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
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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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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

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

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Doc. RNDr. Barbara Zitová, Ph.D.
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. It…

Hybrid Neural Network Architectures for Image Recognition

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Prof. Ing. Jan Flusser, DrSc.
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
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Salvator Mundi: understanding interactions within Leonardo’s circle

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Doc. RNDr. Barbara Zitová, Ph.D.
This interdisciplinary scientific project aims to examine the creative context of one of Leonardo's most
reproduced subjects: the Salvator Mundi. The ultimate goal is to understand one of…

VAIPRO: Video and image content protection

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RNDr. Jan Kotera, Ph.D.
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…

VIGILANT: Vital IntelliGence to Investigate ILlegAl DisiNformaTion

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Ing. Babak Mahdian, Ph.D.
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…

AISEE - Artificial Intelligence based Search Environment for video/photo

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Doc. RNDr. Barbara Zitová, Ph.D.
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…

Vývoj softwaru pro optimální návrh frézování povrchu při opravách vozovek

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RNDr. Michal Šorel, Ph.D.

Inverse Problems in Image Processing

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Prof. Ing. Jan Flusser, DrSc.
The project aims at developing a conceptually novel approach to inverse problems by proposing
a unified theory of invariants to integral transformations using projection operators, and…

Řešení automatické analýzy spadu v úlech za účelem detekce Varroa pomocí metod digitálního zpracování obrazu

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Doc. RNDr. Barbara Zitová, Ph.D.
Řešení automatické analýzy spadu v úlech za účelem detekce Varroa pomocí metod digitálního zpracování obrazu

Mobile diagnostic system to reduce consumption and rational use of antibiotics in the primary production of cow's milk

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Doc. RNDr. Barbara Zitová, Ph.D.
The main objective of the project is to develop a dairy cow health control system, the ultimate goal of which would be to significantly reduce the use of antibiotics in the treatment and prevention…

The advanced technology of rapid determination of bridges deformation by radar interferometry and its use in diagnostics

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Ing. Milan Talich, Ph.D.
Main goal of the project is to develop a new tool for fast and comparatively cheap inspection of bridge structures as a critical part of transport infrastructure, demanding periodic monitoring to…

VKG 3.0

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Doc. RNDr. Barbara Zitová, Ph.D.
The aim of the VKG 3.0 project is a new system for the diagnosis of vocal disorders, consisting of a new type of multi-line video camera and data processing software. The camera will allow to capture…

Separating the invisible from the visible: mixture analysis of macroscopic elemental maps of valuable paintings

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Doc. RNDr. Barbara Zitová, Ph.D.
Bilateral cooperation with University of Antwerp: Separating the invisible from the visible: mixture analysis of macroscopic elemental maps of valuable paintings

Národní centrum kompetence -Kybernetika a umělá inteligence

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Doc. RNDr. Barbara Zitová, Ph.D.

Provenance

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Ing. Stanislav Saic, CSc.
PROVENANCE is an intermediary-free solution that gives greater control to users of social media and underpins the dynamics of social sharing in values of trust, openness, and fair participation.…
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
Winter school of image processing 2014
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
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 Spring School of Image Processing will consist mainly of tutorial talks given by organizers from the Department of Image Processing (ÚTIA) and participating Ph.D. students. More about the program you can find on the web of Image Processing Department.

4.6. - 8.6. 2012, Krušné hory, Mariánská.
Filip Šroubek received the President’s Award of the Czech Science Foundation (GA CR)

The President’s Award of the Czech Science Foundation was given to Filip Šroubek for outstanding achievements in the GA CR project "Solving Inverse Problems for the Analysis of Fast Moving Objects" done in collaboration with prof. Jiří Matas from FEL, ČVUT.

Jitka Kostková won the Antonín Svoboda Award

Jitka Kostková, a former Ph.D student of Jan Flusser, was awarded by the Antonín Svoboda Award  2020 for the best Ph.D Thesis in Computer Science. The award is presented by the Czech Society for Cybernetics and Informatics (CSKI).

Best paper award Journal of Voice 2020

ZOI team Adam Novozámský, Aleš Zita, and Barbara Zitová were awarded the Best Paper 2020 in the category Basic Science in Journal of Voice, Elsevier (IF 1.9) -  Visual and Automatic Evaluation of Vocal Fold Mucosal Waves Through Sharpness of Lateral Peaks in High-Speed Videokymographic Images. Congratulations! 

Otevřená věda - tým z ÚTIA zvítězil

Ve čtvrtek 26.11. 2020 středoškoláci - stážisté programu Otevřená věda - představili výsledky své práce na konferenci Otevřené vědy a jejich úsilí posoudila odborná porota. V kategorii I. vědní oblast - Neživá příroda se na 1. místě umístil tým vedený Dr. Ing. Janem Schierem z oddělení Zpracování obrazové informace - Marie Šimůnková a Jiří Wolker.

Fourier Prize for Jitka Kostková

Jitka Kostkova, a PhD student of Jan Flusser, has won the prestigeous Joseph Fourier Prize in Computer Science for her work on invariants of vector fields. The prize is awarded by the French Embassy and ATOS company. Congratulation!

