The ACDC Challenge 2022 is a major competition in road-scene understanding. The challenge has aimed at evaluating semantic segmentation performance in adverse visual conditions, such as fog, nighttime, rain, and snow. The challenge was organized by researchers from the ETH University of Zurich. Over 80 submissions from all over the world were received before the challenge deadline in June 2022. The submission of our colleague Matej Grcić, Msc , has attained the best performance in two out of four Tracks of the challenge: T2 - Supervised semantic segmentation in adverse conditions, and T4 - Uncertainty-aware semantic segmentation. His submission also won in 2/4 subtracks of T3 - Supervised semantic segmentation in individual adverse conditions. Matej has delivered an invited presentation of his work at the workshop Vision for all Seasons: Adverse Weather and Lighting Conditions , which was held in conjunction with the CVPR 2022 conference in New Orleans. The remaining text brings some more information about Matej, his method and a few photos from the competition.

On Wednesday and Thursday, May 11 and 12 , the 15th Job Fair took place. Martinovka Sports Hall switched its primary role those two days and became a meeting spot for 134 companies from 15 different industries and over 5 thousand STEM students. A rich program at Martinovka The whole-day program included 129 booths which students could visit and a big part of them had their own additional activities in which students could participate, such as trying out modern technologies such as VR headsets, competing in riddles or trying out their luck in different games and win interesting gifts. A special program took place on the stage at the same time. Company representatives talked about their experience in 24 talks divided into 3 categories : Career Switch, What the Tech?! and Recycled Technology. The first day was completed as a whole with a midday panel discussion about "How does artificial intelligence impact our society?" in which representatives from the economy and academic community found out how artificial intelligence came to be, how they use it, what the benefits are and what we can expect from the future. The second day got spicy with an interview better known as Hot talk in which Luka Drezga, COO at Ars Futura participated by answering questions about the work and home parts of life, all while trying out hot sauces. His victory is proudly marked with the highest score.

Our students showed enviable results at STEM Games 2022, the largest student STEM competition in the region where participants compete in knowledge, sports and eSports, winning a grand total of 19 medals! In sports, our students received 13 medals in a total of 17 sports categories, of which 6 are gold, 4 silver and 3 bronze. The eSports arena brought us three gold medals out of the possible four, our technology and mathematics arena teams scored second, while in the engineering arena our team scored third. Results for all competing faculties are available here , while the achievements of FER students are available below.

University of Zagreb Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing is announcing a CALL FOR APPLICATIONS to the postgraduate specialist study TRANSFORMERS for acquiring the academic title university specialist in transformers (univ. spec. transf.). The postgraduate specialist study may enrol a candidate with completed university graduate study in electrical or mechanical engineering with at least 240 ECTS credits earned during the university study, which is equivalent to 4 years of study. Knowledge of English language is required. Enrolment quota: 25 students. The tuition fee amounts HRK 35,000.00, paid in installments of HRK 17,500.00 per semester. Classes will start in October 2022 . The applications are open until 1 July 2022. Applications should be sent by post to the University of Zagreb Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Unska 3, 10000 Zagreb (write-in 'application for Transformers') from 30 May until 1 July 2022. Information about the postgraduate specialist study Transformers can be found here , while the Application form is available here . More information is available by phone at +385 (01) 6129 920 or via email:  specijalisticki.studij@fer.hr

Professor Ivan Petrović, PhD , winner of the City of Zagreb Award, has earned a reputation in the international scientific community as a highly respected expert. During his rich scientific research career, he has achieved very valuable results in theoretical and practical work for the advancement of science. In his 37 years of activity, Professor Petrović has dealt with a wide range of problems related to the research and development of the theory of automatic control and its application in the management of complex technical systems and has significantly influenced the development of this field in the Republic of Croatia. He is the head of the Laboratory for Autonomous Systems and Mobile Robotics at FER ( LAMOR ) and co-head of the Centre of Research Excellence for Data Science and Cooperative Systems , which includes more than 100 scientists from 13 Croatian institutions and is the only Croatian centre of excellence for technical sciences. Over the past ten years, his research projects have been funded by the European Union with a total of more than 16 million euros. With these funds, Professor Petrović continuously finances the salaries of more than 30 young researchers. In addition, Professor Petrović cooperates very intensively with the Croatian industry in the application of research results in the development of new products and the improvement of existing ones, especially with the companies: Rimac Automobili, KONČAR - Electrical Engineering Institute Ltd. and Dok-Ing. He is a full member of the Croatian Academy of Technical Sciences (HATZ) and has received 17 awards and recognitions for his scientific and professional work, including the Croatian National Science Award (2011), the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts Award (2017) and the Fran Bošnjaković Award from the University of Zagreb (2021).