On April 13, 2016, Jonathan Wu, PhD candidate working under supervision of Profs. Ishwar and Konrad, defended his dissertation entitled “Gesture passwords: Concepts, methods, and challenges”. He joins the ECE Department as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the NSF Lighting Enabled Systems and Applications (LESA) Engineering Research Center to work on privacy-preserving indoor activity analysis.
A new Unity Activity Dataset has been made available at sites-staging.bu.edu/vip for research use. The dataset includes low-resolution videos of various activities, typical of a smart conference room scenario, rendered in Unity3D based on skeletal data captured by Kinect V2 camera from multiple users.
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 vs Skeletons and can be downloaded from sites-staging.bu.edu/vip web site.
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 challenges that many users face when proving their identity and potential solutions that the Visual Information Processing group is currently working on. You can read […]
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 of hacking the iPhone 5S’s Touch ID system. Two promising approaches for user authentication of the future have been mentioned: finger swipes for unlocking a […]
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 where passwords and ID cards could be replaced by human gestures in some application domains. You can read the full story here.
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 by the phone’s camera from Chinese, Japanese, or Korean into English in real time and under real-world conditions. Waigo does not need an internet connection to work […]
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 protecting a laptop with a strong password is not uncommon, it is not so with a tablet or smartphone. Typically, either a simple 4-digit code […]
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 young entrepreneurs were among semi-finalists of the MIT 100K contest (mit100k.org), and also won the first prize at the Pitch Contest of the Annual Harvard Entrepreneurship […]