Professor Anton van den Hengel is a Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Australian Centre for Visual Technologies (ACVT), an interdisciplinary research centre focusing on innovation and education in the production and analysis of visual digital media.

Professor van den Hengel has had over 70 publications, 2 patents, 3 patent applications, more than $4 million in research funding, and over $1 million in consulting.  Current research interests include interactive image-based modelling, large-scale video surveillance, and image-based search of multi-million image databases.