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.
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 2021: 8.518), Associate Editor 2021 – today
- IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (IEEE, SCI IF 2021: 7.231) Associate editor, 2018 – 2020, Senior Area Editor, 2020 – today
- Signal Processing (Elsevier, SCI IF 2021: 4.729), Associate editor, 2018 – 2020, Subject Editor, 2021 – today
- IET Biometrics (IET, SCI IF 2021: 2.716), Editorial board member, 2016 – 2020, Associate Editor, 2020 – today
- EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing (Eurasip, SCI IF 2021: 2.399), Associace Editor, 2022 – today
Current guest editor service
- IEEE Computer, special issue on “Five Decades of Biometrics and Video Surveillance: Present Technologies and Future Possibilities”, 2022 – today
- Image and Vision Computing, special issue on “Deep Learning Techniques Applied to Faces”, 2021 – today
Recent organizational activities
- Program Co-Chair for IEEE FG 2024, with L. Akarun, S. Canavan, X. Chen
- General Co-Chair for IJCB 2023, with K. Bowyer and A. O’Toole
- 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
- Deep generative models for beauty and fashion (DeepBeauty), fundamental research project, ARRS, PI, 2020 – 2023
- Face deidentification with generative deep models (FaceGEN), fundamental research project, ARRS, PI, 2019 – 2022
- Metrology and biometric systems, ARRS research programme, programme leader, 2018 – 2024
PhD students
- Blaž Meden, co-supervisor
- Matej Vitek, co-supervisor
- Miha Grabner, co-supervisor
- Ajda Lampe, co-supervisor
- Darian Tomašević, co-supervisor
- Marija Ivanovska, supervisor
- Peter Rot, supervisor
- Žiga Babnik, supervisor
Biosketch
Vitomir Struc received his PhD degree in electrical engineering from the University of Ljubljana in 2010. He is currently working as a 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 currently serves as a Senior Area Editor (SAE) for IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, and a Subject Editor for Signal Processing. He also serves as an Assocaite Editor for Pattern Recognition, IET Biometrics and the EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing. He was an associate editor for IET Computer Vision, a section editor for the IEEE Biometrics Compendium and edited two special issues in Image and Vision Computing and one in IET Biometrics. Vitomir served as an Area Chair for WACV 2018, 2019, 2020, ICPR 2018 2022, Eusipco 2019 and FG 2020, 2021, 2023. 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 is currently serving as a Workshop Co-chair for WACV 2024, a Program Co-chair for IWBF 2023 and FG 2024, and a General Co-chair for IJCB 2023.
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. In 2022 Vitomir is serving as the VP Technical Activities for the IEEE Biometrics Council.