Institute of Information Theory and Automation

Welcome to UTIA

The Institute of Information Theory and Automation (UTIA) is a public non-university research institution which administratively falls under the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. UTIA conducts fundamental and applied research in computer science, signal and image processing, pattern recognition, system science, and control theory. UTIA consists of eight scientific departments, computer centre, library, facility maintenance department and business administration department. UTIA also publishes the journal Kybernetika. UTIA is managed by the Director and the Board.
Pod Vodárenskou věží 4
CZ-182 08, Prague 8
Czech Republic
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email: utia (a) utia.cas.cz

Recent news:

SCOPUS Award for B. Zitova and J. Flusser
Barbara Zitova and Jan Flusser were awarded by the prestigious "SCOPUS 1000 Award" in recognition of more than 1000 SCOPUS citations of their paper " Image registration methods: A survey", Image and Vision Computing, vol.21, pp. 977-1000, 2003
Granted patent on "Robotic Device" for UTIA

The fundament of the patent consists in a structural configuration of robotic device based on parallel kinematic concept enabling a specific connection of drives both rotational and only purely direct linear for its motion. Robotic device is intended for machining centers with top milling operations.
Inventor: Ing. Květoslav Belda, Ph.D.
        Department of Adaptive Systems

Prémii Otto Wichterleho 2010 získal Jiří Filip
Akademická rada Akademie věd ČR, na základě návrhu poroty pro udělování Prémií Otto Wichterleho mladým vědeckým pracovníkům v AV ČR, udělila Prémii Otto Wichterleho v roce 2010

Ing. Jiřímu Filipovi, Ph.D.

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New book on pattern recognition
New monograph Moments and Moment Invariants in Pattern Recognition, Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2009 (317 pp., ISBN 978-0-470-69987-4) written by UTIA's researchers Jan Flusser, Tomáš Suk and Barbara Zitová, was published on October 30, 2009.

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