Visual Information Processing (VIP) Laboratory

The VIP Laboratory belongs to the Information Systems and Sciences (ISS) Group at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Boston University.  Its three main objectives are sponsored research,  student training,  technology transfer, in the broad area of image, video and multimedia processing. It has been home to graduate and undergraduate students working on various aspects of visual information processing, and among them:
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  • video analysis, processing and compression,
  • 3-D  video capture, transmission and display,
  • biomedical imaging.

VIP Action Recognition in the news: Of the number of projects currently pursued in the VIP lab, action recognition from video has received international recognition. The covariance-based framework for action recognition developed by Ph.D. candidate Kai Guo and Profs. Prakash Ishwar and Janusz Konrad has recently captured two international awards. One of its variants, based on silhouette tunnels was the winner of the “Aerial View Activity Classification Challenge” within the “Semantic Description of Human Activity” contest at the 2010 International Conference on Pattern Recognition (read more), while another one, based on optical flow, received the bast paper award at the 7th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal-Based Surveillance (read more).

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Recently, Prof. Konrad along with Prof. Saligrama and Prof. Jodoin of the University of Sherbrooke, Canada were featured in a BU Engineering article “ECE Researchers Devise Improved Video Surveillance Method” discussing their work on video anomaly detection published in September issue of the IEEE Signal processing Magazine.