Horst Bischof

Curriculum Vitae:

Horst Bischof received his M.S. and Ph.D. degree in computer science from the Vienna University of Technology in 1990 and 1993, respectively. In 1998 he got his Habilitation (venia docendi) for applied computer science. Currently he is professor for Computer Vision at the Institute for Computer Graphics and Vision at Graz University of Technology, Austria. H. Bischof is Key-researcher at the K+ Competence Center "Advanced Computer Vision" where he is responsible for research projects in the area on "Statistical methods and learning". He is member of the scientific board of the K+ centers VrVis (Virtual reality and visualization) and Know (Knowledge management). He is vice-president of the Austrian Association for Pattern Recognition. His research interests include learning and adaptive methods for computer vision, object recognition, surveillance, robotics and medical vision, where Horst Bischof has published more than 200 reviewed scientific papers.

Horst Bischof is program co-chair of ECCV 2006 to be held in Graz. He was co-chairman of international conferences (ICANN 2001, DAGM 1994), and local organizer for ICPR 1996. Currently he is Associate Editor for the journals Pattern Recognition, and Computer and Informatics.

Main Research Interests:

• computer vision
• pattern recognition
• object recognition
• visual learning
• medical visual information
• robot vision
• biometrics
• surveillance