Prof. Vaclav Skala | Computer Vision | Best Researcher Award

Academic Qualifications

• 1996 – Full Professor (Informatics and Computer Science), Ministry of Education and Sport of the Czech Republic

• 1991 – Habilitation (Docent) in Computer Science, University of West Bohemia

• 1989 – Docent Title (Computer Science), Ministry of Education and Sport of the Czech Republic

• 1981 – CSc. (Ph.D. Equivalent), Czech Technical University, Prague

  • Thesis: Contribution to Relation Implementation in Relational Database

• 1975 – Ing. (equivalent to MSc.) with Distinction, Institute of Technology, Plzeň

  • Field: Electronic Computers

Teaching and Educational Experience

University of West Bohemia Courses:

• Advanced Computer Graphics (ACG)

• Fundamentals of Computer Graphics (ZPG)

• Algorithms and Computer Graphics (APG)

• Data Visualization (VID)

• Information Visualization (VINF)

• Introduction to Quantum Computing (IQC) (from 2024/25)

Other Universities:

• University of Gävle (Sweden)

• VSB–Technical University of Ostrava

• University of Ostrava

Tutorials at Major Conferences:

• SIGGRAPH Asia 2012: Projective Geometry and Duality

• Eurographics 2013: Projective Geometry, Duality, and Precision

• Eurographics 2015: Meshless Interpolations

• Computer Graphics International 2008: Mathematical Foundations for Graphics and Vision

 Research Interests

• Computer Graphics

• Algorithms

• Geometric Algebra

• Radial Basis Function Interpolation

• Data Structures

• Computational Geometry

• Digital Holography

• Data Visualization

 Honors and Awards

• 2010 – Outstanding Contribution Award in Computer Graphics, Eurographics Association

• 2010 – Fellow of the Eurographics Association

• 2010 – Memorial Medal, University of West Bohemia

• 2006 – Memorial Letter for Development of the University of West Bohemia

• 2001 – Commemorative Medal for Research, University of West Bohemia

 Professional Appointments

• 1975–present – University of West Bohemia, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Czech Republic

• 2010–2013 – VSB Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic

• 2010–2011 – University of Ostrava, Czech Republic

• 2004–2005 – University of Gävle, Sweden

• 1994–2002 – Dipro a.s., Prague (Board of Advisors)

• 1993–1994 – Charles University, Prague

• 1987–1989 – Teplotechna Plc., Teplice (Research & Development)

• 1984–1985 – Brunel University, London, U.K.

• 1975–1989 – Škoda Plc., Plzeň (Research & Development)

 Long-term and Short-term International Stays

Long-term:

• University of Gävle, Sweden (2 years)

• Brunel University, London (10 months)

• Moscow Institute of Energy, Russia (3 months)

Short-term (examples):

• United Kingdom: Cambridge University, University of Bath, Queen’s University Belfast, etc.

• Spain: University of Girona, University of the Balearic Islands

• Sweden: Uppsala University

• Germany: Universität des Saarlandes

• Portugal: University of Lisbon

• Greece: National Technical University of Athens, Aristotle University

• Italy: University of Pisa, Venice (NATO ASI)

 Editorial Boards

Current:

• Integrated Computer Aided Engineering (IF=5.8)

• Mathematics (MDPI) (IF=2.3)

• Journal of WSCG (Editor-in-Chief)

• Computer Science Research Notes (CSRN) (Editor-in-Chief)

• Axioms (MDPI) (IF=1.9)

• AppliedMath (MDPI) (Scopus Indexed)

Recent:

• Computers & Graphics (Elsevier)

• The Visual Computer (Springer)

• Computer Graphics Forum (Wiley)

• Graphics and Visual Computing (Elsevier)

• Machine Graphics and Vision (Polish Academy of Sciences)

 Program Committees and Reviewing Activities

• Editorial and reviewer boards of journals indexed in WoS and Scopus

• Program committee member of many international conferences

• Active service to the research community, especially in computer graphics and visualization

 Professional Affiliations

• Eurographics Association (Life-time Member, Fellow, Executive Committee)

• IEEE, ACM, Computer Graphics Society

 PhD Supervision (Examples)

• M. Smolik (Vector Field Approximation Methods, 2019)

• Z. Majdisova (Interpolation Methods for Large Datasets, 2019)

• P. Lobaz (Computer Generated Holography, 2014)

• S. Petrík (Iso-surface Extraction, 2011)

• I. Hanák (Accelerating Digital Hologram Generation, 2009)

• L. Váša (Dynamic Mesh Size Reduction, 2008)