Publish date: 2021/12/24 | Expire date: 2022/03/18
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We invite you to the 16th professional conference Computer Image processing and its application in Slovenia 2022, which will be held at UM-FERI on Thursday, March 17, 2022 (G2-Beta lecture room). The afternoon section titled "Deep learning: Practical advices from experts" is practically oriented.
Publish date: 2021/10/25 | Expire date: 2021/11/20
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Last weekend, the Slovenian part of the 24-hour virtual world programming competition IEEEXtreme took place at UM FERI for the first time. At the same time, Slovenian teams competed with teams from all over the world in a single world competition, while the overall ranking was also updated live.
Among the registered teams from Slovenia, the first place was achieved by the BSOD team (Vid Keršič, Mitja Žalik), which also achieved an excellent result among the teams in the IEEE region 8 (25th place out of 1288 teams) and ranked as "Top 100" in the world rankings of this competition, in 81st place out of 5561 teams.
The achievement in the competition is excellent, but it is also pioneering, as this year UM FERI and Slovenia have participated in the competition for the first time and already achieved an award.
More about the event at UM FERI is written in the IEEE report (URL: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/286729).
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Publish date: 2021/09/16 | Expire date: 2021/10/15
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After a one-year break, we again organized the 7th International Student Computer Science Research Conference (StuCoSReC'21), which proceeded in cooperation with three of the largest Slovenian computer science faculties: FERI, FRI, and FAMNIT. This year it was carried out under the auspices of the Institute of Computer Science and UM FERI and it took place on 14 September 2021 on the premises of UM FERI. For remote participants, we also provided a hybrid presentation through the MS Teams system. At the conference, which was free of charge for participants, Slovenian and international students presented 16 papers.
Some snapshots from the conference are presented in the attached photos. More information about the conference, together with the published proceedings, can be found on the conference website (photo by Atena Bošnjak): https://stucosrec.feri.um.si/2021/index.html?page=home.
Publish date: 2021/07/02 | Expire date: 2021/08/20
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Assist. Prof. Tomaž Kosar received the golden prize at the 55th Junior Researchers' Summit of Slovenia 2021 for co-mentoring Zarja Kosar on a research project in the field of computer science or telecommunications with the title "My Contribution to Nature Conservancy: Reducing the Carbon Footprint by Using a Mobile Application". The event was organized by The Association for Technical Culture of Slovenia (ZOTKS). Congratulations!
Publish date: 2021/03/10 | Expire date: 2021/04/10
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At FERI, within the Institute of Computer Science, successfully launched the acquired Horizon 2020 project, DAPHNE - Integrated Data Analysis Pipelines for Large-Scale Data Management, HPC, and Machine Learning.
In December 2020, under the auspices of the Horizon 2020 European funding program, the four-year international project DAPHNE, Integrated Data Analysis Pipelines for Large-Scale Data Management, HPC, and Machine Learning, was officially launched.
The project will include extreme-scale analytics, in the fields of natural sciences, computer and information sciences, such as quantitative analysis, machine learning in the topic of artificial intelligence and data analysis in the topic of data science. The project consists of 13 consortium partners (with UM FERI as one of the partners) and is coordinated by Know-Center GmbH (Austria).
UM FERI is involved in project work from project management, system architecture, compilation and abstraction of a domain-specific language, runtime and integration, through use case preparations, benchmarking and analysis to dissemination and exploitation of project results. The project holder for UM FERI part of the project is assoc. prof. dr. Ales Zamuda from the Laboratory for Computer Architectures and Languages at the Institute of Computer Science. Researchers from the Laboratory for Programming Methodologies, the Laboratory for Heterogeneous Computer Systems, the Laboratory for Geometric Modeling and Multimedia Algorithms and the Laboratory for System Software also integrally participate in the project.
