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Jiri Matas

Also known as Jiří Matas

Jiri Matas is a computer-vision researcher whose work spans geometric image matching, face authentication, visual recognition, and object tracking. At ČVUT, he completed engineering studies in 1987 and moved to England soon after the Velvet Revolution, where he worked at the University of Surrey through 2001. His 2002 support-vector-machine work addressed face authentication; later research includes robust stereo and PROSAC's ranked sampling method. The 2012 Tracking-Learning-Detection work divided long-term tracking into tracking, learning, and detection, and he chaired ECCV and CVPR programs. As of October 2026, he heads CTU's Visual Recognition Group, serves as a Vice Chancellor Fellow at Surrey, and is Editor-in-Chief of IJCV; he received the King-Sun Fu Prize, and the Visual Object Tracking team received the PAMI Mark Everingham Prize in 2026.

Works
474
Citations
53,974
h-index
93

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 14 October 2026.

Photo of Jiri Matas

Timeline

  1. 1987

    An engineering degree

    At ČVUT, he completed his engineering studies in 1987.

  2. 1990–2001

    An English research post

    Soon after the Velvet Revolution, he moved to England. From 1990 to 2001, he worked as a research scientist at the University of Surrey.

  3. 2002

    Verifying faces with SVMs

    With K. Jonsson, J. Kittler, and Y. P. Li, he published Support vector machines for face authentication.

  4. 2002–2005

    Matching images across viewpoints

    In 2002, he and colleagues published robust wide-baseline stereo work using maximally stable extremal regions. The 2005 paper with Ondřej Chum introduced PROSAC, which samples progressively larger sets of top-ranked correspondences.

  5. 2004–2022

    Serving at vision conferences

    He chaired ECCV's programme in 2004 and 2016 and CVPR's in 2007. In 2022, he was general chair for CVPR and ECCV.

  6. 2012

    Tracking, learning, and detection

    His 2012 TLD paper divided long-term object tracking into tracking, learning, and detection.

  7. 2026

    Two awards for vision work

    He received the 2026 King-Sun Fu Prize. The Visual Object Tracking team also received the 2026 PAMI Mark Everingham Prize, with him as one of its key figures.

  8. As of October 2026

    Leading visual recognition at CTU

    He currently works at CTU FEE and heads its Visual Recognition Group in the Department of Cybernetics. At Surrey, he is also a Vice Chancellor Fellow and Editor-in-Chief of IJCV.

Sources and credits

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  1. Host Lucie Výborné - Jiří Matas - Zpravodajský servis - České vysoké učení technické v Praze aktualne.cvut.cz. Checked 14 October 2026.
  2. Jiri Matas — Lacuna lacuna.tiptreesystems.com. Checked 14 October 2026.
  3. Jiri Matas cmp.felk.cvut.cz. Checked 14 October 2026.
  4. prof. Ing. Jiří Matas, Ph.D. - CTU FEE fel.cvut.cz. Checked 14 October 2026.
  5. Prof Jiri Matas | University of Surrey surrey.ac.uk. Checked 14 October 2026.
  6. Professor Jiri Matas receives prestigious King-Sun Fu Prize for key contributions to computer vision fel.cvut.cz. Checked 14 October 2026.
  7. Team including CTU FEE's prof. Jiri Matas receives prestigious IEEE award for advancing computer vision fel.cvut.cz. Checked 14 October 2026.