Generalized Image Retrieval and Relation Discovery – a new ERC.cz Grant

Generalized Image Retrieval and Relation Discovery - a new ERC.cz Grant
Ondrej Chum received ERC.cz Grant Generalized Image Retrieval and Relation Discovery In the project, will be generalized the retrieval of related images beyond search of visually similar images. Team will study various definitions of relatedness, investigate algorithms for efficient search, and derive novel representations that support search and discovery of related images. Applications range from …read more

D.Rozumnyi and Prof. J.Matas awarded Honorable Mention at GCPR

D.Rozumnyi and Prof. J.Matas awarded Honorable Mention at GCPR
D.Rozumnyi and prof. J.Matas were awarded the Honorable Mention for Outstanding Contribution at “German Conference on Pattern Recognition (GCPR)” for the publication R. Rozumnyi, J. Kotera, F. Sroubek J. Matas: Non-Causal Tracking by Deblatting. Gratulujeme!

Filip Radenović, MSc. defended his PhD thesis

Filip Radenović, MSc. successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis entitled  Visual Retrieval with Compact Image Representations Supervisor: doc. Mgr. Ondřej Chum, Ph.D. Congratulations!

Tomas Jenicek and Ondra Chum in Analytics India magazine

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Jiří Matas succeeded in AI Awards

Jiří Matas succeeded in AI Awards
Prof. Ing. Jiří Matas, Ph.D. received a special award of the project AI Awards 2018. The goal of the project is to introduce successful experts and companies which influence the direction of the world-wide evolution of AI technologies. This special award for making the Czech Republic visibile in the AI world is intended for a …read more

ACCV Best Paper Award for J.Pritts, Z.Kukelova and O.Chum

ACCV Best Paper Award for J.Pritts, Z.Kukelova and O.Chum
  James Pritts, Zuzana Kukelova  and Ondrej Chum from Center of Machine Perception were awarded Saburo Tsuji Paper Award at 14th Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV) for their paper James Pritts, Zuzana Kukelova, Viktor Larsson, Ondrej Chum: Rectification from Radially Distorted Scales. Congratulations!

“Czech Head 2018” Award for Lukáš Neumann

Lukáš Neumann from Center of Machine Perception received Czech Head 2018 award in the category of “technical sciences”. Congratulations! Lukáš developed a method combining machine learning and a new algorithm for searching text in images regardless of their orientation or size. His supervisor was prof. Jiří Matas.

System for plant and fungi recognition from images, developed at the Dept. of Cybernetics, wins three international challenges.

System of deep neural networks for recognition of plants and fungi from images, developed by Milan Sulc and Jiri Matas from the Dept. of Cybernetics FEE CTU in cooperation with Lukas Picek from the Dept. of Cybernetics FAS UWB, scored first in three international challenges: 2018 FGCVx Flower Classification Challenge 2018 FGCVx Fungi Classification Challenge …read more

James Pritts (CMP) recently sat down for an interview with “Hospodarske noviny” newspaper, where he discussed self-driving vehicles

Our colleague, Ing. James Brandon Pritts, from the Visual Recognition Group spoke on the topic: Self-driving cars safety. For more information [in Czech], see the article in Hospodarske noviny. Thanks for the representation of our faculty.

Dean’s Award for the Dissertation thesis was given to Ing. Lukas Neumann, Ph.D.

Dean’s Award for the Dissertation thesis was given to Ing. Lukas Neumann, Ph.D. (supervisor: prof. Ing. Jiri Matas, Ph.D.) Theme: Scene text localization and recognition in images and videos Congratulations!
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