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12 October 2026

Markus Schedl appointed to serve on the Scientific Board of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF)

The Scientific Board is made up of renowned scholars from a variety of universities and research institutions in Austria.

16 September 2026

FLAG 2027 Grand Challenge — Face–voice Association across LAnguages and Gender

We are excited to announce the FLAG 2027 Grand Challenge — Face–voice Association across LAnguages and Gender, to be held in conjunction with IEEE ICASSP 2027.

9 September 2026

„Vergessen“ könnte KI ethischer machen

Ein Interview von science.ORF.at mit Markus Schedl

3 September 2026

Three papers accepted at MUWS@ACM Multimedia 2026

We are pleased to announce that CP will be present at ACM Multimedia 2026 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 10–14 November and its associated workshops!

13 May 2026

Kepler Awards für Wissenschaftsvermittlung an Antonela Tommasel, Anna Hausberger und Markus Schedl verliehen

Die Johannes Kepler Universität Linz verlieh am 7. Mai zum zweiten Mal diesen Preis für herausragendes Engagement.

22 September 2025

ACM RecSys 2025

We are pleased to announce that this year's ACM RecSys 2025 conference in Prague will be co-organised by our institute!

6 August 2025

Guest lecture by Ralph Hertwig, Max Planck Institute

How experimental methods shaped views on human competence and rationality

9 December 2024

Special Issue on Trustworthy Recommender Systems, co-edited by Markus Schedl, has been published in the ACM Transactions on Recommender Systems

The paper Introduction to the Special Issue on Trustworthy Recommender System, with co-editor Prof. Markus Schedl has been published in the ACM Transactions on Recommender Systems.

9 December 2024

Markus Schedl to co-organize the most important conference on recommender systems: ACM Recommender Systems 2025.

Prof. Markus Schedl will co-organize the 19th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2025)

9 December 2024

CP researchers organize challenge at ACM MM 2024

Shah Nawaz, Marta Moscati, and Markus Schedl organized the "Face-voice Association in Multilingual Environment (FAME)" challenge at the ACM Multimedia 2024 conference.

9 December 2024

CP member, Marta Moscati won the award of the Iris Fischlmayr scholarship in 2024

The awards and scholarship ceremony was held during the prestigious Young Researchers’ Awards Ceremony at Johannes Kepler University (JKU). This celebratory event took place in the university’s Ceremony Room at 5:00 PM on June 24, 2024, bringing together a distinguished audience of faculty, researchers, and young academics to honor outstanding achievements and contributions in various fields.

9 December 2024

Best Student Paper Award for CP members at ECML PKDD 2024 in Lithuania.

Alessandro B. Melchiorre was the lucky one to receive the prize of "Best Student Paper Award" at the conference-site.

10 September 2024

Hack the Hat

At Ars Electronica, Hack the Hat offered an engaging and thought-provoking interactive experience, highlighting the hidden biases and frustrations of AI-driven recruitment.

21 April 2024

FWF funds two new projects at the Institute of Computational Perception

Our researchers Markus Schedl and Arthur Flexer received two new projects at the total sum of more than 1 million euros.

11 January 2023

Best Student Paper Award for CP members at ISMIR 2022 conference for tracing globalization.

Oleg Lesota and Emilia Parada-Cabaleiro were the lucky ones to receive the prize at the conference-site.

25 November 2022

Der unwissende Algorithmus

Ein Auszug aus Markus Schedl´s Forschung in einem Artikel in APA Science.

15 September 2022

Fighting Fire with Fire: New JKU AI Conceals Personal Information from AI Recommendation Systems

The JKU has developed a method to conceal individual, personal traits when searching for information but without compromising search and recommendation results.

8 October 2021

FWF funds our doc.funds.connect project Human-centered AI

CP researcher Markus Schedl will co-coordinate HCAI

16 September 2020

Interview with Markus Schedl on personality bias

Interview with Markus Schedl on personality bias in music recommender systems, aired on Deutschlandfunk Corso (in German). Listen here.