Ihor Varha successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis Fusion of Imaging and Electrophysiology Measurements for Deep Brain Surgery, and was awarded the Ph.D. title in the doctoral study program Bioengineering. Supervisor: doc. Ing. Daniel Novák, Ph.D. Supervisor specialist: Ing. Eduard Bakštein, Ph.D Congratulations!
ČT Události – Drones for Critical Infrastructure Protection The Czech Television report presents research by the Multi-robot Systems Group at CTU FEE, where we test autonomous drones in real-world conditions. The system is inspired by bird flocks – drones make decisions independently based on information from their neighbors, without the need for central control. It …
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The Colloquium in Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision is a biannual event with a rich tradition dating back to 1998. This esteemed gathering is jointly organized by the Visual Recognition Group and the Department of Cybernetics at the Czech Technical University in Prague, and enjoys the generous support of the Czech Pattern Recognition Society (CPRS). The technical program is …
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How can we compare robots that are expected to move flexibly, safely, and energy-efficiently in dynamic environments? A new international study titled A Benchmarking Framework for Embodied Neuromorphic Agents, published in the prestigious journal Nature Machine Intelligence, offers an answer. Researchers from institutions in Czechia, Italy, Denmark, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the United States, Pakistan, and Singapore present …
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Two dissertation defenses by students from the MRS group took place in one day at the Department of Cybernetics. Václav Pritzl successfully defended his dissertation: Cooperative Multi-UAV Navigation in GNSS-Denied Environments, and Petr Štibinger subsequently defended his dissertation: Perception-Driven Autonomy for Mobile Robots in Hazardous Environments. Both were awarded the Ph.D. degree in the Computer …
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An international team of scientists has published a study in the prestigious journal Nature Communications showing that the brains of children born with an upper limb difference undergo significant reorganisation from an early age. Scientists Matěj Hoffmann a Zdeněk Straka from the humanoid group participated in the research, developing a computational model explaining the mechanism …
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Congratulations to Jakub Rozlivek and his supervisor, Matěj Hoffmann, for their extraordinary achievement in this year’s Werner von Siemens Awards! Jakub received the award in the category Best Doctoral Thesis in Industry 4.0. The award-winning doctoral thesis by Jakub Rozlivek, titled Perception and Safety in Close-Proximity Human–Robot Interaction, is motivated by one of the key challenges …
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Interview with prof. Matas on DVTV with Martin Veselovský- only in Czech.
Best Paper Award for paper SAM-pose2seg: Pose-Guided Human Instance Segmentation in Crowds was awarded to Constantin Kolomiiets, Miroslav Purkrabek, Jiri Matas at the CVWW 2026 conference.
Ruslan Agishev successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis Physics-informed differentiable traversability models in robotics, and was awarded the Ph.D. title in the Computer Science doctoral study program. Supervisor: doc. Ing. Karel Zimmermann, Ph.D. Congratulations!
