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, MA will take place in conjunction with the International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR-2012, on June 16, 2012, at the Rhode Island […]
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, RI. Kam will present a human-computer interface that he developed using a Kinect camera to recognize user gestures. The system leverages a feature covariance framework […]
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 Porikli, MERL, Cambridge, MA has been accepted as part of the International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR-2012, June 16-20, 2012, Providence, RI. […]
PhD student Meng Wang returns to Google Research Labs, Mountainview CA for another summer of research.
Three VIP members, Geoffrey Brown, Yuecheng Shao, and Jiaxu Fu received their Master of Science degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the 58-th College of Engineering Commencement ceremony held on Sunday, May 22, 2010 at the BU Track and Tennis Field. Two Phd students associated with the VIP lab, Nan Ma and Ye Wang, […]
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 […]
Prof. Konrad along with Prof. Saligrama and Prof. Jodoin of the University of Sherbrooke, Canada were featured in a recent BU Engineering article “ECE Researchers Devise Improved Video Surveillance Method” discussing their work on video anomaly detection published in September 2010 issue of the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine.
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 […]
A novel framework for recognizing actions from video proposed by three VIP members, PhD candidate Kai Guo, and Profs. Prakash Ishwar and Janusz Konrad, has won another award. The team’s research was recognized by the best paper award at the 7th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal-Based Surveillance held in Boston from Aug. 29 to Sep. 1, 2010. […]
A VIP team composed of Ph.D. candidate Kai Guo, and Profs. Prakash Ishwar and Janusz Konrad won the “Aerial View Activity Classification Challenge” within the 2010 International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR) contest on “Semantic Description of Human Activity” (SDHA) held in Istanbul, Turkey held on Aug. 22, 2010 for their paper entitled “Action Recognition […]