Toby Chong

I am a 2nd year PhD student at the University of Tokyo, under the supervision of Takeo Igarashi. My research centres around interactive experiences, virtual and augmented reality. In particular, I am interested in working on face and garment related projects.

I received my MSc in Creative Informatics working with Takeo Igarashi and BEng in Electrical Engineering working with Koji Yatani, both from the University of Tokyo.

Outside academia, I interned at Adobe Research, working with Valentina Shin and Deepali Aneja. I also work at EmbodyMe and Toei company to develop consumer and studio oriented facial capture related projects.

Here is my CV (pdf, google drive).

Currently I am working on realistic cosmetic reproduction for virtual make-up, but I have worked on a mix of HCI/CG/ML projects.

Besides working, I enjoy science-based contents about cooking, training and investing.

Full Paper

Per Garment Capture and Synthesis for Real-time Virtual Try-on
Toby Chong, I-Chao Shen, Nobuyuki Umetani, Takeo Igarashi

ACM UIST 2021

Project Page

Exploring a Make-up Support System for Transgender Passing based on Automatic Gender Recognition

Toby Chong, Nolwenn Maudet, Harima Katsuki, Takeo Igarashi
ACM CHI 2021

Project Page

Interactive Optimization of Generative Image Modeling using Sequential Subspace Search and Content-based Guidance


Toby Chong, I-Chao Shen, Issei Sato, Takeo Igarashi
Computer Graphics Forum 2021

arXiv published version project page

Dollhouse VR

Sugiura Yuta, Ibayashi Hikaru, Toby Chong, Daisuke Sakamoto, Natsuki Miyata, Mitsunori Tada, Takashi Okuma, Takeshi Kurata, Masaaki Mochimaru, and Takeo Igarashi.
ACM SIGGRAPH VRCAI 2018

Project Page

Public/Private Interactive Wearable Projection Display

Yuta Sugiura, Toby Chong, Wataru Kawai, Bruce H. Thomas.
ACM Siggaph VRCAI 2018

Project Page

Short paper, Poster, Demo

Augmenting Human with Compact Supernumerary Robotic Limbs
Haoran Xie, Zeyu Ding, Shogo Yoshida, Toby Chong, Takuma Torii, and Tsukasa Fukusato

Augmented Human 2022, Short Paperproject page arXiv

Real-time Image-based Virtual Try-on with Measurement Garment
Toby Chong, I-Chao Shen, Yinfei Qian, Nobuyuki Umetani, Takeo Igarashi

ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2021, Emerging Technology

Xpression

Toby Chong, Issei Yoshida
ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2018, Emerging Technology

Paper Apple App Store

Education

PhD @ University of Tokyo, 2021~
Dept. of Creative Informatics.

Under supervision of Takeo Igarashi.

MSc @ University of Tokyo, 2019~2021
Dept. of Creative Informatics.

Under supervision of Takeo Igarashi.

BEng @ University of Tokyo, 2015~2019
Dept. of Electronic and Electrical Engineering.

Final year under the supervision of Koji Yatani. I worked on an in-situ haptic feedback system for presentation.

Contacts

Academic : tobyclh[at]g[dot]ecc[dot]u-tokyo[dot]ac[dot]jp

LinkedIn : Toby Chong

Github : @tobyclh

Twitter: @tobyclh

Google Scholar: My Profile