FH-Prof. Priv.-Doz. Dipl.-Ing. Mag. Dr. Matthias Zeppelzauer
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Head of
Media Computing Research Group
Institute of Creative\Media/Technologies - Department of Media and Digital Technologies
Study programmes
- Data Intelligence (MA)
- Creative Computing (BA)
- Data Science and Artificial Intelligence* (BA)
- Media Technology (BA)
Departments
- Computer Science and Security
- Media and Digital Technologies
Research Vision
“Performing innovative human-centered research on AI across disciplines to serve the social good.”
Research Interests
- Human-Centered and Trustworthy AI
- Computer Vision and Image Understanding
- Content-based Audio, Image and Video Retrieval
- Multimodal Media Retrieval and Learning
- Environmental Sound Recognition
- Social Media Analysis
- Pattern Mining
- 2024: Best Paper Award at the International EuroVis Workshop on Visual Analytics (EuroVA) in Odense, Denmark, May 27, 2024
- 2023: First place at the EXIST: sEXism Identification in Social neTworks Benchmark at IberLEF 2023
- 2021: MTD Award Winner for project “ReMoCapLab” of the Austrian Association of Elevated Medical Technology Services (Dachverband der gehobenen medizinisch-technischen Dienste Österreich)
- 2021: Award of the Innovation Price in the category “Research” of the Lower Austrian Government for project IntelliGait 3D.
- 2021: ACM SIGMM Best Poster Award at the International Content-Based Multimedia Indexing Conference (CBMI) for our research on Multimodal Fake News Detection
- 2021: 3rd best team at the EXIST: sEXism Identification in Social neTworks Benchmark at IberLEF 2021 out of 31 international teams
- 2020: Project “SoniControl” nominated as one of the most successful projects in the last 15 years funded by the netidee initiative of IPA Austria
- 2020: Rated Excellent Reviewer by CVPR 2020 (IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
- 2018: Nomination of MIT Technology Review of the work on building age extraction via Computer Vision and Deep Learning as one of the most thought-provoking papers on arXiv.org
- 2018: Austrian Open Source Award for the research project “SoniControl” in the category Systems and Security.
- 2017: Best Paper Award at the 12th International Conference on Information Visualization, Theory and Applications (IVAPP), Porto, Portugal
- 2015: Best Paper Award at the International Conference on Digital Heritage, Granada, Spain.
- 2014: First Place at the MediaEval Benchmark in the Social Event Detection challenge
- 2014: Second Place at the ChaLearn - Looking at People challenge on Cultural Event Recognition at CVPR 2015
- since 2021: Co-Coordinator of the Center for Artificial Intelligence at the St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences
- since 2020: Head of Research Group Media Computing at the at the Institute of Creative Media Technologies at the St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences
- 2020: Habilitation at TU Wien (Adjunct Professor) in Computer Science on Retrieval of Multimodal Media Data
- since 2013: Senior Researcher at the Institute of Creative Media Technologies
- 2011-2015: Postdoctoral researcher at the Interactive Media Systems Group, TU Wien, Austria
- 2011: PhD with highest distinction in Computer Science from TU Wien, Austria
- 1999-2006 Bachelor and Master study computer science (focus media informatics / computer graphics and image processing) at TU Wien, Austria
Selected Publications
Matt, M., Zeppelzauer, M., & Waldner, M. (2024). cVIL: Class-Centric Visual Interactive Labeling. Proceedings of the 15th International EuroVis Workshop on Visual Analytics (EuroVA). 15th International EuroVis Workshop on Visual Analytics (EuroVA), Odense, Denmark. http://arxiv.org/abs/2405.08150
Slijepcevic, D., Horst, F., Lapuschkin, S., Horsak, B., Raberger, A.-M., Kranzl, A., Samek, W., Breitender, C., Schöllhorn, W., & Zeppelzauer, M. (2022). Explaining Machine Learning Models for Clinical Gait Analysis. ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare, 3(2), 14:1-14:27. https://doi.org/10.1145/3474121
Baumhauer, T., Schöttele, P., & Zeppelzauer, M. (2022). Machine Unlearning: Linear Filtration for Logit-based Classifiers. Journal on Machine Learning, 111(1), 3203–3226. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10994-022-06178-9
Beckmann, Rafael, Blaga, C., El-Assady, M., Zeppelzauer, M., & Bernard, J. (2022). Interactive Visual Explanation of Incremental Data Labeling. EuroVis Workshop on Visual Analytics (EuroVA), 6. https://doi.org/10.2312/eurova.20221073
Baumhauer, T., Slijepcevic, D., & Zeppelzauer, M. (2022). Bounded logit attention: Learning to explain image classifiers. NeurIPS 2022 Workshop: All Things Attention: Bridging Different Perspectives on Attention, New Orleans, USA. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2105.14824
Slijepčević, D., Henzl, M., Klausner, L. D., Dam, T., Kieseberg, P., & Zeppelzauer, M. (2021). k‑Anonymity in Practice: How Generalisation and Suppression Affect Machine Learning Classifiers. Computers & Security, 111, 19. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cose.2021.102488
