Horst Bischof received his M.S. and Ph.D. degree in computer science from the Vienna University of Technology in 1990 and 1993. In 1998 he got his Habilitation (venia docendi) for applied computer science. Currently he is Vice Rector for Research at Graz University of Technology and Professor at the Institute of Visual Computing at the Graz University of Technology, Austria. is research interests include object recognition, visual learning, on-line and life-long learning, motion and tracking, visual surveillance and biometrics and medical computer vision where he has published more than 750 peer reviewed scientific papers.
Horst Bischof shaped the computer vision and machine learning research agendas at the former Institute of Computer Graphics and Vision at Graz University of Technology. He led the
Team Bischof, subdivided into the
Learning, Recognition & Surveillance work group, the
Medical Image Processing work group, and the
Robot Vision work group. Currently, he is supervising PhD students within the
Team Possegger at the Institute of Visual Computing.
Horst Bischof was General Chair of CVPR 2015 and ECCV 2018. He was program co-chair of ECCV 2006 and ECCV 2020. He served multiple times as Area Chair for all major vision conferences. He was Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Pattern Recognition, Computer and Informatics and the Journal of Universal Computer Science.
Horst Bischof is member of the European Academy of Sciences and has received several awards, among them the Most Influential Paper over the Decade Award from MVA 2019, the Jan Konderink award at ECCV 2018, the 29th Pattern Recognition award in 2002, the main price of the German Association for Pattern Recognition (DAGM) in 2007 and 2012, the Best Scientific Paper award at the BMCV 2007, the BMVC best demo award 2012 and the Best Scientific Paper awards at the ICPR 2008, ICPR 2010, PCV 2010, AAPR 2010 and ACCV 2012.
