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. 

Konrad leads a team to win $1M ARPA-E grant

Profs. Konrad jointly with Profs. Ishwar and Little from ECE and Prof. Gevelber from ME won a $1M grant from the Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) entitled “Scalable, Dual-Mode Occupancy Sensing for Commercial Venues”. The team will develop an occupancy sensing system to estimate the number of people in commercial spaces and monitor how this number changes over time. The sensor combines the data from panoramic cameras and low-resolution thermal door sensors using innovative fusion algorithms to accurately count humans in rooms of different shapes and sizes. The data fusion system will take advantage of off-the shelf sensors to reduce cost, while the system’s scalable design will support venues of various sizes.

See more details in this College of Engineering article.

TSWC-2017 Technical Program Announced

Paper acceptance for the 2017 Traffic Surveillance Workshop and Challenge (TSWC-2017) organized within CVPR Workshops (CVPRW) has been completed and workshop's program is available at http://tcd.miovision.com/challenge/tswc2017