David C. Gibbon

David Gibbon is Lead Member of Technical Staff in the Video and Multimedia Technologies Research Department at AT&T Labs - Research. His current research focus includes multimedia processing for automated metadata extraction with applications in media and entertainment services including video retrieval and content adaptation. In 2007, David received the AT&T Science and Technology Medal for outstanding technical leadership and innovation in the field of Video and Multimedia Processing and Digital Content Management and in 2001, the AT&T Sparks Award for Video Indexing Technology Commercialization. David contributes to standards efforts through the Metadata Committee of the ATIS IPTV Interoperability Forum. He serves on the Editorial Board for the Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications and is a senior member of the ACM and the IEEE. He joined AT&T Bell Labs in 1985 and has over 50 U.S. Patent filings and holds 30 U.S. patents in the areas of multimedia indexing, streaming, and video analysis. He has written a book on video search, several book chapters and encyclopedia articles as well as numerous technical papers. David is an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University.