void* 2025

void* 2025
Various labs and research groups from our department will participate in the event void* again this year. The void* event will take place on May 15, 2024, from 1:00 PM to 6:00 PM at Karlovo náměstí and will be held for the fourth time this year. Void* is primarily intended for second-year bachelor’s and first-year …read more

VRG team succeeded at the European Healthcare Hackathon

VRG team succeeded at the European Healthcare Hackathon
Congratulations to the team, which won 2nd place in the category “InterSystems challenge: Best use of GenAI or FHIR using InterSystems technology” at the prestigious European Healthcare Hackathon. The event was attended by sixty of the most talented ethical hackers and was held from Friday, 7 to Sunday, 9 March at the Institute of Clinical …read more

Bill Psomas Awarded MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship 2024

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 …read more

Czech scientists are working to improve robots

 Czech scientists are working to improve robots
Czech scientists are working to improve robots – this was the title of a segment on the main Czech Television news program Události on December 11. The broadcast link is here, and the segment begins at 50:12. Matěj Hoffmann and Jakub Rozlivek discussed their experiment, which involves playing a board game with the humanoid robot …read more

Long term project collaboration with Lockheed Martin

Dlouhodobý projekt s firmou Lockheed Martin
The Czech Technical University will collaborate with Lockheed Martin on the research and development of a highly maneuverable unmanned vehicle. Researchers from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering (FEL) at the Czech Technical University (CTU) and experts from the Czech Aerospace Research Centre will work together with the global security and aerospace company Lockheed Martin to …read more

The MRS Group won a competition of fully autonomous drones in Germany

The MRS Group won a competition of fully autonomous drones in Germany
The Multi-robot Systems Group (MRS) in a cooperation with Fly4Future, an official spin-out of CTU, has won the SPRIND Funke Fully Autonomous Flight competition. In the final, which took place from 16th to 20th September 2024 at the Erding Air Base in Germany, the Czech team beat 8 other teams from all over the world. …read more

Award for the best poster at the conference in Turkey

Award for the best poster at the conference in Turkey
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!

Can we detect tooth decay with the help of AI?

Can we detect tooth decay with the help of AI?
Scientists from FEE CTU and the 1st Faculty of Medicine of Charles University have found a way to detect tooth decay more reliably with the help of artificial intelligence. The new research, published in the journal Clinical Oral Investigations, compared the performance of an automated caries detection method with that of seven dentists, three novices, …read more

Vít Krátký successfully defended his Ph.D. Thesis

Vít Krátký successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis Cooperative Sensing by a Group of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Environments with Obstacles and was awarded the Ph.D. title in the doctoral study program Computer Science. Supervisor: RNDr. Petr Štěpán, Ph.D. Supervisor specialist: doc. Ing. Martin Saska, Dr. rer. nat. Congratulations!

void* 2024

void* 2024
Photos from the event are available here
Responsible person: Petra Rosická