Hannes Fassold received a MSc degree in Applied Mathematics from Graz University of Technology in 2004. Since then he works at JOANNEUM RESEARCH, where he is currently a senior researcher at the Machine Vision Applications Group of the DIGITAL institute. His main research interests are how to employ machine vision and AI methods successfully to solve real-world problems like image and video enhancement, defect inspection, object detection and tracking and so on. He is presenting regularly in renowned computer vision, multimedia & AI conferences like ACM Multimedia, ICIP, ICME, AIVR, MVA, MMSP, ASPAI, ISVC, EUSIPCO, GTC etc.). Furthermore, he is d doing paper reviews for several of these conferences and has been also in the program committee. He coordinates the machine learning workflow as well as the dedicated ML hardware & software infrastructure for the DIGITAL institute.