Franjo Pernuš received the B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia, in 1976, 1979, and 1991, respectively. Since 1976 he is with the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, where he is currently a professor and head of the Laboratory of Imaging Technologies. His research interests are in computer vision, medical imaging, and the application of pattern recognition and image processing techniques to various biomedical and industrial problems. He is (co)author of over 150 refereed scientific articles on computer vision, medical image processing and machine vision and guest editor of one journal issue. He is co-founder of Sensum, a University of Ljubljana spin-off company, which supplies machine vision solutions.