Zoran Stejic

Locality: Japan
Summary: I'm a researcher and software engineer with over 10 years experience in design, implementation and evaluation of algorithms, prototypes, and production-level components for analysis and retrieval of multimedia information (images, videos, and text). I also have hands-on experience in management of international projects, and am fluent in English, Japanese, and Croatian. After 15 years of living, studying, and working abroad (in Europe and Japan), I'm well used to and familiar with international environments.
Current: researcher at Yahoo Japan Corporation
Past: research engineer at Ricoh Company, Ltd. research assistant at Japan Science and Technology Agency IAESTE trainee at Tokyo Metropolitan University IAESTE trainee at Ricoh Company Ltd. see less... 1 more...
Education:  Tokyo Institute of Technology computational intelligence (2001-2003) Thesis: Local similarity pattern family of similarity models for genetic algorithm based relevance feedback in image retrieval.
 Tokyo Institute of Technology computational intelligence (1999-2001) Thesis: Integrated retrieval of images and text using natural language kansei' (sensiti...
Industry: Computer Software
Skills: software development (C/C++, Python; UNIX/Linux; HTML, CSS, XML, CGI, HTTP; object-oriented design; unit testing; version control; requirements analysis), research (information retrieval; multimedia information analysis and processing: images, video, and text; machine learning; data mining)
Experience: Yahoo Japan Corporation (Public Company; Bayer; Internet industry): researcher,  (February 2008-Present) Developed both prototypes and production-level components for: region-based image retrieval, object recognition, video shot detection and summarization, and personalization of search results.
Ricoh Company, Ltd. (Public Company; Information Technology and Services ...

Hisashi Miyamori, Zoran Stejic, Tadashi Araki, Mitsuru Minakuchi, Qiang Ma, Tanaka Integrated Search and Zooming of Web and TV Contents Proc. of the 15th International World Wide Web ...

Zoran STEJIC's child was born (her name is Hana). This is a memorial paper for them. Change Notice. To be updated about the change of e-mail, address etc.

Zoran Stejic: Yahoo! Japan Laboratory: Engineering: 2003: Local Similarity Pattern Family of Similarity Models for Genetic Algorithm Based Relevance Feedback in Image Retrieval

Zoran Stejic, Yasufumi Takama, Kaoru Hirota: Genetic Algorithm-based Relevance Feedback for Image Retrieval using Local Similarity Pattern: Jounal of Information Processing ...

[title in Japanese] 1F1-07 *Keisuke Shigemori, Yasufumi Takama, Zoran Stejic and Kaoru Hirota ...