Primary Job Title Research Director Primary Organization Borealis AI
Location Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada Gender Male
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Greg Mori was born in Vancouver and grew up in Richmond, BC. He received the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley in 2004. He received an Hon. B.Sc. in Computer Science and Mathematics with High Distinction from the University of Toronto in 1999. He spent one year (1997-1998) as an intern at Advanced
Telecommunications Research (ATR) in Kyoto, Japan. After graduating from Berkeley, he returned home to Vancouver and is currently a Professor in the School of Computing Science at Simon Fraser University. Dr. Mori's research interests are in computer vision and machine learning, and include object recognition, human activity recognition, human body pose estimation. The main thrust of his research has been in exploring methods for analyzing images of people. Dr. Mori has done pioneering work in the use of "exemplar" methods for localizing human figures in still images. He has also developed techniques for incorporating image segmentation into the recognition of human figures, in particular to segment and recognize human limbs and torsos in still images.
