News:

- Dr. Velipasalar received the 2014 Excellence in Graduate Education Faculty Recognition Award.

- Congratulations to Mauricio Casares, who successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis titled "Energy-Efficient and Lightweight Algorithms for Embedded Smart Cameras: Design, Implementation and Performance Analysis", April 2014.

- Congratulations to Akhan Almagambetov, who received the Graduate School All University Doctoral Prize.

- Congratulations to Danushka, who received the Nunan Research Day Poster Competition EECS Departmental Winner Award.

- Congratulations to Akhan Almagambetov, who successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis titled "Toward Computationally Lightweight Stationary and Mobile Computer Vision-based Traffic Surveillance for Assistive Devices in Intelligent Transportation Systems", August 2013.

- Congratulations to Akhan, who received the Intelligent Transportation Society of NY Best ITS Student Essay Award, May 2013.

- Congratulations to Akhan, who received the college-wide award for "Applicability of Research to Business and Industry" on Nunan Lecture and Research Day, 2013.

- Our paper titled "Effective Capacity of Two-Hop Wireless Communication Systems,” appeared in the February 2013 issue of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.

Smart Vision Systems Laboratory was established in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at Syracuse University. Current research projects cover the areas of computer vision, embedded systems, sensor networks and wireless communications.

There are currently 7 Ph.D. students in the Smart Vision Systems Laboratory working on the projects including lightweight algorithm design for mobile and static embedded platforms, wireless embedded smart cameras, methodologies to increase battery life of the embedded cameras, object tracking and event detection in Wireless Smart Camera Networks (WiSCaNs), tracking of vehicle taillights and detection of vehicle alert signals, autonomous fall detection and activity classification.