ICCV 2017 talk of Karel Zimmermann

ICCV 2017 talk of Karel Zimmermann
Karel Zimmermann presents at ICCV 2017 paper K. Zimmermann, T. Petricek, V. Salansky, T. Svoboda. Learning for Active 3D Mapping.

Ing. Lukas Neumann defended his Ph.D. thesis

Ing. Lukas Neumann successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis entitled Scene text localization and recognition in images and videos (supervisor: Prof. Ing. Jiri Matas, Ph.D.). Congratulations!

Open Day 1st December

Our Open Day is a great opportunity to come and see the University for yourself.

Petr Gronat defended his Ph.D. thesis

Ing. Petr Gronat successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis entitled Place Recognition by Per-Location Classifiers (supervisor: doc. Ing. Tomáš Pajdla, Ph.D.). Congratulations!

Olga Stepankova and Jiri Matas as a guests of the discussion “Souvislosti Jana Pokorneho” at Czech TV

Prof. Olga Stepankova and prof. Jiri Matas were guests of the discussion “Souvislosti Jana Pokorneho” at the Czech Television on the topic: Artificial Intelligence (the discussion is in Czech language only).

Ing. Kubelka presented a rescue mobile robot Charlie in Czech TV

Ing. Vladimir Kubelka, a PhD. student of Artificial inteligence and biocybernetics, presented a rescue mobile robot Charlie, which is involved in project TRADR, and invited the viewers to the “Night of scientists“(in czech only) in Studio 6, a Czech TV morning show. Many thanks for the representation of our faculty!

Michal Cap defended his Ph.D. thesis

Michal Cap successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis entitled Centralized and decentralized algorithms for multi-robot trajectory coordination (supervisor: Prof. Dr. Michal Pechouček, MSc.). Congratulations!

ENNS Best Paper Award

ENNS Best Paper Award
Zdenek Straka and Matej Hoffmann were awarded ENNS Best Paper Award at 26th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN17) for their paper Learning a Peripersonal Space Representation as a Visual-Tactile Prediction Task.

BMVC 2017 best science paper honourable mention for A. Mukundan, G. Tolias, O. Chum

BMVC 2017 best science paper honourable mention for A. Mukundan, G. Tolias, O. Chum
Arun Mukundan, Giorgos Tolias and Ondrej Chum received the best science paper honourable mention at the British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC) 2017 for their article Multiple-kernel Local-patch Descriptor.

Four papers accepted at ICCV2017

Four papers, one as oral presentation, were accepted at ICCV2017 which is one of the most prestigious computer vision conferences with a very selective review process and low acceptance rate. Congratulations to Zuzana Kukelova, Jiri Matas, Michal Busta, Lukas Neumann, Karel Zimmermann, Tomas Petricek, Vojtech Salansky, and Tomas Svoboda.
Responsible person: Petra Rosická