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A new software tool developed by a group of IT experts from the Brno Technical University will offer an entirely new experience while looking at photos taken on vacation. In co-operation with Adobe Research, the team of Martin Čadík from the Faculty of Information Technology found a way to incorporate ordinary user-taken photographs to the landscape and thus offers a unique opportunity to take a walk through the place where the photographer took the photos. The possibly to show your close ones an overall view of the place where the photographs were taken and to take a walk along the path in virtual reality introduces an entirely new dimension to the current way of presenting photographs.

Yesterday, in the Tugendhat Villa, the Dean of the Faculty of Information Technology of the Brno University of Technology, Pavel Zemčík, awarded two Information Technology Development Merit Medals. He awarded the medals to two major personages in the field - Pavel Baudiš, the founder of AVAST, and Martin Grigar, Chairman of the Board of Directors of AUTOCONT.

All it takes is one or two photos taken using a smartphone for the OneProve app to be able to evaluate whether the item is an original or a counterfeit. It can recognise counterfeit paintings, brand handbags, clothes or legal documents. The app which combines artificial intelligence and mobile technology is the first of its kind in the world. What is more, scientists from the Faculty of Information Technology of BUT participate in its development.

She arrived at Brno couple of years ago and she liked her traineeship at the Faculty of Information Technology of BUT so much she decided to come back. Currently, Mireia Diez Sánchez works for Speech@FIT - one of the most important research groups in the area of data mining from speech in the world in the framework of the Marie Curie grant.

The ever-increasing volume of transferred data means that demands for speed of computer networks are increasing as well. That means that usual tools are no longer sufficient for the needs of experts monitoring network traffic. They are unable to analyse such large volumes of data quickly enough to allow them to notify administrators of unusual behaviour or possible threat. That is why Lukáš Kekely from the Faculty of Information Technology of BUT researched the possibility of using special FPGA chips. As a part of his research, he designed a way to program an FPGA card so that it enables monitoring of above-standard volumes of data once connected to the network. He was even awarded third place in the Werner von Siemens Award for his dissertation thesis.

Artificial intelligence is not omnipotent, of course, but it can make a lot of people's work easier and save their time. The research team at the Faculty of Information Technology that used evolutionary algorithms to automate the design of computer component knows this. The algorithms can be used in battery-powered devices where optimisation of ongoing operations is needed to reduce energy consumption.

Stanislav Smatana received the prestigious Brno PhD Talent Award. He is involved in the development of a platform for analysis of bacteria from the intestines and the use of IT tools in medicine as part of his doctoral research at the Faculty of Information Technology. He claims that unknown bacteria can be approached as "big data" whose thorough analysis will help us understand chronic diseases or drug functionality.

Taking a picture of quite a low quality where the details cannot be made out occasionally happens to everybody. Various computer programs can fix a lot. However, where classic software reaches its limits, one needs more complex operations. That is why the experts at the Faculty of Information Technology work with photography editing using convolutional neural networks. That may allow for making various historical documents at the Moravian Library in Brno become more focused and readable.

Miloš Musil, a doctoral student at the Faculty of Information Technology of BUT, has been awarded the prestigious Joseph Fourier Prize today. He won the prize for the second place and a special award of the IT4Innovations supercomputer centre for his research in bioinformatics.

Barbora Micenková, a graduate from the Faculty of Information Technology of BUT, has a company e-mail address many people from IT industry dream of - ending with @google.com. After completing her doctoral studies in Denmark, she managed to become a trainee in the Swiss branch of Google, and subsequently get a full-time employment offer. She has been working as a software engineer in the ad delivery team for the last three years. She says it is not impossible to get a job at Google. However, she advises every applicant to prepare for the interview.

The all-day conference Excel@FIT presented nearly fifty student informatics projects to the general public. The fourth consecutive year of this conference took place at the Faculty of Information Technology of BUT on Thursday 3 May 2018. IT students had the opportunity to introduce their practical solutions, for example, Marek Schauer introduced his information system for care services administration which significantly facilitates coordinating care of individuals. His colleague Marek Sychra had programmed a search engine for air transport helping to search for the ideal combination of flights.

Precision without radiation. Such is the goal for the new breast imaging device which is now being developed by researchers at the Faculty of Information Technology at BUT together with other European scientists. In the future, the new 3D imaging technology could replace the current ultrasonic and x-ray based mammography devices.

Vehicle speed measurement, automatic vehicle recognition and estimation of their time of arrival, or analysis of free parking spaces number through surveillance cameras. These are just some of the projects in which Jakub Sochor from the Faculty of Information Technology of BUT participated. Last year, he was awarded the Joseph Fourier Prize for his research in computer science and informatics. He took over this prestigious award directly from a Nobel Prize winner at the French embassy.