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 …
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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 …
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Professor Jiří Matas has been awarded the 2026 IAPR King-Sun Fu Prize, one of the most prestigious international awards in the field of pattern recognition. The prize, awarded by the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), recognizes Prof. Matas for seminal contributions to evidence aggregation in geometric computer vision. Prof. Matas received the award at …
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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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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.
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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Congratulations to Dominika Burešová from the Machine Learning group, who received the Josef Hlávka Award for 2025 for her contributions to the Theory of quantum logics. Dominika began her research during her Bachelor’s studies in the Open Informatics program under the supervision of Prof. Pavel Pták and in collaboration with Prof. Mirko Navara. She is …
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At this year’s #ČESKObudoucnosti conference, our students achieved remarkable success.Jan Ševic was awarded Tech Talent of the Year, and Kamila Houšková was recognized as Top Student of the Year. They continue to build on their earlier accomplishments – earlier this year, they excelled in the international SVOČ competition, as previously reported on our website, at …
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