Yash Patel defended his Ph.D. Thesis

Yash Patel defended his Ph.D. Thesis
Yash Patel successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis Neural Network Training and Non-Differentiable Objective Functions /supervisor prof. Jiří Matas/. Yash was the first candidate who was awarded the Ph.D. title in the new study program Computer Science. Congratulations!

Tomáš Dlask is a winner of Antonín Svoboda Award for the Best Ph.D. Thesis

Tomáš Dlask is a winner of Antonín Svoboda Award for the Best Ph.D. Thesis
Congratulations to Tomáš Dlask for his achievement! He was announced as a winner of the Antonín Svoboda Award for the Best Ph.D. for Thesis defended in 2022. The Czech Society for Cybernetics and Informatics selects the best Ph.D. Thesis every year. The topic of PhD thesis falls within the scope of ČSKI’s scientific activities (cybernetics, …read more

An increasing role of AI algorithms in search for effective cancer treatments

An increasing role of AI algorithms in search for effective cancer treatments
Artificial intelligence algorithms of scientists from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of CTU and the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Olomouc help to accelerate the development of anticancer drugs. Artificial intelligence algorithms will play an increasing role in the search for effective cancer treatments. Machine learning methods can significantly reduce the time, effort …read more

Researchers at FEL CTU presented inovations in aerial robotics

Researchers at FEL CTU presented inovations in aerial robotics
The Multi-robot Systems Group demonstrated results of the development of new technologies for aerial robots in Temešvár, South Bohemia. During the practical flight demonstrations, the group demonstrated a technology which prevents hostile takeover of control over the drone in the form of GPS spoofing. GPS Spoofing is an intelligent form of jamming where a drone …read more

Drone developers from FEE CTU have designed the RaDron solution to help rescue forces

Drone developers from FEE CTU have designed the RaDron solution to help rescue forces
The search for a lost miniature source of radioactive caesium-137 has managed to keep authorities and emergency services in Western Australia busy in recent days. The source of the dangerous beta and gamma radiation was finally found after an intensive deployment of rescue and firefighters and special equipment, but the alarming incident will continue to raise …read more

Rector’s Prize for an outstanding doctoral dissertation

Rector's Prize for an outstanding doctoral dissertation
The Rector’s prize for an outstanding doctoral dissertation was awarded to Ing. Tomáš Hodaň, Ph.D. for his doctoral Thesis  „Pose Estimation of Specific Rigid Objects“ and to Mgr. Dmytro Mishkin, Ph.D. for „Learning and Crafting for the Wide Multiple Baseline Stereo“. Congratulations to both researchers!

Ing. Robert Pěnička, PhD. awarded the prestigious GA ČR JUNIOR STAR grant

Ing. Robert Pěnička, PhD. awarded the prestigious GA ČR JUNIOR STAR grant
Congratulations to the MRS Group member Ing. Robert Pěnička, PhD. for earning a prestigious grant project: JUNIOR STAR from GA ČR! The Czech Science Foundation (GA ČR)  announced the results of the JUNIOR STAR project, which is intended for excellent scientists in their early careers. Only a fragment of submitted works receive funding and our …read more

Dmytro Mishkin received the Dean’s Award for prestigious dissertation

Dmytro Mishkin received the Dean’s Award for prestigious dissertation
The Dean’s Awards for prestigious dissertations were awarded on November 9th at the Scientific council meeting. Researcher Mgr. Dmytro Mishkin, Ph.D. received the award for his work Learning and Crafting for the Wide Multiple Baseline Stereo under the supervision of prof. Ing. Jiří Matas, Ph.D. Congratulations!

The EAGLE.ONE drone catches an intruder drone in the Rapotice prison

The EAGLE.ONE drone catches an intruder drone in the Rapotice prison
The drone Eagle.One caught an intruder drone in the Rapotice prison. The drone-hunter is designed to protect critical infrastructure, such as prisons, power plants or airports. The Eagle.One drone is equipped with AI on-board and is capable of launching a net in which it catches the intruder drone which might smuggle forbidden items into the …read more

A power-tower line near Libomyšl checked by autonomous drones

A power-tower line near Libomyšl checked by autonomous drones
In cooperation with Skupina ČEPS, our drones inspected a power-tower line near Libomyšl, Czech Republic. The drones autonomously took off, inspected the power-tower according to the pre-defined trajectories and took pictures of the tower itself and the insulators. The power-tower inspection is a part of the EU Horizon2020 Aerial-Core project. Also, the drone cooperation with …read more
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