Dr Toby Breckon
Senior Lecturer, Computer Vision & Image Processing
Location: Building 52
E: toby.breckon@cranfield.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)1234 75 8246
Applied Mathematics and Computing
Current activities
Projects: MoD Grand Challenge, Automatic Threat Detection, Automatic CT Baggage Screening (Home Office), Automated Cell Nuclei Segmentation (STFC), Real-time Automotive Obstacle Detection (EPSRC).
Research Interests: 3D computer vision, visualisation, visual completion, vision in built environments, applications of visual reasoning and image classification, automotive vision and robotic deployment/sensing in hazardous environments. [ More Details ... ] [ Research Demos ]
Background
Toby Breckon is a Senior Lecturer in the Applied Mathematics and Computing Group of the School of Engineering at Cranfield University. He is primarily responsible for delivery of elements of the Digital Signal and Image Processing option of the MSc in Computational and Software Techniques in Engineering in addition to ongoing research interests into computer vision, image processing, visualisation and robotic sensing.
He is a visiting member of faculty at ESTIA (Ecole Supérieure des Technologies Industrielles Avancées - Bayonne, South-West France) and has also held visting positions at Northwestern Polytechnical University (China) and Waseda University (Japan).
Before joining Cranfield in 2006, he held a lecturing post at the University of Edinburgh and has prior experience as a mobile robotics engineer with the UK MoD (DERA) and QinetiQ. He holds a PhD in Informatics from the University of Edinburgh and studied Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science at undergraduate level (B.Sc. (Hons), Edin.).
In 2008 he led the development of image-based automatic threat detection for the the Stellar Team's SATURN multi-platform robot system in the MoD Grand Challenge. The team went on to win the challenge and were awarded the R.J. Mitchell Trophy for innovation by the UK MoD (2008) and later the Finmeccanica Group Innovation Award (2009). The ongoing achievements of this innovative work were also recognised by an IET Award for Innovation (2009)
He is a Chartered Engineer and a member of the IET (IEE), the British Computer Society and the British Science Association. In addition, within robotics and vision, he hold membership of the BARA (British Automation and Robot Association), the BMVA (British Machine Vision Association), the Applied Vision Association (AVA), as associate research member of the UK IVA (Industrial Vision Association) and is a member of the EU Cognition network for researchers in artificial cognitive systems. He is an Accredited Imaging Scientist (AIS) and an Associate of the Royal Photographic Society (ARPS). In 2008 he was appointed as a business fellow of the London Technology Network in recognition of his ongoing contribution to academic-industrial partnership technology projects.
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