An interesting interview with Prof. Matas on the Aktuálně.cz SPOTLIGHT program on February 27, 2025. In the half-hour interview, Prof. Matas discussed various topics related to AI and visual recognition, such as how to protect privacy from the negative impacts of artificial intelligence or how AI can be used in criminology and medicine. You can …
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Bill Psomas, a post doc at VRG, has been awarded the prestigious MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship 2024 for his project RAVIOLI (Retrieval-Augmented VIsion-Language Models for Open-vocabulary LocalizatIon). Hosted at the Visual Recognition Group (VRG) under the supervision of associate Prof. Giorgos Tolias, RAVIOLI aims to advance open-vocabulary segmentation by integrating retrieval-based predictions with vision-language models. The project seeks to enhance segmentation accuracy …
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Jan Čech /VRG/ appeared on a Czech Television program Události and commented on the development of detecting fake videos and photos, noting the improving trend.
Jonáš Šerých successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis: Visual Tracking with Segmentation and Geometry Estimation and was awarded the Ph.D. title in the Artificial Intelligence and Biocybernetics doctoral study program. Supervisor: prof. Ing. Jiří Matas, Ph.D. Congratulations!
Tomáš Jeníček successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis: Image Retrieval Across Challenging Conditions and was awarded the Ph.D. title in the Artificial Intelligence and Biocybernetics doctoral study program. Supervisor: prof. Mgr. Ondřej Chum, Ph.D Congratulations!
The interdisciplinary project CEDMO 2.0 NPO, focused on combating disinformation, was officially launched with an inaugural meeting of partner institutions. On Wednesday, October 23, 2024, researchers and representatives of the participating institutions gathered at the Czech Technical University in Prague (CTU) to officially kick off the CEDMO 2.0 NPO project. The project aims to strengthen …
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Forbes magazine has compiled a selection of the TOP Women Scientists of Czechia. They chose interesting, inspiring, and active female scientists from various fields in an effort to showcase a wide range of top-level science (not only) in Czechia. Zuzana Kúkelová from our department made it into the selection. You can find Zuzana Kúkelová’s profile …
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The “LUSt: Learning a Universal Similarity Function” project has been funded under Horizon Europe and will run for two years (2025-2026). This grant supports a postdoctoral fellowship at CTU in Prague with Giorgos Tolias as an advisor and a collaboration with the University of Amsterdam and assistant professor Pascal Mettes. The project’s objective is to perform research on similarity learning …
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We are happy to announce that Miroslav Purkrábek and Jiří Matas won the award for the best poster at the 18th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face & Gesture Recognition in Turkey. More information including link to the special website promoting their research is available at the Faculty website. Congratulations!
Yash Patel was announced as a winner of the Antonín Svoboda Award for the Best Ph.D. for Thesis defended in 2023. The Czech Society for Cybernetics and Informatics selects the best Ph.D. Thesis every year. The PhD thesis topic falls within the scope of ČSKI’s scientific activities (cybernetics, informatics, and related fields). Any Thesis defended in …
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