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Ondrej Chum

Also known as Ondřej Chum

Ondrej Chum is a computer vision researcher at the Czech Technical University in Prague. After an MSc from Charles University in 2001, he completed a PhD at the Czech Technical University in 2005. He proposed PROSAC, a guided sampling method, and co-wrote the 2007 CVPR paper on object retrieval with large vocabularies, which received the Longuet-Higgins Prize in 2017. He is a full professor in the Department of Cybernetics and leads a team within the Visual Recognition Group.

Works
131
Citations
21,741
h-index
41

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 15 October 2026.

Timeline

  1. 2001

    An MSc in Prague

    He receives an MSc in computer science from Charles University in Prague in 2001.

  2. 2005

    Guided sampling with PROSAC

    At the Czech Technical University in Prague, he completes a PhD in 2005. He also proposes PROSAC, a method that guides the sampling procedure with prior information about the input data.

  3. 2006–2007

    A postdoctoral researcher

    From 2006 to 2007, he works as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oxford.

  4. 2007

    Object retrieval with large vocabularies

    With James Philbin, Michael Isard, Josef Sivic and Andrew Zisserman, he co-authors Object retrieval with large vocabularies and fast spatial matching, published at the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition conference (CVPR) in 2007.

  5. 2017

    A Longuet-Higgins Prize

    In July 2017, at CVPR, the Longuet-Higgins Prize goes to the 2007 paper, which he shares with its co-authors.

  6. 2018

    A Saburo Tsuji paper award

    The Saburo Tsuji best paper award at ACCV 2018 goes to a paper on rectification from radially distorted scales, which he co-writes with James Pritts, Zuzana Kukelova and Viktor Larsson.

  7. Since 2022

    Full professor in Prague

    He is one of 11 new full professors whom the Czech President announces, with diplomas due in January 2022. He leads a team within the Visual Recognition Group in the Department of Cybernetics.

Sources and credits

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  1. Ondrej Chum cmp.felk.cvut.cz. Checked 15 October 2026.
  2. Random sample consensus - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org. Checked 15 October 2026.
  3. Object Retrieval with Large Vocabularies and Fast Spatial Matching - Microsoft Research microsoft.com. Checked 15 October 2026.
  4. Two prizes awarded to Josef Šivic in 2017 | CIIRC ciirc.cvut.cz. Checked 15 October 2026.
  5. ACCV Best Paper Award for J.Pritts, Z.Kukelova and O.Chum cyber.felk.cvut.cz. Checked 15 October 2026.
  6. Ondřej Chum promoted to Full Professor cyber.felk.cvut.cz. Checked 15 October 2026.