Franc Solina Curriculum Vitae Office: University of Ljubljana Faculty of computer and information science Tržaška 25, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia Tel. +386 (1) 4768 389 Fax. +386 (1) 4264 630 Home: Trg MDB 2 SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenija Tel. +386 (1) 421 5310 http://lrv.fri.uni-lj.si/~franc/ franc@fri.uni-lj.si Education: 1987 University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Ph.D. in Computer and Information Science Advisor: Ruzena Bajcsy Dissertation: Shape recovery and segmentation with deformable part models 1982 University of Ljubljana M.S. in Electrical Engineering Advisor: Ludvik Gyergyék Thesis: Computer Recognition of Heart Arrhythmias 1979 University of Ljubljana Dipl. Ing. degree in Electrical Engineering Advisor: Ludvik Gyergyék Thesis: Computer Analysis of Vector Electrocardiograms 1974 I. Gimnazija Bežigrad, Ljubljana Secondary school baccalaureate Experience: June 1998 Jan. 1991 Jan. 2000 Professor, Faculty of computer and information science, University of Ljubljana. Teaching of courses: Introductory Computer Science, Application Software, Software engineering, Project management, Robotic sensors, Modeling of visual information, Analysis of algorithms and data structures. Head of computer vision laboratory, Chair of artificial intelligence Faculty of computer and information science, University of Ljubljana. Reseach in computer vision and multimedia. Coordinator of research projects. Advisor of undergraduate and graduate students. National coordinator for Computer and Information Science, Ministry of Science and Technology of the Republic of Slovenia 1
Febr. 1996 Sept. 1999 Vice dean for research, Faculty of computer and information science, University of Ljubljana. 1993 1998 Associate professor, Faculty of computer and information science, University of Ljubljana. Teaching of courses: Application Software, Software engineering, Project management, Robotic sensors, Modeling of visual information, Analysis of algorithms and data structures. 1988 1993 Assistant professor, Faculty of electrical engineering and computer science, University of Ljubljana. November 1992 Visiting researcher, Department for Medical Physics, Veterinary University Vienna, Austria. Collaboration on interpretation of medical Moiré images. Supported by the Austrian Institute for East and South- East Europe. Dec. 1997 Aug. 1988 Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania. Research in computer vision in GRASP (General Robotics and Active Sensory Perception) laboratory. Worked on interpretation of range images of mail pieces under a US Postal Service contract. Participated and gave talks at DARPA Image Understanding/Strategic Computing review meetings (Autonomous Land Vehicle Project). 1984 1987 Graduate student, CIS Department, University of Pennsylvania. Worked as teaching and research assistant. Introduced a method for recovery of compact volumetric models (superquadrics with deformations) for shape representation and segmentation. 1983 1984 Visiting Researcher, GRASP Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania. Worked with Ruzena Bajcsy on shape representation for computer vision and studied quantization errors in stereo vision. Supported by the Fulbright program and the International Research and Exchange Board, New York. 1982 1983 Programmer, Hydrographic Institute of the Yugoslav Navy. During one year mandatory army service assigned to the computer center of the Navy Hydrographic Institute in Split. 1979 1982 Research Assistant, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana. Worked on computer analysis of biological signals (ECG) in the Laboratory for systems, automatics and cybernetics. Supported by a Fellowship from the Slovenian Research Council. 2
