He received his PhD from the University of Ljubljana in 2010 and was awarded the Vodovnik award from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering for the best PhD thesis of 2011. Vitomir is also the recipient of the “2015 young researcher award” of the University of Ljubljana. Vitomir participated in several national and EU funded R&D projects and authored (and co-authored) more than 100 research papers for leading international peer reviewed journals and conferences related to different areas of computer vision, image processing, pattern recognition, and biometrics.