Biography
Leonid Sigal was born on May 23, 1977 in Kiev, Ukraine. He is a postdoctoral fellow at Department of Computer Science in University of Toronto. He completed his Ph.D. under the supervision of Prof. Michael J. Black at Brown University; he received his B.Sc. degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics from Boston University (1999), his M.A. from Boston University (1999), and his M.S. from Brown University (2003). From 1999 to 2001, he worked as a senior vision engineer at Siemens Corporate Research (SCR) working with Dorin Comaniciu on autonomous obstacle detection and avoidance for vehicle navigation. During the summers of 2005 and 2006, he worked as a research intern at Intel Applications Research Lab (ARL) on human pose estimation and tracking. His work received the Best Paper Award at the Articulate Motion and Deformable Objects Conference in 2006 (with Prof. Michael J. Black).
Leonid's research interests mainly lie in the areas of computer vision and machine learning. He is particularly interested in statistical models for problems of visual inference, including human motion analysis, graphical models, probabilistic and hierarchical inference.
Curriculum Vitae
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Professional Service
Program Chair or Organizer
- Co-Organizer, EHuM: Evaluation of Articulated Human Motion and Pose Estimation Workshop, in conjunction with Neural Information and Processing Systems (NIPS), December 2006.
- Co-Organizer, EHuM2: 2nd Workshop on Evaluation of Articulated Human Motion and Pose Estimation, in conjunction with IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2007.
Program Committee
- Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (2007)
- IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (2007)
Member of the ACM, the IEEE, the IEEE Computer Society.
Reviewing
Reviewed journal papers for:
- Computer Vision and Image Understanding
- IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
- IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
- IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics
- IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
- IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
- International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence
- Journal of Computer Science and Technology
- Pattern Recognition
Reviewed conference and workshop papers for:
- Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (2004-2007)
- European Conference on Computer Vision (2004)
- IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (2005,2007)
- IEEE International Workshop on Analysis and Modeling of Faces and Gestures (2003)
- Neural Information Processing Systems (2007)