{"id":11,"date":"2013-10-30T00:58:24","date_gmt":"2013-10-30T04:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/jkonrad\/?page_id=11"},"modified":"2026-02-15T10:00:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T15:00:27","slug":"biography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/jkonrad\/biography\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span color=\"MAROON\" style=\"color: maroon;\">Education:<\/span><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Ph.D.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcgill.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">McGill University<\/a>, Montreal, Canada (1989)<\/li>\n<li>M.Eng.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zut.edu.pl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Technical University of Szczecin<\/a>, Poland (1980)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><span color=\"MAROON\" style=\"color: maroon;\">Positions held in the past:<\/span><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>2008 &#8211; &#8230;: Professor,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ece.bu.edu\/\">Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/\">Boston University<\/a><\/li>\n<li>2000-2008: Associate Professor,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ece.bu.edu\/\">Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/\">Boston University<\/a><\/li>\n<li>1992-2000: Associate Professor,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.emt.inrs.ca\/\" target=\"NewWindow\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">INRS-Telecommunications<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.inrs.ca\/\" target=\"NewWindow\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Insitut National de la Recherche Scientifique<\/a>, Montreal, Canada<\/li>\n<li>1991-1992: Assistant Professor,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.emt.inrs.ca\/\" target=\"NewWindow\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">INRS-Telecommunications<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.inrs.ca\/\" target=\"NewWindow\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Insitut National de la Recherche Scientifique<\/a>, Montreal, Canada<\/li>\n<li>1989-1991: Postdoctoral Fellow,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.emt.inrs.ca\/\" target=\"NewWindow\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">INRS-Telecommunications<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.inrs.ca\/\" target=\"NewWindow\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Insitut National de la Recherche Scientifique<\/a>, Montreal, Canada<\/li>\n<li>1984-1989: Research Assistant,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcgill.ca\/\" target=\"NewWindow\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">McGill University<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcgill.ca\/ece\" target=\"NewWindow\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Department of Electrical Engineering<\/a><\/li>\n<li>1980-1984: Lecturer,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ps.pl\/\" target=\"NewWindow\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Technical University of Szczecin<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zut.edu.pl\/\" target=\"NewWindow\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Department of Electrical Engineering<\/a>, Szczecin, Poland<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><span color=\"MAROON\" style=\"color: maroon;\">Awards:<\/span><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/eurasip.org\/eurasip-fellows\">2025 European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP) Fellow<\/a> <\/em><\/strong>for contributions to visual motion analysis and video processing<\/li>\n<li><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/document\/9663837\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2021 PETS &#8220;Through Foliage Detection and Tracking Challenge&#8221; Winner<\/a><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0for submission co-authored with M. Cokbas and P. Ishwar.<\/li>\n<li><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/signalprocessingsociety.org\/professional-development\/distinguished-lecturers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2019-2020 Distinguished Lecturer<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/signalprocessingsociety.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">IEEE Signal Processing Society<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ece\/2011\/05\/16\/ece-day-11\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2011 ECE Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award<\/a>, <\/em><\/strong>Boston University.<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>2010 AVSS Best Paper Award<\/em><\/strong> for paper co-authored with Kai Guo and Prakash Ishwar entitled &#8220;Action recognition using sparse representation on covariance manifolds of optical flow\u201d (2010 IEEE Int. Conf. Advanced Video and Signal-Based Surveillance, Aug. 2010).<\/li>\n<li><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/cvrc.ece.utexas.edu\/SDHA2010\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2010 ICPR &#8220;Aerial View Activity Classification Challenge&#8221; Winner<\/a><\/em><\/strong> for work co-authored with Kai Guo and Prakash Ishwar entitled \u201cAction recognition in video by sparse representation on covariance manifolds of silhouette tunnels\u201d (2010 Int. Conf. Pattern Recognition, Semantic Description of Human Activities Contest, Aug. 2010).<\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ieee.org\/web\/membership\/fellows\/2008fellowclass.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><em>2008 IEEE Fellow <\/em><\/strong><\/a>for contributions to motion estimation and stereoscopic imaging<\/li>\n<li><strong><em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eurasip.org\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=91&amp;Itemid=99\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2004-2005 EURASIP Image Communications Best Paper Award<\/a><\/em><\/strong> for paper co-authored with Nikola Bozinovic entitled &#8220;Motion analysis in 3D DCT domain and its application to video coding&#8221;\u00a0 (Signal Processing: Image Communications, vol. 20, July 2005).<\/li>\n<li><strong><em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.signalprocessingsociety.org\/uploads\/awards\/SPS_Mag_Best_Paper.