VSB - Technical University of Ostrava Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department of Computer Science

Vojtech Uher

Department of Computer Science · Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science · VSB – Technical University of Ostrava

Room EA 404 · 17. listopadu 15, 708 00 Ostrava-Poruba, Czech Republic
e-mail: vojtech.uher@vsb.cz · tel.: +420 596 995 904

Ing. Vojtech Uher, Ph.D. works as a researcher at the Department of Computer Science, VSB – Technical University of Ostrava. In 2017 and 2018, he participated in a research internship with the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan. His research is focused on evolutionary and swarm computation, machine learning, information retrieval and analysis, data representation, computer graphics, image processing, and parallel programming. He participates in several running projects and is an IEEE member.


Research

Research interests

  • data science, data mining, knowledge discovery, information retrieval
  • bio-inspired computing, evolutionary and swarm algorithms, metaheuristic optimization, soft computing, computational intelligence
  • computer graphics, image processing, and computer vision
  • parallel processing, distributed computing

Selected publications

Uher, V., Nowaková J., Krömer P.: Initial Analysis of Multiple Retinal Diseases Classification with Fuzzy Medical Image Retrieval. (2023) 2023 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC). IEEE, pp. 4926-4931.

Krömer, P., Uher V.: Comparing Sampling Strategies for the Classification of Bi-objective Problems by FLACCO Features. (2023) Conference on Complex, Intelligent, and Software Intensive Systems. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, pp. 124-136.

Uher, V., Dráždilová, P., Platoš, J., Badura, P.: Automation of cleaning and ensembles for outliers detection in questionnaire data. (2022) Expert Systems with Applications, 206, art. no. 117809.

Krömer, P., Uher, V.: The effect of decoding fairness on particle swarm optimization for the p-median problem. (2022) GECCO 2022 Companion - Proceedings of the 2022 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, pp. 1650-1657.

Krömer, P., Uher, V., Snášel, V.: Novel Random Key Encoding Schemes for the Differential Evolution of Permutation Problems. (2022) IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 26 (1), pp. 43-57.

Kromer, P., Uher, V.: Optimization of real-world supply routes by nature-inspired metaheuristics. (2022) 2022 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2022 - Conference Proceedings.

Uher, V., Nowaková, J.: Impact of Chest X-ray Images Enhancement to COVID-19 Classification Using Vector Quantization and Fuzzy S-tree. (2022) Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, 527 LNNS, pp. 371-379.

Uher, V.. Spatial data structures for point cloud analysis and visualization [online]. Ostrava, 2020 [cit. 2023-04-03]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10084/145013. Dissertation. Vysoká škola báňská – Technická univerzita Ostrava.

Uher, V., Gajdoš, P., Snášel, V., Lai, Y.-C., Radecký, M.: Hierarchical hexagonal clustering and indexing. (2019) Symmetry, 11 (6), art. no. 731.

Uher, V., Gajdoš, P., Snasel, V.:The visualization of large graphs accelerated by the parallel nearest neighbors algorithm. (2016) Proceedings - 2016 IEEE 2nd International Conference on Multimedia Big Data, BigMM 2016, art. no. 7544990, pp. 9-16.

Gajdoš, P., Ježowicz, T., Uher, V., Dohnálek, P.: A parallel Fruchterman-Reingold algorithm optimized for fast visualization of large graphs and swarms of data. (2016) Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, 26, pp. 56-63.

Uher, V., Gajdoš, P., Radecký, M., Snášel, V.: Utilization of the Discrete Differential Evolution for Optimization in Multidimensional Point Clouds. (2016) Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience, 2016, art. no. 6329530.

All publications


Projects

Constrained Multiobjective Optimization Based on Problem Landscape Analysis

researcher, developer

GACR GF22-34873K, Constrained Multiobjective Optimization Based on Problem Landscape Analysis, Czech Sci. Found. (147,000 EUR), VSB–TUO, 2022 - 2024.

2022 - Present

Metaheuristics Framework for Multi-objective Combinatorial Optimization Problems

researcher, developer

MSMT-2066/2020-18, Metaheuristics Framework for Multi-objective Combinatorial Optimization Problems (META MO-COP), MSMT (326,000 EUR), VSB–TUO, 2020 - 2022.

2020 - 2022

Effective Use of Social Research Studies for Practice

researcher, developer

MSMT-16_025/0007294, Effective Use of Social Research Studies for Practice, MSMT (537,000 EUR), VSB–TUO, 2018 - 2022.

2018 - 2022

Education

VSB – Technical University of Ostrava

Doctoral degree (Ph.D.)
Computer Science, Communication Technology and Applied Mathematics
graduated in 2021

National Taiwan University of Science and Technology

Research internship
Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering
2017/2018

VSB – Technical University of Ostrava

Master's degree (Ing.)
Computer Science and Technology

Graduated with honors

graduated in 2013