RNDr. Pavel Vácha, Ph.D.
research assistant

Biography
Publication list
Pavel Vácha earned his master's degree in 2003 from the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at Charles University in Prague. In 2011, he was awarded the academic titles RNDr. and Ph.D. by the same faculty, in collaboration with the Institute of Information Theory and Automation of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.
His research interests include content-based image retrieval, illumination invariants, scale-dependent texture analysis, bidirectional texture functions, Markovian models, and classification. He has participated in several Czech and European research projects.
Pavel Vácha received second place at the 2008 Summer School on Image Processing (TU Wien), was awarded the Antonín Svoboda Award by the Czech Society for Cybernetics and Informatics in 2012, and was a finalist for the ERCIM Cor Baayen Award in 2013.
Try demonstrations utilising our novel textural features that are invariant to change of illumination colour, cast shadows, and texture rotation; moreover, they are robust to illumination direction and degradation by Gaussian noise.
For details, see my homepage .
Books and chapters
- Illumination Invariants Based on Markov Random Fields, Pattern Recognition, Recent Advances, p. 253-272 Download [2010] :
Journal articles
- Texture recognition under scale and illumination variations, Journal of Information and Telecommunication 8 1 (2024), p. 130-148 Download Download DOI: 10.1080/24751839.2023.2265190 [2024] :
- Wood Variety Recognition on Mobile Devices, ERCIM News 2013 93 (2013), p. 52-52 Download [2013] :
- Content-Based tile Retrieval System, ERCIM News 85 (2011), p. 45-45 Download [2011] :
- Colour and rotation invariant textural features based on Markov random fields, Pattern Recognition Letters 32 6 (2011), p. 771-779 Download DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2011.01.002 [2011] :
Other publications
- Textural Features Sensitivity to Scale and Illumination Variations, Advances in Computational Collective Intelligence : 14th International Conference, ICCCI 2022, p. 237-249 Download DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-16210-7_19 [2022] :
- Scale Sensitivity of Textural Features, Progress in Pattern Recognition, Image Analysis, Computer Vision, and Applications: 21st Iberoamerican Congress, CIARP 2016, p. 84-92, Eds: Beltran-Castanon C., Nystrom I., Famili F. Download DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-52277-7_11 [2017] :
- Wood Veneer Species Recognition using Markovian Textural Features, Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns - CAIP 2015, p. 300-311, Eds: Azzopardi George, Petkov Nicolai Download DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-23192-1_25 [2015] :
- Texture Recognition using Robust Markovian Features, Computational Intelligence for Multimedia Understanding, p. 126-137 Download DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-32436-9_11 [2012] :
- Analysis of Human Gaze Interactions with Texture and Shape, Computational Intelligence for Multimedia Understanding, p. 160-171 Download DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-32436-9_14 [2012] :
- Query by Pictorial Example, MFF UK (Praha, 2010) [2010] :
- Introduction to Feature Selection Toolbox 3 – The C++ Library for Subset Search, Data Modeling and Classification, ÚTIA (Praha, 2010) Download [2010] :
- Natural Material Recognition with Illumination Invariant Textural Features, 20th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, p. 858-861 Download DOI: 10.1109/ICPR.2010.216 [2010] :
- Content-Based Tile Retrieval System, Structural, Syntactic, and Statistical Pattern Recognition, p. 434-443 Download DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-14980-1_42 [2010] :
- A Psychophysical Evaluation of Texture Degradation Descriptors, Structural, Syntactic, and Statistical Pattern Recognition, p. 423-433 Download DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-14980-1_41 [2010] :
- Texture Analysis of the Retinal Nerve Fiber Layer in Fundus Images via Markov Random Fields, World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, p. 247-250 Download [2009] :
- Illumination Invariant Unsupervised Segmenter, Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2009, p. 4025-4028 Download [2009] :
- Illumination Invariant and Rotational Insensitive Textural Representation, Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2009, p. 1333-1336 Download [2009] :
- Illumination Invariants Based on Markov Random Fields, Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, p. 3588-3591 Download [2008] :
- Demonstration of image retrieval based on illumination invariant textural MRF features, CIVR '07: Proceedings of the 6th ACM international conference on Image and video retrieval, p. 135-137 Download [2007] :
- Image retrieval measures based on illumination invariant textural MRF features, CIVR '07: Proceedings of the 6th ACM international conference on Image and video retrieval, p. 448-454 Download [2007] :
- Illumination Invariant Texture Retrieval, Proceedings of ICPR 2006 - The 18th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, p. 276-279, Eds: Tang Y.Y., Wang S.P., Yeung D.S., Yan H., Lorette G. Download [2006] :
- Texture similarity measure, WDS'05 Proceedings of Contributed Papers, p. 47-52, MATFYZPRESS (Praha, 2005) [2005] :