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!

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Drone developers from MRS group at the finals of 3D Mapping Challenge/UAS 5.0 competition

Drone developers from MRS group at the finals of 3D Mapping Challenge/UAS 5.0 competition
The MRS group succeeded in the semi-finals and advanced to the finals of the 3D Mapping Challenge/UAS 5.0 competition, which will take place April 9-11 in Kansas. A total of 11 teams that have passed the previous two rounds will compete for prizes worth a total of $987,500. The 3D Mapping Challenge/UAS 5.0 is one …read more

Donation for ACORUS

Donation for ACORUS
On Tuesday, February 6, the director Jaroslava Chaloupková from the center ACORUS, z.ú. collected a donation of 6,000 CZK from the staff of the Department of Cybernetics. Money raised during the social event at restaurant Zvonařka, will help victims of domestic violence, clients of the ACORUS center. This non-profit organization provides comprehensive professional assistance to …read more

Radim Špetlík and his teammates won the Chaos Neurathon 2023

Radim Špetlík and his teammates won the Chaos Neurathon 2023
Ph.D. students Radim Špetlík from the Department of Cybernetics and Michal Kučera from the Department of Computer Graphics and Interaction and Open Computer Science student David Kunz won the Chaos Neurathon 2023, their team named “All You Need Is All You Need”. This competition, the first of its kind, focused on using artificial intelligence in …read more

Succes in the Czech Science Foundation GAČR competition for three projects from our department

Succes in the Czech Science Foundation GAČR competition for three projects from our department
The Czech Science Foundation (GACR), the largest Czech grant funding provider for basic research, will fund 357 scientific projects being launched next year in the Standard Projects and POSTDOC INDIVIDUAL FELLOWSHIP grant schemes. These projects will receive CZK 2,75 billion over the next 3 years. The projects receiving funding cover a wide range of basic …read more

Valentin Marcel became two times world champion in Chessboxing

Valentin Marcel became two times world champion in Chessboxing
Congratulations to Valentin Marcel from the Humanoid group, who won his second consecutive world title in Chessboxing. After a very tied confrontation at the World Championship in Italy, Valentin won and defended his title of middleweight category champion (WCBO league). Chessboxing is a sport combining boxing rounds with a game of rapid chess, in alternate, …read more

Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators

Elsevier recently published a publicly available database of top-cited scientists: “Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators”.  Scientists are classified into 22 scientific fields and 174 sub-fields. It provides standardized information on citations, h-index, co-authorship adjusted hm-index, citations to papers in different authorship positions and a composite indicator (c-score). The selection is based on …read more

Zuzana Kúkelová was awarded NEURON 2023 prize for promising scientists

Zuzana Kúkelová was awarded NEURON 2023 prize for promising scientists
Congratulations to Zuzana Kúkelová for her achievement! She is the laureate of the Neuron 2023 prize for promising scientists in the field of computer science. The prizes are awarded to Czech scientists for their scientific results and should be perceived as encouraging to their further work. An independent local Scientific Council selects the laureates in …read more
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