Vitomir Štruc,
Ph.D.

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Vitomir Štruc

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

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Basic information :

Date and place of birth: 23.5.1981, Slovenj Gradec, Slovenia
Citizenship: slovenian
Academic title: assistant professor
Position: post-doc and research fellow at the University of Ljubljana
My google scholar page: here

Education:

• Ph.D. in electrical engineering (2010)
  University of Ljubljana, Faculty of electrical engineering,
  Use of Gabor filters in automatic face recognition systems,
  supervisor: prof. dr. Nikola Pavešić

• B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering (2005)
  University of Ljubljana, Faculty of electrical engineering,
  Ovrednotenje sistemov za samodejno razpoznavanje obrazov
  supervisor: prof. dr. Nikola Pavešić [pdf]

Work experience :

• Postdoc, 2011 ->
  Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana;
  
• Teaching assistent, 2010 ->
  Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana;
• Software developer, 2010 -2011
  Alpineon d.o.o.
• Junior researcher, 2006 - 2010
  Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Laboratory of artificial perception, systems and cybernetics,
  superviser: prof. dr. Nikola Pavešić
  
  

Research:

• research fields :
  • pattern recognition, signal processing, biometrics, face recognition, palm-print recognition, statistical modeling, machine learning, ...
    
    
• bibliography:
  • author and/or co-author of 50 papers listed in the Slovenian bibliographic system COBISS
    
    
• projects I work(ed) on:
  • BAMBI - biometric face recognition in ambient intelligent environments, ARRS no. Z2-4214 (duration: 2011-2013);
  • Fast and reliable 3D face recognition - bilateral project with Bulgaria (duration: 2011-2012);
  • KC CLASS (participated: 2010-2011) - Cloud Assised Services, MVZT (duration: 2010-2013);
  • BioID (participated: 2010-2011) - an intercom system with integrated biometric recognition capabilities, Alpineon d.o.o.;
  • Metrology and biometric systems - research program, ARRS no. P2-0250;
  • AviD: Audio-Visual user Identification - CRP "Znanost za varnost in mir 2007", MVZT/MORS, no. M2-0210, (duration: 2007-2009);
  • An automatic face recognition system - bilateral project with the Peoples Republic of China, no. Bi-CN/07-09-019 (duration: 2007-2009);
  • Face and Signature biometrics - bilateral project with the Bulgarian Academy of Science (duration: 2009-2011)
    
    

Awards and achievements:

• First place in the national competition in the knowledge of the German language (1995)
• Zois scholarship (1996-2005)
• First place at the face recognition competition held in conjunction with the IAPR/IEEE ICB'09 conference on the Banca database (2009)
• Vodovnik Award for the best PhD thesis of 2010 at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering (2011)
• Best performance at the face recognition competition held in conjunction with the IAPR ICB'13 conferecnce on the MOBIO database (2013)
  

Foreign languages:

• fluent: English, German
• functional: Croatian, Serbian
• basic: Italian
  
  

Skills:

• computer knowledge :
  • C/C++/C#,
  • HTML+CSS, PHP, JavaScipt,
  • Matlab, Simulink,
  • OS: Linux/Unix/Windows.

Selected publications:

• Journals:
  • Štruc, V., Mihelič, F. and Pavešić, N.: Face authentication using a hybrid approach, Journal of Electronic imaging, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 1-11, 2008 [link].
  • Štruc, V. and Pavešić, N.: Gabor-based kernel-partial-least-squares discrimination features for face recognition, Informatica (Vilnius), vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 115-138, 2009 [link].
  • Štruc, V. and Pavešić, N.: Phase-congruency features for palm-print verification, IET Signal Processing (Special issue on biometric recognition), vol. 3 , no. 4, pp. 258-268, 2009 [link].
  • Štruc, V. and Pavešić, N.: The Complete Gabor-Fisher Classifier for Robust Face Recognition, EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, vol. 2010, article ID 847680, 2010 [link].
  • Poh, N., Chan C.H., Kittler, J., Marcel, S., McCool, C., Rua, E.A., Castro, J.L.A., Villegas, M., Paredes, R., Štruc, V., Pavešić, N., Salah, A.A., Fang, H., Costen, N.: An Evaluation of Video-to-video Face Verification, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 781-801, 2010 [link].
  • Križaj, J., Štruc, V. and Dobrišek S.: Towards robust 3D face verification using Gaussian mixture models, International Journal on Advanced Robotic Systems (Online), vol. 9, pp. 1-11, 2012 [link].
  • Vesnicer, B., Žganec-Gros, J., Pavešić, N. and Štruc, V.: Face Recognition Using Simplified Probablistic Linear Discriminant Analysis, International Journal on Advanced Robotic Systems (Online), vol. 9, pp. 1-10, 2012 [link].
  • Dobrišek, S., Gajšek, R., Mihelič, F., Pavešić, N., and Štruc, V.: Towards efficient multi-modal emotion recognition, International Journal on Advanced Robotic Systems (Online), vol. 10, pp. 1-10, 2013 [link]

