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Invited Talks on Vision, Graphics return to the faculty. The VGS-IT lecture series, which already introduced many world-famous personages from the fields of computer vision, graphics and speech processing give lectures at FIT, is returning after a "covid break", at least in a virtual form. Srikanth Madikeri from the Swiss research institute IDIAP accepted the invitation to speak on Monday, 8 March. His talk will be about speech recognition for languages with little training data and the LF-MMI method. Everybody is welcome to attend; for more information, visit the VGS-IT website.

It has been more than 48 years since humans last walked on the surface of the Moon. A potential return to the Moon has recently become a frequently discussed topic and it attracted the attention of Jakub Karpíšek, a FIT student, who decided to research this area as part of his Bachelor's thesis. The jurors of the 8 of BUT were fascinated by his lunar landing simulation and awarded him a second place in the competition. You can find more in the article. 

Lukáš Sekanina from the Department of Computer Systems ranks among the two percent of most cited researchers in the area of Information & Communication Technologies. His research at FIT focuses on biology-inspired artificial intelligence, especially genetic programming, and applications in the areas of automated design or adaptation of hardware and software. Lukáš Burget from the Department of Computer Graphics and Multimedia is currently the fourth most cited researcher from the Czech Republic in the field of informatics according to the guide2research ranking, which is based on Google Scholar citations. He is a lead investigator in the Speech@FIT research group, which focuses on collection of data from speech. According to the same ranking, BUT is the third most cited university (after CTU and Charles University) in the field of informatics in the Czech Republic.