Recent VIP News

A new Unity Activity Dataset has been made available at vip.bu.edu for research use. The dataset includes low-resolution videos of various activities, typical of a smart conference room scenario, rendered in... Read the rest of this entry »

Three BodyLogin datasets of various gestures captured from multiple users with Kinect V1 camera have been made available for research use: BodyLogin dataset: Multiview BodyLogin dataset: Posture, Build and Dynamics BodyLogin dataset: Silhouettes... Read the rest of this entry »

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 »

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 »

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 has published an article accompanied by a video describing gesture-based user authentication research funded by the recent joint NSF grant with NYU-Poly.

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 »

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 (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 »

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 »