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). 

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

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