Education:
Positions held in the past:
- 2008 – …: Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University
- 2000-2008: Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University
- 1992-2000: Associate Professor, INRS-Telecommunications, Insitut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Montreal, Canada
- 1991-1992: Assistant Professor, INRS-Telecommunications, Insitut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Montreal, Canada
- 1989-1991: Postdoctoral Fellow, INRS-Telecommunications, Insitut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Montreal, Canada
- 1984-1989: Research Assistant, McGill University, Department of Electrical Engineering
- 1980-1984: Lecturer, Technical University of Szczecin, Department of Electrical Engineering, Szczecin, Poland
Awards:
- 2021 PETS “Through Foliage Detection and Tracking Challenge” Winner for submission co-authored with M. Cokbas and P. Ishwar.
- 2019-2020 Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Signal Processing Society
- 2011 ECE Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award, Boston University.
- 2010 AVSS Best Paper Award for paper co-authored with Kai Guo and Prakash Ishwar entitled “Action recognition using sparse representation on covariance manifolds of optical flow” (2010 IEEE Int. Conf. Advanced Video and Signal-Based Surveillance, Aug. 2010).
- 2010 ICPR “Aerial View Activity Classification Challenge” Winner for work co-authored with Kai Guo and Prakash Ishwar entitled “Action recognition in video by sparse representation on covariance manifolds of silhouette tunnels” (2010 Int. Conf. Pattern Recognition, Semantic Description of Human Activities Contest, Aug. 2010).
- 2008 IEEE Fellow for contributions to motion estimation and stereoscopic imaging
- 2004-2005 EURASIP Image Communications Best Paper Award for paper co-authored with Nikola Bozinovic entitled “Motion analysis in 3D DCT domain and its application to video coding” (Signal Processing: Image Communications, vol. 20, July 2005).
- 2001 IEEE Signal Processing Magazine Award for paper co-authored with Christoph Stiller entitled “Estimating motion in image sequences: A tutorial on modeling and computation of 2D motion” (IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, vol. 16, July, 1999).
Keynotes and planaries:
- “Indoor scene analysis from overhead fisheye cameras” keynote lecture at IEEE Signal Processing Symposium (SPSympo-2021), Poland, Sep. 21, 2021.
- “User authentication for natural user interfaces” tutorial at IEEE-EURASIP Summer School “Signal processing for human-machine communication and interaction”, Italy, Sep. 7, 2021.
- “Privacy-preserving localization and recognition of human activities.” plnary lecture at 2020 Winter School on Visual Image Search and Video Analytics (VISVA-2020), Singapore, Dec. 14, 2020.
- “Videopsy: Enabling technology for networked video surveillance” plenary lecture at XXII Brazilian Symposium on Computer Graphics and Image Processing (SIBGRAPI-2009), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Oct. 13, 2009.
- “3-D Displays and signal processing: An Answer to 3-D Ills?”, plenary lecture at the 15-th European Signal Processing Conference, EUSIPCO-2007, Poznan, Poland, Sep. 7, 2007
- “3-D TV without glasses: Optics meets signal processing”, plenary lecture at the International 3-D Forum Dimension 3 Expo, Chalon-sur-Saone, France, Jun. 7, 2007.
Professional responsibilities:
- Committees:
- Member-at-Large
Conference Board, IEEE Signal Processing Society (Jan. 2015 – Dec. 2016)
- Member
Steering Committee, IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (2014-…)
- Member
Image and Multidimensional Digital Signal Processing Technical Committee (IMDSP TC) of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (2000-2006)
- Journals:
- Deputy Editor-in-Chief
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (2023-…)
- Area Editor
EURASIP Signal Processing: Image Communications (2011-2023)
- Senior Area Editor
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (2017-2022 )
- Associate Editor
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (1996-2000, 2013-2016)
- Technical Editor
IEEE Communications Magazine (1998-2012)
- Associate Editor
EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing (2006-2010)
- Associate Editor
Signal Processing Letters (2002-2004)
- Guest Co-Editor
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, Special Issue on “Signal Processing for Situational Awareness from Networked Sensors and Social Media”, Mar. 2015
- Guest Co-Editor
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Special Issue on “Distributed Camera Networks: Sensing, Processing, Communication, and Implementation”, Oct. 2010
- Guest Co-Editor
IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Special Issue on “Video Analytics for Surveillance: Theory and Practice”, May 2010
- Conferences:
- Co-Chair
2017 Traffic Surveillance Workshop and Challenge (TSWC-2017) within 2017 Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR), Honolulu, HI, USA
- Tutorials Co-Chair
2015 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Quebec City QC, Canada
- Co-Chair
2015 IEEE Workshop on User Authentication for Emerging Interfaces (UAEI-2015) within 2015 International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), Torino, Italy
- Co-Chair
2014 Change Detection Workshop (CDW-2014) within 2014 Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR), Columbus OH, USA
- General Chair
2013 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS), Kraków, Poland
- Co-Chair
2012 Change Detection Workshop (CDW-2012) within 2012 Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR), Providence RI, USA
- Technical Program Co-Chair
2010 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS), Boston MA, USA
- Tutorials Co-Chair
2004 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Montreal, QC, Canada
- Technical Program Co-Chair
2000 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Vancouver BC, Canada
- Member, Organizing Committee
SPIE/IS&T Stereoscopic Displays and Applications Conference within Electronic Imaging – 1999-2011
- Member, Technical Program Committee
SPIE Three-Dimensional Imaging, Visualization, and Display Conference – 2015-…
- Member, Technical Program Committee
Picture Coding Symposium (PCS) – 2012
- Member, Program Committee
IEEE Southwest Symposium on Image Analysis and Interpretation (SSIAI) – 2002-2016
- Member, Technical Program Committee
International Fall Workshop on Vision, Modeling and Visualization (VMV) – 2002-2006
- Member, Program Committee
IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME) – 2005
- Member, Program Committee
SPIE/IS&T Image and Video Communications and Processing Conference (IVCP) – 2005
- Member, Program Committee
SPIE/IS&T Visual Communications and Image Processing Conference (VCIP) – 2006-2009
- Member, Technical Program Committee
European Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services (WIAMIS) – 2003-2012
- Member, Technical Program Committee
IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) – 2002-2003
- Member, International Program Committee
International Workshop on Systems, Signals and Image Processing (IWSSIP) – 1997-2004
- Member, Technical Program Committee
IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) – 2000-…
Invited talks:
- Universities: Georgia Tech, IIS (Bangalore, India), TIFR (Mumbai, India), AGH (Krakow, Poland), Purdue Polytechnic, U. Toronto, UC Berkeley, MIT, EPFL (Switzerland), Imperial College (UK), Tufts, RPI, Concordia, Ryerson, U. Alberta, U. Klagenfurt (Austria), Koc U. (Turkey), WPI, Polytechnic U. of Catalonia (Spain), U. Nice – Sophia Antipolis (France), U. Milan (Italy), U. Karlsruhe (Germany), U. Tampere (Finland)
- Industry: Philips (Cambridge, MA), Disney (Zurich), IBM (Tokyo), MERL (Cambridge, MA), EMC (Hopkinton, MA), Sony Pictures Imageworks (Culver City, CA), NHK (Tokyo), ATT Labs (Holmdel, NJ), Digital Equipment Corp. (CRL, Cambridge, MA)