IIT Kharagpur alumnus is Technical Oscar winner

     Written by : IANS | Sat, Jan 07, 2017, 10:32 AM

IIT Kharagpur alumnus is Technical Oscar winner

Kolkata, Jan 6 : IIT Kharagpur alumnus Parag Havaldar has won the Technical Oscar for the development of expression-based facial performance-capture technology at Sony Pictures Imageworks, the institute said in a statement on Friday.

The Indian-American graduated from the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at IIT Kharagpur in 1991.

This pioneering system enabled large-scale use of animation rig-based facial performance-capture for motion pictures, combining solutions for tracking, stabilisation, solving and animator-controllable curve editing.