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Department of Image Processing

Head: 
Doc. RNDr. Barbara Zitová, Ph.D.
Deputy head: 
Doc. Ing. Filip Šroubek, Ph.D. DSc.
Secretary: 
Jana Švarcová
Phone: 
286581419
Web: 
http://zoi.utia.cas.cz/
Publications ÚTIA: 
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The Department is involved in basic research in image processing and pictorial pattern recognition. Major application areas are biomedicine, remote sensing, astronomy, and art conservation.

Main scientific areas
  • Recognition of distorted images and patterns by invariant descriptors regardless of their actual position in the scene
  • Registration and fusion of several images of the same scene taken at different times, by different sensors and/or from different viewpoints in order to obtain information of higher quality
  • Theory of moment invariants, namely of rotation invariants, affine invariants and invariants to convolution
  • Restoration of degraded images, namely multichannel blind deconvolution, edgepreserving denoising, local contrast enhancement, and color transformations
  • Image forensics - detection of image forgeries
  • Cultural heritage applications - cooperation with art conservators in order to facilitate the conservation and material analysis work
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Department detail

Ing. Michal Bartoš Ph.D.
RNDr. Jan Blažek Ph.D.
Mgr. Adam Dominec
Ing. Šimon Greško
Ing. Vít Hanousek
Mgr. Adam Harmanec
Ing. Jan Havrlant Ph.D.
Ing. Jan Kamenický Ph.D.
Mgr. Tomáš Karella
Ing. Tomáš Kerepecký
Mgr. Jaroslav Knotek
Ing. Václav Košík
RNDr. Jan Kotera Ph.D.
RNDr. Zuzana Kovaříková
RNDr. Matěj Lébl
Ing. Babak Mahdian Ph.D.
Ing. Adam Novozámský Ph.D.
Kateřina Obadalová
Ing. Stanislav Saic CSc.
Dr. Ing. Jan Schier
RNDr. Michal Šorel Ph.D.
Dr. Ing. Lubomír Soukup
Doc. Ing. Filip Šroubek Ph.D. DSc.
Ing. Tomáš Suk Ph.D. DSc.
Jana Švarcová
Ing. Milan Talich Ph.D.
Doc. RNDr. Barbara Zitová Ph.D.

SCENTinel: Climate Changes and Scent Heritage: The Urgent Need for Capturing and Preserving Olfactory Landscapes in a Changing World

Doc. RNDr. Barbara Zitová, Ph.D.
Duration: 2024 - 2027
The project aims to develop AI/ML models and a theoretical framework to identify and record culturally significant and climate-endangered scents, utilizing internet data for scent valuation.

Hybrid Neural Network Architectures for Image Recognition

Prof. Ing. Jan Flusser, DrSc.
Duration: 2024 - 2026
Current convolutional networks work with inefficient pixel-wise image representation, which does not provide almost any invariance. This leads to using very large training sets and massive augmentation.

Salvator Mundi: understanding interactions within Leonardo’s circle

Doc. RNDr. Barbara Zitová, Ph.D.
Duration: 2023 - 2024
This interdisciplinary scientific project aims to examine the creative context of one of Leonardo's most reproduced subjects: the Salvator Mundi.

VAIPRO: Video and image content protection

RNDr. Jan Kotera, Ph.D.
Duration: 2023 - 2023
The project focuses on the protection of video and image content and looks at ways to prevent illegal sharing. It will explore how artificial intelligence methods can circumvent these protections and the challenges of applying protection to large volumes of data.

VIGILANT: Vital IntelliGence to Investigate ILlegAl DisiNformaTion

Ing. Babak Mahdian, Ph.D.
Duration: 2022 - 2025
At a time of cloud computing and cyber-physical systems like computer-assisted driving, software complexity is growing faster than the rate of improvement in related quality assurance techniques. The ERC-funded VAMOS project will develop monitoring software to identify potential vulnerabilities, errors, and unfair decisions at runtime.

