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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2024
Conference
Eureka-Moments in Transformers: Multi-Step Tasks Reveal Softmax Induced Optimization Problems
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International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2024
CrossQ: Batch Normalization in Deep Reinforcement Learning for Greater Sample Efficiency and Simplicity
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International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2024
Open-ended VQA benchmarking of Vision-Language models by exploiting Classification datasets and their semantic hierarchy
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International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), May 2024
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2024
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Jun 2024
German Conference on Pattern Recognition (GCPR), 2024
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024
2023
Journal
Modelling long-term thermal comfort conditions in urban environments using a deep convolutional encoder-decoder as a computational shortcut
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Urban Climate, 47, Jan 2023
Conference
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2023
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2023
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Workshops, 2023
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Jun 2023
German Conference on Pattern Recognition (GCPR), 2023
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) Workshop, 2023
Construction of Hierarchical Neural Architecture Search Spaces based on Context-free Grammars
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Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2023
2022
Journal
Neuron, 110(13): 2080-2093, Jul 2022
Conserved structures of neural activity in sensorimotor cortex of freely moving rats allow cross-subject decoding
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Nature Communications, 2022
Conference
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2022
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2022
IEEE International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV), Sep 2022
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2022
German Conference on Pattern Recognition (GCPR), 2022
German Conference on Pattern Recognition (GCPR), 2022
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) Workshops, 2022
Ranking Info Noise Contrastive Estimation: Boosting Contrastive Learning via Ranked Positives
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AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2022
2021
Journal
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 43(4): 1369-1379, 2021
Development, 148(21), 2021
Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 210: 103240, 2021
Conference
Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), 2021
IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2021
Fostering Generalization in Single-view 3D Reconstruction by Learning a Hierarchy of Local and Global Shape Priors
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IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2021
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2021
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2021
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2021
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Workshops, Jun 2021
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Workshops, Jun 2021
ICML Workshop on Uncertainty and Robustness in Deep Learning (UDL), 2021
ICML Workshop on Uncertainty and Robustness in Deep Learning (UDL), 2021
German Conference on Pattern Recognition (GCPR), 2021
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2021
2020
Journal
International Journal of Computer Vision, 128: 756-769, 2020
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 42(1): 140-153, Jan 2020
Conference
Recovering the Imperfect: Cell Segmentation in the Presence of Dynamically Localized Proteins
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MICCAI Workshop on Medical Image Learning with Less Labels and Imperfect Data, Springer, Vol.12446, 2020
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2020
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2020
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2020
DiskMask: Focusing Object Features for Accurate Instance Segmentation of Elongated or Overlapping Objects
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IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), 2020
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2020
Multimodal Future Localization and Emergence Prediction for Objects in Egocentric View with a Reachability Prior
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IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR): 4354-4363, 2020
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), Curran Associates, Inc., Vol.33: 22605--22618, 2020
2019
Journal
Nature Methods, 16: 67-70, 2019
Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, 2019
Conference
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2019
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), IEEE: 5542--5549, Nov 2019
IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2019
Overcoming Limitations of Mixture Density Networks: A Sampling and Fitting Framework for Multimodal Future Prediction
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IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2019
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2019
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2019
FreiHAND: Dataset for Markerless Capture of Hand Pose and Shape from Single RGB Images
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IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2019
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2019
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2019
German Conference on Pattern Recognition (GCPR), Springer, LNCS, 2019
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2019
Others
Technical Report 1912.05361, arXiv(1912.05361), 2019
2018
Journal
What Makes Good Synthetic Training Data for Learning Disparity and Optical Flow Estimation?
