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D-Index
60
Citations
14544
World Ranking
3237
National Ranking
126

Overview

Leonid Sigal is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada. Their research primarily falls within the field of Computer Science, with a strong focus on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. They have contributed extensively to topics such as Multimodal Machine Learning Applications, Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning, Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques, Generative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis, Advanced Vision and Imaging, Human Pose and Action Recognition, and Video Analysis and Summarization.

Their work includes papers published in various venues, reflecting a multidisciplinary engagement with both conferences and journals. Recent publications include:

  • Light Field Neural Rendering, 2022, 2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
  • Referring Transformer: A One-step Approach to Multi-task Visual Grounding, 2021, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • HyperSOR: Context-Aware Graph Hypernetwork for Salient Object Ranking, 2024, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
  • VLC-BERT: Visual Question Answering with Contextualized Commonsense Knowledge, 2023, 2023 IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)
  • Layout2image: Image Generation from Layout, 2020, International Journal of Computer Vision

Leonid Sigal has frequently published in venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), SSRN Electronic Journal, Pattern Recognition, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, and the International Journal of Computer Vision. The arXiv platform hosts the majority of their work, with over 50 publications there.

Collaboration is a significant aspect of their research. Frequent co-authors include Raghav Goyal, Aditya Chinchure, James J. Little, Carlos Esteves, and Ameesh Makadia, with multiple joint publications indicating ongoing research partnerships.

Their body of work spans both theoretical and applied domains, focusing on advancing methods in visual understanding and synthesis through machine learning techniques. This includes adapting models to work efficiently with limited data and improving the interpretability and performance of vision-based AI systems across various tasks.

Best Publications

  • HumanEva: Synchronized Video and Motion Capture Dataset and Baseline Algorithm for Evaluation of Articulated Human Motion

    Leonid Sigal;Alexandru O. Balan;Michael J. Black

  • Tracking loose-limbed people

    L. Sigal;S. Bhatia;S. Roth;M.J. Black

  • HumanEva: Synchronized Video and Motion Capture Dataset for Evaluation of Articulated Human Motion

    Leonid Sigal;Michael J. Black

  • Implicit Probabilistic Models of Human Motion for Synthesis and Tracking

    Hedvig Sidenbladh;Michael J. Black;Leonid Sigal

  • Learning Activity Progression in LSTMs for Activity Detection and Early Detection

    Shugao Ma;Leonid Sigal;Stan Sclaroff

  • Multi-Level Semantic Feature Augmentation for One-Shot Learning

    Zitian Chen;Yanwei Fu;Yinda Zhang;Yu-Gang Jiang

  • Skin color-based video segmentation under time-varying illumination

    L. Sigal;S. Sclaroff;V. Athitsos

  • Detailed Human Shape and Pose from Images

    A.O. Balan;L. Sigal;M.J. Black;J.E. Davis

  • High-Dimensional Feature Selection by Feature-Wise Kernelized Lasso

    Makoto Yamada;Wittawat Jitkrittum;Leonid Sigal;Eric P. Xing

  • Measure Locally, Reason Globally: Occlusion-sensitive Articulated Pose Estimation

    L. Sigal;M.J. Black

  • Poselet Key-Framing: A Model for Human Activity Recognition

    Michalis Raptis;Leonid Sigal

  • Multilevel Language and Vision Integration for Text-to-Clip Retrieval

    Huijuan Xu;Kun He;Bryan A. Plummer;Leonid Sigal

  • 3D hand pose reconstruction using specialized mappings

    R. Rosales;V. Athitsos;L. Sigal;S. Sclaroff

  • Social roles in hierarchical models for human activity recognition

    Tian Lan;Leonid Sigal;Greg Mori

  • A Quantitative Evaluation of Video-based 3D Person Tracking

    A.O. Balan;L. Sigal;M.J. Black

  • Estimation and prediction of evolving color distributions for skin segmentation under varying illumination

    L. Sigal;S. Sclaroff;V. Athitsos

  • Combined discriminative and generative articulated pose and non-rigid shape estimation

    Leonid Sigal;Alexandru Balan;Michael J. Black

  • Motion capture from body-mounted cameras

    Takaaki Shiratori;Hyun Soo Park;Leonid Sigal;Yaser Sheikh

  • Image Generation From Layout

    Bo Zhao;Lili Meng;Weidong Yin;Leonid Sigal

  • Joint Summarization of Large-Scale Collections of Web Images and Videos for Storyline Reconstruction

    Gunhee Kim;Leonid Sigal;Eric P. Xing

  • Improved Few-Shot Visual Classification

    Peyman Bateni;Raghav Goyal;Vaden Masrani;Frank Wood

  • Visual Analysis of Humans

    Thomas B. Moeslund;Adrian Hilton;Volker Krüger;Leonid Sigal

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael J. Black
Michael J. Black Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems
Yanwei Fu
Yanwei Fu Fudan University
Stan Sclaroff
Stan Sclaroff Boston University
Greg Mori
Greg Mori Simon Fraser University
Yu-Gang Jiang
Yu-Gang Jiang Fudan University
David J. Fleet
David J. Fleet University of Toronto
Jessica K. Hodgins
Jessica K. Hodgins Carnegie Mellon University
Xiangyang Xue
Xiangyang Xue Fudan University
Kate Saenko
Kate Saenko Boston University
Gunhee Kim
Gunhee Kim Seoul National University

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