Jiri MatasView profile
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Jiri Matas is a Professor at the Center for Machine Perception, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague. He holds a PhD from the University of Surrey (UK, 1995) and has published over 200 peer-reviewed papers, accumulating ~34,000 Google Scholar citations (h-index 65) and ~13,000 Web of Science citations (h-index 43). Education: PhD in Computer Science (University of Surrey, 1995) His research spans computer vision, image processing, and artificial intelligence, focusing on visual tracking, object recognition, image matching and retrieval, sequential pattern recognition, and RANSAC-type optimization methods. His work has been recognized with multiple best paper awards at premier conferences like BMVC, ACCV, and ICDAR. Academic Leadership: He has co-chaired major conferences (ECCV 2004/2016, CVPR 2007), served on the editorial board of the International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), and acted as Associate Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI). Additionally, he contributed to the European Research Council (ERC) computer science panel. Scientific Awards: Best paper prize at British Machine Vision Conference 2002 Best paper prize at British Machine Vision Conference 2005 Best paper prize at Asian Conference on Computer Vision 2007 Best paper prize at International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition 2015