Researchers from the Analysis and Interpretation of Biomedical Data group (AID), Eduard Bakštein and Jakub Schneider, appeared in Wifina, a popular-science programme of Czech Television on September 11th. They explained how biometric security systems work, from fingerprint recognition and facial identification to mobile phone unlocking, and tackled a question many people ask: can such systems …
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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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Dr. Jiří Horyna, a PhD graduate of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at CTU and a researcher with the Multi-Robot Systems (MRS) group, has received the Joseph Fourier Prize for Computer Sciences 2026, awarded by the Embassy of France in the Czech Republic for outstanding research in computer science. He received the award for his research on …
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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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A team from MRS CTU and Fly4Future has successfully demonstrated a drone capable of understanding natural-language instructions, planning its own mission and executing it fully autonomously — without GPS or pilot intervention. The F4F & CTU SkyGraph team took part in the final of Germany’s SPRIND Fully Autonomous Flight 2.0 competition, competing against seven European technology …
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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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Congratulations to our two colleagues who were awarded the Dean’s Award for Outstanding Teaching Performance in the winter semester 2025/2026. Ing. Jakub Paplhám received the Dean’s Award for Outstanding Teaching Performance in the “tutor” category, and RNDr. Petr Štěpán, Ph.D. was recognized for his Long-term Outstanding Teaching at FEL. Teachers are awarded for teaching results …
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ČT Události – Drones for Critical Infrastructure Protection The Czech Television report presents research by the Multi-robot Systems Group at CTU FEE, where we test autonomous drones in real-world conditions. The system is inspired by bird flocks – drones make decisions independently based on information from their neighbors, without the need for central control. It …
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