Professor C. R. Chatwin holds the Chair of Engineering, University of Sussex, UK; where, inter alia, he is the Research Director of the "IIMS Research Centre" and the Laser and Photonics Systems Engineering Group. At Sussex he is a member of the University: Senate, Council and Court. He has published widely in image processing journals and filed several patents. Much of his research has been for commercial companies solving difficult real world machine vision problems. He is also a member of the Institution of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, the British Computer Society, the Association of Industrial Laser Users. He is a Chartered Engineer, Euro-Engineer, International Professional Engineer, Chartered Physicist, Chartered Scientist and a Fellow of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, the Institute of Physics and the Royal Society for Arts, Manufacture and Commerce.