2012
Human attributes from 3D pose tracking,
M. Livne, L. Sigal, N. Troje and D. Fleet,
Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU), 2012. (accepted - to appear)
Download: [soon]
Recognizing Character-directed Utterances in Multi-child Interactions,
H. Hajishirzi, J. Lehman, K. Kumatani, L. Sigal, and J. Hodgins,
late-breaking report section of Human Robot Interaction (HRI'12), 2012. (accepted - to appear)
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2011
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.
Download: [pdf]
Videos: [web page]
Loose-limbed People: Estimating Human Pose and Motion using Non-parametric Belief Propagation,
L. Sigal, M. Isard, H. Haussecker and M. J. Black,
International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV). (accepted - to appear)
Download: [web link]
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.
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: [web link]
Human Pose Estimation,
L. Sigal,
Encyclopedia of Computer Vision, Springer, 2011. (accepted)
Download: [draft pdf]
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
Download: [pdf]
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]
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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2010
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.
Download: [postscript], [pdf]
Videos: [Supplementary Video (12mb)].
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
Download: [pdf]
Videos: [Supplementary Video (64mb)]
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.
Download: [postscript], [pdf]
Suplimental Materials: Learning and Additional Experiments
Videos: [Supplementary Video - Multiview (13mb)],
[Supplementary Video - Monocular (16mb)].
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.
Download: [postscript], [pdf]
2009
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)].
Dynamics and Control of Multibody Systems,
M. Vondrak, L. Sigal and O. C. Jenkins,
Motion Control, A. Lazinica (Eds), ISBN978-953-7619-X-X, 2009. To be published by
IN-TECH, Vienna in September 2009. (accepted)
Download: [postscript], [pdf]
Shared Kernel Information Embedding for Discriminative Inference,
L. Sigal, R. Memisevic, D. Fleet, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2009.
Download: [postscript], [pdf]
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). To be published by
Springer Verlag in 2009. (accepted)
Download: [postscript], [pdf]
2008
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].
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.
Download: [pdf]
2007
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.
Download: [postscript], [pdf]
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.
Download: [postscript], [pdf]
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.
Download: [postscript], [pdf]
2006
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.
Download: [postscript], [pdf]
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].
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.
Download: [pdf].
2005
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.
Download: [postscript], [pdf].
2004
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.
Download: [postscript], [pdf].
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.
Download: [postscript], [pdf].
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.
Download: [postscript], [pdf].
(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.
Download: [postscript], [pdf].
2003
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].
2002
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.
Download: [postscript], [pdf].
2001
3D Hand Pose Reconstruction Using Specialized Mappings,
R. Rosales, V. Athitsos, L. Sigal and S. Sclaroff,
International Conference on Computer Vision, ICCV 2001.
Download: [postscript], [pdf].
2000
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].