Security research from FIT scores again in the Minister of the Interior Award

In 2025, the Faculty of Information Technology also scored highly in the Minister of the Interior's Award for Exceptional Results in Security Development. Following last year's victory by Dr. Vladimír Veselý's team (BAZAR: Building a community around the issue of cashless dark markets), the same success was repeated by the project Set of forensic analytical tools for image and video processing for the criminal police and investigation service, whose main researcher is Jan Pluskal from the NES@FIT research group. The project involves the development of a set of forensic analysis tools for image and video processing, which are intended for the criminal police and investigation service of the Czech Police. The key software result of the project is the FACIS platform, which automates the process of detecting malicious content and evaluating information in image data secured in memory storage, often up to terabytes in size. The project outputs also include the entire associated backend and ecosystem, or rather a functional sample: a highly accelerated GPU server.

A significant advantage is the immediate applicability of the developed solutions: months of manual and mentally demanding work by criminal investigators are replaced by machine processing of image material in a matter of days. The development team consists of "our" experts and researchers from the Department of Cybernetics at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague. The FIT research team contributes computer vision algorithms to the project. The work of Tomáš Goldmann's team from the STRaDe@FIT research group deserves special mention.

For more information, see the press release.