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2001 IEEE Signal Processing Magazine Award<\/a><\/em><\/strong> for paper co-authored with Christoph Stiller entitled &#8220;Estimating motion in image sequences: A tutorial on modeling and computation of 2D motion&#8221; (IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, vol. 16, July, 1999).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><span color=\"MAROON\" style=\"color: maroon;\">Keynotes and planaries:<\/span><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><span role=\"presentation\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;Indoor scene analysis from overhead fisheye cameras\u201d keynote lecture at IEEE Signal Pro<\/span><span role=\"presentation\" dir=\"ltr\">cessing Symposium (SPSympo-2021), Poland, Sep. 21, 2021.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span role=\"presentation\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;User authentication for natural user interfaces\u201d tutorial at IEEE-EURASIP Summer <\/span><span role=\"presentation\" dir=\"ltr\">School \u201cSignal processing for human-machine communication and interaction\u201d, Italy, Sep. 7, 2021.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span role=\"presentation\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;Privacy-preserving localization and recognition of human activities.\u201d plnary lecture at <\/span><span role=\"presentation\" dir=\"ltr\">2020 Winter School on Visual Image Search and Video Analytics (VISVA-2020), Singapore, Dec. <\/span><span role=\"presentation\" dir=\"ltr\">14, 2020.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Videopsy: Enabling technology for networked video surveillance&#8221; plenary lecture at XXII Brazilian Symposium on Computer Graphics and Image Processing (SIBGRAPI-2009), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Oct. 13, 2009.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;3-D Displays and signal processing: An Answer to 3-D Ills?&#8221;, plenary lecture at the 15-th European Signal Processing Conference, EUSIPCO-2007, Poznan, Poland, Sep. 7, 2007<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;3-D TV without glasses: Optics meets signal processing&#8221;, plenary lecture at the International 3-D Forum Dimension 3 Expo, Chalon-sur-Saone, France, Jun. 7, 2007.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><span color=\"MAROON\" style=\"color: maroon;\">Professional responsibilities:<\/span><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Committees:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em>Member-at-Large<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nConference Board,\u00a0IEEE Signal Processing Society (Jan. 2015 &#8211; Dec. 2016)<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Member<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nSteering Committee,\u00a0IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (2014-&#8230;)<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Member<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nImage and\u00a0 Multidimensional Digital Signal Processing Technical Committee (IMDSP TC) of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (2000-2006)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Journals:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong><em>Deputy Editor-in-Chief<\/em><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><span>IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (2023-&#8230;)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Area Editor<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong>EURASIP Signal Processing: Image Communications (2011-2023)<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>S<em>enior Area Editor<\/em><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><span>IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (2017-2022 )<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Associate Editor<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong>IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (1996-2000, 2013-2016)<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Technical Editor<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong>IEEE Communications\u00a0 Magazine (1998-2012)<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Associate Editor<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong>EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing (2006-2010)<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Associate Editor<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong>Signal Processing Letters (2002-2004)<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Guest Co-Editor<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nIEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, Special Issue on &#8220;Signal Processing for Situational\u00a0Awareness from Networked Sensors and Social Media&#8221;, Mar. 2015<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Guest Co-Editor<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nIEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Special Issue\u00a0on &#8220;Distributed Camera Networks: Sensing, Processing, Communication, and \u00a0Implementation&#8221;, Oct. 2010<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Guest Co-Editor<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nIEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Special Issue on\u00a0&#8220;Video Analytics for Surveillance: Theory and Practice&#8221;, May 2010<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Conferences:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em>Co-Chair<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<span>2017 Traffic Surveillance Workshop and Challenge (TSWC-2017) within 2017 Computer\u00a0<\/span><span>Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR), Honolulu, HI, USA<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Tutorials Co-Chair<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong>2015 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Quebec City QC, Canada<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Co-Chair<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<span>2015 IEEE Workshop on User Authentication for Emerging Interfaces (UAEI-2015)\u00a0\u00a0within 2015 International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), Torino, Italy<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Co-Chair<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n2014 Change Detection Workshop (CDW-2014) within 2014 Computer\u00a0Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR), Columbus OH, USA<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>General Chair<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.avss2013.org\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2013 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance<\/a>\u00a0(AVSS), Krak\u00f3w, Poland<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Co-Chair<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<span>2012 Change Detection Workshop (CDW-2012) within 2012 Computer\u00a0<\/span><span>Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR), Providence RI, USA<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Technical Program Co-Chair<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.avss2010.