I am a professor of Computer Science at TU Darmstadt in Germany and lead the Visual Inference Group. 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 probabilistic models of low-level vision, image motion estimation, people detection and tracking, as well as object recognition.
ERC Starting Grant:
I have recently been awarded an ERC Starting Grant for research on "Visual Learning and Inference in Joint Scene Models (VISLIM)".
Open positions:
There are several open PhD and PostDoc positions in my group. Please refer to the following pages for details:
- PhD & PostDoc positions (ERC Starting Grant "VISLIM")
- PhD & PostDoc positions (EU project "HARVEST4D")
Recent highlights:
- CVPR 2013: U. Schmidt, C. Rother, S. Nowozin, J. Jancsary & S. Roth: "Discriminative Non-Blind Deblurring" (oral)
- CVPR 2013: A. Milan, K. Schindler, S. Roth: "Detection- and Trajectory-Level Exclusion in Multiple Object Tracking"
- DAGM Prize 2012 (paper award): Q. Gao & S. Roth, "How well do filter-based MRFs model natural images?" (oral) [publisher pdf]
- DAGM 2012: T. Franzel, U. Schmidt & S. Roth, "Object detection in multi-view x-ray images" (oral) [publisher pdf]
- DAGM 2012: K. Schelten & S. Roth, "Mean field for continuous high-order MRFs" (oral) [publisher pdf]
- DAGM 2012: C. Dann, P. Gehler, S. Roth & S. Nowozin, "Pottics - The Potts topic model for semantic image segmentation" [publisher pdf]
- I won the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Prize 2012 of the German Research Foundation
- PAMI: C. Wojek, S. Walk, S. Roth, K. Schindler & B. Schiele. "Monocular Visual Scene Understanding: Understanding Multi-Object Traffic Scenes" [IEEE xplore]
- CVPR 2012: U. Schmidt & S. Roth, "Learning Rotation-Aware Features: From Invariant Priors to Equivariant Descriptors" (oral) [IEEE xplore]
- CVPR 2012: A. Andriyenko, K. Schindler & S. Roth, "Discrete-Continuous Optimization for Multi-Target Tracking" [IEEE xplore]
Professional activities:
- Editorial Board International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV)
- Area Chair CVPR 2013
- Area Chair ECCV 2012
- Area Chair ICCV 2011
- Program Chair DAGM 2010
- Program Committee ICCV 2007, 2009
- Program Committee CVPR 2007 - 2012
- Program Committee ECCV 2008
- Program Committee EMMCVPR 2009, 2011, 2013
- Program Committee DAGM 2009-2013
- Program Committee VMV 2007 - 2009, 2011, 2013
- Grant Reviewer for German Research Foundation (DFG), Israel Science Foundation, Swiss National Science Foundation, German Academic Exchange Association
- 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:
- DAGM Prize 2012 (with Q. Gao)
- Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Prize 2012
- Adolf-Messer-Prize 2011
- Olympus Prize 2010
- Outstanding Reviewer Award ICCV 2009
- Best Paper Award of the INI-Graphics Net 2008 (with M. Black)
- 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 (for the best dissertation in the sciences at Brown University)
- Marr Prize (Honorable Mention) ICCV 2005 (with M. Black)
- Sigma Xi Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award 2005
- Sigma Xi Associate Member 2005
- Dean’s Fellowship, Brown University 2001
- Fulbright Travel Scholarship 2001