Janusz Konrad

Janusz KonradProfessor
PhD, McGill University, 1989

Computer Engineering
Information Sciences and Systems
 Information Sciences and Systems Laboratory
Visual Information Processing Laboratory


(617) 353-1246
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office: PHO 443
office hours: contact for appointment

Honors, Awards, and Editorships

  • Fellow, IEEE
  • 2011 ECE Professor of the Year, Boston University
  • 2001 IEEE Signal Processing Magazine Award
  • 2004-2005 EURASIP Image Communications Best Paper Award
  • 2010 AVSS Best Paper Award (with K. Guo and P. Ishwar)
  • 2010 ICPR SDHA Contest Win (with K. Guo and P. Ishwar)
  • 2007 Dean’s Catalyst Award
  • Associate Editor, EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing, 2006-2010
  • Associate Editor, Signal Processing Letters, 2002-2004
  • Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 1996-2000
  • Area Editor, EURASIP Signal Processing: Image Communication
  • Associate Technical Editor, IEEE Communications Magazine

Classes Taught

  • EK 130 Introduction to Engineering
  • EK 131/132 Introduction to Engineering
  • EC 416 Introduction to Digital Signal Processing
  • EC 500 Special Topics in ECE
  • EC 520 Digital Image Processing and Communication
  • EC 720 Digital Video Processing

Research Interests

  • visual sensor networks
  • image and video processing
  • stereoscopic and 3-D imaging
  • digital signal processing

Selected Publications

  • Z. Li, P. Ishwar, and J. Konrad, “Video condensation by ribbon carving,” IEEE Trans. Image Process., vol. 18, pp. 2572-2583, Nov. 2009.
  • J. Konrad and M. Halle, “3-D displays and signal processing: An answer to 3-D ills?,” IEEE Signal Process. Mag., vol. 24, pp. 97-111, Nov. 2007
  • M. Ristivojevic and J. Konrad, “Space-time image sequence analysis: object tunnels and occlusion volumes,” IEEE Trans. Image Process., vol. 15, pp. 364-376, Feb. 2006
  • N. Bozinovic and J. Konrad, “Motion analysis in 3D DCT domain and its application to video coding,” Signal Process., Image Commun., vol. 20, pp. 510-528, July 2005
  • C. Stiller and J. Konrad, “Estimating motion in image sequences: A tutorial on modeling and computation of 2D motion,” IEEE Signal Process. Mag., vol. 16, pp. 70-91, July 1999
  • J. Konrad and E. Dubois, “Bayesian estimation of motion vector fields,” IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Machine Intell., vol. 14, pp. 910-927, Sept. 1992