Toby Breckon is a lecturer in the Applied Mathematics and Computing Group of the School of Engineering at Cranfield University. He is primarily responsible for delivery of elements of the Digital Signal and Image Processing option of the  MSc in Computational and Software Techniques in Engineering in addition to ongoing research interests into computer vision, image processing, visualisation and robotic sensing.

In addition he is a visiting member of faculty at, ESTIA (Ecole Supérieure des Technologies Industrielles Avancées - Bayonne, South-West France) and has also held a visting lecturer position at Northwestern Polytechnical University (Xi'an, China) in the domain of machine learning.

Before joining Cranfield in 2006, he held a lecturing post at the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh and has prior experience as a mobile robotics engineer with the UK MoD (DERA) and QinetiQ. He holds a PhD in Informatics from the University of Edinburgh and studied Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science at undergraduate level (B.Sc. (Hons), Edin.).

In 2008 he led the development of image-based automatic threat detection for the the Stellar Team's SATURN multi-platform robot system in the MoD Grand Challenge. The team went on to win the challenge and were awarded the R.J. Mitchell Trophy.

He is a member of the IET (IEE), the BA, BARA (British Automation and Robot Association), the BMVA (British Machine Vision Association) and an associate research member of the UK IVA (Industrial Vision Association). In addition, he is an Accredited Imaging Scientist (AIS) and a Associate of the Royal Photographic Society (APRS).