Matej Kristan

Professor and a vice chair of the department of artificial intelligence at the Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana. He is president of the IAPR Slovenian pattern recognition society, Associate Editor of IJCV and serves as an AC at major computer vision conferences. He has co-organized over thirteen workshops and conferences, and received eighteen research excellence and teaching awards. His group has contributed to several leading benchmarks and datasets in visual object tracking and vision for autonomous boats, and developed the first deep learning method HIDRA for coastal flood prediction that rivals numerical geophysics models. His research interests include visual object tracking, anomaly detection, video segmentation, vision for mobile robotics and deep geophysics. His works have been cited over 9k times, and his h-index is 37 according to Google Scholar.