Rate My Professor Zoran Duraic

Zoran Duric is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at George Mason University within the Volgenau School of Engineering, where he has taught since 1995. He serves as the program coordinator for the Master of Computer Science degree. His academic background includes a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1995, an MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Sarajevo.

Duric's main research interests center on applying computer vision and video image processing to analyze the movements of humans and vehicles, along with information hiding and the study and simulation of human movement. His scholarly work has accumulated over 4,920 citations and an h-index of 21 on Google Scholar. Key publications include the book Information Hiding: Steganography and Watermarking—Attacks and Countermeasures (2001, co-authored with Neil F. Johnson and Sushil Jajodia), "Using Histograms to Detect and Track Objects in Color Video" (2001, with Michael Mason), and "Estimating Relative Vehicle Motions in Traffic Scenes" (2002). He holds significant editorial roles as Editor-in-Chief of Pattern Recognition journal—previously appointed Deputy Editor in 2016—and serves on the editorial boards of IEEE Intelligent Systems and IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. Duric has directed funded projects such as the Innovation House Rapid Development Project (2012-2013, Strategic Analysis Inc.), a pilot study assessing haptic technology for traumatic brain injury rehabilitation (2010-2011, Henry Jackson Foundation), and the Ascend DARPA FBIMR project (2008-2009, Ascend Intel, LLC). He is affiliated with centers including the Mason Autonomy and Robotics Center and the Center for Secure Information Systems.