Karel Zimmermann is associate professor at the Czech Technical University in Prague. He received his PhD degree in cybernetics in 2008. He worked as postdoctoral re-searcher with the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (2008-2009) in the group of prof Luc van Gool. His current H-index is 13 (google-scholar) and he serves as a reviewer for major journals such as TPAMI or IJCV and conferences such as CVPR, ICCV, IROS. He received the best lecturer award in 2018, the best reviewer award at CVPR 2011 and the best PhD work award in 2008. His journal paper has been selected among 14 best research works representing Czech Technical University in the goverment evaluation process (RIV). Since 2010 he has been chair of Antonin Svoboda Award (http://svobodovacena.cz. He was also with the Technological Education Institute of Crete (2001), with the Technical University of Delft (2002), with the University of Surrey (2006). His current research interests include learnable methods for robotics.
E-mail:zimmerk@cmp.felk.cvut.cz
WWW:http://cmp.felk.cvut.cz/~zimmerk
Address:CVUT-FEL, E226, Karlovo nam. 13, Praha 2
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We have won the Darpa Subterranean Challenge Tunnel Circuit and Urban Circuit among non-sponsored teams and took the overall 3rd place !!!

https://www.fel.cvut.cz/en/aktuality/darpa2019-K33-K36


Vision for Robotics and Autonomous Systems (VRAS)
Center for Robotics and Autonomous Systems (CRAS) 		Learning for Active 3D Mapping with Solid State Lidar,
ICCV (oral), 2017


Guided reinforcement learning for simultaneous
exploration and segmentation, JFR, 2019 		Reactive motion control of
auxiliary subtrack (flippers) ICRA 2014


SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
[1] V.Salansky, K.Zimmermann, T.Petricek, T.Svoboda, Pose Consistency KKT-loss for Weakly Supervised learning of Robot-Terrain Interaction Model RA-L (Q1,IF=3.6), 2021
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[1] K. Zimmermann, T. Petricek, V.Salansky, T.Svoboda, Learning for Active 3D Mapping,
ICCV (oral, A*-rank), 2017
[pdf] [arxiv] [video] [slides] [poster]
[2] K.Zimmermann, D.Hurych, T.Svoboda Non-Rigid Object Detection with Local Interleaved Sequential Alignment (LISA),
TPAMI (Q1,IF=5), 2014. [pdf]
[3] K.Zimmermann, J.Matas, T.Svoboda Tracking by an Optimal Sequence of Linear Predictors,
TPAMI (Q1,IF=5), 2009. [pdf]
[4] M.Pecka, K. Zimmermann, T.Svoboda, Data-driven Policy Transfer with Imprecise Perception Simulation,
IROS/RAL, 2018[pdf]
[5] M.Salansky, T.Petricek, K. Zimmermann, T.Svoboda, Simultaneous Exploration and Segmentation for Search and Rescue\ ,
JFR(Q1,IF=4), 2019[pdf]
[6] K. Zimmermann, P. Zuzanek, M. Reinstein, T. Petricek, V. Hlavac, Ad\ aptive Traversability of Partially Occluded Obstacles,
ICRA, 2015[pdf]
[7] M. Pecka, K. Zimmermann, M. Reinsten, and T. Svoboda. Controlling Robot Morphology from Incomplete Measurements.
TIE (IF=6.5), 2016 [pdf], [IEEE Xplore]
[8] K.Zimmermann, T. Svoboda, J. Matas, Multiview 3D Tracking with an Incrementally Constructed 3D Model,
3DPVT Symposium on 3D Data Processing, Visualization and Transmission, 2006. [pdf]
[9] J. Matas, K.Zimmermann Unconstrained licence plate and text localization and recognition,
ITS, Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2005 [pdf]
[10] K.Zimmermann, T.Svoboda, J.Matas Anytime learning for the NoSLLiP tracker,
IVC (IF=2) Image and Vision Computing, 2009. [pdf]

RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS:
2008-2009: PostDoc at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, ESAT-PSI/VISICS (Belgium)
2006 (February-May): University of Surrey, Centre for Vision & Speech Signal Processing (UK)
2002 (June-August): Technical university of Delft (Netherland) - Fundatie van de vrijvrouwe van renswoude te delft
2001 (March-June): TEI (Technological Education Institute of Crete). Department of Computers and Multimedia. Socrates/Erasmus student.

PROJECTS:
  • EU FP7 Investigator (2016-2019) ENABLE-S3
    European initiative to enable validation for highly automated safe and secure systems
  • EU FP7 Investigator (2010-2013) NIFTI (EU FP7-ICT-247870)
    Natural human-robot cooperation in dynamic environments
  • EU FP7 Investigator(2014-2017) TRADR (EU FP7-ICT-609763)
    Long-Term Human-Robot Teaming for Robot-Assisted Disaster Response
  • GACR Principal investigator (2017-2019) GACR 17-08842S
    Robust motion planning and control on rough unstructured terrain.
  • GACR Principal investigator (2011-2013) GACR P103/11/P700
    Tracking and Detection by the optimal sequence of linear predictors.
  • GACR Principal investigator (2014-2016) GACR 14-13876S
    Perception methods for long-term autonomy of mobile robots.
  • IBBT Principal investigator (2009-2010) Flemish IBBT-URBAN
    Traffic sign detection and localization from a mobile platform
  • GACAS Investigator (2004-2008) MultiCam (1ET101210407)
    3D tracking with incrementally constructed model


EDUCATION:
2004-2008:PhD.Student at the Czech Technical University CTU-FEL (specialization: biocybernetic and artificial intelligence.) PhD defended Nov 7, 2008
1998-2004:Graduate at the Czech Technical University CTU-FEL (specialization: cybernetics and measurements.)

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