Drone footage from 2016 captured an unknown, fast-flying object in the US state of Utah, and many people have since lived under the assumption that it was a UFO. Five years on, on June 4 this year, it was proved that it was in fact a Great Horned Falcon. A detailed analysis of the available …
read more
Employees and students of our department participated under the company profile “CTU in Prague” in this year’s national challenge, which took place from 1 to 31 May and motivated to travel by bike, scooter, on foot or at a trot. Teams of two to five employees and students recorded the kilometres they cycled, ran or …
read more
Guest of reporter Robert Čásenský: Jiri Matas Listen to podcast
The international Guide2Research evaluates successful computer science on the basis of their H-index, citations, and the number of documents in the DBLP database collected by May 10, 2021. The “Top Computer Scientists Ranking” includes all top computer scientists from the Czech Republic. The best rated is prof. Jiří Matas, Head of the Visual Recognition Group …
read more
Artificial intelligence (AI) research got into the most prestigious society of 59 universities in 13 countries. Among the 101 scientists awarded the Amazon Research Award 2020 (ARA) by Amazon are prof. Jiří Matas from the Department of Cybernetics and prof. Jan Faigl from the Department of Computers. Professor Jiří Matas succeeded with the project Training …
read more
On January 29, 2021, Vojtěch Petráček presented the CTU 2019 Rector’s Awards for outstanding results in research. Filip Radenovic, Giorgos Tolias and Ondrej Chum have received the award for prestigious publication for their article “Fine-Tuning CNN Image Retrieval with No Human Annotation” in the journal IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI). You …
read more
Dean´s Award for the Dissertation thesis was given to Ing. Arun Mukundan, MSc. Ph.D. (supervisor doc. Mgr. Ondřej Chum, Co-supervisor Giorgos Tolias, Ph.D.) Theme: Local Descriptors for Image Matching and Retrieval Congratulations!
Milan Šulc successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis entitled Fine-grained Recognition of Plants and Fungi from Images Supervisor: doc. Mgr. Ondřej Chum, Ph.D. Congratulations!
