Disney Research

Senior Research Scientist / Adjunct Faculty member at CMU

ABOUT Disney Research

Disney Research’s mission is to drive value for The Walt Disney Company by delivering scientific & technological innovation Company-wide. Our world-class research talent invents and transfers the most compelling technologies enabling the Company to differentiate its content, services, and products. Disney Research combines the best of academia and industry, by doing both basic and application-driven research. We utilize publication as a principal mechanism for quality control and encourage engagement with the global research community. Our research applications and technology are experienced by millions of people. We honor Walt Disney’s legacy by deploying our innovations on a global scale.

ABOUT Leonid Sigal

He is a Senior Research Scientist at Disney Research Pittsburgh and an Adjunct Faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University. His research focuses on 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 fringe of computer vision,machine learning, and computer graphics.