The Speakers
Gül Varol
Gül Varol is a permanent researcher in the IMAGINE team at École des Ponts ParisTech. Previously, she was a postdoctoral researcher in the Visual Geometry Group (VGG) at the University of Oxford. She obtained her PhD from the WILLOW team of Inria Paris and École Normale Supérieure, receiving PhD awards from ELLIS and AFRIF. Her research is focused on computer vision, specifically video representation learning, human motion analysis, and sign language.
Thomas Brox
Thomas Brox received his Ph.D. in computer science from the Saarland University, Germany in 2005. He was a postdoc at the University of Bonn, the University of Dresden and at the University of California at Berkeley. In 2010, he moved to the University of Freiburg, where he is heading the Computer Vision Group. He received the Longuet-Higgins Best Paper Award in 2004 and the Koenderink Prize for Fundamental Contributions in Computer Vision in 2014 for his work on optical flow estimation. In 2011 he was awarded an ERC starting grant. He is an ELLIS fellow and, since 2020, he is also an Amazon Scholar in the Tübingen lablet. His research focuses on visual representation learning, video analysis, and learned 3D representations.