Category: News

Konrad featured in IEEE Signal Processing Magazine

3-D seems to be all around us both literally, as we live in a true 3-D world, and figuratively, since 3-D entertainment has been taking by storm movie theaters, TV broadcasts and gaming consoles. Although, this may be surprising to a typical consumer, to Prof. Konrad this is a natural transition of in-lab research to consumer-level […]

Konrad leads special issues on visual surveillance in IEEE journals

Prof. Konrad, along with faculty from the University of Genova, University of London, Northwestern University and IBM staff leads a special issue on Video Analytics for Surveillance: Theory and Practice in the September 2010 issue of IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, and also a special section on Distributed Camera Networks: Sensing, Processing, Communication, and Implementation in […]

Exciting lecture by Prof. Tsuhan Chen of Cornell

On March 24, Prof. Tsuhan Chen, Director of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering,  Cornell University delivered a lecture entitled “Beyond Face Recognition: Understanding Images of People Using Social Context” to a jam-packed auditorium. The talk was enthusiastically received as Prof. Chen took the audience on a trip through various aspects of human vision psychology […]

Prof. Tsuhan Chen to deliver second Distinguished Lecture on Mar. 24

Prof. Tsuhan Chen, Director of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell UNiversity, will deliver  the second ECE Distinguished Lecture on Mar. 24, 2010 entitled “Beyond Face Recognition: Understanding Images of People Using Social Context”. Prof. Chen is hosted by Prof. Konrad and  the ECE Department.

Inspiring inaugurate Distinguished Lecture by Dr. Wee of HP

VIP lab recently hosted two ECE Distinguished Lecture speakers. On Feb. 24, Dr. Susie Wee, a Hewlett-Packard CTO of Client Cloud Services, delivered the first ECE Distinguished Lecture entitled “Experiences, Devices, Services, and the Cloud” touching on many aspects of modern communications, computing and social networking, i.e., living in the cloud of interconnected powerful devices, […]

ISS faculty bring AVSS 2010 to BU

ISS faculty, Konrad, Ishwar and Saligrama bring the 7th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal based Surveillance (AVSS), Aug. 29-Sep. 1, 2010 to Boston University. The technical program of the conference will be held at Boston University’s Photonics Center.

Konrad, Ishwar and Saligrama help organize AVSS 2010

Profs. Konrad, Ishwar and Saligrama help organize the 7th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal based Surveillance (AVSS) that will be held at Boston University from August 29 to September 1, 2010. Prof. Konrad is a Program Co-Chair whereas Prof. Ishwar is the Local Arrangements Chair and Prof. Saligrama is the Demonstrations Chair. The conference focuses on the […]

Video Geeks Club (VGC) launched

Today, we have launched activities of the Video Geeks Club (VGC) a forum for graduate and undergraduate students sharing interests in image and video processing, computer graphics, computer vision and GPU computing. For more information visit Video Geeks Club web page.