Professor Justus Thies receives German Pattern Recognition Award

Award for outstanding contributions by young researchers in the fields of pattern recognition, machine vision and machine learning

2024/09/12

TU Professor Justus Thies was awarded the German Pattern Recognition Prize at this year's GCPR-VMV conference in Munich.

Von links: Prof. Dr. Stefan Roth (Stellvertretender Vorsitzender der German Association for Pattern Recognition DAGM), Prof. Dr. Bernt Schiele (Vorsitzender der German Association for Pattern Recognition DAGM), Preisträger Prof. Justus Thies und Stefan Gehrig (Mercedes-Benz AG). — From left: Prof Dr Stefan Roth (Vice Chairman of the German Association for Pattern Recognition DAGM), Prof Dr Bernt Schiele (Chairman of the German Association for Pattern Recognition DAGM), award winner Prof Justus Thies and Stefan Gehrig (Mercedes-Benz AG).

The conference, which combines the German Conference on Pattern Recognition (GCPR) and Vision, Modelling and Visualisation (VMV), is an important forum for the international research community in the field of pattern recognition and visual modelling.

The €5,000 prize is awarded annually by the German Association for Pattern Recognition (DAGM) and honours outstanding contributions by young researchers in the fields of pattern recognition, machine vision and machine learning. Thies, who has been Professor of 3D Graphics & Vision at TU Darmstadt since 2023, researches intensively in the fields of computer graphics, image processing and deep learning. His work on facial reconstruction, animation and video processing is particularly noteworthy. A few days ago, the European Research Council (ERC) awarded him a Starting Grant worth 1.5 million euros.

Especially noteworthy: Professor Anna Rohrbach , another TU Darmstadt scientist, also received the prestigious Pattern Recognition Award last year. Thies' award is the latest in a series of outstanding honours that underline the importance of TU Darmstadt in the international research community.