Dr. Josef Šivic, CIIRC leading researcher, principal investigator of the Intelligent Machine Perception project (IMPACT), won two prestigeous prizes for his long-term contributions to computer vision research in 2017.
The Longuet-Higgins Prize for the paper James Philbin, Ondrej Chum, Michael Isard, Josef Sivic, Andrew Zisserman: Object Retrieval with Large Vocabularies and Fast Spatial Matching, published at the conference Computer Vision...
Roman Holý (head of National Center for Industry 4.0) participated at 3rd RRI (Robot Revolutionary Initiative) International Symposium in Tokyo. Main topics of symposium were future of the manufacturing industry, international standardization, and industrial security.
The whole video from symposium available at:
RRI International Symposium
In total 14 celebrities have become new laureates of the Order of the Laurel in which entrepreneurs express appreciation and respect for important personalities for their work. Professor Vladimír Mařík (director of CIIRC CTU) was appreciated for life-long work in the field of science.
The Order of the Laurel awarded by the Chamber of Commerce takes into account a lifelong...
In November, at the gala evening at the National Gallery in Prague, the winner of national architectural prize was announced (Grand Prix of Architects 2017).
The award-winning building in the new building category became the Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics by Petr Franta. The building was created by the revitalization of the original university canteen. In addition, new...
The third conference of the Engineering Forum 2017 cycle entitled DIGITALIZATION - the way to increase efficiency of production processes was held on 15 November, 2017 at the Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics (CIIRC) CTU in Prague. The event took place in synergy with the ARaP 2017 Conference. The main focus of the conference was the current...
The SAP Leonardo Day 2017 conference took place at the end of November in the CTU-CIIRC building. It was organized by SAP and the recently established National Center for Industry 4.0. The aim of the conference was to present the emerging ecosystem of Industry 4.0 on the Czech market and to show real examples of Czech companies which have already...
Project of Department of the Deputy Prime Minister for Science, Research and Innovation "Scientists under a microscope" is a pilot series of standardized video interviews with outstanding personalities of contemporary science.
The guest of the first part was Prof. Vladimír Mařík (Director of CIIRC CTU).
You can see the whole interview at the following link (in Czech language only):
Scientists under the...
On November 1, 2017, dozens of interested parties met on topics such as digitization, automation and Industry 4.0 in the building of the Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics (CIIRC CTU). There was a conference organized by Deloitte and Siemens, the Czech-German Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the CIIRC. Czech and foreign speakers concentrated on the possibilities...
On December 5, 2017, the CIIRC Science Council met for the third time in the new building of CTU-CIIRC. Director prof. Mařík and the head of the project office Dr. Vít Dočkal informed the members of the Science Council about the current situation and strategic plans. Subsequently, a discussion was held between the Science Council participants and the director, presenting...
The team of CTU students (Long Hoang Nguyen, Jan Pichl, Martin Matulík, Jakub Konrád, Petr Marek and Ondra Hrách) led by Jan Šedivý from the CIIRC CTU took part in the final of The Alexa Prize. It competed for who can develop the best chatbot working with the smart Amazon Echo device. The Czech team brought home the second...