Prof. Vitomir Štruc, PhD
Full Professor
Laboratory for Machine Intelligence (LMI)
Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana
Tržaška cesta 25
Si-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Tel.: +386 1 4768 839
Fax.: +386 1 4768 316
E-mail: vitomir(dot)struc(at)fe(dot).uni-lj(dot)si
Consulting hours: Thursdays at 14:00 (room BN204)
My Goole Scholar page and current CV.
Education
BSc Degree (2005) – University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Slovenia (electrical engineering)
PhD degree (2010) – University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Slovenia (electrical engineering)
Collaboration
External collaborator of the University of Rijeka, Croatia
External collaborator of the University of Zagreb, Croatia
Work experience
- 2022 – present: Full Professor, Faculty of electrical engineering, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
- 2017 – 2022: Associate Professor, Faculty of electrical engineering, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
- 2013 – 2017: Assistant Professor, Faculty of electrical engineering, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
- 2015 (summer) – Guest Assistant Professor at CSE department, University of Notre Dame, USA
- 2012 – 2013: Postdoc, Faculty of electrical engineering, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
- 2010 – 2013: Teaching assistant, Faculty of electrical engineering, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
- 2010 – 2011: Senior software developer – Alpineon Ltd., Slovenia
- 2006 – 2010: Junior researcher – LUKS, Faculty of electrical engineering, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Research interests
- computer vision
- biometrics
- (3D) face, ear, speaker recognition
- facial expression recognition
- face detection and landmark localization
- speech technologies
- artificial intelligence
- deep learning
- …
Membership
- IEEE – Senior Member
- IEEE Computer Society
- IEEE Signal Processing Society
- International Association of Pattern Recognition – IAPR
- International Speech Communication Association – ISCA
- European Association for Biometrics – EAB
- European Association for Signal Processing – Eurasip
- …
Current editorial work
- Pattern Recognition, (Elsevier, SCI IF 2023: 7.5), Associate Editor 2021 – today
- IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (IEEE, SCI IF 2023: 6.3) Associate editor, 2018 – 2020, Senior Area Editor, 2020 – today
- Signal Processing (Elsevier, SCI IF 2022: 3.4), Associate editor, 2018 – 2020, Subject Editor, 2021 – today
Current guest editor service
- IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science, special issue on “Best Reviewed Papers from FG 2024”, 2024 – today
- IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science, special issue on “Generative AI and Large Vision-Language Models for Biometrics”, 2024 – today
Recent organizational activities
- General Co-Chair for WACV 2026
- Program Co-Chair for the IEEE/IAPR International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB 2025)
- Workshop Co-Chair for Synthetic Realities and Data in Biometric Analysis and Security (SynRDinBAS) in conjunction with WACV 2025, with Fadi Boutros, Naser Damer, Marija Ivanovska, Vishal Patel, Ajita Rattani, and Anderson Rocha
- Doctoral Consortium Co-Chair for FG 2025, with Diego Guarin
- Conference Chair for the EAB Research Projects Conference (RPC) 2024
- Program Co-Chair for WACV 2025, with Soma Biswas, Hadar Elor, Yezhou Yang
- Tutorial Co-Chair for CVPR 2024, with Katarina Doctor
- Workshop Co-Chair for 1st International Workshop on Synthetic Realities and Biometric Security: Advances in Forensic Analysis and Threat Mitigation in conjunction with BMVC 2024, with Naser Damer, Marija Ivanovska, Vishal Patel, Ajita Rattani, and Anderson Rocha
- Organizer of the Special session on Recent Advances in Detecting Manipulation Attacks on Biometric Systems in conjunction with IJCB 2024, with Abhijit Das, Naser Damer, Marija Ivanovska, and Raghavendra Ramachandra
- Organizer of the Special session on Generative AI for Futuristic Biometrics in conjunction with IJCB 2024, with Sudipta Banerjee, Nasir Memon and Kiran Raja
- Program Co-Chair for IEEE WIFS 2024, with Chiara Galdi and H. Vicky Zhao
- Program Co-Chair for IEEE FG 2024, with L. Akarun, S. Canavan, X. Chen
- Workshop Co-Chair for 1st International Workshop on Synthetic Data for Face and Gesture Analysis in conjunction with IEEE FG 2024, with Fadi Boutrus, Naser Damer, Deepak Kumar Jain, and Pourya Shamsolmoali
- General Co-Chair for IJCB 2023, with K. Bowyer and A. O’Toole
- Organizer of the Special session on Synthetic data in Biometrics in conjunction with IJCB 2023, with Fadi Boutros, Nasir Memon, and Andreas Uhl
- Organizer of the Sclera Segmentation and Recognition Benchmarking Competition (SSRBC 2023) in conjunction with IJCB 2023, with P. Peer, A. Mukherjee, A. Das and U. Pal
- Organizer of the 3rd Unconstrained Ear Recognition Challenge (at IJCB 2023), with P. Peer, Ž. Emeršič, H. Ekenel and G. Camara-Chavez
- Program Co-Chair for IWBF 2023, with E. Maiorana
- Workshop/Tutorial Co-Chair for IEEE FG 2023, with L. Yin and T.-K. Kim
- Workshop Chair for WACV 2023, with A. Czajka
- Program Co-Chair for IWBF 2022, with E. Maiorana and B. Prommegger
- Competition Co-Chair: IJCB 2022, with Z. Lei
- Organizer of the International Workshop on on Face and Gesture Analysis for COVID-19 (at FG2021), with A. Waibel, H. Ekenel, F. Ofli, M. Imran, F.I. Eyiokur and A. Kantarci