Bernard, J., Hutter, M., Zeppelzauer, M., Sedlmair, M., & Munzner, T. (2021). ProSeCo: Visual analysis of class separation measures and dataset characteristics. Computers & Graphics, 96, 48–60. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cag.2021.03.004
Bernard, Jürgen, Hutter, M., Sedlmair, M., Zeppelzauer, Matthias, & Munzner, Tamara. (2021). A Taxonomy of Property Measures to Unify Active Learning and Human-centered Approaches to Data Labeling. ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS), 11(3–4), 1–42. https://doi.org/10/gnt2wf
Zielinski, B., Lipinski, M., Juda, M., Zeppelzauer, Matthias, & Dlotko, Pawel. (2021). Persistence Codebooks for Topological Data Analysis. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Review, 54, 1969–2009. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-020-09897-4
Kirchknopf, A., Slijepcevic, D., & Zeppelzauer, M. (2021). Multimodal Detection of Information Disorder from Social Media. International Conference on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI), 4. https://doi.org/10/gmxnm5
Horsak, B., Slijepcevic, D., Raberger, A.-M., Schwab, C., Worisch, M., & Zeppelzauer, M. (2020). GaitRec, a large-scale ground reaction force dataset of healthy and impaired gait. Scientific Data, 7:143(1), 1–8. https://doi.org/10/gh372d
Bernard, Jürgen, Hutter, M., Sedlmair, M., Zeppelzauer, Matthias, & Munzner, Tamara. (2019). A taxonomy of property measures to support the explainability of the interactive data labeling process. ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS), Submitted.
Zielinski, B., Lipinski, Michal, Juda, M., Zeppelzauer, M., & Dlotko, Pawel. (2019). Persistence Bag-of-Words for Topological Data Analysis. Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2019, 6. https://doi.org/10/ghpp7z
Zeppelzauer, M., Despotovic, M., Sakeena, M., Koch, D., & Döller, M. (2018). Automatic Prediction of Building Age from Photographs. Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR "18), 126–134. https://doi.org/10/ghpp2k
Wagner, M., Slijepcevic, D., Horsak, B., Rind, A., Zeppelzauer, M., & Aigner, W. (2018). KAVAGait: Knowledge-Assisted Visual Analytics for Clinical Gait Analysis. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), 25(3), 1528–1542. https://doi.org/10/ghppzn
Slijepcevic, D., Zeppelzauer, M., Raberger, A.-M., Schwab, C., Schuller, M., Baca, A., Breiteneder, C., & Horsak, B. (2018). Automatic Classification of Functional Gait Disorders. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 5(22), 1653–1661. https://doi.org/10/ghz24w
Zeppelzauer, M., Zielinski, B., Juda, M., & Seidl, M. (2018). A Study on Topological Descriptors for the Analysis of 3D Surface Texture. Journal on Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU), 167, 74–88. https://doi.org/10/ghpp2h
Bernard, J., Zeppelzauer, M., Sedlmair, M., & Aigner, W. (2018). VIAL – A Unified Process for Visual-Interactive Labeling. The Visual Computer, 34(1189), 16. https://doi.org/10/gd5hr3
Bernard, J., Zeppelzauer, M., Lehmann, M., Müller, M., & Sedlmair, M. (2018). Towards User-Centered Active Learning Algorithms. Computer Graphics Forum, 37, 121–132. https://doi.org/10/gdw79h
Bernard, Jürgen, Hutter, M., Zeppelzauer, M., Fellner, D., & Sedlmair, M. (2017). Comparing Visual-Interactive Labeling with Active Learning: An Experimental Study. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), 24(1). https://doi.org/10/gcqb3r
Zeppelzauer, M., & Schopfhauser, D. (2016). Multimodal classification of events in social media. Image and Vision Computing. https://doi.org/10/ghpp2q
Zaharieva, M., Del Fabro, M., & Zeppelzauer, M. (2015). Cross-Platform Social Event Detection. IEEE Multimedia, 22(3), 14. https://doi.org/10/gh3773
Salvador, A., Zeppelzauer, M., Manchón-Vizuente, D., Calafell, A., & Giró-i-Nieto, X. (2015, April 28). Cultural Event Recognition with Visual ConvNets and Temporal Models. Proceedings of the CVPR Workshop ChaLearn Looking at People 2015. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Boston, Massachusetts, United States. http://arxiv.org/abs/1504.06567
Zaharieva, M., Zeppelzauer, M., Del Fabro, M., & Schopfhauser, D. (2015, March 24). Social Event Mining in Large Photo Collections. Proceedings of the International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval. ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval, Shanghai, China.
Stöger, A., Heimann, G., Zeppelzauer, M., Ganswindt, A., Hensman, S., & Charlton, B. (2012). Visualizing Sound Emission of Elephant Vocalizations: Evidence for Two Rumble Production Types. Plos One, 7(11:e48907). http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0048907
Mitrović, D., Zeppelzauer, M., & Breiteneder, C. (2010). Features for Content-Based Audio Retrieval. In Advances in Computers (Vol. 78, pp. 71–150). Burlington: Academic Press. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0065245810780037