連結台灣專題講座: 細談虛擬人物: 從電影特效到元宇宙

好奇學生大哉問連結台灣專題講座12月專題講座

主題：細談虛擬人物: 從電影特效到元宇宙

主講： 馬萬鈞博士

地點：遠距視訊 (WebEx Video Conference)

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時程：12/16/2022 （星期五）10:10 - 11:45 noon (台北時間)

          12/15/2022 (Thursday) 6:10 - 7:45 PM (Los Angeles time)

講者簡介：

嘉賓：　馬萬鈞博士

職銜：　TikTok字節跳動智能創作部門主任研究員

在本次演講您可學到下列知識：

現代電影技術
虛擬人物的關鍵技術
虛擬人在未來社交媒體的應用

經歷：　

馬萬鈞博士現任TikTok字節跳動智能創作部門主任研究員。

2019年馬博士獲得美國演藝學會科技成就獎 - AMPAS (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences)  Technical Achievement Award。就是俗稱奧斯卡金像獎頒獎典禮中的科技成就獎。

馬博士於2008年畢業於國立台灣大學資訊工程研究所。

曾經歷美國南加州大學創意科技中心博士後研究員(2009-2011)，紐西蘭威塔數位(Weta Digital)研究員(2011-2015)，瑞士蘇黎世理工大學訪問學者(2015)，動視暴雪(資深研究員(2016-2017)，以及谷歌AR/VR部門資深軟體設計師(2017-2020)，

經歷橫跨學術、電影與遊戲娛樂業。曾與Digital Domain, Weta Digital, Rhythm and Hues, 以及Sony Pictures Imageworks等電影特效公司合作多項數位演員相關計畫。

在威塔數位期間更主要負責數位演員動作捕捉(Motion Capture)相關技術的開發。曾經參與的計畫包括哈比人三部曲、鋼鐵人3、玩命關頭7以及決戰猩球三部曲。曾在ACM SIGGRAPH、ACM SIGGRAPH Asia、ACM SGP、ACM Interactive 3D、Eurographics、EGSR、Pacific Graphics等國際會議，以及ACM TOG、IEEE CG&A、Computer Graphics Forum等期刊上發表論文與演講。

馬博士專長是電腦繪圖、電腦視覺、電影特效、臉部動畫以及機器學習等。

Abstract:
Human-like CG characters in movies, virtual idols who interact with fans at their concerts... It is no longer difficult for computers to generate virtual humans. How are virtual humans made possible? In this talk, I will share my experiences regarding the production of virtual humans for feature films and social media. We will first look at the key technologies behind virtual humans from visual effects such as facial scanning and tracking, to new adventures on using machine learning to create facial filters for social media applications. We will also discuss the value and potential applications of virtual human technology based on business scenarios for social media.

Speaker:
Wan-Chun Alex Ma is a staff research scientist at ByteDance. Prior to ByteDance he was affiliated with Google, Activision Blizzard, ETH Zurich, Weta Digital, and USC Institute for Creative Technologies. During his Google tenure as a senior software engineer, he led the research and development for AR lighting estimation to promote realism for augmented reality. He was also a research scientist at both Weta Digital and Activision Blizzard where his work on facial performance capture contributed to many recent motion pictures or video games including the Hobbit trilogy, Iron Man 3, the reboot Planet of the Apes series, Furious 7, BFG, and Call of Duty series. His researches have been published at top tier graphics conferences including SIGGRAPH, SIGGRAPH Asia, Eurographics, EGSR, SGP and I3D, in research areas such as facial animation, performance capture, photogrammetry, image-based modeling and rendering, geometry processing and machine learning. Ma received an Academy Award for Technical Achievement in 2019 for his work on the Polarized Spherical Gradient Illumination facial appearance capture system used in creating photoreal digital actors. He received his Ph.D. from National Taiwan University in 2008.