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International Journal of Computer Vision, 126(9): 942-960, 2018
International Journal of Computer Vision, 126(11): 1199-1219, Nov 2018
Conference
TD or not TD: Analyzing the Role of Temporal Differencing in Deep Reinforcement Learning
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International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2018
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), IEEE, 2018
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2018
IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV), 2018
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) Workshops, 2018
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2018
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2018
Occlusions, Motion and Depth Boundaries with a Generic Network for Disparity, Optical Flow or Scene Flow Estimation
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European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2018
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2018
Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2018
Others
Technical Report , arXiv:1808.06389, 2018
2017
Journal
The International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR), 2017
Nature Methods, 14: 1141-1152, 2017
International Journal of Computer Vision, 122(3): 502--523, May 2017
International Journal of Computer Vision, 125(1-3): 82-94, 2017
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 39(4): 692-705, Apr 2017
Conference
International Symposium on Robotics Research (ISRR), 2017
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), IEEE , 2017
Octree Generating Networks: Efficient Convolutional Architectures for High-resolution 3D Outputs
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IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2017
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2017
Chained Multi-stream Networks Exploiting Pose, Motion, and Appearance for Action Classification and Detection
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IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2017
IEEE International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV), 2017
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2017
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2017
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2017
German Conference on Pattern Recognition (GCPR) 2017, 2017
British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), 2017
Others
Technical Report , arXiv:1612.03777, 2017
Technical Report , arXiv:1707.02278 [math.OC], 2017
2016
Journal
Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision, 56(2): 175-194, Oct 2016
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 38(9): 1734-1747, Oct 2016
IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 35(5), 2016
Conference
Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS 2016) Workshop, Are the Sceptics Right? Limits and Potentials of Deep Learning in Robotics, 2016
Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), Springer, LNCS, Vol.9901: 424--432, Oct 2016
Deep Multispectral Semantic Scene Understanding of Forested Environments using Multimodal Fusion
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International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER 2016), 2016
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2016
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2016
A Large Dataset to Train Convolutional Networks for Disparity, Optical Flow, and Scene Flow Estimation
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IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2016
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2016
German Conference on Pattern Recognition (GCPR), 2016
German Conference on Pattern Recognition (GCPR), 2016
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2016
ECCV 2016 workshops, Springer, 2016
Protein contact prediction from amino acid co-evolution using convolutional networks for graph-valued images
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Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2016
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2016
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2016
Others
Springer: 155--168, 2016
Technical Report , arXiv:1607.06317, 2016
Technical Report , arxiv:1608.03066, 2016
2015
Journal
On iteratively reweighted algorithms for non-smooth non-convex optimization in computer vision
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SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences, 8(1): 331-372, 2015
Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision, 53(2): 171-181, Oct 2015
Conference
Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), 2015
Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), Springer, LNCS, Vol.9351: 234--241, 2015
International Conference on Scale Space and Variational Methods in Computer Vision (SSVM), Springer, LNCS, Vol.9087: 654--665, 2015
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2015
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2015
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2015
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2015
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2015
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2015
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2015
ICLR (workshop track), 2015
German Conference on Pattern Recognition (GCPR), Springer, 2015
British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), 2015
British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), BMVA Press: 189.1--189.12, 2015
2014
Journal
SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences, 7(2): 1388-1419, 2014
Rotation-Invariant HOG Descriptors using Fourier Analysis in Polar and Spherical Coordinates
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International Journal of Computer Vision, 106(3): 342-364, 2014
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 36(6): 1187 - 1200, Jun 2014
Conference
Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) 2014 - CADDementia Challenge, 2014
International Workshop on Pattern Recognition in Neuroimaging (PRNI) 2014: 1-4, 2014
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2014
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2014
German Conference on Pattern Recognition (GCPR), Springer, LNCS, 2014
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2014
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2014
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Springer, 2014
Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV), 2014
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 27 (NIPS), 2014
Others
Technical Report 1405.5769, arXiv(1405.5769), May 2014
2013
Conference
Pattern Recognition (GCPR 2013), Springer, LNCS, Vol.8142: 205-214, 2013
Pattern Recognition (GCPR 2013), Springer, LNCS, Vol.8142: 215-224, 2013
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2013
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Dec 2013
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2013
Blind deconvolution of widefield fluorescence microscopic data by regularization of the optical transfer function (OTF)
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IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2013
