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FIT student wants to make life easier for drivers. She came up with a way to find parking spaces using radar

Everybody who has ever been to Brno by car during a working week probably knows that finding a parking space is about as likely as winning a lottery. This is especially true if the driver must rely on parking spaces available to everybody and not just to residents. In the future, drivers could be spared having to cruise around hoping somebody decides to leave in part thanks to a technology developed by a FIT BUT student, Kateřina Rafajová. She utilised both radars and GPS mounted in cars to find free parking spaces in the area. For more information, read the article

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A new method developed by FIT researchers will contribute to more realistic videogame and virtual reality environments

A new method developed by researchers from the CPhoto@FIT group can measure the realism of synthetically generated trees. They described the underlying research together with their colleagues from the Purdue University in a paper which was accepted at SIGGRAPH - the most prestigious conference on graphics, which will take place in Tokyo in December. "It is a huge success. We conducted an extensive user study in which 4,000 participants compared over one million pairs of images so that we know which images look the most realistic.  The scores were used to train our neural network, called ICTree. The program is now able to recognise which synthetically generated trees are likely or unlikely to be considered realistic," describes Martin Čadík, one of the authors of the paper. The method can be used by developers of simulators, games, architectural visualisations or virtual reality applications, i.e. wherever synthetically generated 3D trees are used, to design a more realistic environment. More information and video available HERE.

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More than 400 visitors arrived at the Friday Science Night

More than 400 people visited the Faculty of Information Technology on Friday evening and night. For the Science Night, the Faculty prepared 12 stands, where the visitors could acquaint themselves for example with voice biometrics, internet security, robots and drones or 3D printing. The Czech Television was broadcasting live from FIT (the broadcast is available on the Czech Television website), the Czech Radio made a short report (available in its archives at the 6:52 mark) and a FIT video about machine handwriting recognition is available on the Science Night online platform. Overall, 4,400 people visited BUT that night. Next year of this Europe-wide celebration of science will be held on 30 September 2022.

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Dana Hliněná and Jiří Jaroš voted the most popular teachers at FIT

As last year, the awards for the best teachers at the Faculty will go to Dana Hliněná for Bachelor's study programmes and Jiří Jaroš for Master's study programmes. These two teachers have received the most votes from students in the best teacher survey for the academic year 2020/2021. The other names on the make-believe ladder remained the same as well - Tomáš Milet and Jan Černocký for Bachelor's study programmes and Milan Češka and Tomáš Vojnar for Master's study programmes. The competition was announced in June by the Rector of BUT with the support of the Academic Senate; complete results can be found on the BUT website.

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BUT scored highly in sports competitions

The BUT sportsmen and women brought a few medals back from Olomouc. BUT took the overall fifth place at the Czech Academic Games, even though a few sportsmen won gold medals in their sports, for example Marek Bahník, a FIT student, in the high jump.

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