Assoc. Prof.
Simon Dobrišek,
Ph.D.

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Simon Dobrišek

University of Ljubljana
Faculty of Electrical Engineering
Trzaska 25
1000, Ljubljana
Slovenia

Simon Dobrišek received his B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the University of Ljubljana in 1990, 1994, and 2001, respectively. He is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, currently working at the Laboratory of Artificial Perception, Systems and Cybernetics of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana. In 1996, he was a visiting researcher at the Pattern Recognition Laboratory of the Department of Computer Science, University of Erlangen, and in 1997, he was a visiting researcher at the Natural Language Systems Division of the Department of Informatics, University of Hamburg in Germany.

His research interests center on artificial intelligence, pattern recognition, biometrics, smart surveillance systems, and spoken language technologies. He pays special attention to the development of voice-enabled intelligent user interfaces and biometric surveillance systems used as building blocks of ambient intelligent systems. He is also focused on interdisciplinary research that cuts across the field of cognitive science, linguistics and phonetics, as well as the protection of privacy in the use of smart surveillance and modern information and communication technologies. He has given invited lectures on biometrics and ambient intelligence technology.

In the last ten years he has been involved as a key team member in eight national and international ICT projects, and as a project manager and principal researcher in two EU FP7 projects in the field of biometrics, speech technologies, pattern recognition, machine learning, and personal detection technology ethics. He has published popular journal articles and peer-reviewed scientific and conference papers on biometrics, ambient intelligence technology, spoken language technologies, and privacy protection. In 2002, he was awarded by the Slovenian Fund for rewarding innovation in the field of training, living and work of the people with disabilities for developing the "Automatic reader of newspapers for the visually impaired".

He has served (or still serves) as:

• Organizing chair of the EU FP7 HIDE Project Policy Workshop on Restrictions in the Implementation of EU Data Protection Directive for Public Interest, Security and Defence, 2009.
• Project manager and principal researcher of the EU FP7 project SMART (2011-2014).
• Project manager and principal researcher of the EU FP7 project RESPECT (2012-2015).
• Co-chair of the OPENSUR-2013 Workshop (Privacy Enabled Surveillance?), 2013,
• President of the Slovenian Pattern Recognition Society (2013 - present),
• Local arrangment co-chair of the IEEE FG2015 conference (2013-2015), ...

He is a member of:

• IEEE,
  
• IEEE Computer Society,
• IEEE Signal Processing Society,
  
• International Association of Pattern Recognition - IAPR,
  
• International Speech Communication Association - ISCA,
• Slovenian Pattern Recognition Society - SDRV,
• Slovenian Language Technologies Society - SDJT.
  

He has acted as a reviewer for several international journals:

• IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence,
• IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems,
• Computer Speech and Language,
• International Journal of Mobile Computing and Multimedia Communications,
• International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, ...

He teaches or co-teaches the following undergraduate and master level courses at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana: Artificial Intelligent Systems, Pattern Recognition, Information Theory and Coding, Intelligent Systems in Automation, Speech Technologies, and Seminar on Biometric Systems.

Selected publications*

Dobrišek S, Štruc V, Križaj J and Mihelič F (2015), "Face recognition in the wild with the probabilistic Gabor-Fisher classifier", In Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG), 2015 11th IEEE International Conference and Workshops on. Ljubljana, Slovenia, May, 2015. Vol. 02, pp. 1-6. IEEE. [Abstract] [BibTeX] [DOI] [URL] [MS Word XML] [PDF]

Justin T, Mihelič F and Dobrišek S (2014), "Intelligibility assessment of the de-identified speech obtained using phoneme recognition and speech synthesis systems", Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics). Vol. 8655 LNAI, pp. 529-536. Springer Verlag [Abstract] [BibTeX] [DOI] [URL] [MS Word XML] [PDF]

Gajšek R., Mihelič F. and Dobrišek S. (2013), "Speaker state recognition using an HMM-based feature extraction method", Computer Speech & Language. Vol. 27(1), pp. 135-150. [Abstract] [BibTeX] [DOI] [URL] [MS Word XML] [PDF]

Križaj J., Štruc V. and Dobrišek S. (2013), "Combining 3D face representations using region covariance descriptors and statistical models", In Proceedings of the 10th IEEE International Conference and Workshops on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, FG 2013. Shanghai, China, April, 2013. , pp. 1-7. [Abstract] [BibTeX] [DOI] [URL] [MS Word XML] [PDF]

Križaj J., Štruc V. and Dobrišek S. (2012), "Towards robust 3D face verification using gaussian mixture models", International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems. Vol. 9(162), pp. 1-11. [Abstract] [BibTeX] [DOI] [URL] [MS Word XML] [PDF]

Dobrišek S. and Mihelič F. (2011), "Time- and acoustic-mediated alignment algorithms for speech recognition evaluation", In Proceedings of the 12th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2011. Florence, Italy, August, 2011. , pp. 1517-1520. [Abstract] [BibTeX] [URL] [MS Word XML] [PDF]

Dobrišek S., Žibert J. and Mihelič F. (2010), "Towards the optimal minimization of a pronunciation dictionary model", Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics). Vol. 6231 LNAI, pp. 267-274. [Abstract] [BibTeX] [DOI] [URL] [MS Word XML] [PDF]

Dobrišek S, Žibert J, Pavešić N and Mihelič F (2009), "An Edit-Distance Model for the Approximate Matching of Timed Strings", Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on., April, 2009. Vol. 31(4), pp. 736-741. [Abstract] [BibTeX] [DOI] [URL] [MS Word XML] [PDF]

Dobrišek S (2008), "Criteria for the evaluation of automated speech-recognition scoring algorithms", Electrotechnical Review. Vol. 75(4), pp. 229-234. [Abstract] [BibTeX] [URL] [MS Word XML] [PDF]

Dobrišek S, Gros J, Vesnicer B, Pavešić N and Mihelič F (2003), "Evolution of the information-retrieval system for blind and visually-impaired people", International Journal of Speech Technology. Vol. 6(3), pp. 301-309. [Abstract] [BibTeX] [DOI] [URL] [MS Word XML] [PDF]

Mihelič F, Gros J, Dobrišek S, Žibert J and Pavešić N (2003), "Spoken language resources at LUKS of the University of Ljubljana", International Journal of Speech Technology. Vol. 6(3), pp. 221-232. [Abstract] [BibTeX] [DOI] [URL] [MS Word XML] [PDF]

Pavešić N, Gros J, Dobrišek S and Mihelič F (2003), "Homer II - Man-machine interface to internet for blind and visually impaired people", Computer Communications. Vol. 26(5), pp. 438-443. [Abstract] [BibTeX] [DOI] [URL] [MS Word XML] [PDF]

Gros J, Mihelič F, Dobrišek S, Erjavec T and Žganec M (2000), "Rules for Automatic Grapheme-to-Allophone Transcription in Slovene", Lecture Notes in Computer Science., In Text, Speech and Dialogue. Vol. 1902, pp. 171-176. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. [Abstract] [BibTeX] [DOI] [URL] [MS Word XML] [PDF]

Dobrišek S, Mihelič F and Pavešić N (1999), "Speech Segmentation Aspects of Phone Transition Acoustical Modelling", Lecture Notes in Computer Science., In Text, Speech and Dialogue. Vol. 1692, pp. 248-251. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. [Abstract] [BibTeX] [DOI] [URL] [MS Word XML] [PDF]

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