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Prof. Stefan Roth, Ph.D.

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Work S2|02 A304
Hochschulstr. 10
64289 Darmstadt

I am a professor at the Department of Computer Science at TU Darmstadt in Germany and lead the Visual Inference Lab. My research interests mainly lie in the areas of computer vision as well as machine learning and are focused on statistical models for problems of visual inference. Particular research interests include semantic scene understanding, image motion estimation, deep learning, probabilistic models of low-level vision, as well as people detection and tracking.

On Research Sabbatical

I am on a research sabbatical until March 31, 2027. From September 1, 2026 to January 31, 2027, I am a Visiting Professor at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano in Italy.

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Note: I do not hold regular office hours during my ongoing research sabbatical.

Biography

Stefan Roth is a full professor (W3) of Computer Science at Technische Universität Darmstadt (TU Darmstadt), Germany, where he has been on the faculty since 2007 and leads the Visual Inference Lab. From September 2026 to January 2027, he is a Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Engineering of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy. He received his Diplom in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Mannheim, Germany, in 2001, and his ScM (2003) and PhD (2007) in Computer Science from Brown University, USA. His research interests focus on computer vision and deep learning, including scene understanding in 2D and 3D, learning with limited supervision, generative modeling, and explainable AI.
His awards include the Olympus Prize of the German Association for Pattern Recognition (DAGM, 2010), the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize of the German Research Foundation (DFG, 2012), the Longuet-Higgins Prize (2020), and several conference paper awards. He has received two grants from the European Research Council, a Starting Grant in 2013 and a Consolidator Grant in 2020.
He is Speaker of the Research Field Information and Intelligence (I+I) at TU Darmstadt. He is also a Fellow of the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS) and directs both the ELLIS Unit at TU Darmstadt and the DAAD-funded Zuse School ELIZA. He served as Program Chair of CVPR 2022 and ECCV 2024, and regularly serves as an Area Chair for CVPR, ICCV, and ECCV. He is a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV) and serves on the scientific councils and advisory boards of TU Darmstadt and TU Graz, Austria.

Professional Activities

Visiting Professor, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy since 09/2026
Director, Konrad Zuse School of Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELIZA) since 2022
Vice President, German Association for Pattern Recognition (DAGM) since 2021
Speaker, Research Field Information and Intelligence (I+I), TU Darmstadt since 2021
Director, ELLIS Unit Darmstadt since 2020
Member of the Science & Technology Council, TU Graz, Austria since 2020
Member of the Executive Board, Hessian Center for Artificial Intelligence (hessian.AI) since 2020
Chair, Department of Computer Science, TU Darmstadt 2019-2021
Deputy Chair, Department of Computer Science, TU Darmstadt 2018-2019
General Chair DAGM GCPR 2028
Program Chair ECCV 2024
Program Chair CVPR 2022
Associate Editor International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV) since 2013
Senior Area Chair CVPR 2023, 2026
Area Chair CVPR 2013, 2018-2021
Area Chair ECCV 2012-2020, 2026
Area Chair ICCV 2011, 2023, 2025 (lead AC)
Area Chair AAAI 2024
Workshop Chair ECCV 2018
General Chair VMV 2014
Program Chair DAGM 2010
Co-Chair of 1st to 3rd Workshop on Explainable Computer Vision with ECCV 2024, ICCV 2025, ECCV 2026
Co-Chair of 1st Joint BMTT-PETS Workshop on Tracking and Surveillance with CVPR 2017
Co-Chair of 1st and 2nd Workshop on Benchmarking Multi-Target Tracking with WACV 2015 & ECCV 2016
Co-Chair of Workshop on Inverse Rendering with ICCV 2015
Member of the Board, European Computer Vision Association (ECVA) since 2024
Member of the Technical Committee, German Association for Pattern Recognition (DAGM) 2018-2021
Award Committee, European Conference on Computer VIsion (ECCV) 2014 & 2018
Associate Editor IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI) 2014-2022
Editorial Board, PeerJ Computer Science 2015-2023
Program Committee WACV 2027
Program Committee ICLR 2026-2027
Program Committee NeurIPS 2017, 2025
Program Committee ICML 2017
Program Committee ICCV 2007, 2009, 2015, 2017
Program Committee CVPR
2007 – 2012, 2014, 2015-2017
Program Committee ECCV
2008
Program Committee EMMCVPR
2009, 2011, 2013
Program Committee DAGM
2009, 2011–2019, 2021, 2023, 2026
Program Committee VMV 2007 – 2009, 2011, 2013
Grant Reviewer for European Research Council (ERC), German Research Foundation (DFG), Israel Science Foundation, Swiss National Science Foundation, Humboldt Foundation and others
Reviewer for International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences (SIIMS) and others

Honors & Awards

Best Paper Honorable Mention, DAGM GCPR 2026
Best Paper Award, CVPR Workshop on Harnessing Generative Models for Synthetic Visual Datasets (SynthaGen) 2024
Best Student Paper Award, CVPR Workshop on AI for Content Generation (AIS) 2024
Best Paper Honorable Mention, DAGM GCPR 2021
Longuet-Higgins Prize 2020
ELLIS Felow 2019
Best Reviewer Award, DAGM GCPR 2018
Best Reviewer Award, NIPS 2017
Best Paper Award, 4th ECCV Workshop on Computer Vision for Road Scene Understanding and Autonomous Driving 2016
Best Paper Award, IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium 2016
Outstanding Reviewer Award, ICCV 2015
Outstanding Reviewer Award, CVPR 2015
Outstanding Reviewer Award, CVPR 2014
“Top 40 under 40”, Capital Magazine 2012 & 2014
Marr Prize (Honorable Mention), ICCV 2013
GCPR Main Prize 2013
CVPR Best Student Paper Award 2013
DAGM Prize 2012
Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Prize 2012
Adolf-Messer-Prize 2011
Olympus Prize 2010
Outstanding Reviewer Award, ICCV 2009
Outstanding Reviewer Award, ECCV 2008
Outstanding Reviewer Award, CVPR 2008
Nomination for the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award 2007
Outstanding Reviewer Award, CVPR 2007
Joukowsky Family Foundation Outstanding Dissertation Award 2007
Marr Prize (Honorable Mention), ICCV 2005
Sigma Xi Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award 2005
Dean’s Fellowship, Brown University 2001/2002
Fulbright Travel Scholarship 2001-2006