We hope you can join us on Thursday, October 6th at 12:30pm CET for our
next 1-hour webinar on ” Generative models in computer vision and
biometrics” with Vitomir Štruc!

[06:30 a.m. New-York] – [12:30 p.m. Paris/Ljubljana] – [7:30 p.m. Beijing]

To join the webinar, please register to receive more details on how to
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Title: Generative models in computer vision and biometrics

Abstract: With the developments in the field of generative modeling and
with the appearance of powerful model architectures, such as Generative
Adversarial Networks (GAN), a wide range of new techniques and inventive
algorithms has emerged recently to solve diverse computer vision
problems, including many problems in the area of biometrics. In this
talk, I will first provide a short overview of recent advances in
generative modeling and describe some of our research efforts that focus
explicitly on generative models. Next, I will present examples of our
recent work utilizing generative models and talk about: (i) face image
editing with our GAN inversion based MaskFaceGAN technique that allows
for photo realistic image manipulation and explicitly addresses the
problem of attribute entanglement seen with many latent-space based
editing solutions, (ii) computer vision for fashion and virtual try-on
with our context-driven C-VTON model  and (ii) bimodal ocular image
generation (and annotation) with our Dual-Branch StlyGAN2 (DB-StyleGAN)
model. Finally, I will elaborate on some of the existing challenges with
generative models and highlight future research directions.

Bio: Vitomir Štruc is an Associate Professor at the University of
Ljubljana, Slovenia. He received his doctoral degree from the Faculty of
Electrical Engineering in Ljubljana in 2010. Vitomir's research
interests include problems related to biometrics, computer vision, image
processing, pattern recognition and machine learning. He (co-)authored
more than 150 research papers for leading international peer reviewed
journals and conferences in these and related areas. He served in
different capacities on the organizing committees of several top-tier
vision conferences, including IEEE Face and Gesture, ICB, WACV and IJCB.
Vitomir is a Senior Area Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Information
Forensics and Security, a Subject Editor for Elsevier's Signal
Processing and an Associate Editor for Pattern Recognition, and IET
Biometrics. He served as an Area Chair for WACV 2018, 2019, 2020, ICPR
2018, Eusipco 2019 and FG 2020, 2021 and as the Program Chair for IJCB
2020 and IWBF 2022. Currently he acts as a Program Co-Chair for IWBF
2023, a workshop co-chair for WACV 2023, a competition co-chair for IJCB
2022, a Workshop and tutorial Co-Chair for FG 2023 and a General
Co-Chair for IJCB 2023. Dr. Struc is a Senior member of the IEEE, a
member of IAPR, EURASIP, Slovenia's national contact point for the
European Association for Biometrics (EAB) and the former president and
current executive committee member of the Slovenian Pattern Recognition
Society, the Slovenian branch of IAPR. Vitomir is also the current VP
Technical Activities for the IEEE Biometrics Council.

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