Stepan Obdrzalek

Qualifications:
2004-present		Research fellow at the Center for Machine Perception, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague Field of interest: Object recognition, motion detection and segmentation
2000-2004		Full time Ph.D. student at the Center of Machine Perception, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague Field of study: Object recognition, computer vision
1993-2000		Master degree at Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague Field of study: Computer science, computer graphics and computer vision Diploma thesis: Compensation of illumination effects on facial appearance using a 3D model

Awards:
		Česká hlava 2006 doctorandus: national prize for best doctorate of 2006
		Best Science Paper Award on British Machine Vision Conference 2005, for paper Štěpán Obdržálek and Jiří Matas: Sub-linear Indexing for Large Scale Object Recognition
		Participation in team winnig 2nd place in ICCV05 Computer Vision Contest ”Where Am I?”

Selected publications:
2006		Štěpán Obdržálek and Jiří Matas: Object Recognition using Local Affine Frames on Maximally Stable Extremal Regions, invited chapter in Jean Ponce et al., editors: Toward Category-Level Object Recognition
2005		Štěpán Obdržálek and Jiří Matas: Sub-linear Indexing for Large Scale Object Recognition best science paper award on British Machine Vision Conference 2005
2007		Štěpán Obdržálek: Object Recognition Using Local Affine Frames PhD thesis, Czech Technical University
2008		Štěpán Obdržálek, Michal Perd'och and Jiří Matas: Dense Linear-Time Correspondences for Tracking Workshop on Visual Localization for Mobile Platforms, CVPR 2008, Anchorage, Alaska
2010		Štěpán Obdržálek and Jiří Matas: A Voting Strategy for Visual Ego-Motion from Stereo IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, San Diego, California, June 2010
remaining publications can be found at http://cmp.felk.cvut.cz/biblio/publicat/, entering 'obdrzalek' into the 'Author' field

Research fellowships:
July – September 1999, February – March 2000		Image Science group, Department of Electrotechnics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule - ETH), Zürich, Switzerland
January – July 2002		Centre for Vision, Speech, and Signal Processing, School of Electronics and Physical Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom In Erasmus Student Exchange Program

Personal:
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Štěpán Obdržálek