Josef Šivic

Josef Sivic is a Professor of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at the Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics (CIIRC) at the Czech Technical University in Prague, where he leads the Intelligent Machine Perception (IMPACT) group and directs ELLIS Unit Prague. He completed his PhD at the University of Oxford with Andrew Zisserman and held positions at INRIA and MIT CSAIL before returning to CTU. He is best known for foundational contributions to computer vision, including co-inventing the visual bag-of-words representation, and has received major awards including the Helmholtz Prize and the Longuet-Higgins Prize.