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 km 2

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 Optical zoom (ground truth) Superresolution image (2x) rough registration 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 standard non-filtered back projection new alg. of attenuation estimation, with multipath transmission – next lecture imaged phantom UTSC

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. Tel.: (+420)

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, lip tracking etc.) Speech synthesis (talking head, parametrically controllable facial animation) Analysis and synthesis of sign language, manual and non-manual gestures, emotions

19 Camea Company  Est. 1996, 35 people,  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, owned by J. Mikes, M. Svobodawww.lim.cz  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,  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 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