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Four prominent personages of the "Czech Silicon Valley" will meet virtually on Thursday, 22 October, at the seminar called Od studenta k CEO/CTO (From Student to CEO/CTO) (FB event HERE). During the virtual meeting, they will discuss their path to exceptional technology, how they were able to build a product and finalise it or succeed on the market with it. Invitations of FIT have been kindly accepted by:

       Martin Cígler the holder of the IT Personality of the Year award and the FIT Information Technology Development Merit Medal, but above all, he is the founder of a company, which under his leadership grew from a small Brno company into an international holding - Solitea - with a turnover in the amount of two billion Czech crowns.

       Jan Najvárek the co-founder and co-owner of ARTIN, one of the most innovative Czech companies, which employs three hundred of the brightest minds in Brno. He is also involved in the development of RoboAuto and BringAuto autonomous vehicles.

       You can meet Jan Kořenek, who is an academic achieving excellent scientific results, at FIT. However, he is also the founder of the Invea Tech spin-off - two world-famous companies Flowmon Networks and Netcope Technologies, which are among the industry leaders and deliver solutions to industry giants such as Intel.

       Zbyněk Poulíček founded his company GINA with his classmates when he was still studying at FIT. Their idea, which was praised even by Bill Gates, is now helping to save lives all around the world.

We invite you to this Virtual Meeting. You can find more information on the event here.

What experience have you gained from your journey towards a successful business? Where to get the funds to start a new business? What are the success factors and what are the common mistakes of new entrepreneurs? These and other questions will be answered during the first two seminars of the Star(t)up@FIT programme. These will take place online - on Thursday, 22 October, there will be a panel discussion titled Od studenta k CEO/CTO (From Student to CEO/CTO) with successful start-up owners, and on Wednesday, 4 November, a discussion with Martin Kešner, Investment Director of a VC Fund - J&T Ventures, as part of the Od nápadu k produktu (From Idea to Product) seminar. Students can also discuss their innovative and business ideas with each other and with FIT consultants in a working group established on Discord.

Zoner Photo Studio can now recognise lines in the photo and straighten the photo according to these lines thanks to a new feature developed at the Faculty of Information Technology. It will be especially useful for architecture photographers. "They often want the vertical lines to be actually vertical and the photo not to "fall". The new feature detects lines that converge in the photo and automatically selects the appropriate ones for comparison. This makes it possible to correct the perspective of the image, but, at the same time, the software makes sure that the degree of deformation is not too significant," explains Roman Juránek, the author of the library, which Zoner has newly integrated into its product. You can see how intelligent line straightening works in the video.

The solution is part of the TAČR (Technology Agency of the Czech Republic) project. The computer graphics research group has also developed a solution for anonymising faces and vehicle license plates and is working on smart noise reduction in photographs or horizon detection.