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Vaclav HLAVAC Czech Technical University in Prague (CTU) |
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Current Position: |
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Professor of engineering
cybernetics; deputy director of CIIRC; head of the Robotics and Machine
Perception department at CIIRC; founder of the informal group called Center Machine
Perception, est. 1996, spanning
groups at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and CIIRC since 2013, both
CTU.
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Research Interests: |
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Computer vision, reconstruction of
3D scenes from 2D images, analysis of video sequences, machine learning
with emphasis on the relation between statistical and structural methods,
autonomous robotics, robotic manipulation with soft materials, industrial and
other applications of the above. |
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Current projects: |
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Look at running projects web of CIIRC. |
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Qualifications, work history: |
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1981 graduated Ing. (similar to
MSc.) in control engineering from CTU Prague; 1981-1982 one year compulsory
military service, 1982 PhD student at CTU, from 1983 to 2016 teaching
position at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering CTU, 1987 PhD from CTU (Analysis
of the integrated circuits images); 1990 head of the Computer Vision
Laboratory, 1992 Associate Professor; 1996 head of the Center for Machine
Perception of the CTU, 1998 Professor. In 2013, one of the CIIRC founders,
since 2016, has been fully employed at CIIRC. |
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International experience: |
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1986 two months research fellowship,
Institute of Control Problems, Academy of Sciences Moscow, Russia; 1989
Research fellowship (ten months) University of Sussex, School of Cognitive
and Computing Sciences, Brighton, U.K.; 1993 two months visiting professor at
the TU Vienna, Austria; 1995 six months visiting professor and replacing head
of the Department of Pattern Recognition and Image Processing at the TU
Vienna; 2000 five months Hitachi Central Research Lab, Tokyo, Japan,
2010-2011 four months King Abdullah University of Science and Technology,
Saudi Arabia. |
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Selected publications |
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Šonka M., Hlaváč, V.,
Boyle R.: Image Processing,
Understanding, and Machine Vision, 4th edition Cengage Learning
2015, pp. 912 (1st edition Chapman & Hall, London 1993; 2nd edition PWS
Boston, 1998, 3rd edition Thomson, Toronto 2008; Chinese translation 2003). Schlesinger M.I., Hlaváč
V.: Ten lectures on
statistical and syntactic pattern recognition, Kluwer Academic
Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, 2002, 521 p.; Russian translation
2004. Holešovský, Ondřej;
Škoviera, Radoslav; Hlaváč, Václav; Vítek, Roman. 2021. Experimental Comparison between Event
and Global Shutter Cameras, Sensors 21, no. 4: 1137. Ron, M.; Burget, P.;
Hlaváč, V. Parameter continuity in time-varying Gauss–Markov models for
learning from small training data sets. Information Sciences. 2022, 595
197-216. ISSN 0020-0255. Holešovský, O.; Škoviera,
R.; Hlaváč, V.: MovingCables: Moving Cable
Segmentation Method and Dataset, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol.
9, no. 8, pp. 6991-6998, August 2024. Holešovský, O.; Škoviera,
R.; Hlaváč, V.: Interactive Robotic Moving Cable Segmentation by Motion
Correlation," in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 10, no. 7,
pp. 7420-7427, July 2025 |
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Teaching presentations: |
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While teaching and writing
textbooks I created several teaching or tutorial presentations. The files
with presentations in pdf are available in English and/or in Czech. I am
updating these pages when presentations are created or updated. |
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Other Links: |
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Publications
from 1994 (searchable), Publications 1984-1998 (.pdf) |
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Personal: |
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I speak English, German, Russian
and Czech (mother tongue) |
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Last update: August
12, 2025