Wolfgang Funk

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Funk is a full-time Professor in the Business Information Systems program at the Faculty of Business, Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University Villingen-Schwenningen. With a doctorate in Computer Science from Technische Universität Darmstadt and extensive experience in applied research, he specializes in software engineering, digital watermarking, and biometric recognition systems.

• PhD in Engineering from TU Darmstadt (2008)
• Diploma in Physics from University of Würzburg (1994)

His research focuses on:

• Digital watermarking techniques for multimedia data
• Biometric system security and liveness detection
• Software engineering for business applications
• Image compression algorithms in recognition systems

Publications demonstrate expertise in:

• 3D CAD model watermarking
• Multimedia security frameworks
• MPEG-4 compression impacts
• Biometric anti-spoofing methods

Scientific achievements include:

• Joseph von Fraunhofer Prize (1998)
• Three granted European patents in digital watermarking and biometric systems