
About
The Visual Cognitive Systems Laboratory is involved in basic and applied research of visually enabled intelligent systems addressing various research problems from the fields of computer vision, (deep) machine learning, and cognitive robotics.
The main research tasks include visual object tracking, detection, categorization, and segmentation, applied to various applications such as visual inspection for quality control, visual surveillance, and robot navigation.
Location
The laboratory is located at the Faculty of Computer and Information Science building, at the outskirts of Ljubljana. Detailed information on how to get there can be found here.
News
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September 2023Automated detection and segmentation of cracks in concrete surfaces using joined segmentation and classification deep neural network paper has been accepted for publication in Construction and Building Materials journal.
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June 2023ViCoS Team has won the perception challange on 2th Cloth and Manipulation Challenge that was part of 7th Robotic Grasping and Manipulation Competition of ICRA 2023
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May 2023Domen Tabernik, a member of ViCoS, has been awarded by the Slovenian Pattern Recognition Society for his outstanding scientific article titled Segmentation-Based Deep-Learning Approach for Surface-Defect Detection
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November 2022The paper Trans2k: Unlocking the Power of Deep Models for Transparent Object Tracking received the Best Paper Prize at the BMVC 2022
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September 2022Trans2k: Unlocking the Power of Deep Models for Transparent Object Tracking accepted to the BMVC 2022 conference as an oral presentation
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December 2021A Discriminative Single-Shot Segmentation Network for Visual Object Tracking accepted to IEEE TPAMI
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December 2021Our work on robust physics-informed deep model for sea-level forecasting was selected as one of the Excellent research achievements in 2021 by the Slovenian Research Agency.
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December 2021ViCoS members received the award for one of the ten most remarkable research achievements at the University of Ljubljana in the year 2021. Lojze Žust received University Prešeren award for his masters thesis.
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December 2021ViCoS members reveived the following awards from the Faculty of Computer and information science for year 2021. Matej Kristan - Professor of the year (masters program) voted by students of UL FRI. Lojze Žust and Borja Bovcon received the special recognition for research work of doctroral students; Domen Rački was honourably mentioned. Vid Rijavec received the faculty student Prešern award for his diploma thesis.
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September 2021The ARRS applied research project MV4.0 - Data-driven framework for development of machine vision solutions has been accepted for funding.