He leads the Visual object tracking VOT initiative, he is president of the IAPR Slovenian pattern recognition society and Associate Editor of IJCV. He has co-organized over thirteen workshops and conferences, he recieved fourteen research excellence awards, four teaching excellence awards and was the finalist of Mentor of the year in 2020 and 2023. His students regularly receive research excellence awards as well. His research interests include visual object tracking, anomaly detection and segmentation,perception methods for autonomous boats and machine-learning-based physics prediction models. According to Google scholar, his works have been cited over 10.000 times, his h-index is 39. His Erdos number is 3.