Thesis
Continuous-state Graphical Models for Object Localization, Pose Estimation and Tracking, L. Sigal, PhD Thesis, May 2008.
Committee:
Michael J. Black,
William Freeman,
John Hughes,
David Mumford.
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Journal Articles
Skin Color-Based Video Segmentation under Time-Varying Illumination,
L. Sigal, S. Sclaroff and V. Athitsos,
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 26(7), pp. 862-877, July 2004.
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Conference Publications
Physical Simulation for Probabilistic Motion Tracking,
M. Vondrak, L. Sigal and O. C. Jenkins, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2008. (to appear)
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Videos: [Supplementary Video - DIVX (30mb)],
[Supplementary Video - WMV (30mb)].
Combined discriminative and generative articulated pose and non-rigid shape estimation,
L. Sigal, A. Balan and M. J. Black,
Neural Information Processing Systems Conference, NIPS 2007.
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Shining a Light on Human Pose: On Shadows, Shading and the Estimation of Pose and Shape,
A. Balan, M. J. Black, H. Haussecker and L. Sigal,
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, ICCV 2007.
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Detailed Human Shape and Pose from Images,
A. Balan, L. Sigal, M. J. Black, J. Davis and H. Haussecker,
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2007.
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Predicting 3D People from 2D Pictures,
L. Sigal and M. J. Black,
IV Conference on Articulated Motion and Deformable Objects, AMDO 2006 (Best
Paper Award).
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Videos: [2D to 3D Pose Inference (16mb)],
[3D Tracking (75mb)].
Measure Locally, Reason Globally: Occlusion-sensitive Articulated Pose Estimation,
L. Sigal and M. J. Black,
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2006.
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Tracking Loose-limbed People,
L. Sigal, S. Bhatia, S. Roth, M. J. Black and M. Isard,
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2004.
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Gibbs Likelihoods for Bayesian Tracking,
S. Roth, L. Sigal and M. J. Black,
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2004.
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Attractive people: Assembling loose-limbed models using non-parametric belief propagation,
L. Sigal, M. Isard, B. H. Sigelman and M. J. Black,
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 16, NIPS 2003.
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Implicit probabilistic models of human motion for synthesis and tracking,
H. Sidenbladh, M. J. Black and L. Sigal,
European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2002, Springer-Verlag LNCS 2353, Vol. 1, pp. 784-800.
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3D Hand Pose Reconstruction Using Specialized Mappings,
R. Rosales, V. Athitsos, L. Sigal and S. Sclaroff,
International Conference on Computer Vision, ICCV 2001.
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Estimation and Prediction of Evolving Color Distributions for Skin Segmentation Under Varying Illumination,
L. Sigal, S. Sclaroff and V. Athitsos,
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2000.
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Workshop Publications
A Quantitative Evaluation of Video-based 3D Person Tracking,
A. Balan, L. Sigal and M. J. Black,
IEEE Workshop on Visual Surveillance and Performance Evaluation of Tracking and Surveillance, VS-PETS 2005.
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Tracking Complex Objects using Graphical Object Models,
L. Sigal, Y. Zhu, D. Comaniciu and M. J. Black,
1st International Workshop on Complex Motion, Springer-Verlag LNCS 3417, pp. 227-238, 2004.
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(also see related talk given at NIPS 2004 Workshop on Graphical Models and Kernels)
3D Human Limb Detection using Space Carving and Multi-view Eigen Models,
S. Bhatia, L. Sigal, M. Isard and M. J. Black,
IEEE Workshop on Articulated and Nonrigid Motion, 2004.
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Technical Reports
HumanEva: Synchronized Video and Motion Capture Dataset for Evaluation of Articulated Human Motion,
L. Sigal and M. J. Black,
Techniacl Report CS-06-08, Brown University, 2006.
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Refereed Abstracts
Hierarchical Approach for Articulated 3D Pose-Estimation and Tracking (extended abstract),
L. Sigal and M. J. Black,
Learning, Representation and Context for Human Sensing in Video Workshop (in conjunction with CVPR),
2006.
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Patents
Method and System for Aligning Geometric Object Models with Images,
I. Bachelder, L. Jacobson, J. Negro and L. Sigal,
US Pat. 6,804,416, October 2004.
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Graphical Object Models for Detection and Tracking,
L. Sigal, Y. Zhu and D. Comaniciu,
US Pat. 2005/0286738, December, 2005.
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WO Pat. 2005/119596, December, 2005.
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