Björn Ommer
Also known as Bjorn Ommer
Ommer studied in Bonn, earned an ETH doctorate on compositional visual recognition and conducted postdoctoral research at Berkeley with Jitendra Malik. He later held research leadership roles at Heidelberg and LMU. Ommer coauthored Taming Transformers with Patrick Esser and Robin Rombach. Submitted in 2020, the work combines learned visual representations and transformers to synthesize high-resolution images. Ommer coauthored High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models. Submitted in 2021 and presented at CVPR 2022, the team applied diffusion in a learned image representation to reduce computational requirements.
- Now at
- LMU Munich
- Works
- 195
- Citations
- 23,590
- h-index
- 38
Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 14 October 2026.
Timeline
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As of October 2026
Visual-learning career
Ommer studied in Bonn, earned an ETH doctorate on compositional visual recognition and conducted postdoctoral research at Berkeley with Jitendra Malik. He later held research leadership roles at Heidelberg and LMU.
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2020–2021
Transformers for image synthesis
Ommer coauthored Taming Transformers with Patrick Esser and Robin Rombach. Submitted in 2020, the work combines learned visual representations and transformers to synthesize high-resolution images.
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2021–2022
Latent diffusion
Ommer coauthored High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models. Submitted in 2021 and presented at CVPR 2022, the team applied diffusion in a learned image representation to reduce computational requirements.
Sources and credits
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