Awards: Morris and Dorothy Rubinoff award, in 1988. Given each year to the best Ph.D. dissertation in Computer Science at University of Pennsylvania. B. Kidrič prize for innovations in 1982, The Dean s Award in 1979, Dr. Vratislav Bedjanič award for diploma thesis, 1979, Research projects: Principal Investigator: Slovenian coordinator: Computer vision, Program group 1539-506, Ministry of science and technology Republic of Slovenia (1999 ) Reconstruction of parametric models, Project P2-1122 Ministry of science and technology Republic of Slovenia, (1990 93) Adaptive Modeling of Environment for Purposive Computer Vision, Project J2-6187, Ministry of science and technology Republic of Slovenia, (1994 96) Automatic construction of 3-D geometric models and object recognition, Project J2-8829, Ministry of science and technology Republic of Slovenia, (1997 99) Active observation over the Internet, Project L2-8721, Ministry of science and technology Republic of Slovenia, (1997) Multimedia dictionary of sign language for the deaf, Project L2-0521, Ministry of science and technology Republic of Slovenia, (1998 99) Recovery of Parametric Shape Models in Images, Joint project with Prof. R. Bajcsy, University of Pennsylvania, under the US-Slovenian Joint Board program (NSF), 1995-98, Segmentation of medical images, Slovenian-Croatian project Sven Lončarić, University of Zagreb (1997 98) Information retrieval from large image databases by image content analysis, Slovenian-French project with Roger Mohr, Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble. Reconstruction and analysis of complex objects for building CAD models based on measured data, Project 1068 REC- CAD under the COPERNICUS 1994 program in cooperation with University of Wales, Computer and Automation Institute and CADMUS in Budapest, and Czech Technical University in Prague, 1995-98 3
Other projects: Evaluation of Executive Information Systems, project for INFOS 94, Slovenian Virtual Gallery SVG, Presentation of Slovenian fine art on Internet in cooperation with slovenian galleries and art historians, Awarded 4 stars by Magellan in 1996 Rotas Tenet, Interactive art installation on the Internet (art director Srečo Dragan), 1996 Netropolis Cyborg s eye Art-Internet intstallation (art director Srečo Dragan), European Cultural Month, Ljubljana 1997, Clavis Urbis, The artist & an Urban Environment (art director Srečo Dragan), Art Gallery Slovenj Gradec, 1997, U3, 2nd Tiennale of Contemporary Slovene Art (art director Srečo Dragan), Gallery of Modern Art, Ljubljana, 1997. Invited lectures: Columbia University, New York, 22 March 1988, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 22 April 1988, 41st Annual Conference of Society for Imaging Science and Technology (SPSE), Arlington, Virginia, May 1988, Bellcore, Bell Communications Research, Morristown, New Jersey, 6 July 1988, University of Kopenhagen, 23 August 1988, International Contact Forum, Österreichische Arbeitgemeinschaft für Mustererkennung, Klagenfurt, Austria, 25 April 1991, International Contact Forum, Österreichische Arbeitgemeinschaft für Mustererkennung, Vienna, Austria, 7 May 1992, University of Ljubljana 1 December 1994, Theoretical Foundations of Computer Vision, Dagstuhl seminar 9411, March 1994, Computer Aided Spatial Informatics, BEST Summer Course Ljubljana 1995, ( Internet ), 18. julij 1995, Electrotechnical and Computer Science Conference ERK 95, Portorož, Slovenija, September 1995, Opening lecture of INFOS 95 trade conference, Ljubljana, 21 November 1995, Theoretical Foundations of Computer Vision, Dagstuhl seminar 9612, March 1996, University of Palermo, Centro studi sulle Reti di Elaboratori, Italy, 30 March 2000, 4
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Départment d Informatique, Switzerland, 5 February 2002. Professional activities: Senior Member: Member: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Slovenian Society for Pattern Recognition (Vicepresident 1992-96), Governing Board of Intern. Assoc. for Pattern Recognition IAPR (Slovenian Rep. 1992 96), Executive council of IEEE Slovenia Section, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Austrian Association for Pattern Recognition (ÖAGM), Slovenian Artificial Intelligence Society, Society for Biomedical Engineering of Slovenia, TEX Users Group, Fulbright Association, Washington, DC, Fulbright Alumni Association in Slovenia, Reviewer: IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, International Journal of Computer Vision, Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Image and Vision Computing Journal, Pattern Recognition Letters, IEEE Transactions on Image Analysis, IEE Proceedings Vision, Image and Signal Processing, CIT Journal of Computing and Information Technology, Electrotechnical review, numerous international conferences in computer vision. Organization