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Blaž Meden

Blaž Meden

Assistant ProfessorDocent

Computer Vision LaboratoryLaboratorij za računalniški vid

  • blaz.meden@fri.uni-lj.si


University of LjubljanaUniverza v Ljubljani
Faculty of Computer and Information ScienceFakulteta za računalništvo in informatiko
Večna pot 113, SI-1000 Ljubljana, EU

EducationIzobrazba

Doctor of ScienceDoktor znanosti

2023, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Computer and Information ScienceUniverza v Ljubljani, Fakulteta za računalništvo in informatiko

Master of Engineering
of Computer and Information ScienceMagister inženir
računalništva in informatike

2016, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Computer and Information ScienceUniverza v Ljubljani, Fakulteta za računalništvo in informatiko

Bachelor of Engineering
of Computer and Information ScienceDiplomirani inženir
računalništva in informatike

2013, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Computer and Information ScienceUniverza v Ljubljani, Fakulteta za računalništvo in informatiko

HighlightsDosežki

  • Receiver of EAB Biometrics Industry Award 2023 (+ Best Presentation Award) for his work titled "Face Deidentification with Controllable Privacy Protection" in Darmstadt, Germany, September 2023. Dobitnik nagrade EAB Biometrics Industry Award 2023 za svoje delo z naslovom "Face Deidentification with Controllable Privacy Protection", Darmstadt, Nemčija, september 2023.
  • Published 3 original SCI journal papers and 1 review SCI journal paper during the duration of the PhD study.Objavil 3 izvirne revijske znanstvene članke ter 1 pregledni revijski znanstveni članek tekom doktorskega študija.
  • Published review article "Privacy-enhancing face biometrics : a comprehensive survey" was chosen by IEEE Signal Processing Society as one of the top 25 downloaded articles from September 2021 - September 2022.Objavljeni pregledni članek "Privacy-enhancing face biometrics : a comprehensive survey" je IEEE Signal Processing Society izbrala za enega izmed 25 najbolj prenesenih člankov od septembra 2021 do septembra 2022.
  • Erasmus+ research exchange at University of A Coruña, Spain, June 2019 - September 2019.Erasmus+ izmenjava na Univerzi v A Coruñi, Španija, junij 2019 - september 2019.
  • Invited key speaker at the Medical Imaging and Artificial Intelligence Workshop, University of Calgary, Faculty of Medicine, Canada, 2018.Vabljeni govornik na delavnici iz obdelave medicinskih slik in aplikacij strojnega učenja, University of Calgary, Faculty of Medicine, Kanada, 2018.
  • Invited key speaker at the Second International Symposium on Machine Learning Applications at Costa Rica Institute of Technology (TEC), 2018.Vabljeni govornik na 2. mednarodnem simpoziju iz aplikacij strojnega učenja v Costa Rica Institute of Technology (TEC), 2018.
  • The co-organizer of the first machine learning summer school in Central America - ”EVeMa 2018”, San José, Costa Rica.Soorganizator prve poletne šola strojnega učenja v Centralni Ameriki - ”EVeMa 2018”, San Jose, Kostarika.
  • Published a journal paper in the 1st year of the PhD study with the impact factor in the third quartile.V prvem letniku doktorskega študija objavljen revijski članek s faktorjem vpliva v tretji četrtini.
  • Average grade of 9.75 after completing all the graded courses of the PhD study.Povprečje 9.75 po vseh opravljenih predmetih za oceno doktorskega študija.

