He received his PhD in 2009 and his habilitation (venia docendi) in 2015, both in computer science and from Klagenfurt University. His research focuses on video analytics and interactive multimedia systems, particularly in the medical domain. He has co-authored more than 110 publications on various topics in multimedia, inclusive of more than 30 on different aspects of medical multimedia systems. He has co-organized several international conferences, workshops, and special sessions in the field of multimedia. Moreover, he has given several tutorials at ACM and IEEE conferences in the past few years and he has been a project leader (PI) for several research projects in the medical multimedia domain.