Prof. Sigal is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia and Academic Advisor to the Vancouver Borealis AI research center. Prior to this, he was a Senior Research Scientist at Disney Research Pittsburgh and an Adjunct Faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University. His research focuses on problems of visual understanding and reasoning. This includes object recognition, scene understanding, articulated motion capture, motion modeling, action recognition, motion perception, manifold learning, transfer learning, character and cloth animation and a number of other directions on the intersection of computer vision, machine learning, and computer graphics.
Computer Vision