Selected publicationsIzbrane objave

JournalsRevije

  • Blaž Meden, " Deidentifikacija obrazov z nadzorom ravni varovanja zasebnosti", Elektrotehniški vestnik, 2024.
  • Blaž Meden, Manfred Gonzalez-Hernandez, Peter Peer, Vitomir Štruc, "Face deidentification with controllable privacy protection", Image and vision computing, 2023.
  • Alejandro Romero, Blaž Meden, Francisco Bellas, Richard J. Duro, "Using perceptual classes to dream policies in open-ended learning robotics", Integrated computer-aided engineering, 2023
  • Blaž Meden, Peter Rot, Philipp Terhörst, Naser Damer, Arjan Kuijper, Walter J Scheirer, Arun Ross, Peter Peer, Vitomir Štruc, "Privacy-enhancing face biometrics : a comprehensive survey", IEEE TIFS, 2021.
  • Žiga Emeršič, Diego Sušanj, Blaž Meden, Peter Peer, Vitomir Štruc, "ContexedNet: Context–Aware Ear Detection in Unconstrained Settings", IEEE Access, 2021.
  • Blaž Meden, Žiga Emeršič, Vitomir Štruc, Peter Peer, "k-Same-Net : k-Anonymity with generative deep neural networks for face deidentification", Entropy, 2018
  • Blaž Meden, Refik Can Malli, Sebastjan Fabijan, Hazim Kemal Ekenel, Vitomir Štruc, Peter Peer, "Face deidentification with generative deep neural networks", IET signal process., 2018
  • Žiga Emeršič, Blaž Meden, Peter Peer, Vitomir Štruc, "Evaluation and analysis of ear recognition models: performance, complexity and resource requirements", Neural comput. appl., 2018
  • Franc Solina, Blaž Meden, "Light fountain - a virtually enhanced stone sculpture", Digital creativity, 2017

ConferencesKonference

  • Alejandro Romero, Blaž Meden, Francisco Bellas, Richard J Duro, "Autonomous Knowledge Representation for Efficient Skill Learning in Cognitive Robots", IWINAC, 2022.
  • Blaž Meden, Abraham Prieto, Peter Peer, Francisco Bellas, "First Steps Towards State Representation Learning for Cognitive Robotics", HAIS, 2020.
  • Saul Calderon-Ramirez, Fabian Fallas-Moya, Manuel Zumbado-Corrales, Pascal Tyrrell, Hershel Stark, Žiga Emeršič, Blaž Meden, Martin Solis: “Assessing The Impact of the Deceived Non Local Means Filter as a Preprocessing Stage in a Convolutional Neural Network Based Approach for Age Estimation Using Digital Hand X-Ray Images“, International Conference on Image Processing: ICIP, IEEE, 2018
  • Primož Lavrič, Žiga Emeršič, Blaž Meden, Vitomir Štruc, Peter Peer: “Do it yourself: building a low-cost iris recognition system at home using off-the-shelf components”, International Electrotechnical and Computer Science Conference, IEEE, 2017
  • Rok Novosel, Blaž Meden, Žiga Emeršič, Vitomir Štruc, Peter Peer: “Face recognition with Raspberry Pi for IoT Environments”, International Electrotechnical and Computer Science Conference, IEEE, 2017
  • Žiga Emeršič, Blaž Meden, Vitomir Štruc, Peter Peer: “Covariate analysis of descriptor-based ear recognition techniques”, Intelligent systems for biodiversity conservation: IWOBI, IEEE, 2017
  • Blaž Meden, Žiga Emeršič, Vitomir Štruc, Peter Peer: “K-Same-Net: neural-network-based face deidentification”, Intelligent systems for biodiversity conservation: IWOBI, IEEE, 2017

Other PublicationsOstale objave

  • Blaž Meden: "Deidentifikacija obrazov z generativnimi nevronskimi mrežami: doktorska disertacija" "Face deidentification with generative neural networks: doctoral dissertation", 2023
  • Peter Peer, Žiga Emeršič, Blaž Meden: "Image based biometry", University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Computer and Information Science, 2017
  • Blaž Meden: "Sistem za sledenje znanim objektom v spremenljivih svetlobnih pogojih na sceni s pomočjo posnetkov IR in vidnega spektra: magistrsko delomaster thesis", 2016
  • Blaž Meden: "Detekcija dlani in položaja prstov s pomočjo barvno-globinske kamere: diplomsko delobachelor thesis", 2013

Work ExperienceDelovne izkušnje

Teaching assistantAsistent za področje računalništva in informatike

October 2016 onwardsoktober 2016 dalje

Faculty of Computer and Information ScienceFakulteta za računalništvo in informatiko, Večna pot 113, SI-1000 Ljubljana.

