News and events archive

The paper "Beyond Occlusion: In Search for Near Real-Time Explainability of CNN-Based Prostate Cancer Classification" has been accepted for presentation at the prestigious 2025 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI 2025).

The goal is to simplify model development through automated tools, making deep data science expertise unnecessary. The session will give you practical experience with ML on embedded systems.

Masaryk University continues to strengthen its ties with its alumni. Now, you can get to know MUNI graduates through a new video series called MUNI by ALUMNI. In these short profiles, alumni from all ten faculties present their career paths, share their study experiences, and offer inspiration to current students. The goal of the project is to motivate both current and future students while showcasing the wide range of career opportunities that MUNI study programs provide.

Bc. Šárka Portešová, a talented student in the master’s program of Visual Informatics at the Faculty of Informatics, decided to reconstruct the village of Štolnava, which has disappeared from maps forever. She harnessed augmented reality (AR) for this purpose and won several awards for her project. You can read the full interview in the FI MU Alumni Gallery.

From January 6 to 10, 2025, the Masaryk Memorial Cancer Institute and the Faculty of Informatics at Masaryk University in Brno, in collaboration with the Medical University of Graz, hosted the Winter School focused on using Artificial Intelligence (AI) in digital pathology. Following the success of the Summer School in September 2024, this event attracted 26 participants, far exceeding the organizers' expectations and highlighting the growing importance of AI in medicine.

ODIS announces a call for Erasmus's study in the academic year 2025/26.

Since 2009, the Neuron Foundation has supported Czech science and honored exceptional scientists whose work contributes to advancing knowledge and improving societal well-being. The Neuron Awards are presented annually across seven scientific fields: biology, physics, chemistry, mathematics, social sciences, medicine, and computer science. In the 2024 edition, Professor Jan Křetínský (FI MU) was among the awardees—congratulations!

Are you working on an interesting master's thesis or other project in the field of computer graphics, image processing, visualization, or human-computer interaction? Would you like to know what a scientific conference looks like? Are you considering doctoral studies? Join the CESCG seminar and receive financial support to participate in this unique student conference.

On December 18, 2024, the GENERATIVE exhibition took place at FI MU, showcasing the audiovisual works of students from the Visual Informatics program. The exhibition drew an enthusiastic audience eager to explore the creative work of FI students in digital design and algorithm-generated art.