Research Areas and Groups

Accelerated Network Technologies Research Group

Research Themes
  • Monitoring and security of computer networks
  • Acceleration of time critical operations, which are used in devices for network infrastructure or devices for network monitoring and security (packet header analysis and extraction, classification of packets, longest prefix match, pattern matching and flow CACHE management)
  • Design of devices and systems for network infrastructure, security and monitoring
  • Standard processors, MultiCORES and FPGA technology in networking

Applied Evolutionary Algorithms Research Group

Research Themes
  • Classical and advanced genetic algorithms, theory and practice
  • Evolutionary algorithms EDA, theory and fast development of aplication
  • Aplications of EDA algorithms for group communication
  • Accelaration of evolutionary algorithms on the platform of non-conventional computer architectures (GPU, IBM Cell,...)

Automated Analysis and Verification Research Group - VeriFIT

Research Themes
  • Automated formal verification of infinite-state systems (such as systems with dynamic linked data structures like various kinds of lists or trees -- including their variants used, e.g., in the Linux kernel, unbounded integer variables, arrays, parameters, recursion, unbounded communication channels, etc.), using especially automata and various logics.
  • Research on efficient techniques of handling automata and logics (e.g., simulation reduction of non-deterministic automata, efficient inclusion checking on non-deterministic automata---cf. www.languageinclusion.org---etc.).
  • Automated verification and bug finding in concurrent software using a broad spectrum of approaches (static and dynamic analysis, intelligent testing, model checking), as well as automated self-healing of software.

Brno University Security Laboratory - FIT

Research Themes
  • Attacks on hardware secure devices
  • Smart-card security
  • Reputation/trust-based systems
  • Security of protocols on IP
  • Internet security
  • Sensor and ad-hoc networks
  • Cryptography and cryptanalysis
  • Applied cryptography

Computer Architecture Research Group

Research Themes
  • Collective communication algorithms
  • Parallel system performance
  • Performance models of shared memory systems and GPGPU
  • Modification of parallel systems' principles and techniques for chip-level implementation (multi-core, many-core) 
  • Application-specific (embedded) parallel systems
  • Graphic and multimedia systems
  • Fault tolerant systems
  • Data, image and video compression

Computer Graphics Research Group

Research Themes
  • Realistic rendering of spatial scenes
  • Particle systems (point clouds) rendering
  • Large and distributed scenes
  • Acceleration of graphics algorihtms in hardware
  • Animation of articulated structures, their kinematics and dynamics
  • Image and multispectral data compression
  • User interfaces

Diagnostics Research Group

Research Themes
  • Design for testability (diagnosis of function blocks and memories, built-in diagnosis), testability analysis
  • Fault tolerant systems (on-line testing techniques, checkers, dependability models, partial dynamic reconfiguration based on an FPGA, overload prevention solutions for embedded systems)
  • Utilization of evolutionary approaches during a circuit design phase (benchmark generation methods, optimizations for testability, power and test time reduction)

Evolvable Hardware Research Group

Research Themes
  • evolvable hardware in FPGAs
  • evolutionary logic synthesis and optimization
  • development for evolvable hardware
  • polymorphic electronics: REPOMO32 chip, synthesis of polymorphic circuits, applications
  • evolutionary design of innovative, testable, and fault-tolerant circuits
  • cellular systems - applications in traffic modelling and prediction
  • cellular nanocomputers - fault tolerance problems

Formal Model Research Group

Research Themes
  • Theoretical Basis of Information Systems
  • Formal Languages and Their Models
  • Specification and Translation of Languages
  • Applications of Formal Models

Game Theory Research Group

Research Themes
  • Noncooperative games and auction mechanisms
  • Algorithmic Game Theory
  • Modeling of real strategic decision situations
  • Ecomomic models
  • Combinatorial optimization
  • Models and optimizers of manufacture processes

Hardware-Software Codesign research group

Research Themes
  • Hardware-Software codesign of microprocessors for embedded systems 
  • Architecture Description Languages
  • Compilers
  • Generic tools for programming and simulation of the Application Specific Instruction set Processor
  • Transformations of architecture description languages and hardware description languages
  • Application of formal languages in compilers

