System of deep neural networks for recognition of plants and fungi from images, developed by Milan Sulc and Jiri Matas from the Dept. of Cybernetics FEE CTU in cooperation with Lukas Picek from the Dept. of Cybernetics FAS UWB, scored first in three international challenges: 2018 FGCVx Flower Classification Challenge 2018 FGCVx Fungi Classification Challenge …
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Dean’s Award for the Dissertation thesis was given to Ing. Tomas Vojir, Ph.D. (supervisor: prof. Ing. Jiri Matas, Ph.D.) Theme: Short-Term Visual Object Tracking in Real-Time Congratulations!
Matěj Hoffmann from the group Vision for Robotics Autonomous Systems (VRAS) was a member of the team who won the Kuka Innovation Award 2018, see the video.
Dean’s Award for the Dissertation thesis was given to Ing. Lukas Neumann, Ph.D. (supervisor: prof. Ing. Jiri Matas, Ph.D.) Theme: Scene text localization and recognition in images and videos Congratulations!
Zdenek Straka and Matej Hoffmann were awarded ENNS Best Paper Award at 26th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN17) for their paper Learning a Peripersonal Space Representation as a Visual-Tactile Prediction Task.
Arun Mukundan, Giorgos Tolias and Ondrej Chum received the best science paper honourable mention at the British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC) 2017 for their article Multiple-kernel Local-patch Descriptor.
After two days of the Mohamed Bin Zayed International Robotics Challenge competition in Abu Dhabi, the CTU team (also Uni Lincoln and UPenn involved) led by Dr. Saska won the first place in the Challenge 3 that required a team of UAVs to collaborate to search, locate, track, pick and place a set of static …
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Ing. Michal Uřičář (supervised by dr. Franc) and Prof. Jiří Matas received the 3rd place award prize for their track “Apparent Age Estimation” from the paper “Structured Output SVM Prediction of Apparent Age, Gender and Smile from Deep Features” at ChaLearn Looking at People CVPR Workshop 2016. Congratulations!
Our PhD student Ing. Lukáš Neumann (supervised by Prof. Matas) has won the 2nd place in the “Joseph Fourier Prize” competition in the field of computer science on the topic of “Scene Text Recognition in Images and Videos”. More information is here. Congratulations!
The 2016 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, whose chairman was jointly Prof. Jan Kybic (head of the Department of Cybernetics FEE CTU) and Prof. Milan Sonka (The University of Iowa, US), took place at the Clarion Hotel in Prague between 13 – 16 April 2016. See photos here.