A list of consortium partners of the international project and description of the project is available in the press release posted at: https://www.know-center.tugraz.at/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/PR_DAPHNE_final.pdf
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assoc. prof. dr. Aleš Zamuda, 10 March 2021
Publish date: 2021/02/08 | Expire date: 2021/03/31
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For many years, the Institute of Computer Science, UM FERI has been active in promoting Computer Science and Information Technologies to pupils, students and general public. In the years 2018-2020 alone, we conducted more than 115 educational events, including professional excursions for students, public presentations of student projects, numerous workshops for secondary and primary schools, FERI Academy summer schools on Computer Science, public discussions, presentations at festivals and fairs, media interviews and shows, professional workshops and many other events. The Slovenian Scientific Foundation recognized this activities and for the second time in the last five years awarded the Prometheus Science Award to the Institute of Computer Science.
Publish date: 2021/02/08 | Expire date: 2021/03/31
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Prof. Aleš Holobar, the head of Institute of Computer Science at UM FERI, presented important innovation at START:IP Matchmaking event, addressing the non-invasive decoding of brain-to-muscle signals in humans. START:IP. Matchmaking event is organized by INiTS Universitäres Gründerservice Wien GmbH Incubator that supports academic institutions in technology exploitation and helps companies to connect with academic institutions. Prof. Holobar presented computer algorithm that highly accurately and in completely non-invasive way estimates the neural codes with which the motor system controls the skeletal muscles in humans. You can read more about this presentation and event on https://www.inits.at/en/startip_portfolio/decoding-brain-to-muscle-signals
Publish date: 2021/02/08 | Expire date: 2021/03/31
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We are a proud consortium member of STAMINA project (https://stamina-project.eu/), which has started in September 2020. The goal of the project is to develop an intelligent decision support platform for pandemic prediction and management. Institute of Computer Science at UM FERI is working together with Community Healthcare Centre Dr. Adolf Drolc, Maribor on identifying gaps in Slovenian pandemic management and pandemic meta-data description.
Publish date: 2020/12/17 | Expire date: 2021/01/20
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This year, the Maribor ACM student chapter and the Institute of Computer Science participated in the Hour of Code event. As part of this event, we conducted two workshops at the Rače Primary School. The first workshop was aimed at grade level students, where students learned about using Microsoft PowerPoint 2016. The second workshop was aimed at subject level students, where they upgraded the basics of Microsoft PowerPoint 2016 and made colorful presentations.
Publish date: 2020/11/30 | Expire date: 2021/01/15
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Also this year, we received a large number of awards and recognitions at the Day of Faculty event.
Mag. Janez Brezovnik received the award for professional work in 2020.
The best graduates in the 2019/2020 academic year became our students
Recognitions for outstanding student contribution in 2020 were awarded to:
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Publish date: 2020/11/30 | Expire date: 2020/12/31
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Invention »Decomposition of compound muscle action potentials« authored by prof. dr. Aleš Holobar received a silver medal at the “Sarajevo 2020” Regional Virtual Innovation and Entrepreneurship Fair. Congratulations!
Publish date: 2020/11/13 | Expire date: 2020/12/15
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Invention »Decomposition of compound muscle action potentials« authored by prof. dr. Aleš Holobar received a silver medal at the ARCA 2020 innovation fair in Zagreb. Congratulations!
Publish date: 2020/11/13 | Expire date: 2020/12/15
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Assoc. prof. dr. Aleš Zamuda received an award from IEEE Region 8 for completing successful leadership of Young Professionals Affinity Group. With this award, IEEE expressed its appreciation for Notable Services and Contributions towards the advancement of IEEE and the Engineering Profession. The Affinity Group is, to many IEEE members, the focal point of their IEEE experience. Congratulations!
Publish date: 2020/11/03 | Expire date: 2020/12/31
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827 universities that published at least 500 contributions in the field of Computer Science in the last five years and had at least 1 % of their teaching personnel or at least 20 academic staff active in this field ranked on Times World University Rankings for 2021. University of Maribor ranked 501-600.
