Stefan Roth
Stefan Roth studies computer vision, including optical flow, scene models, and explainable deep networks. He earned an ScM and PhD in computer science at Brown, then joined TU Darmstadt as a junior professor in 2007. With Sun and Black, he published a 2010 optical-flow paper that won the 2020 Longuet-Higgins Prize. The DFG awarded him the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize in 2012; an ERC Starting Grant funded VISLIM, and TU Darmstadt appointed him professor in 2013. An ERC Consolidator Grant backed RED, and he holds ELLIS Unit Director and Fellow roles while visiting Bolzano through January 2027.
- Now at
- TU Darmstadt, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano and European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems
- Works
- 187
- Citations
- 36,601
- h-index
- 63
Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 14 October 2026.
Timeline
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2003–2007
From Brown to Darmstadt
He earned an ScM in 2003 and a computer-science PhD in 2007 at Brown, then joined TU Darmstadt as a junior professor in 2007.
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2010
Measuring image motion
With Sun and Black, he published “Secrets of Optical Flow Estimation and Their Principles” in 2010. The study traced how objective functions, optimization methods and implementation choices affect optical-flow accuracy.
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2012
A research prize
The DFG awarded him the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize for his computer-vision research.
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2013–2018
A grant and a professorship
An ERC Starting Grant funded VISLIM, “Visual Learning and Inference in Joint Scene Models,” from 2013 to 2018. TU Darmstadt appointed him professor in 2013.
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2019–2020
A grant and a prize
The ERC Consolidator Grant backed RED, a five-year project on robust, explainable deep networks in computer vision. In 2020, his 2010 optical-flow paper with Sun and Black won the Longuet-Higgins Prize.
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September 2026–January 2027
Visiting and leading
He is a visiting professor at the Faculty of Engineering of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano. He leads the Visual Inference Lab; ELLIS lists him as a Unit Director and Fellow at TU Darmstadt.
Sources and credits
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- TU-Informatiker erhält Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Preis – TU Darmstadt
- Stefan Roth – Visual Inference Lab – TU Darmstadt
- Michael J. Black: Publications
- Stefan Roth receives Longuet Higgins Prize 2020 – Computer Science – TU Darmstadt
- Brown CS Alums And Adjunct Faculty Win The Longuet-Higgins Prize And The PAMI Young Researcher Award
- Ausgezeichneter Empfang – TU Darmstadt
- Excellence Programmes – Computer Science – TU Darmstadt
- Professorale Verstärkung an der TU Darmstadt – TU Darmstadt
- Mehr Transparenz, weniger Fehler – TU Darmstadt
- TU Darmstadt: ERC Consolidator Grant for Research on deep neural networks in computer vision
- Home – Visual Inference Lab – TU Darmstadt
- Stefan Roth | European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems