Meng Wang lands summer internship with Google
PhD student Meng Wang is off to a 3 month summer internship with Google Research Labs, Mountainview CA.
VIP action recognition performance recognized by SDHA 2010
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 […]
Action recognition work presented at ICASSP 2010
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.
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.
Dr. Susie Wee to deliver the first ECE Distinguished Lecture
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.
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.