Werner von Siemense Awards 2023

Werner von Siemense Awards 2023
Congratulations to Ing. Jekatěrina Jaroslavceva and her supervisor prof. Ondřej Chum and also to dr. Vojtěch Spurný and his supervisor doc. Martin Saska for their extraordinary achievement in this year’s Werner von Siemens Awards! Jekatěrina received two awards. She was awarded for excellence in women’s scientific work and she was a runner-up in the category …read more

Matěj Hoffmann´s comments on the new model of Humanoid robot by Figure AI

Matěj Hoffmann´s comments on the new model of Humanoid robot by Figure AI
The content of the news is only available in Czech at Seznam zprávy at this link

Donation for ACORUS

Donation for ACORUS
On Tuesday, February 6, the director Jaroslava Chaloupková from the center ACORUS, z.ú. collected a donation of 6,000 CZK from the staff of the Department of Cybernetics. Money raised during the social event at restaurant Zvonařka, will help victims of domestic violence, clients of the ACORUS center. This non-profit organization provides comprehensive professional assistance to …read more

Introducing GACR Junior Stars 2023 projects

Introducing GACR Junior Stars 2023 projects
This article introduces some of the successful Czech scientists who are currently investigating their GACR JUNIOR STAR projects.

Radim Špetlík and his teammates won the Chaos Neurathon 2023

Radim Špetlík and his teammates won the Chaos Neurathon 2023
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 …read more

46th Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision Colloquium

46th Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision Colloquium
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 …read more

Succes in the Czech Science Foundation GAČR competition for three projects from our department

Succes in the Czech Science Foundation GAČR competition for three projects from our department
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 …read more

Valentin Marcel became two times world champion in Chessboxing

Valentin Marcel became two times world champion in Chessboxing
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, …read more

Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators

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 …read more

RaDron – New technology for radiation detection

Projekt RaDron - Nová technologie umožňující přesnou detekci radiace
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 …read more
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