Infinity Festival Hollywood 2024

Paul is a Director of Research at Netflix, and Adjunct Research Professor of Computer Science in the Viterbi School of Engineering at the University of Southern California, working within the Vision and Graphics Laboratory at the USC Institute for Creative Technologies. Debevec's research in photogrammetry, high dynamic range imaging, image-based lighting, photoreal digital actors, and LED stages for virtual production has been recognized with a Lifetime Achievement Emmy Award, the SMPTE Progress Medal, two Scientific and Technical Academy Awards, and ACM SIGGRAPH's first Significant New Researcher Award.  In 2014, he was profiled in The New Yorker magazine's "Pixel Perfect: The Scientist Behind the Digital Cloning of Actors" article by Margaret Talbot, and traveled to The White House to perform the first 3D Scan of a sitting US President.