Thomas Brox

Professor for Pattern Recognition and Image Processing
Head 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

Personal	Contact	Publications	Curriculum Vitae

	Curriculum Vitae
	Date of Birth: November 16, 1976
since 2010	Full Professor heading the Computer Vision Group at the University of Freiburg, Germany
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.)

	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

	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

	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

	Program Chair:
2020	European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)
2018	German Conference on Pattern Recognition (GCPR)

	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)

	PhDs:
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

Thomas Brox

Curriculum Vitae