Radim Špetlík defended his PhD Thesis

Radim Špetlík successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis Analysis of Weak Signals in Images, and was awarded the Ph.D. title in the doctoral study program Computer Science. Supervisor: Prof. Ing. Jiří Matas, Ph.D. Supervisor specialist: Ing. Jan Čech, Ph.D. Congratulations!

Denis Baručić defended his PhD Thesis

Denis Baručić successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis Weakly-supervised learning with applications in biomedical image analysis, and was awarded the Ph.D. title in the doctoral study program Bioengineering. Supervisor:  prof. Dr. Ing. Jan Kybic Congratulations!

Our Researchers Explain Biometrics on Czech Television

Our Researchers Explain Biometrics on Czech Television
Researchers from the Analysis and Interpretation of Biomedical Data group (AID), Eduard Bakštein and Jakub Schneider, appeared in Wifina, a popular-science programme of Czech Television on September 11th. They explained how biometric security systems work, from fingerprint recognition and facial identification to mobile phone unlocking, and tackled a question many people ask: can such systems …read more

Helhest robot wins first place in RoboTour competition

Helhest robot wins first place in RoboTour competition
Tactical robot Helhest, developed by the Vision for Robotics and Autonomous Systems (VRAS) research group, won the RoboTour 2026 autonomous robot competition and achieved the highest score in the history of the outdoor autonomous navigation category. In the months leading up to the competition, held on 19 September 2026 in a park near the Prague …read more

Prestigious IEEE award for advancing computer vision for prof. Matas and his team

Prestigious IEEE award for advancing computer vision for prof. Matas and his team
The international team behind the Visual Object Tracking (VOT) initiative, with Professor Jiří Matas as one of its key figures, has received the 2026 PAMI Mark Everingham Prize. The prestigious award, recognising outstanding contributions to the computer vision community, was presented to the team on 12 September at ECCV 2026 in Malmö, Sweden. The award …read more

CTU FEL Alumnus Jiří Horyna Receives the Joseph Fourier Prize for Research on Autonomous Drone Swarms

CTU FEL Alumnus Jiří Horyna Receives the Joseph Fourier Prize for Research on Autonomous Drone Swarms
Dr. Jiří Horyna, a PhD graduate of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at CTU and a researcher with the Multi-Robot Systems (MRS) group, has received the Joseph Fourier Prize for Computer Sciences 2026, awarded by the Embassy of France in the Czech Republic for outstanding research in computer science. He received the award for his research on …read more

52nd Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision Colloquium

52nd Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision Colloquium
The Colloquium in Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision is a biannual event with a rich tradition dating back to 1998. This esteemed gathering is jointly organized by the Visual Recognition Group and the Department of Cybernetics at the Czech Technical University in Prague, and enjoys the generous support of the Czech Pattern Recognition Society (CPRS). The technical program is …read more

PhD Students Win International Competition with AI for 3D Roof Reconstruction

PhD Students Win International Competition with AI for 3D Roof Reconstruction
PhD students Miroslav Purkrábek and Jan Škvrna emerged as the winners, competing against approximately thirty participants from around the world in the international Structured Semantic 3D Reconstruction (S23DR) competition. The competition was held as part of the Urban Scene Modeling workshop at the CVPR 2026 conference in Denver, USA, in June. CVPR is considered one …read more

MRS CTU & F4F Succeess in Germany’s SPRIND Fully Autonomous Flight 2.0 Competition

MRS CTU & F4F Succeess in Germany’s SPRIND Fully Autonomous Flight 2.0 Competition
A team from MRS CTU and Fly4Future has successfully demonstrated a drone capable of understanding natural-language instructions, planning its own mission and executing it fully autonomously — without GPS or pilot intervention. The F4F & CTU SkyGraph team took part in the final of Germany’s SPRIND Fully Autonomous Flight 2.0 competition, competing against seven European technology …read more

Humanoid Group Publishes in Science Robotics

Humanoid Group Publishes in Science Robotics
The Humanoid Group, led by Assoc. Prof. Matěj Hoffman, is celebrating a significant scientific achievement – their latest research has been published in the prestigious journal Science Robotics. The study, which uses the humanoid robot iCub, offers new insights into how young children learn to recognize the relationship between their own movements and their effects …read more
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