Conferences and workshops
- General Co-Chair for WACV 2026
- Doctoral Consortium Co-Chair for FG 2025, with Diego Guarin
- 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
- 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
- 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 – today
- EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing, Associate Editor, 2022 – today
- IEEE Biometrics Compendium, Section editor, 2018 – 2020
- IET Computer Vision, Associate editor, 2018 – 2019
- IET Biometrics, Editorial Board Member, 2016 – 2020.
- Guest editor work
- Image and Vision Computing, special issue on “Deep Learning Techniques Applied to Faces”, 2021 – today
- 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
- 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
- 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