Vaclav HLAVAC, Professor, born 1956
Head of the Center for Machine Perception
(nickname Vasek, pronounced Vashek in the English transcription)

Department of Cybernetics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering 
Czech Technical University in Prague
121 35 Prague 2, Karlovo namesti 13, Czech Republic
Fax: + 420 224 357 385, Phone: + 420 224 357 465, Mobile: +420 603 149 689
E-mail: hlavac@fel.cvut.cz
Current Position: Professor of technical cybernetics, head of the Center Machine Perception, deputy head of the Department of Cybernetics.
Research Interests: Computer vision, reconstruction of 3D scenes from 2D images, omnidirectional vision, analysis of videosekvences, cognitive systems, pattern recognition with emphasis to relation between statistical and structural methods, robotics, industrial and medical applications of machine vision.
Current projects: Look at the web pages of the CMP research group I am responsible for.
Qualification: 1981 graduated Ing. (similar to MSc.) in control engineering from the CTU Prague; 1982 PhD student at the CTU, since 1983 teaching position, 1987 PhD from the 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.
Five selected Publications:

Sonka M., Hlavac V. , Boyle R.: Image Processing, Analysis, and Machine Vision, 3rd edition, Thomson Learning, Toronto, April 2007, 821 p, ISBN 049508252X (2nd edition  Brooks/Cole, Pacific Grove, CA, 1999, 1st edition Chapman & Hall, London 1993, ).
Svoboda T., Kybic J., Hlavac V.: Image Processing, Analysis, and Machine Vision,
A MATLAB Companion, Thomson Learning, Toronto, ISBN 0495295957, Sep 2007, 265 p. 
Schlesinger M.I., Hlavac V.: Ten lectures on statistical and syntactic pattern recognition, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, 2002, 521 p.
 Uhríková Z., Hlaváč V., Růžička E., Nugent C.D.: TremAn: A tool for measuring tremor frequency from video sequences, Movement Disorders, 25(4), March 2010, 504-506.
Shekhovtsov A., Hlavac V.: On partial opimality by auxiliary submodular problems. Control Systems and Computers, 232(2): 71-78, 2011.

Teaching or tutorial presentations: While teaching and writing textbooks I created several teaching or tutorial presentations. To tet the list of contents of presentations in English click here, in Czech click here. I try to update this page as much as I can. Lectures given at KAUST in Feb 2011.
We also maintain MATLAB exercises code for computer vision, see http://visionbook.felk.cvut.cz
Other Links: Publications from 1994 (searchable), Publications 1984-1998 (.ps)
Alumni - my former PhD, MSc and Bc students.
Personal: Children: son Vaclav *1978, daughter Anna *1990, son Jaroslav *1992.

  Last update: 07.09. 2011