Service – Laboratory for Machine Intelligence

Conferences and workshops

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 IEEE FG 2024, with L. Akarun, S. Canavan, X. Chen
General Co-Chair for IJCB 2023, with K. Bowyer and A. O’Toole
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: 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 chair: TSD 2019, with S. Dobrišek
Organizer of the 2nd Unconstrained Ear Recognition Challenge (at ICB 2019), with P. Peer, Z. Emersic, H. Ekenel, and 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 of ISPA 2017, with M. Kristan and M. Vucic
Competition Co-chair: IEEE/IAPR IJCB 2017, with C. Fookes
General and Program 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 [link]

Societies – active involvement

Secretary of the IAPR Technical Committee on Biometrics (TC4) (2023 – present)
Member of the IEEE Technical committee on Information Forensics and Security (2024 – present)
Supervisory board member of the European Association for Biometrics (2024 – present)
VP for Technical Activities for the IEEE Biometrics Council (2022 – present)
Executive committee member of the Slovenian Pattern Recognition Society (2021 – present)
Conference committee member at the IEEE Biometrics Council (2020 – present)
Finance committee member at the IEEE Biometrics Council (2019 – present)
Member of the Intelligent System Application Technical Committee IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (2019)
Member of the EURASIP TAC (Technical Area Committee) on Biometrics, Data Forensics and Security (2018 – present)
Member of the young biometrics researcher committee of the IEEE Biometrics Council (2018 – present)
President of the Slovenian Pattern Recognition Society (2017 – 2021)
National Contact Point for the European Association on Biometrics (2015 – present)
Treasurer of the Slovenian Pattern Recognition Society (2013 – 2017)
Vice-president of the Slovenian Pattern Recognition Society (2011 – 2013)

Area Chair

IEEE International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB) 2024
IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG) 2023
IEEE/IAPR International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB) 2022
IAPR International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR) 2022
IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG) 2021
IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG) 2020
IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) 2020
IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) 2019
Eusipco 2019
IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) 2018
IAPR International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR) 2018

Referee

Journals
IEEE Transaction 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
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
Pattern Recognition
Information Fusion
Signal Processing
Pattern Recognition Letters
SPIE Journal of Electronic Imaging
IET Computer Vision
IET Biometrics
IET Image Processing
…

Conferences – Program Committee Member
IEEE WACV 2022
IEEE BTAS 2015, 2016, 2018
IEEE/IAPR IJCB 2017, 2020, 2021, 2022
IAPR ICB 2016, 2018, 2019
IEEE ICIP 2016, 2017, 2018
IEEE FG 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2024
IEEE WIFS 2021
ACM ICMI 2021, 2022
CVWW 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
ICAISC 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
IAPR ICPR 2012, 2018, 2020, 2022
IWBF 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021
IPTA 2016
TSD 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021
ISVC 2018
MVIP 2018, 2019
ERK 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
Mipro 2011, 2014 , 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021
CVPR (and workshops) 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
ICCV (and workshops) 2021
ECCV (and workshops) 2024
IEEE ICASSP 2025
AAAI 2022, 2023
…

Editor

Journals

Editorial work
Pattern Recognition, Associate Editor, 2020 – present
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, Associate editor, 2019 – 2021, Senior Area Editor, 2020 – today
Signal Processing, Associate editor, 2018 – 2020, Subject Editor, 2021 – today
IET Biometrics, Associate Editor, 2020 – 2024
EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing, Associate Editor, 2022 – 2024
IEEE Biometrics Compendium, Section editor, 2018 – 2020
IET Computer Vision, Associate editor, 2018 – 2019
IET Biometrics, Editorial Board Member, 2016 – 2020.

Guest editor work
IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science, special issue on “Generative AI and Large Vision-Language Models for Biometrics”, 2025 – today
IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science, special issue on “The best reviewed papers from FG 2024”, 2024 – today
Image and Vision Computing, special issue on “Deep Learning Techniques Applied to Faces”, 2021 – 2023
IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science, special issue on “The best reviewed papers from IJCB 2020”, 2020 – 2021
Image and Vision Computing, special issue on “Deep Learning Techniques Applied to Faces”, 2021 – today
Guest editor for IET Biometrics – Special issue on the “Unconstrained Ear Recognition“, 2017 – 2018
Guest editor for Image and Vision Computing (IMAVIS) – Special issue on the “Biometrics in the Wild“, 2017 – 2018.
Guest editor for Image and Vision Computing (IMAVIS) – Special issue on the “Best of FG 2015”, 2015-2017.
Guest editor for CIT – Journal of Computing and Information technology, 2014.

