R&D in Pattern Recongnition and Image Analysis in the Czech Republic

1. R&D in Pattern Recongnition and Image Analysis in the Czech Republic Václav Hlaváč Czech Technical University in Prague Faculty of Electrical Engineering Center for Machine Perception

2. CZECH REPUBLIC 10 million people; 78,864 km2

3. R&D IN PATTERN RECOGNITION AND IMAGE ANALYSIS • Universities (Brno, Kladno, Liberec, Ostrava, Plzeň, Prague) • Academy of Sciences (Brno, Prague) • R&D companies • Camea s.r.o., Brno • Certicon a.s., Praha • Eyedea Recognition s.r.o., Praha • Honeywell Technology Center, Praha • Neovision s.r.o., Praha

4. UTIA – Jan Flusser • Institute of Information Theory and Automation • Image processing department • 6 staff, 4 PhD students • Interests • Moments, invariants for object recognition • Multi-channel images registration • Deconvolution, Image fusion

5. Blind deconvolution - results

6. rough registration Optical zoom (ground truth) Superresolution image (2x) Super-Resolution in practice

7. UTIA – Michal Haindl • Department of Pattern Recognition • 8 staff, 5 PhD students • Interests: • Markov random fields • dynamic / BTF / colour texture synthesis • unsupervised / semisupervised image / range segmentation • illumination invariants • image / video restoration • document classification • feature selection • statistical PR • Probabilistic mixture models

8. Institute of Physiology - Lucie Kubínová (Mrs.) • Department of Biomathematics • 10 people, only 2 in image analysis, the rest are biologists • Interests: • Stereology, mathematical morphology • 3D reconstructions of biological samples from optical and confocal microscopes

9. TU Ostrava – Eduard Sojka • Department of Computer Science • 1 person + MSc. students • Interests: • Interest point detectors • 3D reconstruction from video

10. Technical University Brno – Josef Honec, Pavel Zemčík • Dept. of Control Engineering / Dept. of Computer Graphics • 5 people + 5 PhD students • Strong link to Camea s.r.o. • Interests: • Image processing HW • Industrial applications

11. Technical University Brno – Jiří Jan • Department of Biomedical Engineering • 5 people, 3 PhD students • Interests • Medical imaging • Signal processing • Image data processing in ultrasonic transmission computed tomography (USCT) • Retinal image processing and analysis

12. UTSC imaged phantom new alg. of attenuation estimation, with multipath transmission – next lecture standard non-filtered back projection

13. Registration in ophtalmology Level 1 Level 4

14. Masaryk Univ. – Michal Kozubek • Centre for Biomedical Image Analysis, Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University • 4 staff, 4 PhD students • Interests: • image processing and image analysis in optical microscopy • image acquisition • automation of these tasks

15. TU Liberec – 3 individuals • Faculty of Mechatronics • Josef Chaloupka – human face, lips for speech processing • Ivan Jaksch – quality check in textile industry • Petr Tuma – vision in industry

16. Faculty of Biomed. Eng. Kladno • Movement Analysis in Parkinson’s Disease - Zoltán Szabó • Capturing and analysis of ocular torsion and pupilometry - Jiří Hozman • SW and HW development of accurate measuring system for head position analysis in 3D - Jiří Hozman

17. 3D Movement Analysis in Parkinson’s Disease Contact person: Ing. Zoltán Szabó, Ph.D. E-mail: szabo@fbmi.cvut.cz Tel.:(+420) 224 358 487

18. Univ. of West Bohemia – M. Železný • Faculty of Applied Sciences, Department of Cybernetics, Multimodal human-computer interaction group • 3 staff, 2 PhD students • Interests: • Multimodal (audio-visual) speech recognition (incl. head tracking, liptracking etc.) • Speech synthesis (talking head, parametrically controllablefacial animation) • Analysis and synthesis of sign language, manual andnon-manual gestures, emotions

19. Camea Company • Est. 1996, 35 people, www.camea.cz • Video processing for traffic applications • Car identification • Section speed measurement • Red line violation on crossings • Industrial applications • Develop own hardware, FPGA

20. Eydea Recognition • Est. 2006, real spin-off, CTU has 10%, rest J. Matas, M. Urban, V. Franc • 4 people • Pattern recognition for traffic applications (main customer Camea)

21. Eydea – Arabic number plates

22. Honeywell Technology Center • Part of advanced research, reports to Minneapolis • 5 people • Head: Petr Stluka • Interests: Security video (airports, railway stations, buildings)

23. Laboratory Imaging company • About 15 people company, www.lim.cz, owned by J. Mikes, M. Svoboda • Interests: • Image analysis for microscopes • Software system LUCIA, mathematical morphology • Applications in forensics (Swiss partner) • Turn-key HW, SW for Nikon

24. Neovision company • Est. 1996, 18 people company, owned by V. Hlavac, T. Pajdla, P. Palatka (director), V. Smutny, www.neovision.cz • Strong links to CTU (Center for Applied Cybernetics) • Interests: • Industrial applications of computer vision • Braille script recognition • Omni-directional cameras

25. Neovision s.r.o. • Spin-off company • Founded in 1996 • 18 employees • Transfer from CMP to industry • Customers AVX Czech Republic s.r.o.Czech Republic Tantalum capacitors Texas Instruments, Inc.USA Preciosa a.s.Czech Republic Siemes VDO Frenštát p. Radhoštěm quality control & precise measurement by image processing