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From the Ted Talk by Paul Debevec: Animating a photo-real digital face

Unscramble the Blue Letters


The way that we did this is we tried to satrt with Emily herself, who was gracious enough to come to our laboratory in mrania Del Rey, and sit for a sssioen in Light Stage 5. This is a face-scanning srpehe, with 156 white LEDs all around that allow us to photograph her in a series of very controlled illumination conditions. And the lighting that we use these days looks something like this. We shoot all of these photographs in about three seconds.

And we basically cpurtae enough information with vdeio projector patterns that drape over the counotrs of her face, and different principle directions of light from the light stage, to figure out both the coarse-scale and the fine-scale detail of her face. If we zoom in on this photograph right here, we can see it's a really nice pghtrpooah to have of her, because she is lit from absolutely everywhere at the same time to get a nice image of her facial texture.

Open Cloze


The way that we did this is we tried to _____ with Emily herself, who was gracious enough to come to our laboratory in ______ Del Rey, and sit for a _______ in Light Stage 5. This is a face-scanning ______, with 156 white LEDs all around that allow us to photograph her in a series of very controlled illumination conditions. And the lighting that we use these days looks something like this. We shoot all of these photographs in about three seconds.

And we basically _______ enough information with _____ projector patterns that drape over the ________ of her face, and different principle directions of light from the light stage, to figure out both the coarse-scale and the fine-scale detail of her face. If we zoom in on this photograph right here, we can see it's a really nice __________ to have of her, because she is lit from absolutely everywhere at the same time to get a nice image of her facial texture.

Solution


  1. sphere
  2. capture
  3. marina
  4. contours
  5. session
  6. video
  7. photograph
  8. start

Original Text


The way that we did this is we tried to start with Emily herself, who was gracious enough to come to our laboratory in Marina Del Rey, and sit for a session in Light Stage 5. This is a face-scanning sphere, with 156 white LEDs all around that allow us to photograph her in a series of very controlled illumination conditions. And the lighting that we use these days looks something like this. We shoot all of these photographs in about three seconds.

And we basically capture enough information with video projector patterns that drape over the contours of her face, and different principle directions of light from the light stage, to figure out both the coarse-scale and the fine-scale detail of her face. If we zoom in on this photograph right here, we can see it's a really nice photograph to have of her, because she is lit from absolutely everywhere at the same time to get a nice image of her facial texture.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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animation company 2
facial animation 2
video games 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
skin pore structure 2

Important Words


  1. absolutely
  2. basically
  3. capture
  4. conditions
  5. contours
  6. controlled
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  8. del
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  11. drape
  12. emily
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  25. marina
  26. nice
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  28. photograph
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  30. principle
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  32. rey
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  34. series
  35. session
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  37. sit
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  41. texture
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  43. video
  44. white
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