Some recent news items:
Konrad to delivers SPS Distinguished Lecture at VISVA-2020
Prof. Konrad delivered an IEEE Signal Processing Society Distinguished Lecture on Dec. 14, 2020 at the Winter School on Visual Image Search and Video Analytics (VISVA-2020) organized at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. The lecture was entitled “Privacy-Preserving Localization and Recognition of Human Activities”. See details at: http://rose1.ntu.edu.sg/VISVA2020/speakers.html
Konrad to delivers SPS Distinguished Lecture at Georgia Tech
Prof. Konrad delivered an IEEE Signal Processing Society Distinguished Lecture at Georgia Tech on Oct 23, 2020 entitled "Privacy-Preserving Localization and Recognition of Human Activities". See details at: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/242630
Konrad delivers five SPS Distinguished Lectures in India
Prof. Konrad delivered five lectures in India as a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Signal Processing Society:
- Jan. 8 - Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, New Delhi, India: "Privacy-Preserving Localization and Recognition of Human Activities"
- Jan. 10 - C. K. Pithawala College of Engineering and Technology, Surat, India: "VIDEOPSY: Towards Autonomous Video Surveilllance"
- Jan. 13 - Tata Institute for Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai, India: "Privacy-Preserving Localization and Recognition of Human Activities"
- Jan. 14 - AISSMS Institute of Information Technology, Pune, India: "VIDEOPSY: Towards Autonomous Video Surveilllance"
- Jan. 16 - Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India: "VIDEOPSY: Towards Autonomous Video Surveilllance"
Konrad delivers two SPS Distinguished Lectures in Poland
Prof. Konrad delivered additional two lectures in Poland as a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Signal Processing Society:
- Dec. 17 - AGH University of Science and Technology: "VIDEOPSY: Twoards Autonomous Video Surveillance"
- Dec. 19 - Univeristy of Rzeszów: "Privacy-Preserving Localization and Recognition of Human Activities"
Konrad delivers SPS Distinguished Lectures in South-East Asia
Prof. Konrad delivered five lectures in South-East Asia as a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Signal Processing Society:
- June 21 - National University of Singapore: "Privacy-Preserving Localization and Recognition of Human Activities"
- June 23 - Keynote at IEEE Image Processing, Image Analysis and Real-Time Imaging (IPIARTI) Symposium 2019, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn, Malaysia: "User Authentication for Natural User Interfaces (NUIs)"
- June 24 - University of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: "Privacy-Preserving Localization and Recognition of Human Activities"
- June 27 - Keynote at the Tarumanagara International Conference on the Applications of Social Sciences and Humanities (TICASH) 2019, Tarumanagara University, Jakarta, Indonesia: "Privacy-Preserving Localization and Recognition of Human Activities"
- June 28 - Telkom University, Bandung, Indonesia: "Privacy-Preserving Localization and Recognition of Human Activities"



Konrad delivers SPS Distinguished Lectures in Poland
Prof. Konrad delivered four lectures in Poland as a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Signal Processing Society:
- May 21 - Wrocław University of Science and Technology: "VIDEOPSY: Towards Autonomous Video Surveillance"
- May 22 - Warsaw University of Technology: "VIDEOPSY: Towards Autonomous Video Surveillance"
- May 28 - West Pomeranian University of Technology Szczecin: "VIDEOPSY: Towards Autonomous Video Surveillance"
- May 30 - AGH University of Science and Technology: "Privacy-Preserving Localization and Recognition of Human Activities"


Konrad invited to lecture in Poland
Prof. Konrad has been invited to deliver lectures at technical universities in Wroclaw, Warsaw, Szczecin and Krakow, Poland, between May 21 and 30, 2019 as a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Signal Processing Society.
Konrad to give keynote at a conference in Italy
Prof. Konrad has been invited to deliver a keynote address at the 2019 GTTI-SPS Thematic Meeting on Multimedia Signal Processing in Bormio, Italy on Jan. 21, 2019.
Konrad named IEEE SPS Distinguished Lecturer
IEEE Signal Processing Society has named Prof. Konrad its Distinguished Lecturer for the period 2019-2020. Each year, five members of the Society are recognized with this honor. Prof. Konrad will travel to deliver lectures on topics ranging from privacy-preserving visual analytics to user authentication to autonomous video surveillance.
Contribution of Gaudreau and Konrad appears in Brain
Research results from Amanda Gaudreau's (PhD'17) dissertation just appeared in the January 2018 issue of Brain, a Journal of Neurology by Oxford Academic, in an article entitled "Concussion, microvascular injury, and early tauopathy in young athletes after impact head injury and an impact concussion mouse model". Amanda contributed to image analysis of mouse brains that showed tau protein clumping in nerve cells after head impact. The article is causing quite a stir as it shows for the first time, based on a mouse model, that head impact, regardless of concussion, is a likely cause of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), commonly diagnosed in NFL players. Prof. Lee Goldstein is the lead author on the article, and was Amanda's co-advisor in the course of her research at Boston University.