Klaus Schöffmann

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Klaus Schöffmann is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Information Technology (ITEC) at Klagenfurt University, Austria. He holds a PhD and MSc in Computer Science, and received his habilitation (venia docendi) in 2015. His research focuses on video content understanding (including medical/surgery videos), deep learning, multimedia retrieval, and interactive multimedia. He has secured over €2M in research funding and mentored 6 PhD candidates. He chairs the Video Browser Showdown (VBS) and Lifelog Search Challenge (LSC), and is a member of IEEE/ACM. He has served as program co-chair for MMM 2021, CBMI 2021, ACM ICMR 2020, and others.

• Affiliations: Deputy Head of the Institute of Information Technology, Chairman of the Curricular Commission for Computer Science.
• Grants & Impact: €2M+ funding from FWF, KWF, and industry; Google H-index 36 (4,000+ citations).
• Teaching: Courses in computer vision, multimedia technologies, and app development.

He actively organizes conferences including general co-chair roles for ACM ICMR 2024, CBMI2025, and ACMMM2025, and contributes as a reviewer for top journals/conferences in multimedia and medical imaging.