Vaclav Hlavac

	Vaclav HLAVAC, Professor, born 1956 Head of the Center for Machine Perception (nickname Vasek, pronounced Vashek in English spell transcription) Department of Cybernetics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering Czech Technical University 121 35 Prague 2, Karlovo namesti 13, Czech Republic Fax: + 420 224 357 385, Phone: + 420 224 357 465 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:	3D computer vision, reconstruction of 3D scenes from 2D images, omnidirectional vision, range imaging, pattern recognition with emphasis to relation between statistical and structural methods, 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, Sept 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. Shekhovtsov A., Kovtun I., Hlavac V.: Efficient MRF deformation model for non-rigid image matching. Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 112(1):91-99, October 2008. Franc V., Hlavac V.: An iterative algorithm learning the maximal margin classifier. Pattern Recognition, Vol. 36, 2003, pp. 1985-1996.

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. 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. My activity in the Czech Technical University Senate between 2001-2007, Committee for Research and Development (in Czech)
Personal:	Married, wife Jarka, children: son Vaclav 1978, daughter Anna 1990, son Jaroslav *1992.