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Thomas Brox

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Dean, Faculty of Engineering; Professor for Pattern Recognition and Image Processing at University of Freiburg

🇩🇪 German

Brox developed methods that help computers follow motion from one video frame to the next and learn visual patterns without manual labels. He also co-authored U-Net, now widely used to identify structures in medical images, and helped establish modern learning-based video analysis.

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Background

Current role
Dean, Faculty of Engineering; Professor for Pattern Recognition and Image Processing 2026-present
Previously
Postdoctoral Researcher,
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Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.

Last editorial review: August 8, 2026

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Citation history from Aug 25, '25 to Sep 1, '26243,929222,470201,010Aug 25, '25Apr 15, '26Jun 15, '26Sep 1, '26
243,929citations as of Sep 1, '26+4,521 since Aug 1, '26
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