Thomas Brox is a computer scientist and professor of pattern recognition and image processing at the University of Freiburg, where he heads the Computer Vision Group. His research is in computer vision and machine learning, including optical flow, visual representation learning and deep neural networks. He co-authored the U-Net architecture for biomedical image segmentation and FlowNet, a convolutional-neural-network approach to optical-flow estimation. According to Scopus, Brox's publications had received more than 130,000 citations by 2026.