Tongbo Chen, Abhijeet Ghosh, and Paul Debevec. Data-Driven Diffuse-Specular Separation from Spherical Gradient Illumination. SIGGRAPH 2009 Poster, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, August 2009. Project webpage.

Abhijeet Ghosh, Tongbo Chen, Pieter Peers, Cyrus A. Wilson, and Paul Debevec. Estimating Specular Roughness from Polarized Second Order Spherical Gradient Illumination. SIGGRAPH 2009 Technical Talk, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, August 2009.

Abhijeet Ghosh, Tongbo Chen, Pieter Peers, Cyrus A. Wilson, Paul Debevec. Estimating Specular Roughness and Anisotropy from Second Order Spherical Gradient Illumination. Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. EGSR), 28(4), June 2009, pp. 1161-1170. Project webpage.

Michael Backes, Tongbo Chen, Markus Duermuth, Hendrik P. A. Lensch, Martin Welk. Tempest in a Teapot: Compromising Reflections Revisited. In proceedings of 30th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy. Oakland, California, USA, May 17-20, 2009. PDF

Martin Fuchs, Tongbo Chen, Oliver Wang, Ramesh Raskar, Hans-Peter Seidel, and Hendrik P. A. Lensch. A Shaped Temporal Filter Camera. In proceedings of VMV 2009. Project website. MPI Informatik Tech Report MPI-I-2009-4-003 high resolution [20M] and low resolution [5.8M]

Tongbo Chen. New 3D Scanning Techniques for Complex Scenes. Ph.D. thesis, Max-Planck-Institut Informatik and Saarland University, Saarbruecken, Germany, December, 2008.

Tongbo Chen, Hans-Peter Seidel, and Hendrik Lensch. Modulated Phase-Shifting for 3D Scanning. In proceedings of IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2008), Anchorage, Alaska, USA, June 24-26, 2008. PDF

Tongbo Chen, Hendrik Lensch, Christian Fuchs and Hans-Peter Seidel. Polarization and Phase-shifting for 3D Scanning of Translucent Objects. In proceedings of IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2007), Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, June 18-23, 2007. Abstract PDF (oral presentation)

Christian Fuchs, Tongbo Chen, Michael Goesele, Holger Theisel, and Hans-Peter Seidel. Density Estimation for Dynamic Volumes. Computers and Graphics, 31(2), 2007, pp. 205-211. Abstract PDF

Christian Fuchs, Tongbo Chen, Michael Goesele, Holger Theisel, and Hans-Peter Seidel. Volumetric Density Capture From a Single Image. In proceedings of International Workshop on Volume Graphics, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, July 30-31, 2006. Abstract PDF

Tongbo Chen, Michael Goesele and Hans-Peter Seidel. Mesostructure from Specularity. In proceedings of IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2006) , New York, NY, USA, June 17-22, 2006, pp. 1825-1832. Abstract PDF Project webpages

Johannes Guenther, Tongbo Chen, Michael Goesele, Ingo Wald, and Hans-Peter Seidel. Efficient Acquisition and Realistic Rendering of Car Paint. In proceedings of Vision, Modeling, and Visualization (VMV 2005), Erlangen, Germany, Nov. 16-18, 2005, pp. 487-494. Abstract BibTex PDF Video Project webpages

Christian Fuchs, Michael Goesele, Tongbo Chen, and Hans-Peter Seidel. An Empirical Model for Heterogeneous Translucent Objects. SIGGRAPH Sketches, Los Angeles, California, USA, 2005. Abstract PDF (see also MPI Technical Report MPI-I-2005-4-006)

Tongbo Chen, Yan Wang, Volker Schillings, and Christoph Meinel. Grayscale Image Matting and Colorization. In proceedings of Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV 2004), Jeju Island, Korea, Jan. 27-30, 2004, pp. 1164-1169. (oral presentation) Abstract PDF

Tongbo Chen, Baocai Yin, Wanjun Huang, and Dehui Kong. Animating Human Face under Arbitrary Illumination. In proceedings of Pacific Graphics, Tokyo, Japan, October 2001, pp. 314-321. Abstract PDF

Wanjun Huang, Baocai Yin, Tongbo Chen, and Dehui Kong. Eye Feature Extraction Based on 3D Deformable Template. Journal of Computer Research and Development, 39(4):495-501, 2002. Abstract PDF

Tongbo Chen, Mingchao Ma, Christoph Meinel, and Volker Schillings. A Novel Approach to E-learning Content Creation. m-ICTE, 2003, pp. 410-414. Abstract PDF

Mingchao Ma, Volker Schillings, Tongbo Chen, and Christoph Meinel. T-cube: A Multimedia Authoring system for E-learning. AACE E-Learn, 2003, pp. 2289-2296. Abstract PDF

Christoph Meinel, Tongbo Chen, and Volker Schillings. Tele-task -- Teleteaching Praxistauglich fuer den Universitaetsalltag. EMISA, 2004, pp. 35-47. Abstract PDF

Renderings

Rendering a translucent buddha, with specular reflection and without specular reflection. Translucent Max-Planck model.

Rendering a piglet with heterogeneous material.

Rendering of water, rain, and boid, interaction with water and boids, tour into paronama

Tongbo's PBRT gallery
PBRT is a great renderer. I hope this gallery is helpful for you to learn the system.

Comments, questions to Tongbo Chen , e-mail: tchen@ict.usc.edu.