• Conferences:
  • Štruc, V., Vesnicer, B. and Pavešić, N.: The phase-based Gabor Fisher classifier and its application to face recognition under varying illumination conditions. In: Proceedings of the international IEEE conference ICSPCS 2008, pp. 1-6, 2008 [link].
  • Poh, N., Chan, C.H., Kittler, J., Marcel, S., McCool, C., Argones-Rua, E., Alba-Castro, J.L., Villegas, M., Paredes, R., Štruc, V., Pavešić, N., Salah, A.A., Fang, H., Costen, N.: Face video competition. In: Proceedings of the international IAPR/IEEE conference ICB 2009, pp. 715-724, 2009 [link].
  • Štruc, V., Gajšek, R. and Pavešić, N.: Principal Gabor filters for face recognition, In: Proceedings of the international IEEE conference BTAS 2009, pp. 1-6, 2009 [link].
  • Štruc, V. and Pavešić, N.: Illumination Invariant Face Recognition by Non-Local Smoothing, In: Proceedings of the international Cost 2101& 2102 conference BioID_MultiComm 2009, pp. 1-8, 2009 [link].
  • Štruc, V., Vesnicer, B., Mihelič, F. and Pavešić, N.: Removing Illumination Artifacts from Face Images using the Nuisance Attribute Projection, In: Proceedings of the international IEEE conference ICASSP 2010, pp. 846-849, 2010 [link].
  • Štruc, V., Dobrišek, S. and Pavešić, N.: Confidence Weighted Subspace Projection Techniques for Robust Face Recognition in the Presence of Partial Occlusions, In: Proceedings of ICPR, pp. 1334-1338, 2010 [link].
  • Gajšek, R., Štruc, V. and Mihelič F.: Multi-modal Emotion Recognition using Canonical Correlations and Acustic Features, In: Proceedings of ICPR, pp. 4133-4136, 2010 [link].
  • Štruc, V., Žganec Gros, J., Pavešić, N.: Principal Directions of Synthetic Exact Filters for Robust Real-Time Eye Localization, In: Proceedings of the International Cost 2101 conference BioID, pp. 180-192, 2011 [link].
  • Štruc, V., Žganec Gros, J., Pavešić, N.: Advanced correlation filters for facial landmark localization, In: Proceedings of the International conference ERK 2012, pp. 153-156, 2012 [link].
  • Štruc, V., Žganec Gros, J., Pavešić, N.: Non-parametric score normalization for biometric verification systems, In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2012), Tsukuba, Japan, pp. 2395-2399, 2012 [link].
  • Križaj, J., Štruc, V., and Dobrišek, S.: Combining 3D face representations using region covariance descriptors and statistical models, In: IEEE International Conference on Automatic Fae and Gesture Recognition Workshops: 3D Face Biometrics, Shanghai, China, 2013 [link].
  • Štruc, V., Pavešić, N., Žganec Gros, J., and Vesnicer, B.: Patch-wise low-dimensional probabilistic linear discriminant analysis for face recognition, In: Proceedings of the international IEEE conference ICASSP 2013, Vancouver, Canada, 2013 [link].

• Book chapters :
  • Štruc, V. and Pavešić, N.: Hand-geometry devices. In: Li, S.Z. (editor): Encyclopedia of Biometrics, Springer, New York, pp. 693-698. 2009 [link].
  • Štruc, V. and Pavešić, N.: From Gabor magnitude to Gabor phase features: Tackling the problem of face recognition under severe illumination changes. In: Oravec, M. (editor): Face Recognition, In Tech, Vienna, pp. 215-238, 2010 [link]
  • Štruc, V. and Pavešić, N.: Photometric normalization techniques for illumination invariance, IGI-Global, pp. 279-300, 2011 [link]. (The chapter is based on the internal report:[pdf])

Complete list of Publications :

• For a complete list of my publications together with preprint PDFs go here.
• The complete list of my publications in the slovenian bibliographic database COBISS
  
  

Resources:

• Here you can find a Matlab toolbox for face recognition feturing popular techniques such as PCA, LDA, KPCA, KFA, etc. (the PhD toolbox):
  • This is the report (user manual) on the PhD face recognition toolbox [pdf]
  • The toolbox is available as a ZIP archive or a compressed TAR ball [ZIP][TAR]
• Here you can find a Matlab toolbox for illumination invariant face recognition (the INface toolbox):
  • This is the report (user manual) on the INFace toolbox [pdf]
  • The toolbox is available as a ZIP archive or a compressed TAR ball [ZIP][TAR]
• Lists of training images for the Feret database (as used in some of our publications):
  • The list of 501 training images also used in the Sep96 Feret evaluation (suitable for PCA training) [here]
  • The list of 1002 training images (suitable for PCA and LDA training) [here]

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