Žiga Babnik, MSc.
Researcher
Laboratory of Machine Intelligence (LMI)
Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana
Tržaška cesta 25
Si-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
E-mail: ziga(dot)babnik(at)fe(dot).uni-lj(dot)si
Education
Bachelor’s degree (2019) – Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana
Master’s degree (2021) – Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana
Membership
- IEEE, Member
- IEEE, Young Professional
- Slovenian Pattern Recognition Society – SPRS
Research Interests
- Deep Learning
- Computer Vision
- Biometrics
- Face Recognition
- Face Image Quality Assessment
- Adversarial Methods
Publications
- Babnik, Žiga, and Vitomir Štruc. “Assessing Bias in Face Image Quality Assessment.” 2022 30th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO). IEEE, 2022.
- Babnik, Žiga, Peter Peer, and Vitomir Štruc. “FaceQAN: Face Image Quality Assessment Through Adversarial Noise Exploration.” 2022 26th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR). IEEE, 2022.
- Babnik, Žiga and Vitomir Štruc. “Iterativna optimizacija ocen kakovosti slikovnih podatkov v sistemih za razpoznavanje obrazov”, 2022 31st International Electrotechnical and Computer Science Conference (ERK). IEEE, 2022.
- Babnik, Žiga, Damer Naser and Štruc Vitomir. “Optimization-Based Improvement of Face Image Quality Assessment Techniques”, 2023 11th International Workshop on Biometrics and Forensics (IWBF). IEEE, 2023.
- Babnik, Žiga and Vitomir Štruc. “Ocenjevanje kakovosti neporavnanih obraznih slik”, 2023 32nd International Electrotechnical and Computer Science Conference (ERK). IEEE, 2023.
- Babnik, Žiga, Peter Peer, and Vitomir Štruc. “DifFIQA: Face Image Quality Assessment Using Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models.” 2023 International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB). IEEE, 2023.
Biosketch
Žiga Babnik recieved his bachelor’s degree at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Computer Science in 2019 – “Song similarity analysis based on lyrics, ratings and meta data”. In 2021, he recieved his Masters’s degree at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Computer Science – “Face Deidentification using Face Swapping”.
Msc. Žiga Babnik is currently employed at the Laboratory for Machine Intelligence (LMI), as a young researcher. The main topics of his research revolve around deep learning, computer vision and biometrics, he is currently active in the research fields of face recognition and face image quality assessment.