Education:
Positions held in the past:
Awards:
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)