Thomas Pock
Scholar

Thomas Pock

Google Scholar ID: FwNaHxQAAAAJ
Professor of Computer Science, TU Graz
Convex optimizationImage processingVariational methodsMachine learningComputer vision
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
16,069
 
H-index
49
 
i10-index
127
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
66
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Awarded the START Prize by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) in 2013 for the project 'BIVISION: Bilevel Optimization for Computer Vision'.
  • Received the German Pattern Recognition Award (DAGM) in 2013.
  • Awarded an ERC Starting Grant in 2014 for the project 'HOMOVIS: Higher Order Models for Computer Vision'.
  • Served as associate editor for leading journals including Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision, IEEE TPAMI, and SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences.
  • Served as area chair for major conferences including ICCV, ECCV, and CVPR.
  • Published numerous high-impact papers, e.g., 'FlowSDF: Flow Matching for Medical Image Segmentation Using Distance Transforms', 'Diffusion at Absolute Zero', etc.
Research Experience
  • Conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Bonn and the Hausdorff Center for Mathematics.
  • Returned to Graz University of Technology as Assistant Professor at the Institute of Computer Graphics and Vision.
  • Has been Professor of Computer Science at Graz University of Technology since 2014.
  • Served as a board member (reporter) for computer science at the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) from 2019 to 2024.
  • Head of the Institute of Computer Graphics and Vision since 2023 (renamed to Institute of Visual Computing in 2025).
  • Vice Dean of the Faculty of Computer Science and Biomedical Engineering since 2024.
  • Co-Director of BioTechMed-Graz since 2025.