of scientific meetings: New Information Technologies in Fine Arts, Fourth International Multi-Conference Information Society IS2001, Ljubljana, October 2001 (Co-chair with S. Dragan) 8th International Conference CAIP 99 (Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns), Ljubljana, Slovenia, September 1999 (Co-chair with A. Leonardis) Confluence of Computer Vision and Computer Graphics, NATO Advanced Research Workshop, 29 31 August 1999, Ljubljana, Slovenia (with R. Bajcsy, A. Leonardis, A. Gagalowicz, V. Hlaváč) 3rd Computer Vision Winter Workshop, Seminar on Theoretical Foundations of Computer Vision, Dagstuhl, Germany, March 1996 (Co-chair with R. Klette and W. Kropatsch 5
Program Committees: and R. Bajcsy) 19th ÖAGM and 1st SDRV Workshop Visual Modules, Maribor, Slovenia, May 1995 (Co-chair with W. Kropatsch) Seminar on Theoretical Foundations of Computer Vision, Dagstuhl, Germany, March 1994 (Co-chair with R. Klette and W. Kropatsch) 7th Computer Vision Winter Workshop 2002, 4 7 February 2002, Bad Aussee, Austria CAIP 2001, 9th International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns, 5 7 September 2001, Warsaw, Poland 2nd International Workshop on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis ISPA 01, June 19 21, 2001, Pula, Croatia 3nd International Workshop on Video Processing and Multimedia Communications, VIPromCom-2001, 13 15 June 2001, Zadar, Croatia Vision Interface, May 2001, Ottawa, Canada Information Society 2000, 17 19 October 2000, Ljubljana, Slovenia CVPR-2000, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference, 13-15 June 2000, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina First International Workshop on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis IWISPA 2000, June 14-15, 2000, Pula, Croatia 2nd International Workshop on Video Processing and Multimedia Communications, VIPromCom-2000, June 28 30, 2000, Zadar, Croatia ICML-99 Workshop on Machine Learning in Computer Vision, Bled, Slovenia, 30 June 1999 ELMAR International Workshop on Video Processing and Multimedia Communications VIPromCom 99, Zadar, Croatia, June 1999 4th Computer Vision Winter Workshop, Austria, 1999 Informacijska družba IS 98, Slovenski festival znanosti, Ljubljana, oktober 1998 Fifth European Conference on Computer Vision ECCV 98, University of Freiburg, Germany, June 1998 7th International Conference CAIP 97 (Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns), Kiel, Germany, September 1997 3rd International Workshop on Visual Form, Capri, Italy, May 1997 20th Workshop of the Austrain Pattern Recognition Group 6
(ÖAGM), Leibnitz, Austria, 1996 3rd Slovenian German and 2nd SDRV Workshop Speech and Image Understanding, Ljubljana, April 1996 Fourth European Conference on Computer Vision ECCV 96, University of Cambridge, England, April 1996 International Conference on Software Quality ICSQ 95, University of Maribor, Slovenia, November 1995 6th International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns CAIP 95, Prague, Czech Republic, September 1995 3rd International Symposium on Intelligent Robotic Systems, Pisa, Italy, July 1995 5th International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns CAIP 93, Budapest, Hungary, September 1993, Electrotechnical and computer science conference ERK, Portorož, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 YUGRAPH 90, The Fourth Int. Conf. on Computer Graphics, Dubrovnik, 1990, Advances in Robot Kinematics, International Meeting, Ljubljana, September 1988. Patents: Microprocessor Based Electrocardiogram Analyser With: K. Turkulin, L. Gyergyek, M. Vezjak, F. Solina, F. Jager, I. Gabrovec, D. Zazula, Patented in Yugoslavia (1981), Austria (1983), Germany (1983) and United Kingdom (1985). Teaching activities: Student advising: Lecturing: 5 doctoral theses, 11 master theses, over 60 diploma theses, two student works for the Prešeren student. Undergraduate courses in introductory computer science, software engineering, project management, computer vision, communications, algorithms and data structures. Graduate courses in computer vision and software engineering. Personal: Born 31 July 1955 in Celje, Slovenia. Slovenian citizen. Married. Foreign languages: English, German, Serbo-Croatian, French. 7
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