Curriculum Vitae

Personal Data

• RNDr. Michal Batko, Ph.D.
  Date of Birth: March 17, 1978
  Marital Status: married

Department

• Department of Computer Systems and Communications
  Faculty of Informatics
  Masaryk University
  Botanická 68a
  602 00 Brno
  Czech Republic

Employment - Position

• assistant professor

Education and Academic Qualifications

• 2006: Doctoral degree, Informatics, Ph.D., Masaryk University, Brno
  Dissertation: Scalable and Distributed Similarity Search
• 2002: Master's degree, Informatics, Mgr., Masaryk University, Brno
  Thesis: Technologie GIS a jejich využití pro tvorbu Informačního systému Brněnské akademické počítačové sítě

Teaching Activities

• Distributed Systems and Middleware
• Database Systems
• Similarity Searching in Multimedia Data
• Multimedia Similarity Searching in Practice
• Introduction to Programming
• Design of Applications and User Interfaces

Scientific and Research Activities

• Database Systems
• Similarity Searching
• Distributed Computing
• Peer-to-Peer Networks

Awards Related to Science and Research

• 2008: IBM Shared University Research Award (as team member)
• 2006: Rector's Award for Outstanding Creative Work, Masaryk University

Major Publications

• MERA PÉREZ, David, Michal BATKO and Pavel ZEZULA. Speeding up the multimedia feature extraction: a comparative study on the big data approach. Multimedia Tools and Applications. Springer, 2017, vol. 76, No 5, p. 7497-7517. ISSN 1380-7501. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11042-016-3415-1. URL info
• BUDÍKOVÁ, Petra, Michal BATKO and Pavel ZEZULA. Similarity Query Postprocessing by Ranking. In M. Detyniecki, P. Knees, A. Nurnberger, M. Schedl, and S. Stober. Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval. Context, Exploration, and Fusion, LNCS 6817. Revised Selected Papers. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2012, p. 159-173. ISBN 978-3-642-27168-7. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27169-4_12. info
• BUDÍKOVÁ, Petra. MUFIN Image Annotation. 2012. URL info
• NOVÁK, David, Michal BATKO and Pavel ZEZULA. Large-scale similarity data management with distributed Metric Index. Information Processing and Management. ELSEVIER, 2012, vol. 48, No 5, p. 855-872. ISSN 0306-4573. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2010.12.004. info
• BUDÍKOVÁ, Petra, Michal BATKO and Pavel ZEZULA. Multi-modal image search for large-scale applications. In Shu-Ching Chen, Mei-Ling Shyu, Chengcui Zhang, Tansel Ozyer. Proceedings of the International Workshop on Multimedia Databases and Data Engineering. Istanbul: VLDB Endowment, 2012, p. 1-7. ISBN 988-8889-99-0. info
• NOVÁK, David, Michal BATKO and Pavel ZEZULA. Metric index: an efficient and scalable solution for precise and approximate similarity search. Information Systems. Elsevier, 2011, vol. 36, No 4, p. 721-733. ISSN 0306-4379. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.is.2010.10.002. info
• BUDÍKOVÁ, Petra, Michal BATKO and Pavel ZEZULA. Online Image Annotation. In 4th International Conference on Similarity Search and Applications (SISAP 2011). New York: ACM Press, 2011, p. 109-110. ISBN 978-1-4503-0795-6. info
• BUDÍKOVÁ, Petra, Michal BATKO and Pavel ZEZULA. Evaluation Platform for Content-based Image Retrieval Systems. In International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries 2011, LNCS 6966. Berlin: Springer, 2011, p. 130-142, 12 pp. ISBN 978-3-642-24468-1. info
• BATKO, Michal, Fabrizio FALCHI, Claudio LUCCHESE, David NOVÁK, Raffaele PEREGO, Fausto RABITTI, Jan SEDMIDUBSKÝ and Pavel ZEZULA. Building a Web-scale Image Similarity Search System. Multimedia Tools and Applications. Springer Netherlands, 2010, vol. 47, No 3, p. 599-629. ISSN 1380-7501. URL info
