Konrad interviewed for The Wellesley News
Prof. Janusz Konrad has been recently interviewed for The Wellesley News about his joint work with Prof. Prakash Ishwar on gesture-based authentication. The article "EYE ON SCIENCE: What’s the password?" has described... Read the rest of this entry »
Konrad and Ishwar featured in the NewYorker
Profs. Janusz Konrad and Prakash Ishwar have been recently featured in The New Yorker. The article "Beyond fingerprints: High-five to unlock" has discussed recent challenges in user authentication in view... Read the rest of this entry »
Ishwar and Konrad featured in Boston Globe
The current research conducted by Profs. Prakash Ishwar and Janusz Konrad on gesture-based user authentication has been recently featured in The Boston Globe. The article muses on a not-too-distant future... Read the rest of this entry »
BU Today takes note of VIP authentication research
BU Today has published an article accompanied by a video describing gesture-based user authentication research funded by the recent joint NSF grant with NYU-Poly.
Alum’s startup wins first place at appAttack contest in GMIC-SV conference
In October 2011, Huan-Yu Wu (MS, ECE'10) joined Translate Abroad, a small startup company that makes a very interesting product: Waygo an i-phone app that translates the text in the image captured... Read the rest of this entry »
Konrad and Ishwar join with NYU/Poly to win an NSF grant
Laptops, tablets and smartphones are all so common today and carry a lot of personal information. How many of us store passwords, credit card numbers, etc. on such devices. While... Read the rest of this entry »
Meng Wang co-founds Orbeus Inc.
Meng Wang (MS ECE'12) and his two colleagues, Tianqiang Liu (MS CAS'12) and Xing Meng (MIT MBA'12), have founded Orbeus Inc., a technology startup that specializes in visual recognition. The trio of... Read the rest of this entry »
2012 Change Detection Workshop program announced
The First Change Detection Workshop organized by Profs. Janusz Konrad and Prakash Iswhar jointly with Prof. Pierre-Marc Jodoin from the University of Sherbrooke, Canada, and Dr. Fatih Porikli, MERL, Cambridge, Read the rest of this entry »
Kam Lai invited to the Kinect Demonstration at CVPR’12
Kam Lai (ECE'12), an undergraduate student in the VIP lab, has been invited to the Kinect Demonstration at CVPR'12 on June 16, 2012 at the Rhode Island Convention Center in Providence, Read the rest of this entry »
Konrad and Ishwar help organize a CVPR-2012 workshop
A workshop proposal "Motion and Change Detection Challenge" organized by Profs. Janusz Konrad and Prakash Iswhar jointly with Prof. Pierre-Marc Jodoin from the University of Sherbrooke, Canada, and Dr. Fatih... Read the rest of this entry »
IEEE Int. Conf. on Advanced Video and Signal-Based Surveillance