Scholar
Ales Leonardis
Google Scholar ID: BEFl4j0AAAAJ
Professor of Computer Science
Citations & Impact
Citations
12,594
H-index
43
i10-index
107
Publications
20
Co-authors
0
Publications
Resume
Academic Achievements
- Co-authored paper 'Multiple Eigenspaces' won the 29th Annual Pattern Recognition Society Award in 2002
- Received one of Slovenia’s two most prestigious national research awards in 2004
- Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR)
- Program Co-chair of the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2006
- Served as Associate Editor for IEEE PAMI and IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
- Editorial board member of Pattern Recognition and Image and Vision Computing
- Editor of Springer book series Computational Imaging and Vision
- Published numerous high-impact papers in venues such as IEEE TPAMI, IJRR, and IEEE TIP
Research Experience
- Visiting researcher at the GRASP Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania
- Post-doctoral fellow at PRIP Laboratory, Vienna University of Technology
- Visiting professor at ETH Zurich and University of Erlangen
- Extensive experience managing multi-site international projects, including eight European Commission projects (FP5, FP6, FP7, H2020), one DARPA project (Neovision2), and one ONR MURI project
- Collaborated with National Nuclear Laboratory and KUKA Robotics UK on applied robotics and computer vision projects
Background
- Chair of Robotics at the School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham
- Co-Director of the Computational Neuroscience and Cognitive Robotics Centre, University of Birmingham
- Professor of Computer and Information Science at the University of Ljubljana
- Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Computer Science, Graz University of Technology
- Research interests include robust and adaptive methods for computer/cognitive vision, object and scene recognition and categorization, statistical visual learning, object tracking, biologically motivated vision, and their integration into artificial cognitive systems and robotics