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Walter Kropatsch
Vienna University of Technology
Membership Number: 13
Address: Inst. of Computer Aided Automation,Favoritenstr.9/2/4,A-1040 WIEN, Austria
Email: krw@prip.tuwien.ac.at
Phone: +43(1)58801x18350
Fax: +43(1)58801x18392
URL: http://www.prip.tuwien.ac.at/~krw

Biographical Sketch
Prof. Walter G. Kropatsch was born on January 23, 1953, Leibnitz, Austria. Dr.techn. (PhD) on Registration of Satelite Images with Maps from Technical University in Graz in 1982. Habilitation on Image Pyramids and Curves from University of Innsbruck in 1991. Since 1990 Full Professor and head of first Austrian research group on Pattern Recognition and Image Processing ('PRIP') at Vienna University of Technology. Before: Research positions at Center for Automation Research, University of Maryland, USA; University of Innsbruck, Technical University of Graz, Joanneum Graz, A. Several projects including an Austrian joint research program (1994-1999) resulted in more than 160 scientific publications with 74 articles in refereed conferences and 15 journal articles.

Vienna University of Technology

Institute of Computer Aided Automation

Pattern Recognition and Image Processing Group (PRIP)

The Pattern Recognition and Image Processing Group was founded in the year 1990 and is headed by Prof. Kropatsch. It is concerned with the theoretical foundations of the field and selected applications in natural and technical sciences both in teaching and in research.

The group plays an active role in various national and international activities. It coordinated from 1994 to 2000 an Austrian wide research program in the field of digital image processing and pattern recognition and has many active cooperations with other university institutes within Austria and abroad. The group coordinates an ERASMUS-Program and has organized international conferences (among them DAGM 1994, ICPR 1996 and ICANN 2001).

PRIP participates in the IST-Project 3D Murale (EC 5th Frame Program), project partners are Brunel University, ETH Zurich, Leuven University, Eyetronics, Imagination and TU-Graz.

Since 2000 PRIP is leading two out of five research areas within the K+ Competence Center Advanced Computer Vision (ACV).

The research activities of the group include theoretical and application oriented research. The areas of active theoretical research are: Graph-based Image Analysis; 3-D Computer Vision; Hierarchical Representations and Robust Methods; Neural Networks and Adaptive Methods; Appearance based Object Recognition.

Application oriented research using the results from the theory is done in the following areas: Micro-array Image Analysis in Biotechnology; Art History; Computer Aided Classification of Ceramics; Industrial Vision; Image Databases; Image Compression; Face Recognition.


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