Welcome to John Robinson’s homepage at York

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Professor John A Robinson
Room H/215, Heslington Hall
University of York
Heslington, York, UK,
YO10 5DD

 

Here are some links to do with my work at York:

·         My departmental page

·         The Visual Systems Lab

·         The Audio Lab

·         CUHTec

·         Higher York Creative Technologies Centre (CTC)

 

And here are other places I might sometimes be found:

 

·         My blog

·         My old personal website

·         Flickr

·         Facebook

·         LinkedIn

 

 

I am the Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Teaching, Learning and Information at the University of York. I am also a member of the Department of Electronics and Director of the Higher York Creative Technology Centre.

 

 

 

My research is in image processing and pattern analysis. The picture shows a projector-camera system developed by Lijiang Li in my lab being used interactively for inputting 3D shapes. We also work on analysing images of humans and in compression.

 

I enjoy learning about the latest work in any research area. One of the best things about working in a University is there are frequent opportunities to do just that.

 

 

 

I usually teach software-based courses like Data Structures and Algorithms. I am a programming enthusiast and have a book about software design. Recently I’ve developed and run the Department’s First Year Design Competition.

 

 

 

 

The University of York opened in 1963. Already it has become one of the world's top 100 universities according to the QS World University Ranking. It has about 14,000 students, 3,500 staff, and the third highest research income per faculty member in England.

 

 

 

 

Being located in York is a huge benefit for the University, its students and staff: York is one of Britain’s most beautiful and historic cities. Once it was England’s second city. But now its population is only 180,000 so it is small, safe and friendly. There are lots of photos of York and the University online, for example in this Flickr group.

 

 

The Department of Electronics at York runs a range of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. It has about 520 students and 80 staff.

 

 

 

The Department gained the highest average student satisfaction score for electrical and electronic engineering in the UK in the 2008 and 2009 National Student Surveys and has been in the top four in 2010 and 2011. It came first in the Sunday Times 2011 subject league table for Electronic Engineering.

 

 

 

 

 

In the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise the majority of the Department’s submission, including 77.5% of our research output, was judged world-leading or internationally excellent.

 

This picture shows the current Head of Department, Professor David Howard, with other staff and students in our old acoustic semi-anechoic chamber. We now have a fully-anechoic chamber.