• BUDÍKOVÁ, Petra, Michal BATKO and Pavel ZEZULA. Similarity Query Postprocessing by Ranking. In 8th International Workshop on Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval, AMR'2010. Linz: Johannes Kepler University, 2010, 15 pp. info
• BUDÍKOVÁ, Petra, Michal BATKO and Pavel ZEZULA. Improving the Image Retrieval System by Ranking. In 3rd International Conference on Similarity Search and Applications (SISAP 2010). New York: ACM Press, 2010, p. 123-124. ISBN 978-1-4503-0420-7. info
• ZAVŘEL, Vojtěch, Michal BATKO and Pavel ZEZULA. Visual Video Retrieval System Using MPEG-7 Descriptors. In 3rd International Conference on Similarity Search and Applications. New York: ACM Press, 2010, p. 125-126. ISBN 978-1-4503-0420-7. info
• ZEZULA, Pavel, Michal BATKO and Vlastislav DOHNAL. Indexing Metric Spaces. In Encyclopedia of Database Systems. New York: Springer-Verlag, 2009, p. 1-4. Database Management and Information Retrieval. ISBN 978-0-387-49616-0. URL info
• SKOPAL, Tomáš, Vlastislav DOHNAL, Michal BATKO and Pavel ZEZULA. Distinct nearest neighbors queries for similarity search in very large multimedia databases. In 11th ACM International Workshop on Web Information and Data Management (WIDM 2009). New York, USA: ACM, 2009, p. 11-14. ISBN 978-1-60558-808-7. URL info
• BATKO, Michal, David NOVÁK, Fabrizio FALCHI and Pavel ZEZULA. Scalability Comparison of Peer-to-Peer Similarity Search Structures. Future Generation Computer Systems. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Elsevier Science, 2008, vol. 24, No 8, p. 834-848. ISSN 0167-739X. DOI identifier of the paper info
• BATKO, Michal, Petra KOHOUTKOVÁ and Pavel ZEZULA. Combining Metric Features in Large Collections. In 1st International Workshop on Similarity Search and Applications (SISAP 2008). Los Alamitos CA, Washington, Tokyo: IEEE Computer Society, 2008, p. 79-86. ISBN 978-0-7695-3101-4. URL info
• BATKO, Michal, Fabrizio FALCHI, Claudio LUCCHESE, David NOVÁK, Raffaele PEREGO, Fausto RABITTI, Jan SEDMIDUBSKÝ and Pavel ZEZULA. Crawling, Indexing, and Similarity Searching Images on the Web. In Proceedings of the Sixteenth Italian Symposium on Advanced Database Systems. Mondello: Salvatore Gaglio, Ignazio Infantino, Domenico Sacca, 2008, p. 382-389. ISBN 978-88-6122-154-3. info
• NOVÁK, David, Michal BATKO and Pavel ZEZULA. Web-scale System for Image Similarity Search: When the Dreams Are Coming True. In Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI 2008). London: IEEE, 2008, p. 446-453. ISBN 978-1-4244-2043-8. URL info
• NOVÁK, David, Michal BATKO and Pavel ZEZULA. Content-based Image Retrieval on the Web. In Proceedings of the Poster and Demonstration Paper Track of the 1st Future Internet Symposium (FIS 2008). Vienna: CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2008, p. 1-3. ISBN 978-3-642-00984-6. URL info
• BATKO, Michal, Vlastislav DOHNAL, David NOVÁK and Pavel ZEZULA. Metric Similarity Search Implementation Framework (MESSIF). 2008. URL info
• BATKO, Michal and Pavel ZEZULA. GHT*: Distributed Generalized Hyperplane Tree Structure. 2008. URL info
• BATKO, Michal, David NOVÁK and Pavel ZEZULA. MESSIF: Metric Similarity Search Implementation Framework. In DELOS Conference 2007 - Working Notes. Pisa, Italy: Information Society Technologies, 2007, p. 11-23. ISBN 2-912335-30-2. PDF The MESSIF project homepage info
• BATKO, Michal, David NOVÁK and Pavel ZEZULA. MESSIF: Metric Similarity Search Implementation Framework. In Digital Libraries: Research and Development. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, 2007, p. 1-10. ISBN 978-3-540-77087-9. Publisher Site info
