RNDr. Pavel Karas, Ph.D.

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Curriculum vitae

Name, first names, scientific degrees

Pavel Karas
Born on April 24, 1984 in Nový Jičín, Czech republic.
Single, no children.

Department/Faculty/University

Centre for Biomedical Image Analysis
Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University
Botanická 68a, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic
phone: +420 549 49 5774
mobile: +420 774 814 987
e-mail: karas@astronomie.cz

Function, current position

Research and Development worker

Education and academic qualifications

2011: RNDr. in Informatics, Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University. Thesis: "GPU Acceleration of Image Processing Algorithms".
2009: MSc in Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Mathematics and Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Informatics, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University. Thesis: "Study of Methods for Image Registration" (in Czech).
2006: BSc in Mathematics with a view to Education and Informatics with another discipline, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University. Thesis: "Image Registration" (in Czech).

Professional experience

2008–present: The Nicholas Copernicus Observatory and Planetarium in Brno, Technical Staff

Teaching activities

2009–2010: M1141 Základy využití počítačů I
2009: MB103 Matematika III
2012: David Wiesner, GPU-Based Implementation Of Certain Subroutines Of An Optical Flow Computation
2011: Lukáš Skovajsa, GPU-Based Implementation Of Diffusion Filters

Internship and stays for the purpose of study or work

2011/01/17 – 2011/07/08: ESIEE Paris, Noisy-le-Grand, LLP Erasmus, FRA
- The intership took place at ESIEE, Paris, with colaboration with Centre de Morphologie Mathématique, Fontainebleau. The main topic of the intership was GPU acceleration of algorithms of Mathematical Morphology. The work has been published in Journal of Real-Time Image Processing (Springer). The study period was funded by the Erasmus Programme.
- LC535, MSM0021622419

Language Skills

Czech: mother tongue
English: advanced
French: intermediate

Other

Computer experiences: C/C++, CUDA, basics of (X)HTML, PHP, MySQL, LaTeX
Interests: music, astronomy, reading, movies, travelling

Major publications

KARAS, Pavel, Vincent MORARD, Jan BARTOVSKÝ, Thierry GRANDPIERRE, Eva DOKLÁDALOVÁ, Petr MATULA a Petr DOKLÁDAL. GPU Implementation of Linear Morphological Openings with Arbitrary Angle. Journal of Real-Time Image Processing. Springer-Verlag, 2015, roč. 10, č. 1, s. 27-41. ISSN 1861-8200. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11554-012-0248-7. URL info
KARAS, Pavel a David SVOBODA. Algorithms for Efficient Computation of Convolution. In Design and Architectures for Digital Signal Processing. 1st ed. Rijeka (CRO): InTech, 2013, s. 179-208. ISBN 978-953-51-0874-0. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.5772/3456. URL info
KARAS, Pavel, David SVOBODA a Pavel ZEMČÍK. GPU Optimization of Convolution for Large 3-D Real Images. In Blanc-Talon, Jacques and Philips, Wilfried and Popescu, Dan and Scheunders, Paul and Zemcík, Pavel. Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems (ACIVS’12). Neuveden: Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, 2012, s. 59-71. ISBN 978-3-642-33139-8. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33140-4_6. URL info
KARAS, Pavel. Efficient Computation of Morphological Greyscale Reconstruction. In Sixth Doctoral Workshop on Mathematical and Engineering Methods in Computer Science (Selected Papers). Saarbrücken, Warden: Schloss Dagstuhl Publishing, 2011, s. 54-61. ISBN 978-3-939897-22-4. URL info
KARAS, Pavel a David SVOBODA. Convolution of Large 3D Images on GPU and its Decomposition. EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing. NEW YORK (USA): HINDAWI PUBLISHING CORPORATION, 2011, roč. 2011, č. 120, s. 1-12. ISSN 1687-6172. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1687-6180-2011-120. URL info

2012/04/30

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