GCPR 2019 Honorable Mention

Jan Kotera and Filip Šroubek from the Dept. of Image Processing (ZOI), and D. Rozumny and J. Matas from the Czech Technical University in recognition of their outstanding contribution Non-Causal Tracking by Deplatting received the GCPR 2019 Honorable Mention at the 41th German Conference on Pattern Recogntion, Dortmund, September 13, 2019.

Hot Paper Award for the paper in "Angewandte Chemie"

Your greatest shade of blue

Madonna of the Rabbit: Spectral map of blue pigments

Innovation Award 2016
Association of Innovative Entrepreneurship of the Czech Republic awarded Ing. Milan Talich, Ph.D. and his team the main prize for their work „Expert system for monitoring of deformations of hazardous objects and locations“, which was created in cooperation with Geodézie Ledeč nad Sázavou s.r.o. This prestigious contest was established in 1996.
Cisco Outstanding Thesis Award 2015
Zuzana Bílková, Ph.D. student in the Dept. of Image Processing (ZOI), received the first price in the Cisco Outstanding Thesis Award 2015 competition for her thesis "Segmentation of microscopic images using level set methods" (MFF UK). The supervisor was RNDr. Václav Kučera, Ph.D., MFF UK. The expert consultant of the thesis was Jindřich Soukup, Ph.D. student in the Dept. of Image Processing (ZOI).
Research Professor title
Dr. Filip Šroubek, Res.Prof. received the scientific title "Research Professor in Physico-Mathematical Sciences" from the President of the Czech Academy of Sciences on October 14, 2015.
Best Student Paper Award
Jan Kotera, Ph.D. student in the Dept. of Image Processing (ZOI), received the Best Student Paper award at the Digital Photography and Mobile Imaging XI conference at IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging held in San Francisco, USA, for the paper "Blind Deconvolution of images with model discrepancies using maximum a posteriori estimation with heavy tailed priors", co-authored by Filip Sroubek.
Outstanding Contribution Award for Jan Kotera et al.
Jan Kotera, Ph.D. student in the Dept. of Image Processing, received an award for outstanding contribution at the 15th International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns (CAIP 2013) held in York, UK, for the paper "Blind deconvolution using alternating maximum a posteriori estimation with heavy-tailed priors" co-authored by Filip Sroubek and Peyman Milanfar.
Ocenění za významný příspěvek na mezinárodní konferenci CAIP 2013
Jan Kotera, Ph.D. student na oddělení zpracování obrazu, spolu s Filipem Šroubkem a Peyman Milanfarem získali ocenění (outstanding contribution) za příspěvek "Blind deconvolution using alternating maximum a posteriori estimation with heavy-tailed priors" na mezinárodní konferenci 15th International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns (CAIP 2013) v Yorku, Velká Británie.
The Otto Wichterle Award for Babak Mahdian
The President of the Academy of Sciences of the CR granted The Otto Wichterle Award for 2013 to promising young scientists of the ASCR. Ing. Babak Mahdian, Ph.D. from Department of Image Processing of the Institute of Information Theory and Automation was awarded.
Prémie O. Wichterleho pro Babaka Mahdiana
Předseda Akademie věd ČR, na základě návrhu poroty pro udělování Prémie Otto Wichterleho mladým vědeckým pracovníkům v AV ČR, udělil Prémii Otto Wichterleho v roce 2013 Ing. Babaku Mahdianovi, PhD. z oddělení Zpracování obrazové informace. UTIA AV ČR.
Innovation Award for Cyril Hὅschl
Cyril Hὅschl, a Ph.D. student in Dept. of Image Processing, was awarded the Innovation Award given by The International Institute for Advanced Studies in Systems Research and Cybernetics. The award was presented to him at the 24th International Conference on Systems Research, Informatics and Cybernetics held in Baden-Baden, Germany, 2012.
Prémie Otto Wichterleho 2008 udělena Filipu Šroubkovi

Akademická rada Akademie věd ČR, na základě návrhu poroty pro udělování Prémií Otto Wichterleho mladým vědeckým pracovníkům v AV ČR, udělila Prémii Otto Wichterleho v roce 2008

Ing. Filipu Šroubkovi, Ph.D.

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Cena akademie věd ČR 2007 udělena týmu Jan Flussera

Za dosažené vynikající výsledky velkého vědeckého významu obdržel ocenění 26. června 2007 ve vile Lanna autorský tým (uváděno bez titulů):

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Cena předsedy Grantové agentury ČR 2007 udělena Janu Flusserovi

V roce 2007 byla udělena Cena předsedy Grantové agentury ČR 2007 prof. Ing. Janu Flusserovi, DrSc. za projekt - Fúze digitálních obrazů nelineárních zobrazovacích modelů

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Spoluřeššitelka: Ing. Stanislava ŠŠimberová, CSc., Astronomický ústav AV ČR, v. v. i.

Hlávkova cena 2006 udělena Filipu Šroubkovi

Hlávkovu cenu pro mladé vědecké pracovníky získal v roce 2006

Ing. Filip Šroubek, Ph.D.

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Cena je určena pro talentované studenty v bakalářském, magisterském nebo doktorském studiu, kteří prokázali výjimečné schopnosti a tvůrčí myšlení ve svém oboru, do 33 let jejich věku.