Libor Špaček Centre for Machine Perception, Department of Cybernetics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University Karlovo namesti 13, 121 35 Praha, Czech Republic. Room G9, tel:+420 2 2435 5760, fax:+420 2 2435 7385, e-mail: spacek AT fel.cvut.cz

Research

• Omnidirectional Vision for Robot Guidance: Linux Robot (pdf) and video (18.5 MBytes mpg), JRAS Paper (pdf), TAROS08 Paper (pdf)
• Edge Detection: JIVC Paper (Science Direct Link). See also LVL software below and an example (image)
• Face Recognition: My Face Recognition Databases (html descriptions and image databases), BMVC Paper (full text in html)
• Machine Learning: AAI Paper (url to journal)
• Occlusion Analysis, Motion Detection (see selected publications below)
• Geometric Algebra AGACSE2008 (conference link)

Selected Publications (pdf)

• 1985, Visiting Research Fellow, MIT, Cambridge, Mass., US (funded by MIT).
• 1987, Visiting Research Fellow, Universities of Sydney and New South Wales, Australia.
• 1992-1995, Part time consultant for Applied Artificial Intelligence Ltd. UK
• 2001, Visiting Research Fellow (funded by EU project Miracle), Centre for Machine Perception, Czech Technical University.

Delivered invited research seminars at: Cambridge University, University of Oxford, King's College London University, University of Surrey, Czech Technical University in Prague, Technical University of Brno, Technical University of Graz, University of Essex, IBM (UK) Research Centre, GEC Hirst Research Laboratory, British Telecom, British Petroleum, University of New Mexico, University of Brisbane, University of New South Wales, University of Melbourne, University of Tasmania, University of Auckland, University of Christchurch, University of Otago, and others.

Software

Professional Services

• Co-chairman of Computer Vision Winter Workshop 2010 (CVWW2010).
• Reviewer for journals, e.g.: Robotica, Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision, International Journal of Computer Vision, Journal of Robotics and Autonomous Systems, IEEE PAMI, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Pattern Analysis and Applications, IEE Proceedings on Vision Image and Signal Processing, IEE Electronics Letters.
• Reviewer of several books on Computer Vision.
• External or internal examiner for the following universities' postgraduate degrees:
  • University of Essex: MSc by Research (several times); University of Tasmania: MSc by Research, University of Manchester: MSc by Research (several times), University of Kuwait: MSc by Research, University of West Indies: MSc.
  • University of Essex: PhD (five times), Imperial College - London University: PhD (three times), Oxford University D.Phil (twice)
• Member of the Programme Committee/Review Committee/Associate Editor of various major conferences, e.g.: ICPR, IROS, ECCV, EUSIPCO, BMVC, MICAI, TAROS.
• Session Chair at the following conferences: AIT95, ISIRS98, EuroGP03.
• Referee of significant research grant applications for the government funding agencies of the UK and Singapore.

Teaching Summary

During the last four years I have designed and taught the following courses: Professional Development and Practice, Undergraduate Group Project, Postgraduate Group Project, Intelligent Problem Solving, Robot Programming, Introduction to Computer Vision, Advanced Computer Vision, Visual Guidance for Robotics, and Sensor Signal Processing.

In earlier years I designed and taught new postgraduate courses on: artificial intelligence (three separate courses based on seminars, projects, and lectures), logic programming, machine learning, neural networks, computer vision, human perception, robotics (several different courses), and image and signal processing.

Human Languages - fluent: English, Czech, get by: Slovak, Italian, understand some: German, Russian, French.
Computer Languages (used and/or taught in the past): Fortran, Cobol, Algol, Algol68, Assembler, Lisp, BCPL, C, Prolog, Java, PHP, Python, Pure.