Petr Marek successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis Dialogue Management for Conversational AI and was awarded the Ph.D. title in the doctoral study program Artificial Intelligence and Biocybernetics. Supervisor: Ing. Václav Chudáček, Ph.D. Supervisor specialist: Ing. Jan Šedivý, Csc. Congratulations!
This article introduces some of the successful Czech scientists who are currently investigating their GACR JUNIOR STAR projects.
Ph.D. students Radim Špetlík from the Department of Cybernetics and Michal Kučera from the Department of Computer Graphics and Interaction and Open Computer Science student David Kunz won the Chaos Neurathon 2023, their team named “All You Need Is All You Need”. This competition, the first of its kind, focused on using artificial intelligence in …
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On December 7th the Department of Cybernetics hosted the 46th Colloquium in Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision. It is a biannual event with a rich tradition dating back to 1998. This esteemed gathering is jointly organized by the Visual Recognition Group and enjoys the generous support of the Czech Pattern Recognition Society (CPRS). The technical program is curated …
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The Czech Science Foundation (GACR), the largest Czech grant funding provider for basic research, will fund 357 scientific projects being launched next year in the Standard Projects and POSTDOC INDIVIDUAL FELLOWSHIP grant schemes. These projects will receive CZK 2,75 billion over the next 3 years. The projects receiving funding cover a wide range of basic …
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Michal Polic successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis Uncertainty in Structure from Motion Algorithms and was awarded the Ph.D. title in the doctoral study program Artificial Intelligence and Biocybernetics. Supervisor: doc. Ing. Tomáš Pajdla, Ph.D Supervisor specialist: RNDr. Zuzana Kúkelová, Ph.D. Congratulations!
Congratulations to Valentin Marcel from the Humanoid group, who won his second consecutive world title in Chessboxing. After a very tied confrontation at the World Championship in Italy, Valentin won and defended his title of middleweight category champion (WCBO league). Chessboxing is a sport combining boxing rounds with a game of rapid chess, in alternate, …
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Elsevier recently published a publicly available database of top-cited scientists: “Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators”. Scientists are classified into 22 scientific fields and 174 sub-fields. It provides standardized information on citations, h-index, co-authorship adjusted hm-index, citations to papers in different authorship positions and a composite indicator (c-score). The selection is based on …
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The RaDron project focuses on targeting and localization of gamma radiation sources. An advanced autonomous drone developed by the Multi-robot Systems group (MRS) is equipped with unique particle detectors from the Prague company ADVACAM, will make it possible to effectively detect sources of radioactivity. In the future, the new localization method may also facilitate the …
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The Dean’s Awards for prestigious dissertations were awarded on November 8th at the Scientific council meeting. Researcher Ing. Tomáš Dlask, Ph.D. received the award for his work Block-Coordinate Descent and Local Consistencies in Linear Programming under the supervision of doc. Ing. Tomáš Werner, Ph.D. Congratulations!
