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 […]
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.
Prof. Ishwar gave an invited talk titled “Condensing Video and Recognizing Actions,” in the BU Department of Computer Science, Image and Video Computing Weekly Symposium on 29 October, 2009.
Prof. Konrad delivers a plenary lecture at the XXII Brazilian Symposium on Computer Graphics and Image Processing (Sibgrapi 2009), Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Brazil, Oct. 11-14, 2009.
The recent resurgence of interest in 3-D movies (Avatar, Polar Express, etc.) begs a question as to when this technology will be available at home. Five ECE seniors, Rohan Arun, Howard Huang, Nathan Mulcahey, Arupendra Roy, and Matt Schoen are developing on a real-time 3-D display system that could be used at home. Furthermore, the […]
Profs. Saligrama and Konrad win a $507,000 NSF ECS award entitled “From Frames to Events: A Statistical Approach to Behavior Analysis in Multi-Camera Systems”.
ISS students Ajay Bangla and Stephen Chao win the 2009 Entrepreneur Design Contest with their business idea based on video condensation, a technology that greatly improves the efficiency of video surveillance developed by Profs. Ishwar and Konrad.
PhD student Meng Wang landed a 3-month summer internship with the Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL), Cambridge MA.