Category: Research

Kai Guo defends PhD dissertation prospectus

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On June 7, 2010, Kai Guo, PhD candidate working under supervision of Profs. Ishwar and Konrad, successfully defended a PhD dissertation prospectus entitled “Action Recognition on Covariance Manifolds” in front of a committee consisting of the advisors, Prof. Clem W. Karl (ECE, BU), Prof. Stan Sclaroff (CS, BU), Prof. Pierre Moulin (ECE, UIUC), and Dr. […]

Action recognition work presented at ICASSP 2010

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The newest results on action recognition were presented at the 35th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) in Austin on March 17, 2010. The presented paper was entitled “Action change detection in video by covariance matching of silhouette tunnels” co-authored by VIP members Kai Guo, Prakash Ishwar and Janusz Konrad.