Paul Debevec

📢 Happening in 1h! @Yuancheng_Xu0 and @debfx will be presenting 📷Virtually Being📷@SIGGRAPHAsia 2025 🗓️today (Thur, Dec 18) 11:01-11:12am HKST at📍Meeting Room S423+S424, Level 4 of #HongKong Convention and Exhibition Centre. 👋 To continue our research momentum, @eyelinestudios Labs is hiring research interns. We publish and open-source, aiming to raise the bar together on next-gen AI filmmaking tools. Spring'26: jobs.lever.co/Eyeline/4eded8… Summer'26: jobs.lever.co/Eyeline/85f377… #hiring #internship #AI #AIResearch #MachineLearning #AIGC #GenAI #VideoGeneration

🥳 #VChain has received the 🏆Outstanding Paper Award🏆 at #ICCV2025 KnowledgeMR Workshop @ICCVConference @KnowledgeMR_ws 🙌Kudos to all the amazing co-authors @ziqi_huang_ @realNingYu @ChenGordon19 @qhnmoon @debfx - Page: eyeline-labs.github.io/VChain/ - Code: github.com/Eyeline-Labs/V…

Meet Paul Debevec (@debfx) - #SIGGRAPHAsia2025 Featured Sessions speaker and Chief Research Officer at @eyelinestudios powered by @Netflix, this Dec in HK. From image-based lighting to #virtualproduction, his work reshaped CG realism. 🎟 bit.ly/sa25reg #VFX #Rendering

Excellent article in @FilmmakerMag on ICT's #LightStage and @debfx research - filmmakermagazine.com/131350-working… btw - why not come and visit the #NextGen #LightStage? - we're building it now...ict.usc.edu/news/essays/li…

Join us at #CVPR2025 workshop on Photo-realistic 3D Head Avatars, featuring invited talks by leading experts as well as new benchmark challenges! @debfx @shalinidemello @psyth91 @YaoFeng1995 Stefanos Zafeiriou @HaoLi81 🔗: kaldir.vc.in.tum.de/nersemble_benc…

“Lux Post Facto: Learning Portrait Performance Relighting With Conditional Video Diffusion and a Hybrid Dataset” by @myq_1997, @vishalm_patel, @wenqi_xian, @JulienPhilip2, @maleewahaha, @realNingYu, @debfx demos a portrait video relighting method: arxiv.org/abs/2503.14485 (6/14)

Kudos to the research team at our sister company @eyelinestudios. Their latest research paper, 🌊Go-with-the-Flow 🌊, will be presented at #CVPR2025! Based on their research, we believe this could allow artists in the future to leverage these new techniques to direct the motion in generated videos, empowering creative control in a wide range of video applications: cut-and-drag animation, transferring movement between videos, first frame editing, camera control via depth warping, and text-to-video 3D scene creation. Kudos to the amazing team: @RyanBurgert, @Yuancheng_Xu0, @wenqi_xian, Oliver Pilarski, Pascal Clausen, Mingming He, @maleewahaha, @yitong_deng, Lingxiao Li, Mohsen Mousavi, @ryoo_michael, @debfx, @realNingYu, from @eyelinestudios, @Scanline_VFX, @netflix, Stony Brook University, University of Maryland, and @Stanford. ***This is part of the ongoing research and development at @eyelinestudios and we hope to see adoption in these techniques and workflows soon. Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2501.08331 Web: eyeline-research.github.io/Go-with-the-Fl… Code: github.com/Eyeline-Resear… Models: huggingface.co/Eyeline-Resear… #MachineLearning #video #VideoGeneration #DiffusionModels #VideoDiffusionModels #OpenSource

Excited to show Sodium Vapor Matting - the ingenious compositing technique that let @iammrvandy dance with animated penguins, recently recreated with @CorridorDigital youtube.com/watch?v=UQuIVs… - this Sat at @AcademyMuseum before a screening of Mary Poppins. academymuseum.org/en/programs/de…

Congratulations to the Academy Award nominees for Best Visual Effects! Fantastic work and looking forward to who will receive the Oscar at the 97th Academy Awards on March 2nd: Alien: Romulus Better Man Dune: Part Two Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes Wicked

Congratulations to the ten films shortlisted for the Best Achievement in Visual Effects Oscar: Alien: Romulus Better Man Civil War Deadpool & Wolverine Dune: Part Two Gladiator II Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes Mufasa: The Lion King Twisters Wicked press.oscars.org/news/97th-osca…

@eyelinestudios powered by @netflix is hiring summer 2025 research interns - if you are pursuing an advanced degree in computer graphics, vision, or machine learning and want to develop groundbreaking technologies for visual media production, apply here: scanlinevfx.com/careers/?job=2…

Hand-painted spherical artwork - wow!

@TiaCarrere practices the National Anthem with organist @DieterRuehle before the @Dodgers 6-3 win over the @Orioles 6/29/24 ... @LAKings next? :-) youtu.be/dEUgOlT42-k?si…

@TiaCarrere practices the National Anthem with organist @DieterRuehle before taking the field at @Dodgers vs. @Orioles 8/29/24 ... @LAKings next? youtu.be/dEUgOlT42-k?si…

New on the fxguide podcast: Cathedrals, Ruins & Presidents – Places and Faces with Paul Debevec fxguide.com/fxpodcasts/fxp… via @fxguidenews

Sad to hear of the passing of Jon Landau, storied producer of True Lies, Titanic, and Avatar, uniquely skilled and accomplished at bringing ambitious and amazing visions to the screen and to audiences worldwide hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-n…

Thx Dr. @debfx Paul Debevec, Chief Research Officer, Eyeline Studios - powered by @netflix; Research Professor, @USCViterbi; Associate Director of Graphics Research, ICT!  - When We 3D Scanned President @BarackObama at the @ObamaWhiteHouse ---- > ict.usc.edu/news/essays/wh… #ICT25

@boztank Nice light stage!

Always good to see the progress we’re making in our labs in NYC and (in the case of these photos) Pittsburgh...

@TonytheDiaz @kevinbparry @CorridorDigital It's important that the yellow light is a single wavelength, so you can filter it out without affecting anything's color too much. It turns out, sodium vapor is by far the easiest single wavelength illuminant to use

@debfx @kevinbparry @CorridorDigital Incredible! Is there any reason why the screen color needs to be yellow/lit by sodium vapor? Meaning with the same prism rig, couldn’t the same be achieved using a green screen w green lights and filter on the matte camera? Also props for using zcams!

Great working with @CorridorDigital to bring the legendary Sodium Vapor Matting process back to life in their latest video. It really is a better way to pull mattes for visual effects compositing than greenscreen. #visualeffects #virtualproduction youtube.com/watch?v=UQuIVs…

@rogue_node @CorridorDigital That should work! We did something like that for our SIGGRAPH 2002 paper on LED Stages pauldebevec.com/Research/LS3/

@debfx @CorridorDigital @debfx I was thinking of doing something like this with infrared because camera can pick up the wavelength(with the sensor filter removed). Could be a lower cost option with cheap infrared LEDs. And should have near zero affect on colour. Maybe another experiment ?