Christoph (Chris) Bregler
Most Recent Affiliation(s):
- University of California, Berkeley, Assistant Professor
Other / Past Affiliation(s):
- Stanford University
- New York University
- Industrial Light & Magic
Bio:
SIGGRAPH 1999
Chris Bregler is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at Stanford University. He received his Diplom in Computer Science from Karlsruhe University in 1993 and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from u.c. Berkeley in 1995 and 1998. He also worked for several companies including IBM, Hewlett Packard, and Interval. He is a member of the Stanford Computer Graphics and the Robotics Laboratory. His research interests are in the areas of Computer Vision, Graphics, and Learning. Currently he focuses on topics in visual motion capture, human face, speech, and body gesture recognition and animation, and image based modeling and rendering.
SIGGRAPH 1998
Chris Bregler received his undergraduate degree from University of Karlsruhe in Germany in 1993, and is now completing his Ph.D. in computer science at the University of California at Berkeley. Before coming to Berkeley he started the computer lipreading project in Professor Alex Waibel’s group (University of Karlsruhe / Carnegie Mellon University), and continued working on machine learning, lip-tracking, and speechreading systems with Steve Omohundro and Yochai Konig at ICSI in Berkeley. At interval Research Corporation, together with Michele Covell and Malcolm Slaney, he created the Video Rewrite system that uses such analysis techniques and graphics techniques for image-based facial animation. As a completion to his thesis at U.C. Berkeley with advisors Jitendra Malik and Jerry Feldman he is working on applying new visual motion tracking techniques to image-based animation of entire bodies. His publications range from papers, book chapters, and patents in the field of Computer Vision, Computer Graphics, Speech Recognition, Statistical Learning, and Neural Networks.
Experience Category: Organizing Committee Chair:
Learning Category: Jury Member:
Experience(s):
Learning Category: Presentation(s):
Type: [Technical Papers]
Realtime facial animation with on-the-fly correctives Presenter(s): [Li] [Yu] [Ye] [Bregler]
[SIGGRAPH 2013]
Type: [Talks (Sketches)]
ILM's multitrack: a new visual tracking framework for high-end VFX production Presenter(s): [Bregler] [Bhat] [Saltzman] [Allen]
[SIGGRAPH 2009]
Type: [Courses]
Performance-Driven Facial Animation Organizer(s): [Pighin]
Presenter(s): [Lewis] [Borshukov] [Bregler] [Havaldar] [Radford] [Sagar] [Tolles] [Zhang]
Entry No.: [30]
[SIGGRAPH 2006]
Type: [Technical Papers]
Speaking with hands: creating animated conversational characters from recordings of human performance Presenter(s): [Stone] [DeCarlo] [Oh] [Rodriguez] [Stere] [Lees] [Bregler]
[SIGGRAPH 2004]
Type: [Technical Papers]
Motion capture assisted animation: texturing and synthesis Presenter(s): [Pullen] [Bregler]
[SIGGRAPH 2002]
Type: [Technical Papers]
Turning to the masters: motion capturing cartoons Presenter(s): [Bregler] [Loeb] [Chuang] [Deshpande]
[SIGGRAPH 2002]
Type: [Talks (Sketches)]
From Motion Capture to Motion Texture Presenter(s): [Pullen] [Bregler]
[SIGGRAPH 2000]
Type: [Courses]
Image-Based Modeling, Rendering, and Lighting Presenter(s): [Bregler] [Cohen] [Szeliski] [McMillan] [Sillion]
Entry No.: [35]
[SIGGRAPH 2000]
Type: [Courses]
Image-Based Modeling, Rendering, and Lighting Presenter(s): [Bregler] [Cohen] [Szeliski] [McMillan] [Sillion]
Entry No.: [39]
[SIGGRAPH 1999]
Type: [Courses]
Image-Based Modeling and Rendering Organizer(s): [Debevec] [Gortler]
Presenter(s): [Debevec] [Gortler] [Bregler] [McMillan] [Szeliski]
Entry No.: [15]
[SIGGRAPH 1998]
Type: [Technical Papers]
Video Rewrite: driving visual speech with audio Presenter(s): [Bregler] [Covell] [Slaney]
[SIGGRAPH 1997]
Role(s):
- Computer Animation Organizing Committee Chair/Co-Chair
- Course Presenter
- Special Session Presenter
- Talk (Sketch) Presenter
- Talks (Sketches) Jury Member
- Technical Paper Presenter
- Technical Papers Jury Member
- Unified Jury Member
