Brno University of Technology

Web pages

• BUT : http://www.vutbr.cz
• Department of Computer Graphics and Multimedia: http://www.fit.vutbr.cz/units/UPGM/

BUT is the second largest technical university in the Czech Republic. It comprises 8 faculties with more than 22,000 students and 2,100 staff members. The Faculty of Information Technology (FIT) provides education in the Bachelor and Master Study programs in Computer Science and Engineering and the Doctoral study program in Information Technology. Research activities include multimodal interaction, speech recognition, natural language processing, human-computer interaction, knowledge representation and reasoning, semantic web technologies, information extraction, knowledge mining, and technology enhanced learning. FIT is involved in the international cooperation with more than 30 research and education centres in Europe (France, Germany, U.K., Switzerland, Turkey, etc.), USA, Russia, India and China. We have also a strong support from leading industrial companies involved in IT development (Siemens, IBM, XEROX, ScanSoft, etc.). The team from FIT has participated in many European projects. The most relevant ones include: AMIDA - Augmented Multiparty Interaction with Distance Access, CARETAKER - Content Analysis and Retrieval Technologies to Apply Knowledge Extraction to massive Recording, LC-Star2 - Lexica and Corpora for Speech-to-Speech Translation Components, M4 - MultiModal Meeting Manager.