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Ales Leonardis
University of Ljubljana
Membership Number: 34
Address: Faculty of Computer and Information Science, Trzaska 25, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenija
Email: ales.leonardis@fri.uni-lj.si
Phone: +386 (1) 4768 868
Fax: +386 (1) 4264 647
URL: http://www.lrv.fri.uni-lj.si/~alesl/

Biographical Sketch
Ales Leonardis is an Associate Professor of computer and information science at the Faculty of Computer and Information Science at the University of Ljubljana. From 1988-1991 he was a visiting researcher in the General Robotics and Active Sensory Perception Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania. Between 1995 and 1997 he was a postdoctoral associate at the PRIP, Vienna University of Technology, Austria. He was also a visiting researcher and a visiting professor at the ETH, Switzerland, and at the Technische Fakultät der Friedrich-Alexander Universität in Erlangen, Germany, respectively.

He is author or co-author of over 120 papers published in journals and major conferences, and he co-authored the book Segmentation and Recovery of Superquadrics (Kluwer, 2000).

Ales Leonardis has been a member of programme committees, a reviewer for major journals in the area of computer vision and pattern recognition, and a co-chairman of international conferences (CAIP) and workshops (NATO ARW). He is also an Associate Editor of Pattern Recognition and a member of the Advisory Board of Machine Graphics and Vision. A. Leonardis is currently serving as the Slovenian representative in the Governing Board of the International Association for Pattern Recognition.

A. Leonardis is/was involved in national, international (bilateral), and EU-supported projects, (941068 RECCAD) and CogVis: IST-2000-29375.

University of Ljubljana, UOL
The University of Ljubljana was established in 1917. A total of 20 faculties, 3 art academies and 3 university colleges employ approximately 1,700 full-time university teaching staff. With its 35,000 students, the University of Ljubljana ranks among the biggest universities in the world scale. The Faculty of Computer and Information Science was founded in 1996, although the undergraduate program in computer science started in the academic year 1973/74. At present, the Faculty of Computer and Information Science employs about 90 teaching and research staff.

The University of Ljubljana will participate in the ECVision with the Laboratory of Computer Vision at the Faculty of Computer and Information Science. The Computer Vision Laboratory was founded in 1991. Currently the laboratory includes 3 professors, 2 assistants, and 5 PhD and master students. The laboratory is involved in basic research in computer vision with emphasis on visual modeling, view-based learning and recognition, and on computational models for shape and color in combination with the segmentation process. The goal is to develop robust vision system architectures that can combine different modules, adapt to the current purpose of the vision system and to the available computational resources.

Some of the main research achievements and activities are recovery and modeling of visual data with superquadrics, segmentation with the "recover-and-select" paradigm, next view planning for intelligent image acquisition, automatic creation of CAD models from images for reverse engineering applications, and application of machine learning techniques in computer vision.

Over the past few years a significant part of the research has been devoted to view-based modeling, visual learning and recognition. The main results include robust, multiresolution subspace approaches to view-based recognition of objects and scenes. The proposed methodology was also successfully applied to localization of a mobile robot using non-standard catadioptric sensors and panoramic images. A list of selected publications can be found on the webpage: http://www.lrv.fri.uni-lj.si/~alesl

The expertise of the Laboratory of Computer Vision results also from past and present participation in national, bilateral (SI-USA, SI-Austrian, SI-French, SI-Czech), and EU-supported projects (941068 RECCAD), CogVis (2002-2004).


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