Biography
Matej Kristan received a Ph.D. from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana in 2008. He is a full professor in the Visual Cognitive Systems Laboratory (https://www.vicos.si) and a vice chair of the Department of artificial intelligence at the Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana. He leads the Visual object tracking VOT initiative, is the president of the IAPR Slovenian pattern recognition society and Associate Editor of IJCV. He has co-organized over thirteen workshops and conferences, he received fourteen research excellence awards and four teaching excellence awards. His students regularly receive research excellence awards as well. His research interests include visual object tracking, anomaly detection and segmentation, perception methods for autonomous boats and machine-learning-based geophysics prediction models. According to Google scholar, his works have been cited over 8000 times, his h-index is 35.