Position
Associate Professor
Institute of Information Technology (ITEC)
Klagenfurt University (Austria)
ORCID: 0000-0002-9218-1704
Research Interests:
- Health AI
- Computer Vision
- Surgical Data Science
- Multimedia Information Retrieval
Research Profiles
Short Bio
Dr. Klaus Schoeffmann is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Information Technology (ITEC), Klagenfurt University, Austria, where he received his habilitation (venia docendi) in Computer Science in 2015. He holds both a PhD and an MSc in Computer Science. His research focuses on computer vision and multimedia retrieval, with a particular emphasis on health AI and surgical data science. Prof. Schoeffmann has secured more than €2M in research funding from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), the Carinthian Economic Promotion Fund (KWF), and industrial partners. He has supervised six PhD candidates and numerous Master’s theses. He is the founder and co-organizer of the annual Video Browser Showdown (VBS) and the Lifelog Search Challenge (LSC).
He is a member of IEEE and ACM, and serves as a regular reviewer for leading international conferences and journals in multimedia and medical imaging. He has also taken on prominent organizational roles, including program co-chair of FAIEMA 2026, SISAP 2026, ACMMM Asia 2025, ACM ICMR 2020; and general co-chair of ACMWeb 2027, ACMMM 2025, and ACM ICMR 2024.
At Klagenfurt University, he teaches a range of computer science courses, including computer vision with deep learning, multimedia technologies, and app development.