Horst Bischof

Ao.Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. Horst Bischof is an Associate Professor at Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien). His work focuses on computer vision, medical imaging, and pattern recognition. He has contributed to projects in automated medical diagnosis (e.g., rheumatoid arthritis assessment), 3D reconstruction, and cultural heritage preservation through advanced segmentation techniques. He has supervised numerous students including S. Veigl, A. Belbachir, and G. Langs. Bischof has edited proceedings like the 2005 Computer Vision Winter Workshop and published extensively on topics like Markov Random Fields, Active Appearance Models, and Canonical Correlation Analysis. His research bridges computer science and biomedical applications, with notable contributions to anatomical structure localization and robust model learning. He collaborates with institutions like the European Society of Musculoskeletal Radiology and has developed systems such as the RheumaCoachCAD for automated scoring of bone erosions.

• Education: Dipl.-Ing. (Master of Engineering) and Dr.techn. (Doctor of Technical Sciences) from TU Wien.
• Key Projects: CAD systems for rheumatoid arthritis, 3D rock-art segmentation, and MRF-based medical image analysis.

Research interests emphasize integrating computational methods into clinical diagnostics and heritage conservation. His work on sparse MRF models and group-wise learning has advanced automated medical image processing techniques.