Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorPaul Debevec, a longtime graphics researcher at USC and a recent member of the Google Research team, has joined Netflix as director of research, a newly created role on the streamer’s Data Science and Engineering team.Debevec will oversee R&D around new technologies in computer vision, computer graphics and machine learning with applications across many areas of production, including VFX, virtual production and animation.
He will is tasked with building a team that brings together data and expertise from Netflix productions worldwide “to help creative partners develop new storytelling capabilities,” according to the company.Debevec will continue serving as an adjunct research professor of computer science at.
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