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Career

· Co-founder And Chief Scientist, Beam AI2021–
· Academic Advisor, Borealis AI2018–
· Faculty, Vector Institute2018–
· Associate Professor, The University of British Columbia (Current)2017–
· Senior Research Scientist, Disney Research2010–2017
· Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Toronto2007–2009
· Summer Intern, Intel Corporation2006–2006
· Ph.D., Computer Science, Brown University2001–2007
· B.A., Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Boston University1995–1999

Publications (203)

HumanEva: Synchronized Video and Motion Capture Dataset and Baseline Algorithm for Evaluation of Articulated Human Motion
International Journal of Computer Vision · 2010
1,332
cited
Tracking loose-limbed people
Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2004. CVPR 2004. · 2004
460
cited
HumanEva: Synchronized Video and Motion Capture Dataset for Evaluation of Articulated Human Motion
2006
450
cited
Implicit Probabilistic Models of Human Motion for Synthesis and Tracking
European Conference on Computer Vision · 2002
401
cited
Learning Activity Progression in LSTMs for Activity Detection and Early Detection
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 2016
386
cited
Detailed Human Shape and Pose from Images
2007 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 2007
362
cited
Multilevel Language and Vision Integration for Text-to-Clip Retrieval
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 2018
349
cited
High-Dimensional Feature Selection by Feature-Wise Kernelized Lasso
Neural Computation · 2012
333
cited
Skin color-based video segmentation under time-varying illumination
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 2004
295
cited
Multi-Level Semantic Feature Augmentation for One-Shot Learning
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing · 2018
265
cited
Improved Few-Shot Visual Classification
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 2019
260
cited
Measure Locally, Reason Globally: Occlusion-sensitive Articulated Pose Estimation
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 2006
259
cited
Poselet Key-Framing: A Model for Human Activity Recognition
2013 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 2013
244
cited
Social roles in hierarchical models for human activity recognition
2012 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 2012
242
cited
3D hand pose reconstruction using specialized mappings
Proceedings Eighth IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision. ICCV 2001 · 2001
240
cited
Referring Transformer: A One-step Approach to Multi-task Visual Grounding
Neural Information Processing Systems · 2021
239
cited
Combined discriminative and generative articulated pose and non-rigid shape estimation
Neural Information Processing Systems · 2007
238
cited
Image Generation From Layout
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 2018
226
cited
Visual Analysis of Humans - Looking at People
2013
213
cited
A Quantitative Evaluation of Video-based 3D Person Tracking
2005 IEEE International Workshop on Visual Surveillance and Performance Evaluation of Tracking and Surveillance · 2005
190
cited
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