Dejan V. Vranić
 
   
 

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   EDUCATION
2004 Ph. D. Thesis: "3D Model Retrieval", University of Leipzig, Advisor: Prof. Dr. Dietmar Saupe.
Obtained academic degree: "Doktor-Ingenieur" (Dr.-Ing.) of Computer Science.
2000 Magister Thesis: "Square root iterative methods for simultaneous finding of polynomial zeros", University of Niš, Serbia, Advisor: Prof. Dr. Miodrag S. Petković.
Obtained title: "Magister" of Electronic Engineering, group for Mathematics (this degree is typical for Eastern European countries and it is higher than M.Sc.).
1994 Graduated at the Faculty of Electronic Engineering, University of Niš.
Thesis: "Recognition of Hand-Written Numbers on Forms",
Obtained title: Graduated Engineer of Electronic Engineering (Dipl.-Ing. of Electronic Engineering), group for Computer Science.
1989-1994 Studies at the Faculty of Electronic Engineering, University of Niš, Serbia.
1985-1989 Secondary school "Gimnazija Predrag Kostić", Negotin, Serbia.
1977-1985 Primary school "Vera Radosavljević", Negotin, Serbia.
  
 PROFESSIONAL
April 2004 - Researcher and developer at Nero AG (formerly known as Ahead Software AG), Karlsbad, Germany.
2002-2004 Researcher at the Institut für Informatik, University of Konstanz, Germany.
1999-2002 Associate Researcher (a emember of the Graduiertenkolleg Wissensrepräsentation) at the Institut für Informatik, University of Leipzig, Germany.
1997 Associate Researcher at the Institut für Feinwerktechnik, Technische Universität Wien, Austria.
1996-1999 University Assistant at the Faculty of Electronic Engineering, University of Niš, Serbia.
1994-1996 Associate Researcher at the Faculty of Electronic Engineering, University of Niš, Serbia.
  
 REVIEWING ACTIVITIES (selected)
Journals ACM Transactions on Graphics
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis & Machine Intelligence
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
Computers & Graphics
Conferences Siggraph
Eurographics
DAGM
BVM
 
 PUBLICATIONS
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 Publications on 3D Model Retrieval
 
  Ph. D. Thesis
2004
D. V. Vranic, 3D Model Retrieval, Ph.D. Thesis, University of Leipzig, 2004.
  
 Journal papers
2006
B. Bustos, D. A. Keim, D. Saupe, T. Schreck, and D. V. Vranic, An Experimental Effectiveness Comparison of Methods for 3D Similarity Search, In: International Journal on Digital Libraries, 6(1):39-54, 2006.
  
2005
B. Bustos, D. A. Keim, D. Saupe, T. Schreck, and D. V. Vranic, Feature-Based Similarity Search in 3D Object Databases, In: ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), Association For Computing Machinery, 37(4):345-387, 2005.
  
2002
M. Heczko, D. Keim, D. Saupe, and D. V. Vranic, Verfahren zur Ähnlichkeitssuche auf 3D-Objekten, In: Datenbank-Spektrum Zeitschrift für Datenbanktechnologie, 2(2):54-63, dpunkt.verlag, 2002.
  
 Conference papers
2005
D. V. Vranic, DESIRE: a composite 3D-shape descriptor, In: Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, ICME 2005, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 2005.
  
2004
B. Bustos, D. A. Keim, D. Saupe, T. Schreck, and D. V. Vranic, Automatic Selection and Combination of Descriptors for Effective 3D Similarity Search, In: Proceedings of the IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Content-based Analysis and Retrieval (MCBAR 2004), Miami, Florida, December, 2004.
  
B. Bustos, D. A. Keim, D. Saupe, T. Schreck, and D. V. Vranic, An Experimental Comparison of Feature-Based 3D Retrieval Methods, In: Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on 3D Data Processing, Visualization, and Transmission (3DPVT 2004), IEEE CS Press, Thessaloniki, Greece, pp. 215-222, September, 2004.
  
M. R. Ruggeri, D. V. Vranic, and D. Saupe, Shape Similarity Search for Point-Based Models, In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision and Graphics 2004 (ICCVG'04), Warsaw, Poland, September 2004.
  
B. Bustos, D. A. Keim, D. Saupe, T. Schreck, and D. V. Vranic, Using Entropy Impurity for Improved 3D Object Similarity Search, In: Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2004), Taipei, Taiwan, June, 2004.
  
2003
D. V. Vranic, An Improvement of Rotation Invariant 3D Shape Descriptor Based on Functions on Concentric Spheres, In: Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2003), Volume III, ISBN 0-7803-7751-6, Barcelona, Spain, pp. 757-760, September 2003.
  
