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. […]
Three VIP members, Jamie Martini, Elena Zorn, and Huan-Yu Wu, received their Master of Science degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the 57-th College of Engineering Commencement ceremony held on Sunday, May 16, 2010 at the BU Track and Tennis Field. Congratulations! Also, undergraduates associated with the VIP lab have received their Bachelor of […]
PhD student Meng Wang is off to a 3 month summer internship with Google Research Labs, Mountainview CA.
The performance of action recognition algorithms developed by VIP members Guo, Ishwar and Konrad was recognized by the 2010 International Conference on Pattern Recognition and was invited for presentation at the 2010 Semantic Description of Human Activities (SDHA) Aerial View Activity Classification Challenge within the conference to be held in Istanbul, August 23-26, 2010. A […]
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.
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, 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.
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, 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.
Dr. Susie Wee, a Hewlett-Packard CTO, will deliver the first ECE Distinguished Lecture on Feb. 24, 2010 entitled “Experiences, Devices, Services, and the Cloud”. Dr. Wee is hosted by Prof. Konrad, ECE Department and Women in Networks (WIN) project at BU.