KESW 2016: International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Semantic Web (21st – 23rd September, 2016)

CTU FEE was hosting the sixth year of the International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Semantic Web (KESW 2016). The conference was organized by Department of Cybernetics, Knowledge-based and Software Systems group, as well as the ITMO University (Russia).

Jan Hlúbik defended his Ph.D. thesis

Jan Hlúbik successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis entitled Bioimpedance measurement of specific body resistance (supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Lenka Lhotská). Congratulations!

Rescue robot goes to Italy

Rescue robot goes to Italy
A rescue ground robot is going to Italy after earthquake. Real deployment event featured in Czech TV main news. Department is collaborating with CIIRC within TRADR project.

Eyedea Recognition, a spin-off company of the Czech Technical University helps Europol

Eyedea Recognition, a spin-off company of the Czech Technical University founded by researchers from the Department of Cybernetics helps Europol recognize faces and identify the dangerous criminal and terrorist networks in Europe For more information [in Czech], see the iDnes article.

The 3rd place award for Ing. Uřičář and Prof. Matas (CVPR 2016)

The 3rd place award for Ing. Uřičář and Prof. Matas (CVPR 2016)
Ing. Michal Uřičář (supervised by dr. Franc) and Prof. Jiří Matas received the 3rd place award prize for their track “Apparent Age Estimation” from the paper “Structured Output SVM Prediction of Apparent Age, Gender and Smile from Deep Features” at ChaLearn Looking at People CVPR Workshop 2016. Congratulations!

Ing. Neumann has won the 2nd place in the “Joseph Fourier Prize”

Ing. Neumann has won the 2nd place in the
Our PhD student Ing. Lukáš Neumann (supervised by Prof. Matas) has won the 2nd place in the “Joseph Fourier Prize” competition in the field of computer science on the topic of “Scene Text Recognition in Images and Videos”. More information is here. Congratulations!

Miroslav Blaško defended his Ph.D. thesis

Miroslav Blaško successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis entitled Template-based Ontology Evolution (supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Zdeněk Kouba). Congratulations!

Vojtěch Vonásek defended his Ph.D. thesis

Vojtěch Vonásek successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis entitled A guided approach to sampling-based motion planning (supervisor: Ing. Libor Přeučil, CSc.). Congratulations!

The Annual Report of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in the year 2015

The Annual Report about activities of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in the year 2015 you can find here (in Czech language). Information about our Department is on the page 64.

Ing. Tomáš Báča – “How to take the drones down from the sky” (weekly Dotyk)

Our colleague, Ing. Tomáš Báča (Multi-robot Systems Group), has written the article (in Czech language) „How to take the drones down from the sky“ for online weekly Dotyk (16/2016). Many thanks for the representation of our department!
Responsible person: Petra Rosická