Matt Jen-Yuan Chiang

I'm a senior software engineer at Walt Disney Animation Studios working on Disney's Hyperion renderer. Previously I worked at the Graphics Lab of USC Institute for Creative Technologies on light stage and digital human related projects.

Publications

Unbiased Emission and Scattering Importance Sampling For Heterogeneous Volumes

Wei-Feng Wayne Huang, Peter Kutz, Yining Karl Li and Matt Jen-Yuan Chiang

ACM SIGGRAPH 2021 Talk. To Appear.

The Look and Lighting of “Show Yourself” in Frozen 2

Amol Sathe, Lance Summers, Matt Jen-Yuan Chiang and James Newland

ACM SIGGRAPH 2020 Talk

Taming the Shadow Terminator

Matt Jen-Yuan Chiang, Yining Karl Li and Brent Burley

ACM SIGGRAPH 2019 Talk

Plausible Iris Caustics and Limbal Arc Rendering

Matt Jen-Yuan Chiang and Brent Burley

ACM SIGGRAPH 2018 Talk

Art work by Alex Alvarado rendered in Hyperion

The Design and Evolution of Disney's Hyperion Renderer

Brent Burley, David Adler, Matt Jen-Yuan Chiang, Hank Driskill, Ralf Habel, Patrick Kelly, Peter Kutz, Yining Karl Li and Daniel Teece

ACM Transaction on Graphics / SIGGRAPH 2018

Recent Advances in Disney's Hyperion Renderer

Brent Burley, David Adler, Matt Jen-Yuan Chiang, Ralf Habel, Patrick Kelly, Peter Kutz, Yining Karl Li and Daniel Teece

ACM SIGGRAPH 2017 Course

Practical and Controllable Subsurface Scattering for Production Path Tracing

Matt Jen-Yuan Chiang, Peter Kutz and Brent Burley

ACM SIGGRAPH 2016 Talk

A Practical and Controllable Hair and Fur Model for Production Path Tracing

Matt Jen-Yuan Chiang, Benedikt Bitterli, Chuck Tappan and Brent Burley

Computer Graphics Forum / Eurographics 2016

A Practical and Controllable Hair and Fur Model for Production Path Tracing

Matt Jen-Yuan Chiang, Benedikt Bitterli, Chuck Tappan and Brent Burley

ACM SIGGRAPH 2015 Talk

Temporal Upsampling of Performance Geometry using Photometric Alignment

Cyrus A. Wilson, Abhijeet Ghosh, Pieter Peers, Matt Jen-Yuan Chiang, Jay Busch and Paul Debevec

ACM Transcaction on Graphics / SIGGRAPH 2010

The Digital Emily Project: Photoreal Facial Modeling and Animation

Oleg Alexander, Mike Rogers, William Lambeth, Matt Jen-Yuan Chiang and Paul Debevec

ACM SIGGRAPH 2009 Course

Facial Performance Synthesis using Deformation-Driven Polynomial Displacement Maps

Wan-Chun Ma, Andrew Jones, Matt Jen-Yuan Chiang, Tim Hawkins, Sune Frederiksen, Pieter Peers, Marko Vukovic, Ming Ouhyoung and Paul Debevec

ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2008 Paper

A High-Resolution Geometry Capture System for Facial Performance

Wan-Chun Ma, Andrew Jones, Time Hawkins, Matt Jen-Yuan Chiang and Paul Debevec

ACM SIGGRAPH 2008 Talk