High Performance Computing Research Group

Research Themes
  • Development of dynamic math models from basic principles
  • Selection of numerical integration algorithms to secure accuracy and stability
  • Special hardware design
  • Special software design
  • Graphical interface
  • Stiff systems analyzes
  • Design of control systems
  • Simulation of electronic circuits
  • Simulation of mechanical systems
  • Partial differential equations solving

Image and Video Processing Research Group

Research Themes
  • Automatic video editing
  • Algorithms for detection and tracking of objects and human body parts
  • Acceleration of image processing and computer vision in hardware
  • Detection of objects and shapes
  • Industrial and traffic applications of image processing

Information and Database Systems Research Group

Research Themes
  • Research and application of modelling techniques in information systems development
  • Object oriented database systems
  • Knowledge discovery in databases
  • Systems for decision support, OLAP systems 
  • Information extraction from documents
  • Web technologies
  • Interpreted languages and their usage

Intelligent Systems Research Group

Research Themes
  • Artificial Intelligence, Soft computing
  • Software agents and multiagent systems
  • Trust and reputation in distributed and multi-agent systems
  • Robotic systems and intelligent systems
  • Wireless Sensor Networks

Knowledge Technology Research Group

Research Themes
  • structured language models
  • syntactic analysis
  • ontology acquisition from free text
  • opinion mining
  • information retrieval and extraction from multimedia
  • lexical databases
  • semantic web technologies
  • technology-enhanced learning

Management of software engineering Research Group

Research Themes
  • Management of processes, projects, quality and risk in software management.
  • Object oriented software metrics and standards
  • Specification methods of processes and IT projects
  • Formal models of processes
  • Methods and tools for analyzing and design of processes
  • Improving of software development process
  • Methods of formal analyzing, design and verification of business processes
  • Modelling and optimization of business processes
  • Business process reengineering
  • Development of technologies applied in e-learning
  • Development of tools for support of e-learning
  • Management, improvement and ensurence of quality by ISO 9000

Medical Computer Graphics Laboratory

Research Themes

Networked and embedded systems research group

Research Themes
  • Research of formal methods for increasing reliability of computer-based systems
  • Analysis and specification of network devices and embedded systems
  • Communication in embedded systems, real-time communication protocols
  • Wireless communication
  • Automated Network-wide Security Analysis (ANSA)
  • Network Simulation and Modelling on Cisco devices (NeSim)
  • Network security,design of secure communication protocols

Petri Nets Research Group

Research Themes
  • Object oriented Petri nets (OOPNs)
  • Time extensions of Petri nets
  • Temporal and real-time logics with respect to Petri nets
  • Analysis methods of high-level nets and their time extensions
  • Computer tools based on OOPNs
  • Applications of OOPNs

Reconfigurable Architecture Research Group

Research Themes
  • FPGA technology
  • HW/SW codesign
  • languages for HW/SW systems description
  • application specific architectures
  • acceleration of time-critical computations
  • applications in area of network technology, bioinformatics, EHW and multimedia

Robotic research group Robo@FIT

Research Themes
  • Sensory data processing and fusion
  • Object detection and classification
  • People recognition and identification
  • Localization and mapping
  • 3D environment modelling
  • Simulations
  • Advanced and assistive user interfaces 

Security Technology Research and Development

Research Themes
  • biometric systems
  • security
  • robotics
  • intelligent sensors
  • wireless networks
  • embedded applications
  • military applications

Speech Processing Research Group

Research Themes
  • perceptually-based robust feature extraction for speech and speaker recognition
  • very low bit rate coding
  • automatic determination of speech units
  • large scale speech database collection
  • enhancement of noisy speech

System Modelling and Simulation Research Group

Research Themes
  • Discrete Event Systems
  • Petri Nets
  • Hybrid Systems
  • Systems Modeling, Simulation, Analysis and Design - methodology and tools

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