Leonid Sigal

Disney Research Pittsburgh / Department of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University

 
 
 

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Disney Research Pittsburgh
4615 Forbes Ave
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Phone: (412) 802-6154
Email: lsigal at disneyresearch.com

Conference and Workshop Presentations

Stable Spaces for Real-time Clothing, E. de Aguiar, L. Sigal, A. Treuille and J. K. Hodgins, ACM Trans. Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH), July 2010.
Project: web page
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Videos: [Supplementary Video (64mb)]

Physical Simulation for Probabilistic Motion Tracking, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Ankorage, AK, June 2008.
Download: [pdf].
Talk Videos: Standard Controller [wmv, divx], Proposed Controller [wmv, divx],
                    Tracking Multiview Walking [wmv, divx],
                    Tracking Multiview Walking (comparison to PF with smooth prior) [wmv, divx],
                    Tracking Multiview Walking (comparison to APF with smooth prior) [wmv, divx],
                    Tracking Monocular Walking [wmv, divx],
                    Tracking Monocular Walking (comparison to PF with smooth prior) [wmv, divx],
                    Tracking Multiview Jog [wmv, divx].

HumanEva-I dataset and evaluation metrics EHuM: Evaluation of Articulated Human Motion and Pose Estimation Workshop, Whistler, BC, December 2006.
Download: [pdf].

Hierarchical Inference Framework for Articulated Pose Estimation and Tracking Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIAR), 2nd Neural Computation and Adaptive Perception Summer School, Toronto, Canada, August 2006.
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Predicting 3D People from 2D Pictures, IV Conference on Articulated Motion and Deformable Objects, Mallorca, Spain, July 2006.
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Graphical Object Models for Detection and Tracking, NIPS Workshop on Graphical Models and Kernels, Vancouver, BC, 2004.
Download: [pdf].

Invited Talks

Getting Physical: Video-based Inference of Control Mechanisms
  • ETH Zürich, Switzerland, June, 2011.
  • Carnegie Mellon University, VASC Seminar, Pittsburgh, PA, December, 2010.
Combined Discriminative and Generative Articulated Pose and Non-rigid Shape Estimatio
  • Neural Computation and Adaptive Perception Workshop on Modeling Animate Motion, Vancouver, BC, December 2007.
  • Queen's University, Kingston, ON, February 2008.
  • Machine Learning Seminar, University of Toronto, ON, February 2008.
Continuous-state Graphical Models for Object Localization, Pose Estimation and Tracking
  • Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, San Francisco, CA, January 2007.
  • Stanford University, BioMotion Research Group Meeting, Stanford, CA, January 2007.
  • University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, January 2007.
  • Boston University, Boston, MA, February, 2007.
  • University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, March 2007.
  • Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France, April 2007.
  • Xerox Research Center Europe, Grenoble, France, April 2007.

Hierarchical Inference Framework for Articulated Pose Estimation and Tracking, Honda Research Institute, Mountain View, CA, August 2006.

Loose-Limbed People Paradigm: Distributed Approach for Articulated Pose Estimation and Tracking, MIT CSAIL Machine Vision Colloquium, Cambridge, MA, May 2006.

Loosely Connected Body Model for Pose Estimation and Tracking, 10-th Anniversary of Image and Video Computing at Boston University, Boston, MA, May 2005.

Other Talks

Combining Tracking and Physics-based Simulation, Intel Applications Research Lab (ARL), Santa Clara, CA, September 2006.

Guest lectures in Computer Science 143 at Brown University (Introduction to Computer Vision), fall term 2006.

Finding and Tracking Loose-Limbed People: Distributed Approach, Intel Applications Research Lab (ARL), Santa Clara, CA, August 2005.

Attractive People: Assembling and Tracking Loose-Limbed Models using Non-Parametric BP, Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton, NJ, December 2004.