Research work: generative models, facial privacy, image-based biometrics, deep learning, computer vision.
Pedagogical work: Raziskovalna dejavnost: generativni modeli, zasebnost obrazov, slikovna biometrija, globoko učenje, računalniški vid.
Pedagoška dejavnost:
  • Graphics Design (BSc course)Grafično oblikovanje (dodiplomski predmet).
  • Introduction to Graphics Design (BSc course)Osnove oblikovanja (dodiplomski predmet).
  • Multimedia content (BSc course)Multimedijske vsebine (dodiplomski predmet).
  • Algorithms (MSc course, 2017/18)Algoritmi (magistrski predmet, 2017/18).

Computer and information sectorSektor: računalništvo in informatika

Software developerRazvijalec programske opreme

January 2014 – November 2015januar 2014 – november 2015

Faculty of Computer and Information ScienceFakulteta za računalništvo in informatiko, Večna pot 113, SI-1000 Ljubljana.

Javascript, PHP, C#, MySQL, HTML, CSS.

Computer and information sectorSektor: računalništvo in informatika

Software developerRazvijalec programske opreme

July 2014 – November 2014julij 2014 – november 2014

Sensum d.o.o., Tehnološki park 21, SI-1000 Ljubljana

Python, PyQt, C, C++.

Computer and information sectorSektor: računalništvo in informatika

Software developerRazvijalec programske opreme

February 2013 – September 2013februar 2013 – september 2013

UNIKI d.o.o., Trnovska ulica 10, SI-1000 Ljubljana

Objective-C, C++, OpenGL, OpenFrameworks.

Computer and information sectorSektor: računalništvo in informatika

Computer InteractionRačunalniški jeziki

  • Computer vision, artificial intelligence, biometrics, image processing, object detection, object recognition, deep learning, convolutional neural networks, data mining, privacy and security.Računalniški vid, umetna inteligenca, biometrija, obdelava slik, zaznavanje objektov, prepoznavanje objektov, globoko učenje, konvolucijske nevronske mreže, podatkovno rudarjenje, zasebnost in varnost.

    Work areasPodročja dela

  • PyTorch, TensorFlow, Keras, Caffe, Theano, MatConvNet.

    Deep learning frameworksOgrodja za globoko učenje

  • Python, C#, C, C++, OpenGL, Matlab, Javascript (jQuery), PHP, Java, Java EE, PHP, Actionscript, Bash, R, SML, Ruby, Racket, Objective-C.

    Programming languagesProgramski jeziki

  • HTML, CSS, XML, JSON, LaTeX, XML Schema.

    Description languagesOpisni jeziki

  • MSSQL, MySQL (MariaDB), SQLite, Oracle.

    Database management systems and languagesBazni sistemi

  • Blender, Gimp, Photoshop, Unity, Excel, Illustrator, Mathematica, Git, SVN, VMWare, Audacity.

    Other (tools)Ostalo (orodja)

  • GNU/Linux, Windows, OS X, iOS, Android.

    Other (operating systems)Ostalo (operacijski sistemi)

Human InteractionČloveški jeziki

  • Mother tongue: Slovene.Materni jezik: slovenski.
  • Proficient in English.Dobro znanje angleščine.
  • Basic understanding of: Spanish, German, Serbo-Croatian.Osnovno znanje: španščine, nemščine, srbo-hrvaščine.

Interests & HobbiesInteresi in hobiji

  • Anything related to computer vision, artificial intelligence, deep learning and deep neural networks. My current focus is in biometrics.Vse kar je povezano z računalniškim vidom, umetno inteligenco, globokim učenjem in globokimi nevronskimi mrežami. Moj trenutni poudarek je na biometriji.
  • In my free time I mostly do: programming, cycling, swimming, snorkelling, ice-skating and hiking.V prostem času se najrajši ukvarjam s/z: programiranjem, kolesarjenjem, plavanjem, prostim potapljanjem, drsanjem in pohodništvom.
My other hobbies.
My other hobbies include development of interactive installations, creative visual applications and abstract art.Moji drugi hobiji zajemajo razvoj interaktivnih inštalacij, kreativnih vizualnih aplikacij in abstraktne umetnosti.