2012
Journal
Nature Methods, 9(7): 735-742, 2012
Machine Vision and Applications, 23(3): 557-577, 2012
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 34(3): 493-505, 2012
Fast rotation invariant 3D feature computation utilizing efficient local neighborhood operators
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IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 34(8): 1563 - 1575 , 2012
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 21(4): 1863-1873, 2012
Conference
Pattern Recognition (Proc. DAGM), Springer, LNCS , 2012
Pattern Recognition (Proc. DAGM), Springer, LNCS, 2012
IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI): 1292 - 1295 , 2012
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2012
2011
Journal
International Journal of Computer Vision, 95(1): 29-51, 2011
Large displacement optical flow: descriptor matching in variational motion estimation
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IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 33(3): 500-513, 2011
Conference
Hierarchical Markov Random Fields for Mast Cell Segmentation in Electron Microscopic Recordings
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IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI): 973 - 978, 2011
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Jun. 2011
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Jun. 2011
Object segmentation in video: a hierarchical variational approach for turning point trajectories into dense regions
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IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2011
Others
Multiview Deblurring for 3-D Images from Light Sheet based Fluorescence Microscopy - Supporting Online Material
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Technical Report 266, University of Freiburg(266), 2011
2010
Journal
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 107(47): 20388-20393, 2010
International Journal of Computer Vision, 87(1): 75-92, Jan 2010
Image and Vision Computing, 28(3): 376-390, Mar 2010
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 32(3): 402-415, Mar 2010
Conference
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Springer, LNCS, Sept. 2010
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Springer, LNCS, Sept. 2010
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Springer, LNCS, Sept. 2010
2009
Journal
On local region models and a statistical interpretation of the piecewise smooth Mumford-Shah functional
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International Journal of Computer Vision, 84(2): 184-193, Jun. 2009
International Journal of Computer Vision, 84(1): 80-96, May 2009
Conference
Pattern Recognition (Proc. DAGM), Springer, LNCS, Sept. 2009
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Jun. 2009
2008
Journal
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 17(7): 1083-1092, Jul. 2008
Conference
Pattern Recognition (Proc. DAGM), Springer, LNCS, Vol.5096: 385-395, Jun. 2008
International Workshop on Robot Vision, Springer, LNCS, Vol.4931: 98-110, Feb. 2008
Nonlocal texture filtering with efficient tree structures and invariant patch similarity measures
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International Workshop on Local and Nonlocal Approximation, Aug. 2008
International Conference on Articulated Motion and Deformable Objects, Springer, LNCS, Vol.5098: 102-111, Jul. 2008
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Jun. 2008
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Springer, LNCS, Vol.5302: 739-751, Oct. 2008
2007
Journal
International Journal of Computer Vision, 73(3): 243-262, Jul. 2007
Cytometry Part A, 71(1): 8-15, 2007
Conference
Workshop on Photometric Analysis for Computer Vision, Oct. 2007
Pattern Recognition (Proc. DAGM), Springer, LNCS, Sept. 2007
Pattern Recognition (Proc. DAGM), Springer, LNCS, Sept. 2007
Pattern Recognition (Proc. DAGM), Springer, LNCS, Sept. 2007
International Workshop on Human Motion, Springer, LNCS, Vol.4814: 152-165, Oct. 2007
International Conference on Scale Space and Variational Methods in Computer Vision (SSVM), Springer, LNCS, Vol.4485: 13-24, May 2007
International Conference on Scale Space and Variational Methods in Computer Vision (SSVM), Springer, LNCS, Vol.4485: 203-213, May 2007
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Jun. 2007
Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, Springer, LNCS, Jun. 2007
Energy Minimization Methods in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (EMMCVPR), Springer, LNCS, Vol.4679: 441-452, Aug. 2007
2006
Journal
Numerical Algorithms, 41(1): 79-101, Jan. 2006
Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, 17(5): 1053-1073, Oct. 2006
International Journal of Computer Vision, 67(2): 141-158, Apr. 2006
Image and Vision Computing, 24(1): 41-55, Jan. 2006
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 15(10): 3213-3218, Oct. 2006
Conference
Pattern Recognition (Proc. DAGM), Springer, LNCS, Vol.4174: 475-484, Sept. 2006
Pattern Recognition (Proc. DAGM), Springer, LNCS, Vol.4174: 688-697, Sept. 2006
Pattern Recognition (Proc. DAGM), Springer, LNCS, Vol.4174: 546-555, Apr. 2006
International Workshop on Combinatorial Image Analysis, Springer, LNCS, Vol.4040: 263-276, Jun. 2006
High accuracy optical flow serves 3-D pose tracking: exploiting contour and flow based constraints
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European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Springer, LNCS, Vol.3952: 98-111, May 2006
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Springer, LNCS, Vol.3951: 471-483, May 2006
Fully-automated analysis of muscle fiber images with combined region and edge based active contours
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Bildverarbeitung in der Medizin, Springer: 86-90, Mar. 2006
Advances in Visual Computing, Springer, LNCS, Vol.4292: 59-69, Nov. 2006
2005
Conference
Scale Space and PDE Methods in Computer Vision, Springer, LNCS: 585-597, Apr. 2005
Scale Space and PDE Methods in Computer Vision, Springer, LNCS: 536-547, Apr. 2005
Pattern Recognition (Proc. DAGM), Springer, LNCS, Vol.3663: 109-116, Aug. 2005
Pattern Recognition (Proc. DAGM), Springer, LNCS, Vol.3663: 109-116, Aug. 2005
2004
Journal
On the equivalence of soft wavelet shrinkage, total variation diffusion, total variation regularization, and SIDEs
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SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, 42(2): 686-713, May 2004
Conference
Pattern Recognition (Proc. DAGM), Springer, LNCS, Vol.3175: 415-423, Aug. 2004
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Springer, LNCS, Vol.3022: 578-590, May 2004
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Springer, LNCS, Vol.3024: 25-36, May 2004
2003
Conference
Scale Space Methods in Computer Vision, Springer, LNCS, Vol.2695: 86-100, Jun. 2003
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Vol.2: 699-704, Jun. 2003
Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns, Springer, LNCS, Vol.2756: 353-360, Aug. 2003
2002
Conference
Pattern Recognition (Proc. DAGM), Springer, LNCS, Vol.2449: 446-453, Sept. 2002
Inverse Problems, Image Analysis, and Medical Imaging, AMS: 251-268, Dec 2002
2001
Conference
Symposium on Information and Communication Theory in the Benelux: 189-196, May 2001