CyberSpace of the Department of Cybernetics

CyberSpace of the Department of Cybernetics
Are you looking for an interesting topic for your bachelor or master thesis? Are you interested in a summer internship? Department of Cybernetics invites you to CyberSpace, an informal meeting with coffee and refreshments, where we present some of the projects we work on and where you can take part, either as an intern, or …read more

Kuka Innovation Award 2018

Kuka Innovation Award 2018
Matěj Hoffmann from the group Vision for Robotics Autonomous Systems (VRAS) was a member of the team who won the Kuka Innovation Award 2018, see the video.

Ing. Pavel Vostatek defended his Ph.D. thesis

Ing. Pavel Vostatek successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis entitled Blood vessel segmentation in the analysis of retinal and diaphragm images (supervisor: doc. Ing. Daniel Novák, Ph.D.). Congratulations!

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.

Ing. Michal Uricar defended his Ph.D. thesis

Ing. Michal Uricar successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis entitled Multi-view Facial Landmark Detection (supervisor: Ing. Vojtěch Franc, Ph.D.). Congratulations!

Ing. Tomas Vojir defended his Ph.D. thesis

Ing. Tomas Vojir successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis entitled Short-Term Visual Object Tracking in Real-Time (supervisor: Prof. Ing. Jiri Matas, Ph.D.). Congratulations!

8 papers accepted at CVPR2018

Eight paper of researches from Department of Cybernetics were accepted at CVPR2018, which is one of the most prestiguous computer vision confereces with a highly selective review process and very low acceptance rate. Congratulations to D. Barath, J. Matas, D. Mishkin, Z. Kukelova, T. Pajdla, J. Pritts, O. Chum, A.Iscen, G. Tolias and F. Radenovic. …read more

Tomas Sixta and Boris Flach published their research in “Nature Communications”

 Tomas Sixta and Boris Flach published their research in
Ing. Tomas Sixta and doc. Boris Flach published the article “Polarized actin and VE-cadherin dynamics regulate junctional remodelling and cell migration during sprouting angiogenesis” in prestiguous “Nature Communications“. The research studies mechanisms of endothelial cells while creating new blood vessels. Congratulations!

The project RobotBodySchema has become a Partnering project of the Human Brain Project

 The project RobotBodySchema has become a Partnering project of the Human Brain Project
The project RobotBodySchema (or “Robot self-calibration and safe physical human-robot interaction inspired by body representations in primate brains”), investigated by the team of Mgr. Matej Hoffmann, Ph.D., became a Partnering project of the Human Brain Project. Congratulations!

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!
Responsible person: Petra Rosická