Conferences and proceedings
Co-editor of IEEE Face and Gesture 2021 Proceedings.
Co-editor of IEEE Face and Gesture 2020 Proceedings.
Co-editor of the Proceedings of ISPA 2017.
Co-editor of the ISPA 2017 Book of Abstracts.
Co-editor of the Proceedings of the 21st Computer Vision Winter Workshop, 2016.
Co-editor of the CVWW 2016 booklet, 2016.
Editor of the IEEE FG 2015 conference booklet, 2015 [link].
Editorial board member of the CLASS Cloud Computing Conference, Bled, Slovenia, 2012 [link].

Invited talks

Keynotes at conferences
AI as a challenge for scientific journalists, Konferenca znanstvenih novinarjev Balkana, Center Rog, Ljubljana, 2024
DeepFakes : from generation to detection : The Ninth Biomedical Conference of Young Biomedical Engineers and Researchers (YBERC 2024), June 5-7 2024, Kladno, Czech Republic
Face Image Quality Assessment (FIQA) : recent advancements and future challenges: ReFIP 2024, 1st International Workshop on Responsible Face Image Processing, side event at IEEE Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition 2024 Conference 27-31 May 2024, ITU Campus, Istanbul, Turkey
Generative models in computer vision for fashion and beauty: 10th International Conference on Computers Communications and Control (ICCCC), October 08-12, 2024,Oradea, Romania
Generative models in computer vision : from fashion and beauty to biometrics : the 1st Workshop on Interdisciplinary Applications of Biometrics and Identity Science, January 5th 2023, Waikoloa Beach, Hawaii
Computer vision for fasion and beauty : Huawei Future Device Technology Summit, November 8-9, 2022, Helsinki, Finland
DeepFake – kaj je to in zakaj je pomembno? : 11. mednarodna konferenca IIA – Slovenskega inštituta , Bled, 2022
Generative models for computer vision : Sixth IAPR International Conference on Computer Vision & Image Processing (CVIP2021), 2021, Punjab, India
Face super-resolution for biometric applications : recent advances and future challenges, Norwegian Biometric Forum (NBF), Virtual, 2020.
Face Alignment: Addressing Pose Variability in Face Recognition Systems, BiForD 2016, Croatia, 2016
Real-time facial landmark localization using advanced correlation filters, Zagreb, First Croatian Computer Vision Workshop, 2012

Universities
Face image quality assessment : recent advancements and future challenges: University of Warwick, UK (and online), 29. November 2023
Generative models in computer vision : from fashion and beauty to biometrics : Queensland University of Technology, 22 December 2022
Generative models in computer vision and biometrics : Istanbul Technical University, Turkey, 21. 9. 2022
Generative models in computer vision and biometrics : University of Salzburg, Austria, 14 June 2022
Face super-resolution in biometrics : recent advances and future challenges, The Biometrics and Multimedia Forensics Laboratory at Roma Tre University, Virtual, 2020.
Face super-resolution: Recent progress and future challenges, University of Hertfordshire, UK, 2019
Face Deidentification with Generative Deep Networks, FER, University of Zagreb, Croatia, 2017.
Facial landmark localization in the wild, Notre Dame University, South Bend, USA, 2015
On the use of Gabor filters for face recognition, FER, University of Zagreb, Croatia, 2009
Face authentication using a hybrid approach, Shenyang Northeastern University, China 2008

Webinars
Generative models in biometrics : Trustworthy Biometrics Webinar, IEEE Biometrics Beijing Chapter, 6th May 2022
Face recognition in the wild and with 3D; EAB Biometrics Training, 2021
Face recognition in the wild and with 3D; Biometrics Training Event, European Association for Biometrics, 2020, Fraunhofer IGD, Darmstadt, Germany