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RNDr. Radek Ošlejšek, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Another personal web pages: IS MU, www.muni.cz

Masaryk University Faculty of Informatics,
Botanická 68a, 60200 Brno, Czech Republic
Phone: +420-549 49 6121
E-Mail: oslejsek (at) fi.muni.cz
Office: Centrum Šumavská, 1st Floor, Room G108 (follow the "G107 lecture room" arrows)

Short Professional Bio

Assistant professor at Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University. IT administrator at Faculty of Social Studies. Married, three children. He has received his master degree in computer science at Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic, in 1999. In 2004, he received his Ph.D. degree at the same university, both for application of software engineering methods in the area of rendering architectures and global illumination. In 2005, he spent one month at the Institute of Computer Graphics and Algorithms, Computer Graphics Group, Vienna University of Technology, as a guest researcher. Nowadays, he is a member of the Laboratory of Software Architectures and Information Systems - LaSArIS and a guest member of the Laboratory of Searching and Dialogue - LSD. For more info try:

Curriculum Vitae

Hobbies - Fire Fighting

Volunteer fireman since 1992, active member of emergency group. From 2004 to 2009 chairman of the volunteer fire brigade in Suchý, Czech Republic. Since 2010 chairman of the Blansko fire district No. 8, comprising eight volunteer fire brigades. Holder of the following certificates, medals and orders:

Obtained medal ribbons

Exemplary Work Medal, granted in 2010.
Certificate of Merit (district level), granted in 2007.
Fidelity Medal, granted in 2011 for 20 years of active fire brigade membership.

Consulting Hours (Spring 2011):

Thu 09:00 - 12:00 (ensure my presence via e-mail)
or by appointment (negotiate time slot via e-mail)

Courses:

PB162: Java

Direct links: study materials, organization instructions, homework assignments, homework vaults, my exercises,
My abbrevs: instructions for teachers, administration: group 25, group 27

PA103: Object-oriented Methods for Design of Information Systems

Direct links: study materials, administration

PV167: Project in Object-oriented Design of Information Systems

Direct links: study materials, student projects, administration: group 04, group 05

PV226: Seminar LaSArIS

Direct links: study materials, administration

DTEDI: PhD Thesis Seminar

Direct links: study materials, administration: group DTEDI/O

SDIPR: Diploma Thesis

Direct links: my topics, supervising
Free topics:

SBAPR: Bachelor Thesis

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Faculty Activities:

"Study at FI MU" presentation (in czech): PPT

Research areas:

Software engineering, development and management.
This research is supported by the Laboratory of Software Architectures and Information Systems - LaSArIS. My research activities address both the “academic” as well as “practically oriented” topics. The academic research focuses on pattern-driven development and quality of service QoS (mainly the reliability evaluation and prediction on models of component systems). Practically oriented topics, e.g. business process modeling, UML modeling, software management etc., are usually directly supported and utilized by business partners (see e.g. Industrial Partners of the Faculty) in the form of concrete industrial projects.
Computer graphics.
My experience with computer graphics originates in my former membership in the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory - HCILab and the related PhD and post-doc research, which has been focused on software architectures in the context of computer graphics and photorealistic image synthesis. Nowadays, I apply the acquired know-how to the area of accessibility of graphics and e-learning. In the cooperation with the Laboratory of Searching and Dialogue - LSD we aim at developing techniques and applications enabling the visually impaired people to manipulate with pictures (i.e. to inspect and even to draw them!) by means of natural language. Our approach is based on structured ontology-based annotations and smart dialogue interaction.

Academic and International Activities:

Editor of the Journal of Convergence Information Technology, JCIT since 2011.
Committee member on AICIT's international conference series since 2011.
- PC member of NISS'11, ICACT'11, ICCM'12
Projects reviewer for
- Slovak Research and Development Agency since 2007
- Grant Agency of Charles University since 2010
EUROGRAPHICS member since 2005.

Publications:

Complete list of publications.

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Research Projects:

Assesment and strategic development of INSPIRE compliant Geodata-Services for European Soil Data
Based on the INSPIRE directive and its Implementing Rules GS Soil aims at establishing a European network to improve the access to spatial soil data for public sector bodies, private companies and citizens.
Project period: 05/2009 - 04/2012
Project identification: ECP-318004
Investor: EU eContent+
Role: Participation in research.
Triangulated models in service of haptic and virtual reality
Project period: 01/2009 - 12/2011
Project identification: 201/09/0097
Investor: Czech Science Foundation
Role: Research team member.
Dialogue generation of web presentations and graphics for visually impaired people
The basic idea of the project consists in developing web presentations and graphics through a dialogue, therefore in a way that is fully feasible for blind user.
Project period: 01/2007 - 12/2010
Project identification: 201/07/0881
Investor: Czech Science Foundation
Role: Research team member.
CPG - Center of Computer Graphics
A cooperation project in the Czech Republic between Masaryk University (Brno), Brno University of Technology, Czech Technical University (Prague) and University of West Bohemia (Pilsen).
Project period: 03/2006 - 12/2011
Project identification: LC06008
Investor: Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the CR
Role: Participation in research.
Generic OO Architectures in the Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality
Various applications of computer graphics have different requirements on the description of virtual scenes and graphic architecture. Therefore, the real projects use their own specific and often monolithic solutions that are not easily extensible or modifiable. However, methods of software analysis propose many techniques and tools for development of reusable pieces of software. Goal of this project is to exploit these techniques in order to propose generic architectures unifying several fields of the computer graphics.
Project period: 01/2006 - 12/2008
Project identification: 201/06/P247
Investor: Czech Science Foundation
Role: Investigator (post-doc grant).
Human-computer interaction, dialog systems and assistive technologies
The aim of research proposal is an integrated approach to HCI. In this framework the main task is to combine techniques developed in the VR field with the techniques built in NLP and dialogue systems area. Special attention will be paid to the assistive technologies (directed to the improvement of life standards and support of handicapped). The combination of the research in VR,NLP,DGS field using both written and spoken natural language will yield a number of new research results and will contribute to the society. In this regard reasonable impact of the results in the international forum can be expected.
Project period: 01/1999 - 12/2004
Project identification: VZ MSM 143300003
Investor: Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the CR
Role: Participation in research.

