Kornél Lehőcz

Scarab Labs is my own venture in the field of image processing software. I am developing a digital camera raw converter and photo editor, and various Adobe After Effects and Photoshop plug-ins. I wrote the majority of the code of Scarab Darkroom. My image-processing pipeline is world class in terms of image quality/speed. I developed numerous algorithms, including a fast, SIMD friendly, high quality demosaic algorithm, several noise filters, and a smart image resizing method.

I worked on Battlestations: Midway. I programmed visual effects, fixed bugs in the game, and resolved frame rate issues. The Xbox 360 version of the game became about 15% faster thanks to my optimizations. I was also in charge of maintaining a Lightwave export plug-in. Later I worked on the prototype of Battlestations: Pacific. I wrote shaders and implemented new features in the 3D engine (eg. HDR rendering).

I worked on the company’s proprietary 3D engine and on visual effects specific to The Club. I implemented HDR rendering and many other features in the engine, and was in charge of post-processing effects such as depth of field, bloom, tone mapping, and colour curve controls. I also resolved issues related to anti-aliasing and predicated tiling on the Xbox 360.

I worked on T5 Labs’s game streaming (cloud gaming) technology, mainly on the server side low latency video encoder. I also dealt with synchronizing threads, programming and maintenance of a tool (which used MFC), and small applications for demo purposes. Eg. capturing sound output and streaming it over the network.

I worked on the company’s proprietary 3D engine for the PC racing game Street Legal. I wrote all Direct3D specific parts of the engine, and implemented support for features such as real-time car painting. I was also involved in designing the art pipeline. I created several plug-ins for 3ds max, including a feature packed export plug-in. I also worked on Invictus’s earlier racing game 1NSANE. I did optimizations and improvements to its 3D engine.

I worked on the animation engine of Prody Parrot 2.0, its editor, and unit tests. The application and the in-house tools were written in C++ and used MFC. Some of my other tasks included sound engineering, testing, and evaluating various bug tracking systems.