2002
D. V. Vranic and D. Saupe, Description of 3D-Shape using a Complex Function on the Sphere, In: Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2002), Lausanne, Switzerland, pp. 177-180, August 2002.
  
2001
D. V. Vranic and D. Saupe, 3D Shape Descriptor Based on 3D Fourier Transform, In: Proceedings of the EURASIP Conference on Digital Signal Processing for Multimedia Communications and Services (ECMCS 2001) (editor K. Fazekas), Budapest, Hungary, pp. 271-274, September 2001.
  
D. Saupe and D. V. Vranic, 3D model retrieval with spherical harmonics and moments, In: Proceedings of the DAGM 2001 (editors B. Radig and S. Florczyk), Munich, Germany, pp. 392-397, September 2001.
  
D. V. Vranic, D. Saupe, and J. Richter, Tools for 3D-object retrieval: Karhunen-Loeve Transform and spherical harmonics, In: Proceedings of the IEEE 2001 Workshop Multimedia Signal Processing (editors J.-L. Dugelay and K. Rose), Cannes, France, pp. 293-298, October 2001.
  
D. V. Vranic and D. Saupe, A Feature Vector Approach for Retrieval of 3D Objects in the Context of MPEG-7, In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Augmented, Virtual Environments and Three-Dimensional Imaging (ICAV3D 2001) (editors V. Giagourta and M.G. Strintzis), Mykonos, Greece, pp. 37-40, May 2001.
  
M. Heczko, D. Keim, D. Saupe, and D. V. Vranic, Methods for similarity search of 3D objects (in German), In: Proceedings of the BTW 2001 (editors A. Heuer, F. Leymann, D. Priebe), Oldenburg, Germany, Informatik Aktuell, Springer Verlag, ISBN=3-540-41707-9, pp. 384-401, March 2001.
  
2000
D. V. Vranic, An improvement of Ray-Based Shape Descriptor, In: Proceedings of the 8. Leipziger Informatik-Tage (LIT'2M) (editors W.S. Wittig and S. Paul), HTWK Leipzig, Germany, pp. 55-58, September 2000,
  
D. V. Vranic and D. Saupe, 3D Model Retrieval, In: Proceedings of the Spring Conference on Computer Graphics and its Applications (SCCG2000) (editor B. Falcidieno), Budmerice, Slovakia, pp. 89-93, May 2000.
  
  
 
 Other Publications
 
    Book chapters
2001
M. S. Petkovic and D. V. Vranic, Euler-like method for the simultaneous inclusion of polynomial zeros with Weierstass' correction, Scientific Computing, Validated Numerics, Interval Methods (editors W. Kraemer and J. Wolff von Gudenberg), Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, ISBN 0-306-46706-2, pp. 153-164, December 2001.
  
  Journal papers
2000
M. S. Petkovic and D. V. Vranic, The Convergence of Euler-like method for the Simultaneous Inclusion of Polynomial Zeroes, Computers & Mathematics with Applications, 39(7-8):95-105, 2000.
  
 
M. S. Petkovic and D. V. Vranic, On the Guaranteed Convergence of a Family of Simultaneous Iterative Methods, Facta Universitatis, Series Mathematics and Informatics, 15:85-100, 2000.
  
  Conference papers
2000
M. S. Petkovic and D. V. Vranic, An improvement of Euler-like method for the simultaneous inclusion of polynomial zeroes, In: CD-ROM Proceedings of the 16th IMACS WORLD CONGRESS 2000 on Scientific Computation, Applied Mathematics and Simulation (editors M. Deville and R. Owens), Lausanne, Switzerland, paper code 310-1, August 2000.
  
1999
D. V. Vranic, Spatial Modifications of Fractal Attractors Generated by Affine Maps, Proceedings of the International Conference Rousse'99, Rousse, Bulgaria, Mathematics and Informatics, Vol. 37(8), pp. 37-42, October 1999.
  
D. V. Vranic, Processing of Fractal Sets Generated by Affine Transformations, In: Computational Intelligence for Modelling, Control and Automation: Intelligent Image Processing, Data Analysis & Information Retrieval (CIMCA'99) (editor M. Mohammadian), Vienna, Austria, IOS Press, pp. 1-6, February 1999.
  
  Theses
2000
D. V. Vranic, Square root iterative methods for simultaneous finding of polynomial zeros, Master thesis (in Serbian), Faculty of Electronic Engineering, University of Niš, Niš, Serbia, 2000.
     
  
1994
D. V. Vranic, Recognition of Hand-Written Numbers on Forms, Diploma thesis (in Serbian), Faculty of Electronic Engineering, University of Niš, Niš, Serbia, 1994.

Updated on March 22, 2007.