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Konrad receives EURASIP Fellow recognition

I received a EURASIP Fellow recognition at EUSIPCO-2025 in Palermo, Italy, Sep. 8-12, 2025: https://eurasip.org/eurasip-fellows

Paper on image-clutter classification accepted at EUSIPCO-2025

A paper entitled "Classification of indoor clutter from images: Application to hoarding assessment,” co-authored by Zhenghao Sun, Jordana Muroff and Janusz Konrad is scheduled to be presented at the  33rd European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO-2025) in Palermo, Italy, Sept. 8-12, 2025. This work is an extension of an earlier ResNet-18 based classifier by adopting the Visual Transformer to rate indoor clutter from images with up to 7% gains of classification accuracy.

Konrad elected EURASIP Fellow

I was elected a 2025 Fellow of the European Association for Signal Processing for contributions to visual motion analysis and video processing. I will receive the recognition at EUSIPCO-2025 in Palermo, Italy, Sep. 8-12, 2025.

Paper on phase-imaging meta-sensors to be presented at CLEO – May 2025

A paper entitled "Plasmonic phase-imaging meta-sensors for cell classification" authored by  Haochuan Hu, Jianing Liu, Lei Tian, Janusz Konrad, and Roberto Paiella will be presented at CLEO-2025. In this work, a meta-surface sensor has been used as the first optical CNN layer followed by one or more digital CNN layers for the classification of cancer cells via phase imaging.

Paper on optical-digital CNNs published in Optics Letters – October 2024

A paper entitled “Cell classification with phase-imaging meta-sensors” authored by Haochuan Hu, Jianing Liu, Lei Tian, Janusz Konrad, and Roberto Paiella was recently published in Optics Letters. In this work, a meta-surface sensor has been used as the first optical CNN layer followed by one or more digital CNN layers for the classification of cancer cells via phase imaging.

CO2 paper published in Energy and Buildings – August 2024

Our paper comparing occupancy-sensing performance of CO2 sensors and fisheye cameras, an outcome of an ARPA-E grant on a Computational Occupancy Sensing SYstem (COSSY) and a BU Campus Climate Lab project, has been published in  Elsevier Energy and Buildings: M. Cokbas, V. Pyltsov, J. Zolkos, M. Gevelber, and J. Konrad, “A comparison of occupancy-sensing and energy-saving performance: CO2 sensors versus fisheye cameras,” Energy Build., vol. 321, p. 114652, Aug. 2024.

COSSY paper published in Energy and Buildings – March 2024

Our paper summarizing outcomes of an ARPA-E grant on a Computational Occupancy Sensing SYstem (COSSY) has been published in  Elsevier Energy and Buildings: J. Konrad, M. Cokbas, P. Ishwar, T.D.C.Little, and M. Gevelber, “High-accuracy people counting in large spaces using overhead fisheye cameras,” Energy Build., vol. 307, p. 113936, Mar. 2024.

Three invited lectures on occupancy sensing

Prof. Konrad was invited to speak on occupancy sensing at the University of Paris-Seclay (Oct. 26), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Oct. 31) and Technical University of Munich (Nov. 2).

Ozan Tezcan defends his PhD thesis

On June 16, 2021, my PhD student M. Ozan Tezcan has successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled "Deep Learning Methods for Background Subtraction and People Detection" and will join Facebook Research this summer.

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"