• BATKO, Michal, David NOVÁK, Fabrizio FALCHI and Pavel ZEZULA. On Scalability of the Similarity Search in the World of Peers. In InfoScale '06: Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Scalable information systems. New York, NY, USA: ACM Press, 2006, p. 1-12. ISBN 1-59593-428-6. URL info
• BATKO, Michal, David NOVÁK and Vlastislav DOHNAL. Metric Similarity Search Implementation Framework (MESSIF). 2006. info
• ZEZULA, Pavel, Giuseppe AMATO, Vlastislav DOHNAL and Michal BATKO. Similarity Search: The Metric Space Approach. 2005th ed. New York, NY 10013, USA: Springer, 2005, 220 pp. Advances in Database Systems, Vol. 32. ISBN 0-387-29146-6. Publisher's page Home page info
• BATKO, Michal, Claudio GENNARO and Pavel ZEZULA. Similarity Grid for Searching in Metric Spaces. In Peer-to-Peer, Grid, and Service-Orientation in Digital Library Architectures: 6th Thematic Workshop of the EU Network of Excellence DELOS. Revised Selected Papers. LNCS 3664. Berlin: Springer-Verlag Heidelberg, 2005, p. 25-44. ISBN 3-540-28711-6. info
• BATKO, Michal. Advanced Authentication of ArcIMS Services. In 25th Annual ESRI International User Conference. San Diego, California: ESRI Press, 2005, p. 1-5, 6 pp. info
• BATKO, Michal, Claudio GENNARO and Pavel ZEZULA. A Scalable Nearest Neighbor Search in P2P Systems. In 2nd International VLDB Workshop on Databases, Information Systems and Peer-to-Peer Computing. Revised Selected Papers. LNCS 3367. Berlin: Springer-Verlag Heidelberg, 2005, p. 79-92. ISBN 978-3-540-25233-7. info
• BATKO, Michal. Similarity Search in P2P Networks. In Proceedings of the PhD Wokshops of the EDBT and ICDE Conferences. Heraklion: Crete University Press, 2004, p. 51-60. ISBN 960-524-177-3. info
• BATKO, Michal, Claudio GENNARO, Savino PASQUALE and Pavel ZEZULA. Scalable Similarity Search in Metric Spaces. In Pre-proceedings of the Sixth Thematic Workshop of the EU Network of Excellence DELOS. Cagliari: Edizioni Progetto Padova, 2004, p. 213-224. info
• BATKO, Michal, Claudio GENNARO and Pavel ZEZULA. A P2P System for Searching in Metric Spaces. In Proceedings of the Twelfth Italian Symposium on Advanced Database Systems. Cagliari: LITHOSgrafiche - Cagliari, 2004, p. 410-417. ISBN 88-901409-1-7. info
• BATKO, Michal, Claudio GENNARO and Pavel ZEZULA. A Scalable Nearest Neighbor Search in P2P Systems. In 2nd International VLDB Workshop on Databases, Information Systems and Peer-to-Peer Computing. Toronto: VLDB Publishing, 2004, p. 64-77. info
• BATKO, Michal, Claudio GENNARO and Pavel ZEZULA. Scalable and Distributed Similarity Search in Metric Spaces. In 5th Workshop on Distributed Data & Structures. Revised Selected Papers. Canada: Carleton Scientific, 2004, p. 107-116. ISBN 1-894145-18-6. info
• BATKO, Michal and Pavel ZEZULA. Scalable Index Structures in Distributed Environment. In DATAKON 2004. Brno: Masarykova Univerzita, 2004, p. 85-97. ISBN 80-210-3516-1. info
• BATKO, Michal. Distributed and Scalable Similarity Searching in Metric Spaces. In Current Trends in Database Technology - EDBT 2004. LNCS 3268. Berlin, Germany: Springer-Verlag Heidelberg, 2004, p. 44-53. ISBN 3-540-23305-9. info
• BATKO, Michal, Claudio GENNARO and Pavel ZEZULA. GHT*: a Peer-to-Peer System for Metric Data. In Ercim News No. 59. Sophia-Antipolis Cedex, France: ERCIM EEIG, 2004, p. 65-66. info
• BATKO, Michal, Claudio GENNARO and Pavel ZEZULA. Scalable and Distributed Similarity Search in Metric Spaces. In 5th International Workshop on Distributed Data and Structures. Thessaloniki: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 2003, p. 81-90. info
• BATKO, Michal. Technologie GIS a jejich využití pro tvorbu Informačního systému Brněnské akademické počítačové sítě. Brno, 2001, 81 s. info

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