About us
The Robotics Perception (ROP) Group belongs to the Robotics Machine Perception (RMP) Department, one of the six departments, of the Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics, and Cybernetics (CIIRC) at the Czech Technical University in Prague.
ROP Group deals with machine perception, namely computer vision, tactile perception for robotic manipulation, perception from other sensory modalities, and cognitive approach to human-robot interaction.
Seminars
Wed May 28, 2025 (10:00 JP:B-633) Paweł Gajewski: What Should a Robot Understand? A Journey Through Representation and Emergence. In this talk, Paweł will reflect on his PhD research and beyond, exploring how robots can generalize to new situations using analogy, structured knowledge, reinforcement learning, and affordance-based interaction. As the field moves toward emergent behaviour in large AI systems, many of these foundational ideas remain surprisingly relevant. Join us to explore what it truly means for a robot to “understand”, and how this understanding might arise. Online access: https://cesnet.zoom.us/j/97248350200?pwd=g4mf5YElhpAva1gv8M8ABF9qLtAnUU.1
Reading Group
Tue, Feb 04, 2025 (13:00 JP:B-633) Zhengyou Zhang: A flexible new technique for camera calibration. In Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on, 22(11):1330–1334, 2000. As many robotic tasks employ camera calibration algorithm from OpenCV built upon the PAMI 2000…. (link) (report)
News
Tue, July 7-9, 2025 ELLIOT Kick-off and press release
Thu, June 26, 2025 Ondrej Holesovsky defended his PhD thesis
Thu, June 19, 2025 New TACR project – Eduardis
Mon, June 5, 2025 New RAL paper Interactive robotic cable segmentation
Thu, May 25, 2025 Keynote talk at Cognition and Artificial Life, Slovakia
Tue, May 6, 2025 Gabriela Sejnova defended her PhD thesis
Wed, Apr 9, 2025 Martin Matousek presented at KRF 2025
Thu, Mar 20, 2025 Marina Ionova’s Diploma Thesis Wins Werner von Siemens Prize
