PONENTE

• Dr. Toby Breckon
  "Challenges for Object Recognition in the context of Airport Security Screening"

BIOGRAPHY

Toby Breckon is currently a Professor within Engineering and Computer Science, Durham University.  His key research interests lie in the domain of computer vision and image processing and he leads a range of research activity in this area spanning autonomous vehicles, robotic sensing, automated visual surveillance and security X-ray image understanding.

Work from his research team has had significant impact across the aviation security sector, wide area surveillance within global defence and security (UK SAPIENT programme, 2013-2016; MoD Grand Challenge - R.J. Mitchell Trophy, (2008), IET Innovation Award (2009)) and in sensing systems for intelligent transport. He received the Royal Photographic Society Selwyn Award for early-career contribution to imaging science (2011).

Prof. Breckon holds a PhD in informatics (computer vision) from the University of Edinburgh.  He has been a visiting member of faculty at the Ecole Supérieure des Technologies Industrielles Avancées (France), Northwestern Polytechnical University (China), Shanghai Jiao Tong University (China) and Waseda University (Japan).

Prof. Breckon is a Chartered Engineer, a Chartered Scientist and a Fellow of both the British Computer Society (FBCS) and Institute for Engineering & Technology (FIET). In addition, he is an Accredited Senior Imaging Scientist and Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society (ASIS FRPS).

CONTACT

Prof. Toby P. Breckon PhD CEng CSci ASIS FBCS FIET FRPS FHEA

URL: https://breckon.org/toby/