Radim Špetlík successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis Analysis of Weak Signals in Images, and was awarded the Ph.D. title in the doctoral study program Computer Science. Supervisor: Prof. Ing. Jiří Matas, Ph.D. Supervisor specialist: Ing. Jan Čech, Ph.D. Congratulations!
Tactical robot Helhest, developed by the Vision for Robotics and Autonomous Systems (VRAS) research group, won the RoboTour 2026 autonomous robot competition and achieved the highest score in the history of the outdoor autonomous navigation category. In the months leading up to the competition, held on 19 September 2026 in a park near the Prague …
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The international team behind the Visual Object Tracking (VOT) initiative, with Professor Jiří Matas as one of its key figures, has received the 2026 PAMI Mark Everingham Prize. The prestigious award, recognising outstanding contributions to the computer vision community, was presented to the team on 12 September at ECCV 2026 in Malmö, Sweden. The award …
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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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PhD students Miroslav Purkrábek and Jan Škvrna emerged as the winners, competing against approximately thirty participants from around the world in the international Structured Semantic 3D Reconstruction (S23DR) competition. The competition was held as part of the Urban Scene Modeling workshop at the CVPR 2026 conference in Denver, USA, in June. CVPR is considered one …
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The Humanoid Group, led by Assoc. Prof. Matěj Hoffman, is celebrating a significant scientific achievement – their latest research has been published in the prestigious journal Science Robotics. The study, which uses the humanoid robot iCub, offers new insights into how young children learn to recognize the relationship between their own movements and their effects …
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Professor Jiří Matas has been awarded the 2026 IAPR King-Sun Fu Prize, one of the most prestigious international awards in the field of pattern recognition. The prize, awarded by the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), recognizes Prof. Matas for seminal contributions to evidence aggregation in geometric computer vision. Prof. Matas received the award at …
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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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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.
