The “LUSt: Learning a Universal Similarity Function” project has been funded under Horizon Europe and will run for two years (2025-2026). This grant supports a postdoctoral fellowship at CTU in Prague with Giorgos Tolias as an advisor and a collaboration with the University of Amsterdam and assistant professor Pascal Mettes. The project’s objective is to perform research on similarity learning …
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Research group Vision for Robotics and Autonomous Systems (VRAS) at the Department of Cybernetics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, is looking for outstanding PhD students and postdoctoral researchers in the following areas: Physics-based learning (Neural symbolic architectures) Self-supervised learning, End-to-end learning with explainability More details on the LinkedIn page.
Patrik Vacek successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis: Improving 3D perception from Unlabeled Data and was awarded the Ph.D. title in the Artificial Intelligence and Biocybernetics doctoral study program. Supervisor: prof. Ing. Tomáš Svoboda, Ph.D. Supervisor specialist: doc. Ing. Karel Zimmermann, Ph.D. Congratulations!
We are happy to announce that Miroslav Purkrábek and Jiří Matas won the award for the best poster at the 18th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face & Gesture Recognition in Turkey. More information including link to the special website promoting their research is available at the Faculty website. Congratulations!
Scientists from FEE CTU and the 1st Faculty of Medicine of Charles University have found a way to detect tooth decay more reliably with the help of artificial intelligence. The new research, published in the journal Clinical Oral Investigations, compared the performance of an automated caries detection method with that of seven dentists, three novices, …
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Yash Patel was announced as a winner of the Antonín Svoboda Award for the Best Ph.D. for Thesis defended in 2023. The Czech Society for Cybernetics and Informatics selects the best Ph.D. Thesis every year. The PhD thesis topic falls within the scope of ČSKI’s scientific activities (cybernetics, informatics, and related fields). Any Thesis defended in …
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The Dean’s Awards for prestigious dissertations were awarded on March 13th at the Scientific Council meeting. Researcher Yash Patel was awarded for his work Neural Network Training and Non-Differentiable Objective Functions under the supervision of Prof. Jiří Matas. Yash was the first candidate who received the Ph.D. title in the new study program Computer Science. …
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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 …
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This article introduces some of the successful Czech scientists who are currently investigating their GACR JUNIOR STAR projects.
