Awards

Research

	2010 Best Cooperation of the Year: The Faculty of Electrical Engineering (V. Smutny, P. Krsek from the Dept. of Cyberneticsand P. Pisa from the Dept. of Control Engineering), CTU in Prague and the company Neovision received the third place for the project Mobile Robot for Air Condition Duct Cleaning. The annual competition is organized by the American Chamber of Commerce of the Czech Republic and the Association for Foreign Investment. The project was also awarded the Special Prize by the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic. (September 2010)

	2010 Invention Award in the National Competition "Ceska hlava": Prof. Vladimir Marik and Prof Michal Pechoucek from the Czech Technical University in Prague, Department of Cybernetics were granted the 2010 award by the Kapsch company for research in the area of multi-agent technologies and their impact in industry applications. Both researchers are the founders of the Czech school of autonomous decentralized decision systems based on artificial intelligence. Results of their research are used by the US Army e.g. for modelling of behaviour of pirate troops in the Gulf of Aden, air-traffic control, manufacturing control for one of the largest razor producer - Gillette etc.

	Lukas Neumann's diploma thesis A Method for Text Localization and Recognition in Real-World Images supervised by J. Matas won the Master Thesis of Year 2010 in Informatics award in the database engines and applications category. An ACCV'10 paper describing the contribution will be posted shortly. Lukas Neumann started his PhD in CMP in September 2010.
	Lukas Zich's diploma thesis Control of Computer by Head Movements supervised by M. Urban and J. Matas won the Master these of year 2009 in Informatics award in the medical information technology category. Download a trail version of the software for mouse (cursor) control by head movement (links point to pages in Czech).
	Ondrej Sychrovsky's diploma thesis Car-to-obstacle distance estimation from a sequence of images supervised by Tomas Pajdla scored third in Porsche Engineering Award 2009 (press release).

	CSKI prize for the best PhD work in 2008: Karel Zimmermann's PhD thesis Fast Learnable Methods for Object Tracking, co-supervised by Jiri Matas and Tomas Svoboda, was awarded the Antonin Svoboda prize for the best PhD dissertation in the Czech Republic in the field of cybernetics and informatics in 2008. The prize was awarded by the Czech Society for Cybernetics and Informatics (CSKI). Look at a demo page with details and accompanied publications. (June 2009)
	The team FELBOT won the national autonomous robots contest EUROBOT 2009 (April 24, 2009). The team FELaaCzech scored the 3rd place. Both teams have been supported by the Department of Cybernetics, Intelligent and Mobile Robotics Group. read more
	Petr Kremen was awarded the 2nd prize in the NeOn Plugin Developer's Contest for the "OWLdiff Plugin". OWLdiff enables comparing and merging two ontologies. (Dec 2008)




	A student team (led by Tomas Krajnik and Jan Faigl) from the Intelligent and Mobile Robotics Group won the Robotour 2008 challenge (20 Sep 2008, Praha-Stromovka park). Cognitive capabilities of the CTU robot ensured faultless navigation and thus highest score out of 17 teams read more in Czech.



	Engineering Academy Award 2007 for the excellent realization "A-Globe: a tool for multi-agent simulation and integration of large distributed applications" to the team led by Dr. M. Pechoucek
	ACCV 2007 Best Paper Prize to the paper by J.Sochman and J. Matas: Learning A Fast Emulator of a Binary Decision Process, Asian Conference on Computer Vision 2007, Tokyo 2007
	2006 European IST Prize for the I4Control^® system: A new type of computer periphery ensuring non-contact control of a personal computer through eye (or head) movements. Nominee for the 2006 European IST Grand Prize
	Prize "Doctorandus" for the most innovative PhD work in 2006 awarded to Štěpán Obdržalek for developing a real-time object recognition method exploiting the so-called decision-measurement tree. National competition "Česká hlava" ("Czech brains"), Czech Republic 2006
	CIA 2006 System Innovation Award for the excelent development of the intelligent and cooperative information agent system: Market-Inspired Approach to Collaborative Learning, International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents, Edinburgh 2006
	DARPA Best Industrial and Applied Paper Award at the AAMAS 2006 conference to the paper by R. Belecheanu, S.Munroe, M. Luck, T. Payne, T. Miller, P. McBurney, M. Pěchouček: Commercial Application of Agents: Lessons, Experiences and Challenges, 5th Int. Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, Japan 2006
	Gold Medal MSV 2006 for the I4Control® system: Non-contact control of technical equipment, International Engineering Fair, Brno (CZ) 2006
	AINA 2006 Best Paper Award to the paper by A. Wöhrer, L. Nováková, P.Brezany, A M. Tjoa: D3G: Novel Approaches to Data Statistics, Understanding and Preprocessing on the Grid. Int. Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications, Vienna 2006
	IEEE ITAB 2006 Best Student Paper Award to V.Gerla, L.Lhotská, V.Krajča, K.Paul: Multichannel Analysis of the Newborn EEG Data. International Special Topics Conference on Information Technology in Biomedicine 2006
	ESBME 2006 Best Poster Award to V.Chudáček, M.Huptych, L.Lhotská: Selection of Important Features for Decision Making on Body Surface Potential Mapping Data. 5th European Symposium on Biomedical Engineering, Patras 2006
	Best Exhibit Award at the IST 2006 for the Communication by Gaze exhibit (COGAIN) with the CTU/Gerstner Lab team participation, Helsinki 2006
	IEEE IAT 2005 Industry Track Best Demo Award for the A-globe: Multi-agent Platform with Advanced Simulation and Visualization Support
	British Machine Vision Conference BMVC 2005 Best Science Paper Prize to the paper by Š. Obdržálek, J. Matas: Sub-linear Indexing for Large Scale Object Recognition, Oxford 2005
	ICCV 2005 Vision Contest: Second Place for the most precise algorithm in 3D reconstruction of uncalibrated 2D images, 10th International Conference on Computer Vision, Beijing 2005
	CIA 2004 System Innovation Award for the A-Globe lightweight multi-agent platform, International Workshop for Cooperative Information Agents, Erfurt 2004
	2004 Special Award of the Jury in the National Competition "Česká hlava" ("Czech Brain") to the system for PC control by eye movements, I4Control®. The "Česká hlava" project and related competition are aimed at supporting excellent research work and innovations in the Czech Republic.
	EU Centre of Excellence: Department of Cybernetics defended the title "Centre of Excellence" in 2004. Evaluation criteria included quality of research, level of PhD training, and integration into the European Research Area.
	IEEE CVPR 2003 Best Paper Honourable Mention to the paper by T. Werner: Constraint on Five Points in Two Images, IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Madison 2003
	2003 AgentCities Agent Technology Competition: 2nd Main Prize for software development of X-Security package "Communication Security in Multi-Agent Systems": a security plug-in into JADE multi-agent environment, Barcelona 2003
	Cybernetics and Systems 2002 Best Paper Award to the paper by P.Aubrecht, F. Železný, P. Mikšovský, O. Štěpánková,: SumatraTT: Towards a Universal Data Preprocessor, Austrian Society for Cybernetics Studies, 2002
	Gold Medal Prize MSV 2001 awarded for railway Line Block development to the AŽD a.s. and CTU/Gerstner Lab team (Automation of Railways co., CZ), International Engineering Fair, Brno 2001
	CAIP 2001 Young Scientist Award to the paper by V. Franc: A Contribution to the Schlessinger's Algorithm Separating Mixtures of Gaussians, 9th International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns, Warsaw 2001