Prof. Stefan Roth, Ph.D.
Contact
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Work
S2|02 A304
Hochschulstr. 10
64289
Darmstadt
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 |
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Program Committee CVPR |
2007 – 2012, 2014, 2015-2017 |
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Program Committee ECCV |
2008 |
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Program Committee EMMCVPR |
2009, 2011, 2013 |
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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 |