The MRS group succeeded in the semi-finals and advanced to the finals of the 3D Mapping Challenge/UAS 5.0 competition, which will take place April 9-11 in Kansas. A total of 11 teams that have passed the previous two rounds will compete for prizes worth a total of $987,500. The 3D Mapping Challenge/UAS 5.0 is one …
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The Dean’s Awards for prestigious dissertations were awarded on March 13th at the Scientific Council meeting. Researcher Yash Patel was awarded for his work Neural Network Training and Non-Differentiable Objective Functions under the supervision of Prof. Jiří Matas. Yash was the first candidate who received the Ph.D. title in the new study program Computer Science. …
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Congratulations to Ing. Jekatěrina Jaroslavceva and her supervisor prof. Ondřej Chum and also to dr. Vojtěch Spurný and his supervisor doc. Martin Saska for their extraordinary achievement in this year’s Werner von Siemens Awards! Jekatěrina received two awards. She was awarded for excellence in women’s scientific work and she was a runner-up in the category …
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On Tuesday, February 6, the director Jaroslava Chaloupková from the center ACORUS, z.ú. collected a donation of 6,000 CZK from the staff of the Department of Cybernetics. Money raised during the social event at restaurant Zvonařka, will help victims of domestic violence, clients of the ACORUS center. This non-profit organization provides comprehensive professional assistance to …
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This article introduces some of the successful Czech scientists who are currently investigating their GACR JUNIOR STAR projects.
Ph.D. students Radim Špetlík from the Department of Cybernetics and Michal Kučera from the Department of Computer Graphics and Interaction and Open Computer Science student David Kunz won the Chaos Neurathon 2023, their team named “All You Need Is All You Need”. This competition, the first of its kind, focused on using artificial intelligence in …
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On December 7th the Department of Cybernetics hosted the 46th Colloquium in Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision. It is a biannual event with a rich tradition dating back to 1998. This esteemed gathering is jointly organized by the Visual Recognition Group and enjoys the generous support of the Czech Pattern Recognition Society (CPRS). The technical program is curated …
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The Czech Science Foundation (GACR), the largest Czech grant funding provider for basic research, will fund 357 scientific projects being launched next year in the Standard Projects and POSTDOC INDIVIDUAL FELLOWSHIP grant schemes. These projects will receive CZK 2,75 billion over the next 3 years. The projects receiving funding cover a wide range of basic …
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Congratulations to Valentin Marcel from the Humanoid group, who won his second consecutive world title in Chessboxing. After a very tied confrontation at the World Championship in Italy, Valentin won and defended his title of middleweight category champion (WCBO league). Chessboxing is a sport combining boxing rounds with a game of rapid chess, in alternate, …
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