Awards

IBM Shared University Research Award

In September 2008, IBM Shared University Research (SUR) Award was awarded to our group for outstanding research activity. The IBM Shared University Research (SUR) Awards is a worldwide equipment award program designed to promote research in areas of mutual value and interest to IBM and universities.

Rector’s Award for Outstanding Creative Activity

In 2006, the MU Rector awarded several members of our team for authoring one of the first world’s monographs on metric-based similarity searching: Zezula, Pavel – Amato, Giuseppe – Dohnal, Vlastislav – Batko, Michal. Similarity Search: The Metric Space Approach. 2005. New York, NY 10013, USA : Springer, 2005. 220 pages. Advances in Database Systems, Vol. 32. ISBN 0-387-29146-6.

Rector’s Award for Long-time Research Excellence

The long-time work of Professor Zezula in the field of data management and especially his research of metric indexing structures have been appreciated by the Rector’s Award for Long-time Research Excellence in 2014.

Best Paper Awards

• SIGIR 2023 – Best Short Paper Award Honorable Mention for paper Text-to-Motion Retrieval: Towards Joint Understanding of Human Motion Data and Natural Language written by Nicola Messina, Jan Sedmidubsky, Fabrizio Falchi, and Tomas Rebok
• SISAP 2020 – Best Paper Award for paper Accelerating Metric Filtering by Improving Bounds on Estimated Distances written by Vladimír Míč and Pavel Zezula
• ISM 2017 – Best Student Paper Award for paper A Real-Time Annotation of Motion Data Streams written by Petr Elias, Jan Sedmidubsky and Pavel Zezula
• DEXA 2014 – Best Paper Award for paper Rank Aggregation of Candidate Sets for Efficient Similarity Search written by David Novak and Pavel Zezula

PhD Thesis Awards

• Petr Eliáš, 2020: Dean’s Award for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis
• Vladimír Míč, 2020: Dean’s Award for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis
• Petra Budíková, 2013: Dean’s Award for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis
• Jan Sedmidubský, 2011: Rector’s Award for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis, Dean’s Award for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis
• David Novák, 2008: Dean’s Award for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis
• Michal Batko, 2007: Dean’s Award for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis
• Vlastislav Dohnal, 2005: Rector’s Award for the Best Students in Doctoral Programmes