Four papers, one as oral presentation, were accepted at ICCV2017 which is one of the most prestigious computer vision conferences with a very selective review process and low acceptance rate. Congratulations to Zuzana Kukelova, Jiri Matas, Michal Busta, Lukas Neumann, Karel Zimmermann, Tomas Petricek, Vojtech Salansky, and Tomas Svoboda.
Ing. Jiří Trefný (Visual Recognition Group) was a guest of the Studio 6 of the Czech Television where he spoke on the topic: Face detection at the airports (the interview is in Czech language only).
Miguel Amável dos Santos Pinheiro successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis entitled Graph and Point Cloud Matching for Image Registration (supervisor: Prof. Jan Kybic). Congratulations!
Karla Štěpánová successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis entitled Hierarchical probabilistic model of language acquisition (supervisor: dr. Michal Vavrečka). Congratulations!
Karel Zimmermann has successfully defended his habilitation thesis Safe Adaptive Traversability with Incomplete Data. Congratulation!
The supplement of the daily Právo Víkend informs about the success of the team of dr. Saska at the international competition in Abu Dhabi in the article “How Czech Scientists Race in the Emirates”. In Czech language only.
Assoc. Prof. Tomáš Svoboda (Vision for Robotics and Autonomous Systems) was a guest on CT24 speaking on the topic: USA: Shared Autonomous Transport in 13 Years? (the interview in Czech language only starts at about 0:15:56).
Let us invite you to a concert Cello recital. The concert is held within the Meeting with Music series. The concert is open to CTU students, staff, and their guests. Place: KN:E-107, Monday, May 22, 2017, at 6.30 p.m.
Let us invite you to the Prof. Juraj Hromkovič’s lecture held within the Prague computer science seminar. Place: KN:E-107, Karlovo nám. 13, Praha 2, May 25, 2017, at 4.00 p.m.
A 4-page cover story about humanoid robotics in Respekt (a major Czech weekly journal), 16/2017. Matej Hoffmann and Zdenek Straka interviewed and photographed with robots. More robots mentioned in the electronic version of the story. The printed version also available at ihned.cz.