This article represents the most recent scientific result of our almost 20 years long collaboration with the Department for New Media at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design at University of Ljubljana in production of interactive art installations which often include Computer Vision methods. In the last six years we participated in 13 art exhibitions and in preparation of 4 exhibition catalogues. About this interdisciplinary collaboration we wrote another 7 journal articles and 12 conference contributions. As the most important scientific result in computer vision of this collaboration we consider the novel concept of dynamic anamorphosis (scientific contribution no. 4 in this report) and music visualization with colors [COBISS.SI-ID 8064596]. In this collaboration participate also students of computer science and art students, as well as lecturers of both institutions who teach at the partner institute. In this way we contribute to the international trend of digital humanities.
F.29 Contribution to the development of national cultural identity
COBISS.SI-ID: 10410068The members of the program group were very active and successful in the participation in European projects. In the last five years they have participated in three major 6FP and 7FP European projects, for which they were granted almost one million euros. Aleš Leonardis and Danijel Skočaj were leaders of several work packages and were responsible for managing and coordinating the research work of researchers from different laboratories from the partner institutions. In this way, they have considerably expanded the network of research collaborators and well positioned the research group within the international research community.
D.01 Chairing over/coordinating (international and national) projects
COBISS.SI-ID: 10448212One of the prime application areas for our methods in 3D data capture and analysis is archeology, in particular underwater archeology. In this area a small revolution is taking place since new methods of 3D data documentation enable more accurate, faster and therefore cheaper field work. In fall of 2012 we participated in the documentation of a roman barge in the river Ljubljanica near Sinja gorica which was funded by the Institute for the Protection of Cultural Heritage of Slovenia. In 2014 we acquired a project on Fotogrametric 3D data capture under the auspices of the program "Creative way to practical knowledge". In early July of 2013, a student workshop on 3D Data Capture and Processing in Underwater Archaeology took place in Portorož, organised by the Institute for the Protection of Cultural Heritage of Slovenia (Miran Erič) and the University of Ljubljana’s Faculties of Computer and Information Science (Franc Solina) and Maritime Studies and Transport (Marko Perkovič). Sixteen students and underwater archaeologists attended this international workshop from the Department of Archaeology, the Faculty of Arts, the Computer Vision Laboratory at the Faculty of Computer and Information Science, the Archaeology Department at the University of Zadar and the Archaeological Museum of Zadar.
F.27 Contribution to preserving/protecting natural and cultural heritage
COBISS.SI-ID: 10715476Aleš Leonardis is Associate Editor of prestigious scientific journal IEEE PAMI, Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (since 2009), which is ranked among the top few journals in the fields of computer science, artificial intelligence, and electrical & electronic engineering. Aleš Leonardis is also the Editorial Board Member of another high-ranked scientific journal Pattern Recognition, the Journal of the Pattern Recognition Society (from 2001), the journal Image and Vision Computing (from 2012) and Springer Book Series: “Computational Imaging and Vision”. Members of the program, in particular Aleš Leonardis, had several invited lectures: - First Workshop on Stochastic Image Grammars, in conjunction with CVPR’09, Miami, June 2009. - Second International Workshop on Shape Perception in Human and Computer Vision, in conjunction with ECVP’09. Regensburg, Germany, August 2009 - Workshop on Trends in Computer Vision, Technical University Prague, Czech Republic, July 2009 - University of Birmingham, United Kingdom, August 2009 - University of Surrey, United Kingdom, September 2009 - University of British Columbia, Canada, December 2009. - Simon Fraser University, Canada, December 2009. - ETHZ, Zurich, Switzerland, January 2010. - Workshop on Recent Trends in Computer Vision, University of Maryland, USA, February, 2010 - Johns Hopkins University, USA, February 2010 - George Mason University, USA, February 2010 - University Southern Denmark, May 2010 - Robotic international Summer School, Dubrovnik, Croatia, June 2010 - K.U. Leuven, Belgium, November 2010 - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany, December 2010 - University of Tuebingen, Germany, April 2011 - University of Pennsylvania, July 2011 - REACTS, Workshop on Recognition and Action for Scene Understanding, Malaga, Spain, September 2011 - Linkoping University, November 2011. - University of Innsbruck, December 2011. - SISSA (The International School of Advanced Studies), Italy, December 2011. - Imperial College London, United Kingdom, marec 2012 - Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences Media Technology and Design / Digital Media, Linz, Austria, maj 2012; - Tutorial on Stochastic Image Grammars for Object, Scene and Event Understanding (in conjunction with CVPR 2012), Providence, Rhode Island, USA, junij 2012. - Summer school in Beijing, National Lab of Pattern recognition at Chinese Academy of Science, avgust 2012 - Area Chair Workshop of the Asian Conference on Computer Vision, Daejeon, Korea, september 2012. - Joint IAPR International Workshops on Structural and Syntactic Pattern Recognition (SSPR 2012) and - Statistical Techniques in Pattern Recognition (SPR 2012), MiyajimaItsukushima, Hiroshima, Japan, november 2012 - Chiba University, Japan, november 2012. - posvet o robotiki, Slovenska akademija znanosti in umetnosti, Ljubljana, Slovenija, november 2012. - Experience Summer School, Mallorca, Spain, October 2013 - AAAI workshop: Intelligent Robotic Systems, Washington, USA, July 2013 - University of Washington, Seattle, USA, July 2013 - University of Lincoln, UK, May 2013 - Vienna University of Technology, Austria, April 2013 - Dagstuhl seminar 13072, Mechanisms of Ongoing Development in Cognitive Robotics, February 2013 Narvika Bovcon: Academy of fine arts, University of Zagreb, May 2013 Luka Šajn: Insitut Rudžer Bošković, Zagreb, October 2012 Jasna Maver: Graz University of Technology, March 2012 Batagelj Borut: Grafički fakultet, Zagreb, June 2009 Danijel Skočaj: University of Birmingham, UK, december 2012. Franc Solina: University of California, Berkeley, May 2013
C.04 Editorial board of an international magazine
Borut Batagelj in Miha Peternel prepared 12 expert opinions for the Law courts in Ljubljana, Novo mesto, Postojna, Slovenj Gradec in Murska Sobota in the area of video in photography analysis.
F.17 Transfer of existing technologies, know-how, methods and procedures into practice
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