Radim Spetlik

Radim Spetlik, David Futschik, Daniel Sykora

We introduce StructuReiser, a novel video-to-video translation method that transforms input videos into stylized sequences using a set of user-provided keyframes. Unlike existing approaches, StructuReiser maintains strict adherence to the structural elements of the target video, preserving the original identity while seamlessly applying the desired stylistic transformations. This enables a level of control and consistency that was previously unattainable with traditional text-driven or keyframe-based methods. Furthermore, StructuReiser supports real-time inference and custom keyframe editing, making it ideal for interactive applications and expanding the possibilities for creative expression and video manipulation.

Radim Spetlik, Michal Pliska, Vojtěch Vrba et al.

Safety-critical perception for unmanned aerial vehicles and rotating machinery requires microsecond-latency tracking of fast, periodic motion under egomotion and strong distractors. Frame-based and event-based trackers drift or break on propellers because periodic signatures violate their smooth-motion assumptions. We tackle this gap with HelixTrack, a fully event-driven method that jointly tracks propeller-like objects and estimates their rotations per minute (RPM). Incoming events are back-warped from the image plane into the rotor plane via a homography estimated on the fly. A Kalman Filter maintains instantaneous estimates of phase. Batched iterative updates refine the object pose by coupling phase residuals to geometry. To our knowledge, no public dataset targets joint tracking and RPM estimation of propeller-like objects. We therefore introduce the Timestamped Quadcopter with Egomotion (TQE) dataset with 13 high-resolution event sequences, containing 52 rotating objects in total, captured at distances of 2 m / 4 m, with increasing egomotion and microsecond RPM ground truth. On TQE, HelixTrack processes full-rate events (approx. 11.8x real time) faster than real time and microsecond latency. It consistently outperforms per-event and aggregation-based baselines adapted for RPM estimation.

Radim Spetlik, Ivan Razumenic

We propose a novel convolutional neural network to verify a~match between two normalized images of the human iris. The network is trained end-to-end and validated on three publicly available datasets yielding state-of-the-art results against four baseline methods. The network performs better by a 10% margin to the state-of-the-art method on the CASIA.v4 dataset. In the network, we use a novel Unit-Circle Layer layer which replaces the Gabor-filtering step in a common iris-verification pipeline. We show that the layer improves the performance of the model up to 15% on previously-unseen data.