Illia Volkov, a student of the Bachelor’s program in Open Informatics at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering (FEL), received the Stanislav Hanzl Award for talented CTU students. The award-winning work was carried out under the supervision of Ing. Klára Janoušková and Prof. Jiří Matas from the Visual Recognition Group (VRG). Volkov achieved a significant milestone …
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The FACIS project received the 2025 Minister of the Interior Award for outstanding achievements in the field of security research. The project impressed the evaluation committee primarily with its potential for immediate practical deployment. It comprises a suite of forensic image and video analysis tools designed for use by the criminal police and investigative services. …
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Vojtěch Čermák successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis Fine-grained recognition of animals in the wild and was awarded the Ph.D. title in the Computer Science doctoral study program. Supervisor: Ing. Lukáš Neumann, Ph.D. Supervisor specialist: Mgr. Lukáš Adam Congratulations!
Michal Neoral successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis Dense Motion Estimation in a Monocular Video and was awarded the Ph.D. title in the Computer Science doctoral study program. Supervisor: Prof. Ing. Jiří Matas, Ph.D. Supervisor specialist: Mgr. Jan Šochman, Ph.D. Congratulations!
According to international scientific rankings, computer science and robotics at FEE CTU rank among the top in Europe. The three highest-ranked Czech computer scientists are all affiliated with CTU. The highest-ranked Czech computer scientist has long been Prof. Jiří Matas CSRankings is widely recognized as a reputable and transparent resource for assessing research performance in …
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Congratulations to the team, which won 2nd place in the category “InterSystems challenge: Best use of GenAI or FHIR using InterSystems technology” at the prestigious European Healthcare Hackathon. The event was attended by sixty of the most talented ethical hackers and was held from Friday, 7 to Sunday, 9 March at the Institute of Clinical …
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Very interesting interview with prof. Jiří Matas on a popular Czech radio show Host Lucie Výborné. interview is in Czech only at https://radiozurnal.rozhlas.cz/nejvetsi-riziko-ai-ze-vytvori-pohodlny-svet-ze-ktereho-se-nam-nebude-chtit-9442850
An interesting interview with Prof. Matas on the Aktuálně.cz SPOTLIGHT program on February 27, 2025. In the half-hour interview, Prof. Matas discussed various topics related to AI and visual recognition, such as how to protect privacy from the negative impacts of artificial intelligence or how AI can be used in criminology and medicine. You can …
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Bill Psomas, a post doc at VRG, has been awarded the prestigious MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship 2024 for his project RAVIOLI (Retrieval-Augmented VIsion-Language Models for Open-vocabulary LocalizatIon). Hosted at the Visual Recognition Group (VRG) under the supervision of associate Prof. Giorgos Tolias, RAVIOLI aims to advance open-vocabulary segmentation by integrating retrieval-based predictions with vision-language models. The project seeks to enhance segmentation accuracy …
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Jan Čech /VRG/ appeared on a Czech Television program Události and commented on the development of detecting fake videos and photos, noting the improving trend.
