Interview with professor Matas on DVTV

Interview with professor Matas on DVTV
Interview with prof. Matas on DVTV with Martin Veselovský- only in Czech.

Best Paper Award – CVWW2026

 Best Paper Award - CVWW2026
Best Paper Award for paper SAM-pose2seg: Pose-Guided Human Instance Segmentation in Crowds was awarded to Constantin Kolomiiets, Miroslav Purkrabek, Jiri Matas at the  CVWW 2026 conference.

Open Position(s): Assistant professor(s) in the field of informatics and robotics

CTU in Prague, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Department of Cybernetics, opens a call for up to 5 “Assistant Professor” positions (in Czech “odborný asistent”) The Department of Cybernetics is an internationally renowned research and teaching unit with many collaborations in academia and industry. We are active in artificial intelligence, robotics, and biomedical engineering, with a …read more

Ruslan Agishev defended his Ph.D. thesis

Ruslan Agishev successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis Physics-informed differentiable traversability models in robotics, and was awarded the Ph.D. title in the Computer Science doctoral study program. Supervisor: doc. Ing. Karel Zimmermann, Ph.D. Congratulations!

Vojtěch Čermák received the Dean´s Award for prestigious dissertation

Vojtěch Čermák received the Dean´s Award for prestigious dissertation
The Dean’s Awards for prestigious dissertations were awarded on the 14th of January at the Scientific Council meeting. Researcher Vojtěch Čermák from VRG group was awarded for his work  Fine-grained recognition of animals in the wild under the supervision of Lukáš Neumann and Lukáš Adam. Vojtěch defended his Thesis in June 2025 and received the …read more

Stanislav Hanzl Award for Illia Volkov

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 …read more

Minister of the Interior Award for the Department of Cybernetics Team

Minister of the Interior Award for the Department of Cybernetics Team
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. …read more

Department of Cybernetics Celebrates Six Newly Funded GAČR Projects

Department of Cybernetics Celebrates Six Newly Funded GAČR Projects
The Czech Science Foundation (GA ČR), as the most important provider of support for basic research projects in the Czech Republic, will begin funding six standard projects led by researchers and their teams from the Department of Cybernetics starting next year. We congratulate all the principal investigators whose efforts contributed to the high number of …read more

MRS on TV: Inspections of high-voltage power lines

Podívejte se na zajímavou reportáž o kontrolách velmi vysokého napětí – Kontroly vedení velmi vysokého napětí – reportáž na ČT. Reportáž ukazuje, jak moderní technologie – včetně dronů – pomáhají zajistit rychlejší a bezpečnější kontroly přenosových sítí.

Dominika Burešová received the prestigious Hlávka Foundation Award

Dominika Burešová received the prestigious Hlávka Foundation Award
Congratulations to Dominika Burešová from the Machine Learning group, who received the Josef Hlávka Award for 2025 for her contributions to the Theory of quantum logics. Dominika began her research during her Bachelor’s studies in the Open Informatics program under the supervision of Prof. Pavel Pták and in collaboration with Prof. Mirko Navara. She is …read more
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