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