Publish date: 2020/10/13 | Expire date: 2020/11/13
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At the end of September, the 29th International Electrotechnical and Computer Science Conference ERK 2020 (https://erk.fe.uni-lj.si/erk20.html) was held in Portorož, organized by the Slovenian Section of the IEEE. As part of the conference, a student contribution competition was held, in which student Vid Keršič achieved second place and student Domen Kavran third place. Both Vid and Domen are students of the Computer Science and Information Technologies study program at FERI. Domen developed a new algorithm for time series classification using time-frequency analysis and convolutional neural networks, while Vid presented a new vector space representation of movies and music albums using node embedding methods. Vid will further take part in a regional competition Region 8 (Europe, Africa and Asia without the Far East). Congratulations to both Vid and Domen!
Publish date: 2020/10/12 | Expire date: 2020/11/12
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The University Programming Marathon (http://tekmovanja.acm.si/upm) is a nationwide competition of students in programming with an emphasis on knowledge of data structures and algorithms. This year, the final round took place in a decentralized form, where teams simultaneously competed at their home universities/faculties. This years champions of University of Maribor (UM) are Vid Keršič, Mitja Žalik and Matic Rašl forming the “BsoD” team. Second place went to high school “B” team, with Lan Sevčnikar, Matija Likar and Luka Lonec. Third place went to “Žgance Jem” team with Jakob Kordež, Martin Domajnko and Tilen Koren. Congratulations!
Due to the Covid19, this year's CERC 2020 regional competition has been postponed to the first quarter of 2021 and will also take place in a decentralized form. Teams from Austria, the Czech Republic, Croatia, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia will compete for the first prize.
The best teams from each regional contest will continue to the world finals, which are expected to be held from the 19th to 24th of June 2021 in Moscow, Russia (https://icpc.global).
Publish date: 2020/09/30 | Expire date: 2020/10/31
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The list of journals (Journal of Computer Languages; Applied Soft Computing; Swarm and Evolutionary Computations; Information Technology and Control; Computer Science and Information Systems; Data in Brief; ...), in which the members of the Institute of Computer Science, UM FERI, are Editors-in-Chief, Associate Editors and Editorial Board members has again been increased. Professor dr. Marjan Mernik becomes an Associate Editor of the "Information Sciences" journal (https://www.journals.elsevier.com/information-sciences/editorial-board). The journal's current Impact Factor is 5.910, and is ranked in the first quarter for the field of "Computer Science, Information Systems."
Publish date: 2020/09/22 | Expire date: 2020/10/30
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Vid Keršič, a third-year student of the first Bologna cycle study program Computer Science and Information Technology, won the second place in the selection of the best student award at the University of Maribor. The University of Maribor, together with its partners, Elektro Maribor d.d. and Energija plus d.o.o. companies carried out the eighth traditional competition for the selection of the best student at the University of Maribor. Our student Vid Keršič won an excellent second place. Congratulations!
Publish date: 2020/09/20 | Expire date: 2020/10/31
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In the 'Competition on Single Objective Bound Constrained Optimization' (https://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/epnsugan/index_files/CEC2020/CEC2020-2.htm), at the CEC'2020, GECCO'2020 and SEMCCO'2020 international conferences, the members of the Institute of Computer Science, UM FERI, Janez Brest and Borko Bošković and the Institute of Electronics and Telecommunications, UM FERI, Mirjam Sepesy Maučec won the third place with the algorithm j2020 (J. Brest, MS Maučec, B. Bošković). For more information see https://github.com/P-N-Suganthan/2020-Bound-Constrained-Opt-Benchmark/blob/master/CEC2020%20BCC%20Results%20Analysis_R_Aug.16.pdf
Publish date: 2020/09/04 | Expire date: 2020/09/30
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Our student Andrej Avbelj has successfully completed his studies in the first cycle study program Computer Science and Information Technologies by presenting an exceptional thesis "Development of an application for the operation of a splitting machine" under the mentorship of Assoc. prof. dr. Matej Črepinšek and assistant dr. Miha Ravber. Congratulations to our student once again! We invite you to watch the video (https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=642507516688099&extid=MiuHqSB2tNXhW9gy) with which he demonstrates his thesis.