Marija Ivanovska, PhD
Assistant
Laboratory of Machine Intelligence (LMI)
Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana
Tržaška cesta 25
SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
E-mail: marija.ivanovska@fe.uni-lj.si
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Positions
Assistant, University of Ljubljana, Laboratory for Machine Intelligence (2019 – present)
Visiting Assistant, Queensland University of Technology, SAIVT Lab (2024)
Visiting Scholar, Johns Hopkins University, VIU Lab (2022)
Research
Research fields:
• Computer Vision • Biometrics • Image Forensics • Data Privacy and Security • Applied AI •
Selected publications:
- Emergent Morphing Attack Detection in Open Multi-modal Large Language Models; Marija Ivanovska, Vitomir Štruc; arXiv preprint 2026
- Exploring Multimodal Large Language Models for Morphing Attack Detection; Nikola Marić, Marija Ivanovska, Vitomir Štruc; Computer Vision Winter Workshop (CVWW) 2026
- SelfMAD++: Self-supervised foundation model with local feature enhancement for generalized morphing attack detection; Marija Ivanovska, Leon Todorov, Peter Peer, Vitomir Štruc; Information Fusion 2026
- SelfMAD: Enhancing Generalization and Robustness in Morphing Attack Detection via Self-Supervised Learning; Marija Ivanovska, Leon Todorov, Naser Damer, Deepak Kumar Jain, Peter Peer, Vitomir Štruc; FG 2025
- Y-GAN: Learning Dual Data Representations for Efficient Anomaly Detection; Marija Ivanovska, Vitomir Štruc; Expert Systems with Applications 2024
- On the Vulnerability of DeepFake Detectors to Attacks Generated by Denoising Diffusion Models; Marija Ivanovska, Vitomir Štruc; WACVW 2024
- Face Morphing Attack Detection with Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models; Marija Ivanovska, Vitomir Štruc; IWBF 2023
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Service
I am active in the international biometrics and information forensics communities through technical committee, webinar committee, and event-organization service. A full overview of my academic service, committee memberships, and professional activities is available on my service page.
- Competition and Web Chair at IJCB [2026]
- Chair of the IJCB Special Session on Advances in Biometric System Attacks and Detection (ABSAD) [2026]
- Chair of the WACV Workshop on Synthetic Realities and Data in Biometric Analysis and Security (SynRDinBAS) [2026]
- Guest Editor for the Special Issue Multi-Sensor and Synthetic Data Fusion in Advanced AI Systems: Opportunities and Ethical Challenges in Elsevier’s Information Fusion [2026]
- Chair of the BMVC Workshop on Synthetic Realities and Biometric Security: Advances in Forensic Analysis and Threat Mitigation (SRBS) [2025]
- Chair of the IJCB Special Session on Recent Advances in Detecting Manipulation Attacks on Biometric Systems (ADMA) [2025]
- Chair of the WACV Workshop on Synthetic Realities and Data in Biometric Analysis and Security (SynRDinBAS) [2025]
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Teaching
Undergraduate courses:
- 64622 Signal Analysis
- 64125 Signal Processing
Master courses:
- 64206 Computer Vision
- 64250 Artificial Intelligence Systems
- 64276 Advanced Computer Vision Methods
- 64277 Intelligent Audio and Speech Systems
Thesis Supervision
I supervise thesis projects in computer vision, biometrics, image forensics, and applied machine learning. My students work on topics such as biometric recognition, morphing attack detection, digital manipulation detection, and industrial visual inspection. I aim to guide students toward technically sound, well-evaluated, and research-oriented solutions, while encouraging independence, critical thinking, and clear experimental methodology.