The members of the project team organized the international conference ISPA 2017 (10th International Symposium on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis) in the following roles: Stanislav Kovačič (general co-chair), Matej Kristan (program co-chair), Janez Perš (local arrangements chair). The conference took place at the Faculty of electrical engineering at University of Ljubljana in September 2017. The conference brought together international researchers and practitioners in computer vision, pattern recognition and signal processing. By organizing this event, the members of the project team strengthened their position in the international research community and increased the visibility of the Slovenian research and organizational potential and skills. The members were also active in organizing other international meetings. In February 2020 we organized CVWW2020 (5th Computer Vision Winter Workshop) in Rogaška slatina. We have also organized the four instatiations of the largest visual object tracking challenge VOT and the supporting workshops at major computer vision conferences, i.e., ICCV2017 (Amsterdam), ECCV2018 (Munich), ICCV2019 (Seoul) and ECCV2020 (Glasgow).
B.01 Organiser of a scientific meeting
COBISS.SI-ID: 11869524The project team members have exploited several opportunities for dissemination of the results and of the knowledge created in this project. The referenced event was an international summer school “Technology, take the wheel!” which took place in Ljubljana in July 2018 organized by BEST. The summer school addressed the topic of autonomous vehicles and boats. Danijel Skočaj and Matej Kristan gave lectures on decision making in autonomous vehicles and on computer vision for autonomous boats. The members gave talks at other summer schools such as ITECH IAESTE 2019, AI-DLDA 2018, educational events such as PLA#2 Slovenia 2020 and presented the works at international research institutions such as TUT Finland (2017,2018) and TUG Austria (2018). Autonomous boats are an emerging technology and with the advent of deep learning, these topics are not only gaining interest of the students, but of the general public as well. The project team members have often appeared in the media where they discussed issues and topics related to autonomous systems in relation to the state of machine perception. Parts of the work from this project were thus presented to the general public via media such as TV channels RTV Slovenija, Kanal A and Pop TV and radio Val 202.
B.04 Guest lecture
COBISS.SI-ID: 1537884611Between 2017-2018, the project leader has played an advisory role in a university-wide student project whose goal was to build an autonomous sailboat, in which he contributed with experience gained in the research project. A strong emphasis was also given to supervision and mentoring of undergraduate, masters and doctoral students. The students worked on various research topics from this project, spanning obstacle detection, tracking as well as application of developed methods to related problems. Four of the students supervised by the project team members received the faculty Prešern award for their theses, which is the most prestigious faculty research award for pre-doctoral students. In addition, eight faculty research excellence awards and special mentions were awarded to Phd students of the team members. The project leader was the finalist of the nation-wide Supervisor of the year 2019 award. Several Phd students that have been supervised by the project team members are now finalizing their doctoral theses with a strong prospect of either moving to industry or continuing their careers as researchers on international institutions.
D.09 Tutoring for postgraduate students
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