- Workshop Co-Chair for WACV 2022, with M. Betke
- Publication Chair for IEEE FG 2021
- Co-organizer of the 11th International workshop on Human Behavior Understanding (at WACV 2021), with A. Das, Q. Ji, U. Pal, and A.A. Salah
- Workshop Co-chair: WACV 2021, with M. Betke
- Co-organizer of the Sclera Segmentation Benchmarking Competition 2020 (in conjunction with IJCB 2020), with M. Vitek, P. Peer, A. Das and U. Pal
- Co-organizer of the special session on Biometric Technology and Cybersecurity at IEEE ICCST 2020, with I. Mporas
- Program co-chair: IEEE/IAPR IJCB 2020, with R. Singh and N. Ratha
- Publication co-chair: IEEE FG 2020, with F. Gómez-Fernández
- Workshop chair: WACV 2020
- Sponsorship co-chair: IEEE BTAS 2019, with A. Czajka
- Finance co-chair: IEEE FG 2019, with A. Czajka
- Local Arrangement co-chair: TSD 2019, with S. Dobrišek
- Organizer of the 2nd Unconstrained Ear Recognition Challenge (at ICB 2018), with P. Peer, Z. Emersic, H. Ekenel, in L. Yuan
- Workshop and tutorial co-chair: IEEE FG 2018, with Y. Tian
- Organizer of the 1st Unconstrained Ear Recognition Challenge (at IJCB 2017), with P. Peer and Z. Emersic
- Organizer of the 2017 International Workshop on Biometrics in the Wild (in conjunction with IEEE FG 2017), with B. Bhanu, A. Hadid, Q. Ji and M. Nixon
- Program Co-Chair: ISPA 2017, with M. Kristan and M. Vucic
- Competition Co-chair: IEEE/IAPR IJCB 2017, with C. Fookes
- Co-chair: 21-ti Computer Vision Winter Workshop 2016, with R. Mandeljc and L. Čehovin
- Organizer of the Special session on “My Research Vision for the next 10 Years” (as part of IEEE FG 2015), with S. Todorovic and I.A. Kakadiaris [link]
- Organizer of the 2015 International Workshop on Biometrics in the Wild (in conjunction with IEEE FG 2015), with B. Bhanu, A. Hadid, Q. Ji and M. Nixon
- Organizer of the 2015 Workshop on De-identification for privacy protection in multimedia (in conjunction with IEEE FG 2015), with T. Boult, F. De la Torre and S. Ribaric
- Local arrangement co-chair of IEEE FG 2015
Active projects
- Deepfake detection using anomaly detection methods (DeepFake DAD), fundamental research project, ARRS, PI, 2023 – 2026
- Metrology and biometric systems, ARRS research programme, programme leader, 2018 – 2024
PhD students
- Ajda Lampe, co-supervisor
- Darian Tomašević, co-supervisor
- Marija Ivanovska, supervisor
- Peter Rot, supervisor
- Nicolas Larue, co-supervisor
- Žiga Babnik, supervisor
- Marko Brodarič, supervisor
- Anastasija Manojlovska, supervisor
Biosketch
Vitomir Struc received his PhD degree in electrical engineering from the University of Ljubljana in 2010. He is currently a Full Professor at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the University of Ljubljana Slovenia, where he lectures the following courses on various Bologna levels: Signal Processing, Signal Analysis, Speech and Image Technologies, Seminar on Biometric Systems, Computational Linguistics and Random Signals and Processes. Vitomir’s research centers around artificial intelligence, pattern recognition, deep learning, biometrics, face recognition, emotion recognition, signal processing, machine learning, computer vision and other related areas. He participated in numerous nationally and EU-funded projects as a PI or project group member and published more than 150 papers in reputable peer-reviewed journals and top-tier conferences.
Dr. Štruc serves as a Senior Area Editor (SAE) for IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, and a Subject Editor for Signal Processing and an Associate Editor for Pattern Recognition. He was previously an associate editor for IET Computer Vision, IET Biometrics, and the EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing, a section editor for the IEEE Biometrics Compendium. He also edited two special issues in Image and Vision Computing, one in IET Biometrics and one in the IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science. Vitomir served as an Area Chair for WACV 2018, 2019, 2020, ICPR 2018, 2022, Eusipco 2019, FG 2020, 2021, 2023 nad IJCB 2024. He regularly collaborates on organizing committees of international conferences, such as WACV, FG, IJCB, and others. He was one of the main organizers of the B-Wild series of workshops in 2015 and 2017 and of the IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition 2015 in Ljubljana. In 2020 he was a Program Co-chair for the IEEE/IAPR International Joint Conference on Biometrics IJCB 2020. Vitomir also served as a Program Co-chair for IWBF 2023, FG 2024, WIFS 2024 and a General Co-chair for IJCB 2023. He is currently active as a Program Chair for IEEE WACV 2025, a Tutorial Co-chair for CVPR 2024, and Doctoral Consortium Chair for FG 2025.
Dr. Štruc is an active reviewer for prestigious international journals such as: IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, Pattern Recognition. He is a member of the IEEE, IAPR, Eurasip, the national ambasador for the European Association for Biometrics (EAB) and the former vice-president, former treasurer, former president and current executive committee member of the Slovenian Pattern Recognition Society, the Slovenian branch of IAPR. Since 2022 Vitomir is serving as the VP Technical Activities for the IEEE Biometrics Council. He is a member of the Supervisory Board of the EAB, a member of the IEEE Technical Committee on Information Forensics and Security and the secretary and upcoming vice-chair of the IAPR Technical Committee on Biometrics (TC4)