Indoor Scene Analysis from Overhead Fisheye Cameras
Prof. Janusz Konrad, Boston University (USA)
Janusz Konrad received the Master’s degree from Technical University of Szczecin, Poland in 1980 and the PhD degree from McGill University, Montréal, Canada in 1989. He joined INRS-Télécommunications, Montréal as a post-doctoral fellow and, since 1992, as a faculty member. Since 2000, he has been on faculty at Boston University, Boston, MA, USA. He is an IEEE Fellow and a Senior Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. He has been actively involved in the IEEE Signal Processing Society as a Distinguished Lecturer and as Member-at-Large of the Conference Board. In the past, he served as an Area Editor of the EURASIP Signal Processing: Image Communications journal and Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Communications Magazine, Signal Processing Letters and EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing. He is a co-recipient of the 2001 IEEE Signal Processing Magazine Award, the 2004-2005 EURASIP Image Communications Best Paper Award, the AVSS-2010 Best Paper Award and a co-winner of the 2010 ICPR Aerial View Activity Classification Challenge. He was the Technical Program Co-Chair of ICIP-2000 and AVSS-2010 as well as the General Chair of AVSS-2013. His current research interests include video processing and computer vision, visual sensor networks, stereoscopic and 3-D imaging and displays, and human-computer interfaces.