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2010 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance<\/a>\u00a0(AVSS), Boston MA, USA<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Tutorials Co-Chair<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong>2004 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Montreal, QC,\u00a0 Canada<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Technical Program Co-Chair<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong>2000 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Vancouver BC, Canada<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Member, Organizing Committee<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stereoscopic.org\/\">SPIE\/IS&amp;T\u00a0 Stereoscopic Displays and Applications Conference<\/a> within\u00a0<em>Electronic Imaging<\/em>\u00a0&#8211; 1999-2011<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Member, Technical Program Committee<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nSPIE\u00a0Three-Dimensional Imaging, Visualization, and Display Conference &#8211; 2015-&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Member, Technical Program Committee<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nPicture Coding Symposium (PCS) &#8211; 2012<\/li>\n<li><span><em><strong>Member, Program Committee<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nIEEE Southwest Symposium on Image Analysis\u00a0and Interpretation (SSIAI) &#8211; 2002-2016<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span><em><strong>Member, Technical Program Committee<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nInternational Fall Workshop on\u00a0Vision, Modeling and Visualization (VMV) &#8211; 2002-2006<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span><em><strong>Member, Program Committee<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nIEEE International Conference on Multimedia\u00a0&amp; Expo (ICME) &#8211; 2005<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span><em><strong>Member, Program Committee<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nSPIE\/IS&amp;T Image and Video Communications and\u00a0Processing Conference (IVCP) &#8211; 2005<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Member, Program Committee<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<span>SPIE\/IS&amp;T Visual Communications and Image\u00a0<\/span><span>Processing Conference (VCIP) &#8211; 2006-2009<\/span><\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Member, Technical Program Committee<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nEuropean Workshop on Image Analysis\u00a0for Multimedia Interactive Services (WIAMIS) &#8211; 2003-2012<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Member, Technical Program Committee<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em>IEEE International Conference on\u00a0Communications (ICC) &#8211; 2002-2003<em><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Member, International Program Committee<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em>International Workshop on\u00a0Systems, Signals and Image Processing (IWSSIP) &#8211; 1997-2004<em><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Member, Technical Program Committee<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nIEEE International Conference on\u00a0Image Processing (ICIP) &#8211; 2000-&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><span color=\"MAROON\" style=\"color: maroon;\">Invited talks:<\/span><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>Universities<\/strong><\/em>: Georgia Tech, IIS (Bangalore, India), TIFR (Mumbai, India),\u00a0 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 &#8211; Sophia Antipolis (France), U. Milan (Italy), U. Karlsruhe (Germany), U. Tampere (Finland)<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Industry<\/em><\/strong>: 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)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Education: Ph.D.\u00a0McGill University, Montreal, Canada (1989) M.Eng.\u00a0Technical University of Szczecin, Poland (1980) Positions held in the past: 2008 &#8211; &#8230;: Professor,\u00a0Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,\u00a0Boston University 2000-2008: Associate Professor,\u00a0Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,\u00a0Boston University 1992-2000: Associate Professor,\u00a0INRS-Telecommunications,\u00a0Insitut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Montreal, Canada 1991-1992: Assistant Professor,\u00a0INRS-Telecommunications,\u00a0Insitut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Montreal, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2559,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":9,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/jkonrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/jkonrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/jkonrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/jkonrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2559"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/jkonrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":40,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/jkonrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":775,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/jkonrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions\/775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/jkonrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}