About the Club

The Video Geeks Club (VGC) is a new club in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of Boston University bringing together graduate and undergraduate students interested in fun applications of:

  • image  and video processing,
  • computer graphics and computer vision,
  • GPU programming using CUDA, …

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Any student with interest in the above, or related, areas who enjoys teamwork, can join the club by coming to club’s meetings held on Fridays at 4pm in PHO404/428 (with demos in PHO406).  The main activities of the club are:

  • discussion of newest image, video, graphics and vision (IVGV) trends,
  • presentation of IVGV papers, news items, product announcements,
  • development of fun IVGV applications based on in-house research and literature,
  • preparation of cool and fun demos for showcasing club activities at departmental, college and university events,
  • maintenance of  the VGC Sandbox.

In order to keep up to date with the club’s activities, you may join the VGC mail-list (vgc-list at BU domain) by sending an email to “majordomo” at BU domain with the following line in the body of the message: “subscribe vgc-list XXX”, where “XXX” is your email address.

If you have a question or suggestion, you can email the club’s faculty mentor Prof. Janusz Konrad (jkonrad) or club’s coordinator Meng Wang (wangmeng), a PhD candidate in the ECE Department.