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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The Colloquium in Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision is a biannual event with a rich tradition dating back to 1998. This esteemed gathering is jointly organized by the Visual Recognition Group and the Department of Cybernetics at the Czech Technical University in Prague, and enjoys the generous support of the Czech Pattern Recognition Society (CPRS). The technical program is …
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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 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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According to international scientific rankings, computer science and robotics at FEE CTU rank among the top in Europe. The three highest-ranked Czech computer scientists are all affiliated with CTU. The highest-ranked Czech computer scientist has long been Prof. Jiří Matas CSRankings is widely recognized as a reputable and transparent resource for assessing research performance in …
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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 …
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Very interesting interview with prof. Jiří Matas on a popular Czech radio show Host Lucie Výborné. interview is in Czech only at https://radiozurnal.rozhlas.cz/nejvetsi-riziko-ai-ze-vytvori-pohodlny-svet-ze-ktereho-se-nam-nebude-chtit-9442850
An interesting interview with Prof. Matas on the Aktuálně.cz SPOTLIGHT program on February 27, 2025. In the half-hour interview, Prof. Matas discussed various topics related to AI and visual recognition, such as how to protect privacy from the negative impacts of artificial intelligence or how AI can be used in criminology and medicine. You can …
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