Industrial Projects:

Analysis and Modification of CRM System and Formulation of Required Business Processes Analysis and functional modification of existing CRM system. Business process modeling and use-case modeling of concrete business partner.
Project period: 04/2010 - 08/2010
Investor: Innovation voucher co-financed by the Municipality of Brno
Business partner: KeyTech, s.r.o. Role: Investigator.

Development Projects:

Innovation of PhD study programmes of the Faculty of Informatics Masaryk University The purpose of the project is an innovation of PhD studies at FI MU.
Project period: 10/2010 - 09/2013
Project identification: CZ.1.07/2.2.00/15.0196
Investor: Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the CR and European Social Fund in the CR
Role: Participation in project, DTEDI course lecturer.
Platform for cooperation in research and education with FI MU in data processing
This project aims (1) to strenghten the cooperation of FI MU with the application sector, (2) to undertake a systematic approach in order to involve FI MU students in activities of the industrial sector, (3) to address lack of qualified staff (graduates) in the area of information and communication technologies in both the region of South Moravia, as well as in the Czech Republic as such.
Project period: 10/2010 - 09/2013
Project identification: CZ.1.07/2.4.00/12.0049
Investor: Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the CR and European Social Fund in the CR
Role: Participation in project.
Innovation of Master's study programmes of the Faculty of Informatics Masaryk University
The purpose of the project is an innovation of the most number of courses and their other advancement and creation of the system of education for teachers, staff members, students and necessary infrastructure.
Project period: 06/2009 - 05/2012
Project identification: CZ.1.07/2.2.00/07.0457
Investor: Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the CR and European Social Fund in the CR
Role: Participation in project, innovation of PA103 and PV167 courses.
HCILAB - Human-Computer Interactions Laboratory
In summary, we propose to set up a research laboratory of human-computer interactions. A large part of this Lab's research will be devoted to the virtual reality paradigm, where the computer is made as much subservient to human skills, needs and real-world training as possible.
Project period: 01/1998 - 01/2003
Project identification: 201/98/K041
Investor: Czech Science Foundation
Role: Participation in project.

G.A.T.E. Graphics Accessible To Everyone.
GATE project is aiming to achieve the following goals. First, development of utilities deployed for easy picture annotation. Second, provision of blind users with support for exploring (“viewing”) pictures. And finally, development of a system utilized for generating images by means of dialogue and enabling the blind to create some limited form of computer graphics.
My participation: Theoretical research. Analysis and implementation of the server side (SOA with SVG, OWL and WWL services).
VRECKO: The Virtual Reality System.
The VRECKO system is being developed in our laboratory for several years. It is a component system capable of managing and displaying the virtual world using various devices, such as computer monitors, large stereo-projections or head mounted displays. It can also take use of data gloves, pinch gloves, PHANToM and ReachIn devices and others. A growing set of components is available, which means new applications can be prototyped rapidly. Plenty of components/extensions were done as a students work during appropriate courses or as a part of their theses.
My participation: Implementation of fast collision detection algorithms.
CAVER: Software Tool for Protein Analysis and Visualisation.
CAVER is a software tool for analysis and visualisation of tunnels and channels in protein structures. Tunnels are void pathways leading from a cavity buried in a protein core to the surrounding solvent. Unlike tunnels, channels lead through the protein structure and their both endings are opened to the surrounding solvent. Studying of these pathways is highly important for drug design and molecular enzymology.
My participation: Complete refactoring of the system in 2011 using OO design principles and design patterns.
Generic Rendering Architecture.
Main objective of the Generic Rendering Architecture is to propose and develop an OO system that is sufficiently general to treat wide variety of rendering strategies, from local illumination to photorealistic algorithms. The rendering architecture can be particularized according to the common features of energy distribution techniques. We apply modern techniques of object-oriented design to development process, including design patterns principles and UML. Libraries and applications has been developed during my PhD and post-doc research, as a proof of theoretical concepts. and they are not maintained anymore.
My participation: Theoretical research and complete implementation.