Toby Chong

I am a 3rd 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. 

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

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

PDF ACM YouTube

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

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

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

arXiv   published version project page

Dollhouse VR

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Public/Private Interactive Wearable Projection Display

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

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

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

Xpression 

Paper    Apple App Store