Interview with prof. Matas on DVTV with Martin Veselovský- only in Czech.
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.
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 …
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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 …
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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. …
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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 …
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Vojtěch Čermák successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis Fine-grained recognition of animals in the wild and was awarded the Ph.D. title in the Computer Science doctoral study program. Supervisor: Ing. Lukáš Neumann, Ph.D. Supervisor specialist: Mgr. Lukáš Adam Congratulations!
Michal Neoral successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis Dense Motion Estimation in a Monocular Video and was awarded the Ph.D. title in the Computer Science doctoral study program. Supervisor: Prof. Ing. Jiří Matas, Ph.D. Supervisor specialist: Mgr. Jan Šochman, Ph.D. Congratulations!
Research group Vision for Robotics and Autonomous Systems (VRAS) at the Department of Cybernetics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, is looking for outstanding PhD students and postdoctoral researchers in the following areas: Physics-based learning (Neural symbolic architectures) Self-supervised learning, End-to-end learning with explainability For more details see the VRAS website.
Many Czech online news outlets have covered the story of the new tactical robot Helhest, named after the mythical three-legged horse from Danish mythology. The robot can reach speeds of up to 20 km/h, carry loads of up to 100 kg, and overcome half-meter obstacles. Its development is the result of a collaboration between Assoc. …
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