Personal Information
- Short Bio
Professor David Bull PhD, FIET, SMIEEE, CEng holds the Chair in Signal Processing at the University of Bristol. His previous roles include: Lecturer at the University of Wales (Cardiff) and Systems Engineer for Rolls Royce. He joined Bristol in 1992 and established its Signal Processing Research Group in 1994. He was Head of the Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department between 2001 and 2006 and is now Director of the Bristol Vision Institute (BVI). In 2001 he co-founded ProVision Communication Technologies Ltd. where he is now Chairman.
David has worked widely in the fields of 1 and 2-D signal processing. He has won two IEE Premium awards for this work and has published numerous patents, several of which have been licensed and exploited commercially. His current activities are focused on the problems of image and video communications and analysis for low bit rate wireless, internet, military, consumer and broadcast applications. In particular he has worked on content-based video coding, error resilient source coding, linear and non-linear filterbanks, motion estimation, image and video fusion, architectural optimisation (for filters, transforms and wavelet filterbanks) and content description for video archiving. He is widely supported in these areas by both industry, Europe, MoD and EPSRC and has generated over £8M of research income in the past 10 years. He has contributed to several European Union projects including WINHOME, TRUST, SCOUT, MEDIANET, WCAM and ASTALS. He has published over 350 papers, various articles and 2 books and has also given numerous invited/keynote lectures and tutorials.
In 1996 David helped to establish the UK DTI Virtual Centre of Excellence in Digital Broadcasting and Multimedia Technology and was one of its Directors from 1997-2000. He was also a founder member of the UK’s Defence Technology Centre in Data and Information Fusion, serving on its Science and Technology Board for 2 years. He was appointed as an independent member of UK Government’s Defence Scientific Advisory Council (DSAC) in 2002, contributing to the UK(MoD)-US(DoD) Working Group on Persistent Surveillance (2004). He has also advised Government through membership of the UK Foresight Panel and through the DTI/EPSRC steering Group on Digital Broadcasting and Multimedia Technology. Throughout his career, David has acted as a consultant to many companies including QinetiQ, BAe Systems, General Dynamics, MBDA, BSkyB, Sony, Group4 Security and the Metropolitan Police. He is also a member of the Steering Committee for the UK Technology Strategy Board’s Special Interest Group on Imaging.
- Personal website link
- http://www.bris.ac.uk/eeng/department/staff/drb.html
- Dave.Bull@bristol.ac.uk
- Title
- Prof.
- First Name
- David
- Surname
- Bull
- Position
- Chair in Signal Processing at the University of Bristol
History
- Member for
- 2 years 8 weeks