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Main research interests:

• Data structures for computer graphics.
• Data structures for offline rendering (global illumination).
• Rendering algorithms for real time applications.
• Ray tracing and visibility computations in general.
• GPU computation for computer graphics.
• Reflectance and visual appearance data measurements and representations.
• Geometric range search algorithms and data structures.
• Software architectures for rendering.
• Applied Monte Carlo and Quasi-Monte Carlo algorithms.
• Benchmark data sets and algorithm evaluation.
• Data compression.
• Augmented reality.
• Optical imaging.

Some former medium to larger scope research projects:

• Medical endoscope for eye surgery (2018-2021), short info and video in Czech. Main technical leader Sarka Nemcova, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague. Video with more details in Czech [MP4] (112 minutes).

  
  

• Lightdrum (2014-2016), BTF and BRDF portable on site measurement instrument

  (also info in Czech).

  
  

• Light Chisel (2007-2015), 3D modeling approach with a handy tool with optical tracking for direct 3D editing and manipulation in augmented reality systems, achieving 6 degrees of freedom, high accuracy and low cost.

  
  

• MPI Informatics Building Model as Data for Your Research (2003-2010), computer graphics benchmark dataset with focus on rendering. This provides interesting and complex data set from the real building useful not only for computer graphics research but also for computer vision etc.

  
  

• BTF data compression method based on multi-level vector quantization (2006-2010), with high compression ratio designed for rendering algorithms, suitable for both CPU and GPU algorithms with very fast importance sampling for path tracing based algorithms.

  
  

• Augmented reality European Union IST project (2006-2008), ARiSE, researching the use of augmented reality in teaching.

  
  

• Predictive image synthesis project funded by European Union (2002-2005), RealReflect, aimed at using global illumination for predictive rendering for the design like car industry and architecture. My role was mostly on validation of rendering software, reflectance data, and working with various datasets. Headed by Vienna University of Technology.

  
  

• Interactive System for Dynamic Scene Lighting using Captured Video Environment Maps project, (2004-2005), for high dynamic range acqusition of environment maps and real time computation of directional light sources to compute consisted rendered images for such applications as augmented reality and virtual TV studios.

  
  

• GOLEM Rendering System (1996-2010). The design, implementation, and maintenance of portable object-oriented system in ANSI C++ for rendering images and animations including technical leadership. The project was used in most of our research work on global illumination and ray tracing. The project of intermediate size with 1277 classes, over 6 MBytes in header files, and 13 MBytes in implementation files, with dependence to 12 external libraries. More than half of the research papers were developed within the system.

  
  

• BES Project (1999-2001). The best efficiency scheme project for ray tracing and BES Scene Collection, the data set for best efficiency scheme testing for the data structures and algorithms in ray tracing.

  
  

Some of my research collaborators (alphabetical order):

Conference lists:

• list of conferences by Eurographics
• list of conferences by SIGGRAPH
• list of conferences at Wikipedia

Note on patents:

Older engineering projects:

• 1999: BIL - the image processing library, in ANSI C, a contract for Infineon Technologies, team project with other three co-workers (Jiri Bittner, Jiri Zara, and Peter Felkel).
• 1996: Library for parallel sorting on shared memory multicomputers, working in O(N.logN) time and practically faster that sequential solution (unlike Cole's algorithm for parallel sorting), portable ANSI C based on SHM.
• 1995-1996: SHM - shared memory library within my Master Thesis I decided to parallelize my algorithms and since no suitable library was available, I decided to develop my own (about 250KBytes in ANSI C, tested under Linux, Irix, and Digital Unix at that time), which was inspired by P4 library.
• 1994-1996: Simulation of real camera for rendering, within my Master Thesis I wrote my first ray tracer that included in detail depth-of-field effects and other things found on real cameras (composition of objective, autofocus, various jittering algorithms etc.), software in portable ANSI C.
• 1993-1996: Measuring system for car-ignition, digital oscilloscope for car diagnostics etc. The measuring system was based under server-client concept, server was working under Siemens SAB80C537 processor and client was PC-based machine under MS-DOS. Functioning until today, I designed and implemented both hardware and software.
• 1995-1996: Library for manipulation of huge raster images under 16-bit Windows environment (including homogeneous transformation and images point-to-point correspondence using interests operators etc., software in ANSI C in Windows environment).
• 1994-1995: System for recognition of handwritten characters on technical drawings for document conversion that was based on neural networks and image processing, (portable software library in C++), first time working in team for larger amount of time together with Ales Dryak.
• 1989-1991: Measuring device for fuel consumption of cars, embedded system based on Intel 8049, software, assembler, resulting code 2 KBytes. Functioning until today. I also designed and implemented a hardware for this measuring device.
• 1988-1989: Interpreter of HPGL subset for plotter, in Zilog Z80 assembler (software under CPM), ca 230 KBytes of source code. I also designed and produced hardware of desk plotter, at those times it was very difficult virtually impossible to buy anything in the Czech Republic.