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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Books
Visual Analysis of Humans: Looking at People, T. Moeslund, A. Hilton, V. Krüger and L. Sigal (Eds). ISBN: ISBN 978-0-85729-996-3. To be published by Springer Verlag in October 2011.
Book Chapters
Human Pose Estimation,
L. Sigal,
Encyclopedia of Computer Vision, Springer, 2011. (accepted)
Download: [draft pdf]
Benchmark Datasets for Pose Estimation and Tracking
M. Andriluka, L. Sigal and M. J. Black,
Visual Analysis of Humans: Looking at People,
T. Moeslund, A. Hilton, V. Krüger and L. Sigal (Eds). ISBN: ISBN 978-0-85729-996-3. To be published by Springer Verlag in October 2011.
Download: comming soon
Video-Based People Tracking,
M. Brubaker, L. Sigal and D. Fleet,
Handbook on Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments, H. Nakashima, H. Aghajan, and J.C. Augusto (Eds). Springer Verlag, 2010.
Download: [postscript], [pdf]
Dynamics and Control of Multibody Systems,
M. Vondrak, L. Sigal and O. C. Jenkins,
Motion Control, A. Lazinica (Eds), ISBN:978-953-7619-55-8, IN-TECH, Vienna, 2010.
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Journal Articles
Motion Capture from Body-Mounted Cameras,
T. Shiratori, H. S. Park, L. Sigal, Y. Sheikh and J. K. Hodgins,
ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH), July 2011. (to appear)
Project: web page
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Videos: [Supplementary Video (QuickTime, 85mb)]
Shared kernel information embedding for discriminative inference,
R. Memisevic, L. Sigal and D. Fleet,
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. (to appear)
Download: [draft pdf]
Stable Spaces for Real-time Clothing,
E. de Aguiar, L. Sigal, A. Treuille and J. K. Hodgins,
ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH), July 2010.
Project: web page
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Videos: [Supplementary Video (MP4, 64mb)]
HumanEva: Synchronized Video and Motion Capture Dataset and Baseline Algorithm for Evaluation of Articulated Human
Motion,
L. Sigal, A. Balan and M. J. Black,
International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), Special Issue on Evaluation of Articulated Human Motion and Pose Estimation,
2010.
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Loose-limbed People: Estimating Human Pose and Motion using Non-parametric Belief Propagation,
L. Sigal, M. J. Black, M. Isard and H. Haussecker,
International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), 2011. (to appear)
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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
Facial Expression Transfer with Input-Output Temporal Restricted Boltzmann Machines
M. Zeiler, G. Taylor, L. Sigal, I. Matthews and R. Fergus,
Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2011.
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Videos: [web page]
Inferring 3D Body Pose Using Variational Semi-parametric Regression,
Y. Tian, Y. Jia, Y. Shi, Y. Liu, J. Hao and L. Sigal,
IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2011.
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Latent Gaussian Mixture Regression for Human Pose Estimation
Y. Tian, L. Sigal, H. Badino, F. De la Torre and Y. Liu,
Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV), 2010.
Download: [postscript], [pdf]
Human Attributes from 3D Pose Tracking,
L. Sigal, D. Fleet, N. Troje, M. Livne, European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2010.
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Videos: [Supplementary Video (12mb)].
Dynamical Binary Latent Variable Models for 3D Human Pose Tracking,
G. Taylor, L. Sigal, D. Fleet, G. Hinton, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2010.
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Suplimental Materials: Learning and Additional Experiments
Videos: [Supplementary Video - Multiview (13mb)],
[Supplementary Video - Monocular (16mb)].
Estimating Contact Dynamics,
M. Brubaker, L. Sigal, D. Fleet, IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2009.
Download: [postscript], [pdf]
Videos: [Supplementary Video - Video Tracking (6mb)],
[Supplementary Video - MoCap (4mb)].
Shared Kernel Information Embedding for Discriminative Inference,
L. Sigal, R. Memisevic, D. Fleet, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2009.
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Physical Simulation for Probabilistic Motion Tracking,
M. Vondrak, L. Sigal and O. C. Jenkins, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2008.
Download: [postscript], [pdf]
Videos: [Supplementary Video - DIVX (30mb)],
[Supplementary Video - WMV (30mb)].
Talk: [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].
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).
Download: [postscript], [pdf], [talk]
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.
Download: [postscript], [pdf].
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.
Download: [postscript], [pdf].
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.
Download: [postscript], [pdf].
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.
Download: [postscript], [pdf], [poster].
Patents
Method and Apparatus for Estimating Body Shape ,
M. J. Black, A. Balan, A. Weiss, L. Sigal, M. Loper, T. St Clair,
US and PCT patent application, filed August 14, 2009.
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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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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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