Toby Chong

I am a principle research at TOEI Zukun Research. We focus on creating stylized and production ready character facial animation and we are always looking for eager interns and research labs for potential collaborations. Besides, we also provide extremely high quality character facial capture/animation service for both industry and academia, as well as light-stage based 3D scanning. Please get in touch if you are interested. 

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

CV (pdf, google drive)

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

Full Paper

MicroGlam: Microscopic Skin Image Dataset with Cosmetics
Toby Chong, Alina Chadwick, I-Chao Shen, Haoran xie, Takeo Igarashi

ACM Siggraph Asia 2023 Tech. Communication
Project page

SoundToons: Exemplar-Based Authoring of Interactive Audio-Driven Animation Sprites
Toby Chong, Deepali Aneja, Takeo Igarashi, Valentina Shin

ACM IUI 2023

PDF ACM YouTube

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

MicroGlam: Microscopic Skin Image Dataset with Cosmetics
Toby Chong, Alina Chadwick, I-Chao Shen, Haoran Xie, Takeo Igarashi

ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2023 Technical Communication

Project Page

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

Email : tob_chong[at]toei[dot]ac[dot]jp

LinkedIn : Toby Chong

Github : @tobyclh

Twitter: @tobyclh

Google Scholar: My Profile