Dr. Peter M. Roth

Peter M. Roth, PhD is a full Professor of Computer Science at Webster Vienna Private University. Roth earned his doctorate from Graz University of Technology in January 2008, following doctoral studies in Computer Science, and completed his habilitation in Applied Computer Science at the same institution in December 2022. He holds a master's degree in Mathematics from Graz University of Technology.

His research focuses on machine learning, pattern recognition, statistical methods, image processing and computer vision, with particular emphasis on applying computational approaches to veterinary medicine and the life sciences. He has accumulated approximately 9,800 scientific citations, with an h-index of 36.

Roth is a senior member of the IEEE and serves as chairman of the Austrian Association of Pattern Recognition, a position he has held since 2013.

Before joining Webster Vienna Private University in 2025, he served as full professor at the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, as full guest professor at the Technical University of Munich's International AI Future Lab, as university assistant at Graz University of Technology, and a scientist at the Austrian Institute of Technology. He holds external lecturing positions at FH Wiener Neustadt and FH Joanneum since 2017 and 2015, respectively.

Among his honors, Roth received the Best Conference Paper Award at the International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality in 2021, the Best Presentation Award at the Computer Vision Winterworkshop in 2019 and the Best Paper Award at the Asian Conference on Computer Vision in 2012. He has co-authored more than 150 peer-reviewed publications and holds multiple U.S. patents in the areas of pose estimation and semantic segmentation.