Daniel Sýkora, Mirela Ben-Chen, Martin Čadík, Brian Whited and Maryann Simmons received Best Paper Award (in Animation) at International Symposium on Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering in Vancouver, Canada on 5–7 August 2011, collocated with SIGGRAPH 2011 for their paper: TexToons: Practical Texture Mapping for Hand-drawn Cartoon Animations.

Our student Jakub Hušek has been awarded by the 1st prize for the Best Presentation of the student conference CESCG 2011. The awarded presentation Multi-touch Table with Image Capturing was part of his diploma work supervised by our member, Miroslav Macík.

Czech Technical University and company HTC have opened the first mobile laboratory in the Czech Republic .

Simple smart phones and remote controls help...

European Union

i2home article on The OPEN MINDS Circle (PDF)

10:00 Miloš Šrámek (Austrian Academy of Sciences): Voxelization of geometric objects with sharp details

Voxelization is a sampling process that transforms a continuously defined object into a discrete one represented as a voxel field. The voxel field can be used for rendering or other purposes which often involve a reconstruction of a continuous approximation of the original object. Objects to be voxelized need to fulfill certain representability conditions; otherwise, disturbing artifacts appear during reconstruction. We present a new method for voxelization of solid objects containing sharp details which extends the traditional distance-based voxelization by an a-priori detection of sharp object details and their subsequent modification in such a way that the resulting object to be voxelized fulfills the representability conditions. We exemplify the method by two classes of solid objects that normally contain such sharp details: implicit solids and solids resulting from CSG operations. In both cases, the sharp details are rounded to a specific curvature dictated by the sampling distance.

11:00 Andrej Ferko (Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave): Multidimensional Urban Visions

MUVIS is an extensible platform for online participatory urban planning. MUVIS (Multidimensional Urban Visions) offers for people, local authorities, and investors a dialogue of all participants and in a case study Virtual Petrzalka achieves creation, visualization, and discussing visions and plans. MUVIS offers a recent technology solution and improves current state and approach with explaining new methods to obtain - as optimal as possible - future of our cities.

On the 14th of October 2010 at 5 p.m. the exhibition of student works will be opened. The exhibition will take place in the hallway at the 3rd floor, E building, Karlovo nam. 13.

The paper by Jiří Danihelka, Roman Hák, Lukáš Kencl and Jiří Žára, titled “3D Talking-Head Interface to Voice-Interactive Services on Mobile Phones” receives BEST PAPER AWARD at the 5th Workshop on Speech in Mobile and Pervasive Environments SiMPE (in conjunction with the ACM MobileHCI 2010 conference) on September 7, 2010 in Lisbon, Portugal. Congratulations for a great success at a respected international workshop and a strong achievement for the 3D Mobile Internet team! Many thanks go to Vodafone Foundation Czech Republic for the continuous support of this project.

Our student Ondřej Jamriška has been awarded by the 1st prize for the Best Paper at the student conference CESCG 2010. The awarded paper Interactive Ray Tracing of Distance Fields was the subject of bachelor thesis supervised by our member, Vlastimil Havran.

The authors team Daniel Sýkora, David Sedláček, Sun Jinchao, John Dingliana, and Steven Collins received Günter Enderle Award (Best Paper Award) at prestigious conference Eurographics 2010 for their contribution Adding Depth to Cartoons Using Sparse Depth (In)equalities.

The main author, Daniel Sýkora, after receiving PhD degree (supervisor prof. Žára) moved to Trinity College Dublin where he works as research fellow, David Sedláček is PhD student at CTU in Prague (supervisor prof. Žára).

CTU Team defended successfully i2home project. It was broadcasted by BBC.
Links to these videos you can find here.
BBC News on i2home
BBC News i2home technology

Institute of InterMedia , which is very closely linked to the Department of Computer Graphics and Interaction (DCGI) was set up as a joint workplace of CTU and Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. Its aim is to create a space for interdisciplinary cooperation among the students of technical school and students of art disciplines. The area of computer graphics and virtual reality is offering a large field for collaboration. Czech TV editors of publicistic programme PORT created one part of this programme dedicated to Virtual reality in which they engaged experts from the appointed workplaces and their colleagues from Masaryk University in Brno. So next step in the promotion of interesting science to the public has been made, which especially today we consider very important. (Roman Berka - the head of IIM.) Czech TV PORT

CTU-Interoperability Lab (IOL) is the new joint project of CTU fakulty of Electrical Engineering and Microsoft coordinated by Technology Exploration Center(TEC).

The aim of IOL is to create prestigious independent workplace, which could be searched by top experts, institutions and companies dealing with design or developing multi-platform solutions in the Czech Republic and as well abroad. CTU is giving patronage and garantee of independce to this project. On the other hand Microsoft enables practical use of knowledge and research and development results. CTU-IOL is not going to be limited only in cooperation of CTU and Microsoft. In contrary it is completely open to application developers or users, also for commercial and noncommercial organizations. Interoperability Lab

DCGI is one of the partners in a new VERITAS project granted in the scope of the 7th Framework programme of the EU. VERITAS aims to develop, validate and assess an open framework for built-in accessibility support at all stages of ICT and non-ICT product development, including specification, design, development and testing. The goal is to introduce simulation-based and VR testing at all stages of product design and development into the automotive, smart living spaces, workplace, infotainment and personal healthcare applications areas. This should ensure that future products and services are being systematically designed for all people including those with disabilities and functional limitations.

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