer graphics. It is a valuable tool for researchers and artists working in the fields of computer graphics, computer vision, and multimedia, as it allows them to create realistic and accurate digital representations of human faces.

In addition to capturing 3D facial data, the USC ICT Light Stage can also be used to simulate various lighting conditions and environments, which is useful for creating realistic digital faces that can be used in a variety of different contexts. Overall, the USC ICT Light Stage is a powerful and versatile tool that enables the creation of high-quality, photorealistic 3D facial models for use in a wide range of applications.

A Light Stage is a specialized studio that uses structured light and image-based techniques to capture detailed 3D geometry and reflectance information of a person’s face. It is typically used for facial animation, facial performance capture, virtual reality, and computer graphics, and it allows researchers and artists to create realistic and accurate digital representations of human faces.

On the other hand, a light globe or light sphere is a type of device that is used for capturing the appearance of objects or surfaces under different lighting conditions. A light globe consists of a transparent sphere with a light source inside, while a light sphere is a larger version of a Light globe that is used to capture the appearance of larger objects. Both of these devices are used in a variety of applications, including computer graphics, computer vision, and multimedia, to help researchers and artists create realistic and accurate digital representations of objects and surfaces.

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M Ludwig, S Berrier, M Tetzlaff, G Meyer – Computers & Graphics, 2015 – Elsevier
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… 17 The Light Stage, developed at the University of Southern California under the direction of Paul Debevec, is a platform with the actor placed in … an integrated fashion all of the information that in a shader is normally separately defined and then combined (see http://gl.ict.usc.edu …

3D Video: From Capture to Diffusion
L Lucas, C Loscos, Y Remion – 2013 – books.google.com
… The European Commission: including projects such as 3D Média (FEDER 200813), 3DConTourNet (ICT COST Action IC1105), HDRi (ICT COST Action IC1005), Edcine (FP6 IP), Apidis (FP7 Strep) and JEDI (ITEA2, co financed by DGCIS for the French Ministry of Industry) …

Compression, Modeling, and Real-Time Rendering of Realistic Materials and Objects
N Menzel – 2011 – archiv.ub.uni-marburg.de
Page 1. Compression, Modeling, and Real-Time Rendering of Realistic Materials and Objects Dissertation zur Erlangung des Doktorgrades (Dr. rer. nat.) des Fachbereichs Mathematik und Informatik der Philipps-Universität Marburg vorgelegt von Dipl.-Inform. Nicolas Menzel …

Real-time Motion Capture Facial Animation
CANR Miranda – 2015 – search.proquest.com
… 99. 4.4 Lightstage – acquisition hardware used in Digital Ira [DHT+00, AFB+13,. vdPJD+14] … 1.4 Contributions. High quality results through facial animation with MoCap are already possible using. systems like Digital Ira, from the USC-ICT [vdPJD+14]. However, they require …

Advances in display technology
SJ Scher – 2012 – escholarship.org
Page 1. UC Santa Cruz UC Santa Cruz Electronic Theses and Dissertations Title Advances in Display Technology Permalink https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2s90t4tq Author Scher, Steven Jonathan Publication Date 2012-01-01 Peer reviewed|Thesis/dissertation …

Contactless visualization of latent fingerprints on nonporous curved surfaces of circular cross section
WZ Low, BE Khoo, AFL Abdullah – Journal of forensic sciences, 2016 – Wiley Online Library
… Piscataway, NJ: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2011;1–6. 16. Peers P, Hawkins T, Debevec P. A reflective light stage. ICTR Technical Report ICT-TR-04.2006. Los Angelis, CA: USC Institute for Creative Technologies, 2006. 17 …

Stereoscopic cinema
F Devernay, P Beardsley – Image and Geometry processing for 3-D …, 2010 – Springer
Page 1. Stereoscopic Cinema Frédéric Devernay and Paul Beardsley Abstract Stereoscopic cinema has seen a surge of activity in recent years, and for the first time all of the major Hollywood studios released 3-D movies in 2009 …

Multiview acquisition systems
F Devernay, Y Pupulin, Y Rémion – 2013 – hal.inria.fr
Page 1. HAL Id: hal-00856832 https://hal.inria.fr/hal-00856832 Submitted on 2 Sep 2013 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- entific research documents, whether they are pub- lished or not …

Toward a Model for Incremental Grounding in Dialogue Systems
DKJ Heylen, HJA op den Akker, DR Traum – essay.utwente.nl
… Enschede, e Netherlands Prof. dr. DKJ Heylen Dr. ir. HJA op den Akker Dr. M. eune USC Institute for Creative Technologies Playa del Rey, CA, USA Dr. DR Traum Page 2. So Yes what Go on actually Hm-hmm is Ah incremental Okay grounding? Well? Page 3. Contents …

Toward a model for incremental grounding in dialogue systems
T Visser – 2011 – essay.utwente.nl
… Enschede, e Netherlands Prof. dr. DKJ Heylen Dr. ir. HJA op den Akker Dr. M. eune USC Institute for Creative Technologies Playa del Rey, CA, USA Dr. DR Traum Page 2. So Yes what Go on actually Hm-hmm is Ah incremental Okay grounding? Well? Page 3. Contents …

Data acquisition and simulation of natural phenomena
QP Zhao – Science China Information Sciences, 2011 – Springer
… Page 9. Zhao QP Sci China Inf Sci April 2011 Vol. 54 No. 4 691 Traditional light stage Camera Object (a) Dual light stage Laser and galvanometer Camera with fisheye lens Object Hollow diffuse gray sphere Lights (b) …

A theoretical analysis of light transport
D Mahajan – 2009 – search.proquest.com
… This work is done in collaboration with the researchers from ICT, USC. In this thesis, we will discuss the contributions this thesis makes towards this collaboration. Interested readers are referred to [Peers et al., 2009] for the complete description of the work …

Intrinsic reflectance estimation from video and shape for natural dynamic scenes
JS Imber – 2016 – search.proquest.com
… Debevec et al. [24] introduce the light-stage, which densely samples. the space of lighting functions for a single viewpoint … that reduce the number of sample lighting conditions required [27]. Light-stage methods can support relighting without the need to reconstruct geometry …

Hitler is a Bully: Middle School Students’ Perspectives on Holocaust Education in Greater Victoria, British Columbia
N Wood – 2013 – dspace.library.uvic.ca
Page 1. “Hitler is a Bully”: Middle School Students’ Perspectives on Holocaust Education in Greater Victoria, British Columbia by Natasha Wood BA, University of Victoria, 2011 A Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of MASTER OF ARTS …