Professor John Illingworth

John Illingworth received a first class honours degree in Physics from Birmingham University in 1978 followed by a D.Phil in 1983 from Oxford for research into Elementary Particle Physics. He then worked for 4 years as a Senior Research Fellow at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, researching new algorithms for image processing. He is married to Sarah and has two teenage step-children (Jeremy and Chloe) as well as a daughter, Sian . The family lives in Guildford in Surrey. In 1986 he joined the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at the University of Surrey as a lecturer. In 1999 he was promoted to a personal chair for his research contributions. His teaching duties have included lecturing on computer logic, computer architectures, sofware design, PASCAL programming, artifical intelligence and high school physics.

Research Interests

He is a former Chairman of the British Machine Vision Association. He was Chairman of the 1993 British Machine Vision Conference. He is a Fellow of the Institiution of Electrical Engineers, IEE, and is a co-editor of the IEE journal Vision, Image and Signal Processing . He has organised the first three EPSRC sponsored postgraduate Summer Schools in Computer Vision and He is a member of the EPSRC College of Peers in the area of Information Technology. He has over 130 conference and journal publications .

Student Projects

Teaching

EEM.ASP Advanced Signal Processing