Thomas BroxProfessor for Pattern Recognition and Image ProcessingHead of the Computer Vision Group Department of Computer Science University of Freiburg Germany Office location: Georges-Köhler-Allee, Building 052, room 01-29/30 79110 Freiburg Contact and consultation: make an appointment |
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| Personal | Contact | Publications | Curriculum Vitae |
Curriculum Vitae |
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Date of Birth: November 16, 1976
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| since 2010 |
Full Professor heading the Computer Vision Group at the University of Freiburg, Germany |
| 2020-2024 |
Amazon Scholar |
| 2008-2010 |
Postdoctoral Researcher in the Computer Vision Group at the U.C. Berkeley, USA |
| 2007-2008 |
Temporary Professor heading the Intelligent Systems Group at the TU Dresden, Germany |
| 2005-2007 |
Postdoctoral Researcher in the Computer Vision Group at the University of Bonn, Germany |
| 2002-2005 |
PhD Student in the Mathematical Image Analysis Group at the Saarland University, Germany |
| 2005 |
Dissertation Title: From Pixels to Regions: Partial Differential Equations in Image Analysis (PDF) |
| 2002 |
Research stay at the INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, France 3 months |
| 1997-2002 |
Studies of Computer Engineering at the University of Mannheim, Germany |
| 2002 |
Diploma (~M.Sc.), summa cum laude Topic: Smoothing of matrix-valued data (PDF) |
| 1999 | Preliminary Diploma (~B.Sc.) |
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| Awards: | |
| 2023 |
Best paper award at the GCPR 2023 conference |
| 2017 |
Winner of the CVPR 2017 Multi-Object Tracking Challenge |
| 2016 |
2x Best paper honorable mention at the GCPR 2016 conference |
| 2015 |
Best PhD paper award at the SSVM 2015 conference |
| 2014 |
Koenderink Prize for Fundamental Contributions in Computer Vision |
| 2014 |
Best reviewer award at CVPR 2014 |
| 2013 |
Best reviewer award at CVPR 2013 |
| 2011 |
ERC Starting Grant |
| 2010 |
Honorable Mention in the Pascal VOC segmentation challenge |
| 2005 |
DAGM Best Paper Award at DAGM 2005 |
| 2004 | "The Longuet-Higgins Best Paper Award" at ECCV 2004 |
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| Responsibilities: | |
| since 2021 | Steering Committee Member of the Technical Faculty |
| since 2019 | Steering Committee Member of the BrainLinks-BrainTools Center |
| 2018-2019 | Dean of Studies of the Computer Science Department |
| 2014-2018 | Director of the Computer Science Department |
| 2019-2023 | Steering Committee Member of the CIBSS Excellence Cluster |
| 2010-2019 | Steering Committee Member of the BIOSS Excellence Cluster |
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| Associate Editor: | |
| 2014-2020 | International Journal of Computer Vision |
| 2012-2018 | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence |
| 2010-2015 | Image and Vision Computing |
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| Program Chair: | |
| 2020 | European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) |
| 2018 | German Conference on Pattern Recognition (GCPR) |
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| Area Chair: | |
| 2018 | Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) |
| 2011,2015 | International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) |
| 2014,2016,2018 | European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) |
| 2014 | Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV) |
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| PhDs: | |
| 2025 | Maria Bravo |
| 2025 | Piyapat Saranrittichai |
| 2025 | Mohammadreza Zolfaghari |
| 2024 | Jonas Uhrig |
| 2023 | Sudhanshu Mittal |
| 2022 | Tonmoy Saikia |
| 2022 | Osama Makansi |
| 2022 | Max Argus |
| 2021 | Anton Böhm |
| 2021 | Özgün Cicek |
| 2020 | Christian Zimmermann |
| 2020 | Duc-Tam Nguyen |
| 2020 | Nikolaus Mayer |
| 2020 | Maxim Tatarchenko |
| 2020 | Eddy Ilg (Professor at Saarland University) |
| 2019 | Gabriel Leivas Oliveira |
| 2019 | Nima Sedaghat |
| 2018 | Benjamin Ummenhofer |
| 2018 | Ahmed Abdulkadir |
| 2017 | Benjamin Drayer |
| 2016 | Philipp Fischer |
| 2016 | Maddalena Strumia |
| 2016 | David Pilutti |
| 2015 | Peter Ochs (Professor at the University of Tübingen) |
| 2014 | Esmeralda Ruiz |
| 2012 | Margret Keuper (Professor at the University of Mannheim) |
| Teaching: | |
| since 2014 |
Course Optimization, University of Freiburg |
| since 2011 |
Course Statistical Pattern Recognition, University of Freiburg |
| since 2010 |
Course Computer Vision, University of Freiburg |
| since 2010 |
Course Image Processing, University of Freiburg |
| 2009 |
Tutorial on Variational Optical Flow Estimation at ICCV 2009 (with Andres Bruhn) |
| 2008 |
Course Computer Vision, University of Dresden |
| 2008 |
Course Machine Learning, University of Dresden |
| 2007 |
Course Image Processing, University of Dresden |
| 2007 |
Course Pattern Matching in Computer Vision, University of Dresden |
| 2006 |
Course Matching Problems in Computer Vision, University of Bonn |
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