An international team of scientists has published a study in the prestigious journal Nature Communications showing that the brains of children born with an upper limb difference undergo significant reorganisation from an early age. Scientists Matěj Hoffmann a Zdeněk Straka from the humanoid group participated in the research, developing a computational model explaining the mechanism …
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Congratulations to Jakub Rozlivek and his supervisor, Matěj Hoffmann, for their extraordinary achievement in this year’s Werner von Siemens Awards! Jakub received the award in the category Best Doctoral Thesis in Industry 4.0. The award-winning doctoral thesis by Jakub Rozlivek, titled Perception and Safety in Close-Proximity Human–Robot Interaction, is motivated by one of the key challenges …
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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.
Ruslan Agishev successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis Physics-informed differentiable traversability models in robotics, and was awarded the Ph.D. title in the Computer Science doctoral study program. Supervisor: doc. Ing. Karel Zimmermann, Ph.D. Congratulations!
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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The research group of Prof. Jan Kybic is offering 2 PhD and 2 Postdoc positions in the field of medical image processing. The project, Embryo quality estimation from time lapse images for assisted reproduction, supported by the Czech Health Research Council (AZV ČR), focuses on predicting the genetic quality of human embryos from time-lapse videos …
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The Czech Science Foundation (GA ČR), as the most important provider of support for basic research projects in the Czech Republic, will begin funding six standard projects led by researchers and their teams from the Department of Cybernetics starting next year. We congratulate all the principal investigators whose efforts contributed to the high number of …
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