Lyndon Neal Smith (born 26 December 1964) is an English academic who is Professor in Computer Simulation and Machine Vision at the School of Engineering at the

University of the West of England The University of the West of England (also known as UWE Bristol) is a Public university, public research university, located in and around Bristol, England, UK. With more than 39,912 students and 4,300 staff, it is the largest provider of hi ...

. He is also Director of the Centre for Machine Vision at the

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Early life

Smith was born in

Stroud Stroud is a market town and civil parish in Gloucestershire, England. It is the main town in Stroud District. The town's population was 13,500 in 2021. Sited below the western escarpment of the Cotswold Hills, at the meeting point of the ...

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, on 26 December 1964 to Lionel Alfred Smith and Dorothy Smith. He received a

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(BSc) from the

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in 1986, a

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(MSc) from the

Cranfield Institute of Technology Cranfield University is a postgraduate-only public research university in the United Kingdom that specialises in science, engineering, design, technology and management. Cranfield was founded as the College of Aeronautics (CoA) in 1946. Throug ...

in 1988, and a

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(PhD) from the

in 1997. His PhD thesis was entitled ''A knowledge based system for powder metallurgy technology''. He completed a secondment at the

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which lasted for a year.

Career

Smith is Professor in Computer Simulation and Machine Vision at the School of Engineering at the

. He is also Director of the Centre for Machine Vision at the

. He has developed a technique for the simulation of the packing densities of particles with irregular morphologies. He helped develop 3D face recognition technology which he said was "on the verge of becoming really big" in 2017. Smith has been involved in plans to replace

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s on the

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with a facial recognition system. He said that facial recognition technology under development could replace train tickets, and have applications in stores, train stations and banks.

Personal life

Smith has lived in

Wedmore Wedmore is a large village and civil parish in the county of Somerset, England. It is situated on raised ground, in the Somerset Levels between the River Axe and River Brue, often called the Isle of Wedmore. The parish consists of three main v ...

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, for over 18 years, and serves as a member of Wedmore Parish Council. His hobbies include listening to British classical music and

light music Light music is a less-serious form of Western classical music, which originated in the 18th and 19th centuries and continues today. Its heyday was in the mid‑20th century. The style is through-composed, usually shorter orchestral pieces and ...

, as well as painting.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Smith, Lyndon 1964 births Living people 20th-century English engineers 21st-century English engineers 21st-century English male writers 21st-century English non-fiction writers Academics of the University of the West of England, Bristol Alumni of the University of the West of England, Bristol Alumni of the University of Wales Alumni of Cranfield University People from Stroud People from Sedgemoor (district) Writers from Somerset Writers from Gloucestershire Councillors in Somerset