AISEE - Artificial Intelligence based Search Environment for video/photo

Doc. RNDr. Barbara Zitová, Ph.D.
Duration: 2022 - 2025
The project addresses AI forensic data mining - a new SW platform for detecting objects of interest based on complex spatio-temporal relationships with object attributes and indexed relationships. It will enable AI training directly in the forensic environment using semi-automatic and weakly supervised learning.The lack and accessibility of training data will be considered.
Mgr. Adam Harmanec
Mgr. Tomáš Karella
Ing. Tomáš Kerepecký
Mgr. Jaroslav Knotek
Ing. Václav Košík
RNDr. Zuzana Kovaříková
RNDr. Matěj Lébl
Multi-source data analysis Workshop 2019 , 2019-11-25
Data fusion – Multimodal datasets - Industry & Medicine & Art. This workshop will bring together researchers both on a national and international level to exchange ideas, encourage collaborations and present cutting-edge research....
Winter school of image processing 2014 , 2014-01-22
The Winter School of Image Processing is a popular meeting point of students and researchers involved in image processing research. 22.1. - 26.1. 2014, Mariánská
Spring school of image processing 2012 , 2012-06-04
The Spring School of Image Processing is a popular meeting point of students and researchers from several Czech institutions involved in image processing research as well as guests from abroad. The program of the 2012nd edition of the...
Filip Šroubek received the President’s Award of the Czech Science Foundation (GA CR)
2022-09-29
The President’s Award of the Czech Science Foundation was given to Filip Šroubek for outstanding achievements in the GA...
Jitka Kostková won the Antonín Svoboda Award
2021-06-27
Jitka Kostková, a former Ph.D student of Jan Flusser, was awarded by the Antonín Svoboda Award  2020 for the best Ph.D...
Best paper award Journal of Voice 2020
2021-05-01
ZOI team Adam Novozámský, Aleš Zita, and Barbara Zitová were awarded the Best Paper 2020 in the category Basic Science...
Otevřená věda - tým z ÚTIA zvítězil
2020-11-26
Ve čtvrtek 26.11. 2020 středoškoláci - stážisté programu Otevřená věda - představili výsledky své práce na konferenci...
Fourier Prize for Jitka Kostková
2020-06-27
Jitka Kostkova, a PhD student of Jan Flusser, has won the prestigeous Joseph Fourier Prize in Computer Science for her...
GCPR 2019 Honorable Mention
2019-10-16
Jan Kotera and Filip Šroubek from the Dept. of Image Processing (ZOI), and D. Rozumny and J. Matas from the Czech...
Hot Paper Award for the paper in "Angewandte Chemie"
2018-06-18
Your greatest shade of blueMadonna of the Rabbit: Spectral map of blue pigments
Innovation Award 2016
2016-12-09
Association of Innovative Entrepreneurship of the Czech Republic awarded Ing. Milan Talich, Ph.D. and his team the main...
Cisco Outstanding Thesis Award 2015
2015-11-30
Zuzana Bílková, Ph.D. student in the Dept. of Image Processing (ZOI), received the first price in the Cisco Outstanding...
Research Professor title
2015-10-14
Dr. Filip Šroubek, Res.Prof. received the scientific title "Research Professor in Physico-Mathematical Sciences" from...
Best Student Paper Award
2015-03-09
Jan Kotera, Ph.D. student in the Dept. of Image Processing (ZOI), received the Best Student Paper award at the Digital...
Outstanding Contribution Award for Jan Kotera et al.
2013-08-27
Jan Kotera, Ph.D. student in the Dept. of Image Processing, received an award for outstanding contribution at the 15th...
Ocenění za významný příspěvek na mezinárodní konferenci CAIP 2013
2013-08-27
Jan Kotera, Ph.D. student na oddělení zpracování obrazu, spolu s Filipem Šroubkem a Peyman Milanfarem získali ocenění (...
The Otto Wichterle Award for Babak Mahdian
2013-06-05
The President of the Academy of Sciences of the CR granted The Otto Wichterle Award for 2013 to promising young...
Prémie O. Wichterleho pro Babaka Mahdiana
2013-06-05
Předseda Akademie věd ČR, na základě návrhu poroty pro udělování Prémie Otto Wichterleho mladým vědeckým pracovníkům v...
Innovation Award for Cyril Hὅschl
2012-08-02
Cyril Hὅschl, a Ph.D. student in Dept. of Image Processing, was awarded the Innovation Award given by The International...
Prémie Otto Wichterleho 2008 udělena Filipu Šroubkovi
2008-06-08
Akademická rada Akademie věd ČR, na základě návrhu poroty pro udělování Prémií Otto Wichterleho mladým vědeckým...
Cena akademie věd ČR 2007 udělena týmu Jan Flussera
2007-06-25
Za dosažené vynikající výsledky velkého vědeckého významu obdržel ocenění 26. června 2007 ve vile Lanna autorský tým (...
Cena předsedy Grantové agentury ČR 2007 udělena Janu Flusserovi
2007-02-28
V roce 2007 byla udělena Cena předsedy Grantové agentury ČR 2007 prof. Ing. Janu Flusserovi, DrSc. za projekt - Fúze...
Hlávkova cena 2006 udělena Filipu Šroubkovi
2006-05-31
Hlávkovu cenu pro mladé vědecké pracovníky získal v roce 2006 Ing. Filip Šroubek, Ph.D. z Ústavu teorie informace a...
Prémie Otto Wichterleho 2006 udělena Barbaře Zitové
2005-12-31
Akademická rada Akademie věd ČR, na základě návrhu poroty pro udělování Prémií Otto Wichterleho mladým vědeckým...
Hlávkova cena 2003 udělena Barbaře Zitové
2003-06-30
Hlávkovu cenu pro mladé vědecké pracovníky získala v roce 2003 RNDr. Barbara Zitová, Ph.D. z Ústavu teorie informace a...
Prémie Otto Wichterleho 2002 udělena Tomáši Sukovi
2001-12-31
Akademická rada Akademie věd ČR, na základě návrhu poroty pro udělování Prémií Otto Wichterleho mladým vědeckým...
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