Scholar
Leonid Sigal
Google Scholar ID: P2mG6rcAAAAJ
Professor, University of British Columbia
Citations & Impact
Citations
8,433
H-index
47
i10-index
119
Publications
20
Co-authors
27
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Recipient of Killam Accelerator Fellowship, NSERC Canada Research Chair (CRC II) in Computer Vision and Machine Learning, and NSERC DAS award. Published multiple papers such as 'Black Swan: Abductive and Defeasible Video Reasoning in Unexpected Events', 'Extending video masked autoencoders to 128 frames', etc.
Research Experience
- Previously a Senior Research Scientist at Disney Research Pittsburgh and an Adjunct Faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University. Currently, he is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia, an NSERC Canada Research Chair (CRC II) in Computer Vision and Machine Learning, and a CIFAR AI Chair at the Vector Institute for AI in Toronto. He also serves as an Academic Advisor to RBC/Borealis AI.
Education
- Insufficient information
Background
- Professor in the Department of Computer Science, with research interests including visual understanding and reasoning, object recognition, scene understanding, articulated motion capture, action recognition, manifold learning, transfer learning, character and cloth animation, and more. His work spans the intersection of computer vision, machine learning, and computer graphics.
