Recipient of Best Paper Prize at BMVC 2002, Best Science Paper Honorable mention at BMVC 2017, and Saburo Tsuji Best Paper Award at ACCV 2018. Runner up for the 2012 Outstanding Young Researcher in Image & Vision Computing award. Other awards include: Rector's award for prestigious publication (one per year per CTU in Prague), Longuet-Higgins Prize at CVPR 2017, etc.
Research Experience
Leading a team within the Visual Recognition Group at the Department of Cybernetics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague.
Education
Received MSc in computer science from Charles University, Prague, in 2001; PhD from Czech Technical University in Prague, in 2005. Postdoctoral researcher at the Visual Geometry Group, University of Oxford, United Kingdom, from 2006 to 2007.
Background
Research interests include large-scale image and particular object retrieval, object recognition, and robust estimation of geometric models. Member of the Image and Vision Computing editorial board, and has served as an area chair at major international conferences (e.g., ICCV, ECCV, CVPR, WACV, BMVC). Co-organizes Computer Vision and Sports Summer School in Prague.