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Thomas Brox
University of FreiburgDean, Faculty of Engineering; Professor for Pattern Recognition and Image Processing
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[1], and helped establish modern learning-based video analysis.
Career & education
Current roleUniversity of Freiburg2026-presentDean, Faculty of Engineering; Professor for Pattern Recognition and Image Processing
University of Freiburg2026-presentPreviously
Postdoctoral Researcher
Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.
Citation Trend
Total citations to scholarly work, including research papers, technical reports, books and theses, as recorded by Google Scholar. Each point is a dated snapshot.
citations250,715As of Nov 1, '26
citations+3,832Since last snapshot, Oct 1, '26
Selected contributions
U-Net: Convolutional Networks for Biomedical Image Segmentation
With Olaf Ronneberger and Philipp FischerU-Net outlines cells and other structures in biomedical images.
References
- U-Net: Convolutional Networks for Biomedical Image Segmentationarxiv.org
He also co-authored U-Net, now widely used to identify structures in medical images
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