The habilitation lecture will focus on the issue of acoustic detection and localization of gunfire, which is crucial for security and defense applications. It will present the design of a simple detector of acoustic impulse events, the construction of distributed systems for gunshot identification and localization, and the use of modern machine learning methods for weapon type recognition. The research also includes the analysis of methods based on cepstral coefficients and a novel triangulation method for determining the direction of acoustic waves using multiple microphone units. The results have been validated on functional prototypes and published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement and Measurement.
Ing. Jakub Svatoš, Ph.D., received his Master’s degree from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, in 2008. At the same faculty, he obtained his Ph.D. in Measurement Technology in 2015. Since 2013, he has been working at CTU FEL, first as a technical staff member at the Department of Measurement (2013–2015), then as a research associate (2015), and since September 2015 as an assistant professor. Between 2013 and 2016, he also held the position of assistant professor at the Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering and Automation. From 2007 to 2009, he worked as an IT specialist at the Ministry of the Environment of the Czech Republic.
He is the author or co-author of 14 journal articles indexed in WoS/Scopus, including six in leading Q1 journals, and the co-author of a European patent and three utility models. He is actively involved in international scientific activities and has served as Scientific Secretary within IMEKO TC4 since 2021. His teaching focuses mainly on electrical measurements, sensors, and diagnostics, and he has supervised more than twenty bachelor’s and master’s theses to date.
Ing. Svatoš’s habilitation thesis received highly positive evaluations from all three reviewers – Prof. Ján Šaliga (Technical University of Košice), Prof. Francesco Lamonaca (University of Calabria), and Prof. Luca De Vito (University of Sannio). The reviewers particularly emphasized the high professional level of the work, its practical validation, and its significant contribution to the development of the field of measurement technology.
