Tomas Svoboda

Tomas Svoboda

Assistant Professor,
Deputy head of the department (for teaching)

Czech Technical University, Faculty of Electrical Engineering
Department of Cybernetics, Center for Machine Perception
Karlovo namesti 13, 121 35 Prague, Czech Republic
Room: G9, tel:+420 2 24357448, fax:+420 2 24357385
e-mail: svoboda AT cmp.felk.cvut.cz

Teaching

A book about (Matlab) programming for Image Processing and Computer Vision is out! Free codes, demos, links to presentations, discussion forum, etc.
Student works (mostly in Czech). [ Diploma | Bachelor theses | individual projects ]
A4M33MPV Computer Vision Methods. Master course in new study program Open Informatics.
A4B99RPH Solving problems and other games. Bachelor course in new study program Open Informatics. [maze video]
XE383ZS Signal and Image Processing. X383ZS in Czech. Demo video.
Open Informatics, a computer science program, member of the board.

past teaching

XE33PVR Computer Vision and Virtual Reality.
X33KUI Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence (in Czech)
Y33ROV Robotics and Machine Perception (in Czech), demo video.

Research Interests

Appoximately in reverse chronological order.

Vision for outdoor rescue robots (UGV), EU project Nifti, CMP Nifti demos.
Advanced predictors for object detection and tracking.
Learning for tracking and recognition.
Multicamera environments, Virtual Rooms. See also ViRoom, Blue-C.
(Multi-)Camera (self-)calibration. Free SW downloadable
Omnidirectional vision; Omnivis2004, The fifth Workshop on Omnidirectional Vision, Camera Networks and Non-classical cameras, In conjunction with ECCV2004.

Selected publications

Public profiles (as requested by area chairs of CVPR2012) [ Google Scholar profile | DBLP ]
Publications [1994-2001,2004-], [2001-2003] in searchable archives. Put "svoboda" into the author field. List of (almost) all.
K. Zimmermann, T. Svoboda, J. Matas. Anytime learning for the NoSLLiP tracker. Image and Vision Computing. 27(11), 2009, [pdf]
K. Zimmermann, J. Matas, and T. Svoboda. Tracking by an Optimal Sequence of Linear Predictors. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. 31(4), 2009, [pdf]
K. Zimmermann, T. Svoboda, J. Matas. Simultaneous learning of motion and appearance. The 1st International Workshop on Machine Learning for Vision-based Motion Analysis, In conjunction with the 10th European Conference on Computer Vision 2008, [ paper | talk ].
K. Zimmernann, T. Svoboda, J. Matas. Adaptive Parameter Optimization for Real-time Tracking. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Non-rigid Registration and Tracking through Learning - NRTL 2007 (joint workshop with the ICCV 2007). [ paper ]
J. Matas, K.Zimmermann, T. Svoboda, A. Hilton. Learning Efficient Linear Predictors for Motion Estimation. In Proceedings of 5th Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing. [ paper | talk ]
K.Zimmermann, T. Svoboda, J. Matas Multiview 3D Tracking with an Incrementally Constructed 3D Model, Third International Symposium on 3D Data Processing, Visualization and Transmission (3DPVT), Chapel Hill, USA, 2006. DEMO
Tomas Svoboda, Daniel Martinec, and Tomas Pajdla. A convenient multi-camera self-calibration for virtual environments. PRESENCE: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, pp 407-422, 14(4), August 2005. MIT Press Manuscript of the journal article [ PDF, 1.7MB ]. Its bib-entry.
Petr Doubek, Indra Geys, Tomas Svoboda, Luc Van Gool: Cinematographic Rules Applied to a Camera Network. In Omnivis 2004. [PDF].
Hao Shao, Tomas Svoboda, Tinne Tuytelaars, and Luc Van Gool. Hpat indexing for fast object/scene recognition based on local appearance. In International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval, [PDF]. July 2003.
M. Gross, S. Wuermlin, M. Naef, E. Lamboray, Ch. Spagno, Kunz. A., E. Koller-Meier, T. Svoboda, L. Van Gool, S. Lang, Strehlke K., A. Vande Moere, and O. Staadt. Blue-c: A spatially immersive display and 3D video portal for telepresence. [PDF]. In Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH 2003, July 2003.
T. Svoboda, T. Pajdla, Epipolar Geometry for Central Catadioptric Cameras. International Journal of Computer Vision, 49(1):23-37, August 2002. [PDF]
Tomas Svoboda, Hanspeter Hug, and Luc Van Gool. ViRoom -- low cost synchronized multicamera system and its self-calibration. [PDF]. In Pattern Recognition, 24th DAGM Symposium, number 2449 in LNCS, pages 515-522. Springer, September 2002.
T.Svoboda, T.Pajdla. Matching in Catadioptric Images with Appropriate Windows and Outliers Removal. Proc. of the 9th International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns. Number 2124 in Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
Tomas Svoboda. PhD Thesis: Central Panoramic Cameras, Design, Geometry, Egomotion. Center for Machine Perception, Czech Technical University.
Tomas Svoboda, Tomas Pajdla and Vaclav Hlavac. Epipolar Geometry for Panoramic Cameras. In 5th European Conference on Computer Vision, Freiburg, Germany, June 1998.
T. Svoboda and P. Sturm Badly Calibrated Camera in Ego-Motion Estimation - Propagation of Uncertainty, in 7-th International Conference Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns. 1997, Kiel, Germany.

Professional Services

Reviewer for journals e.g. PAMI, IJCV, IJIG, JMIV and for major conferences like ICCV, CVPR, ECCV, and ACCV (ACCV2007 reviewer award).

Research fellowships

10/2000-10/2003, Switzerland, ETH (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), Computer Vision Group headed by Luc Van Gool.
10-12/1998, Austria, Vienna University of Technology, PRIP group.
3-7/1996, France, Grenoble, INRIA Rhone-Alpes. Research group MOVI.
8-9/1994, Netherlands, Delft Technical University. Project Recognition of facial expresions.

Personal

Short CV [PDF | HTML].
List of publications [PDF | HTML | Unordered list].
Privat homepage.
Alumni Former students and collaborators. (not all, just from CMP)