John Arnold

Emeritus Professor John Arnold, Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) Canberra, had a distinguished career in engineering academia. Born in Melbourne, he commenced his studies in 1972, earning a Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical Engineering with first-class honours from the University of Melbourne in 1975. He then completed a research Master of Engineering Science degree in computer control at the same university in 1977. In February 1978, Arnold joined UNSW as a Teaching Fellow in the Faculty of Military Studies at the Royal Military College, Duntroon, within the Department of Electrical Engineering, where he also pursued his doctoral studies. He was awarded a PhD in image and video compression from UNSW in 1983. Advancing steadily, he became Lecturer in 1980, Senior Lecturer in 1988, Associate Professor in 1995, and Professor of Electrical Engineering in 1997. From 1998, he served as Head of the School of Electrical Engineering, and following a major restructure at UNSW@ADFA in 2003, he led the School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering until his appointment as Deputy Rector in September 2006.

Professor Arnold's research specialized in image and video compression, with his group making significant contributions to the development of international standards by the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG), which established the technical foundations for digital television and the MP3 audio standard used in portable music players. His teaching focused on digital systems, communications, and video compression, supplemented by numerous short courses on digital television technology delivered to technical staff in the television industry. Key publications include the book Digital Television: Technology and Standards (2007, co-authored with Michael Frater and Mark Pickering); journal articles such as "Binocular Rivalry Impact on Macroblock-Loss Error Concealment for Stereoscopic 3D Video Transmission" (Sensors, 2023), "No-Reference Quality Assessment of Transmitted Stereoscopic Videos Based on Human Visual System" (Applied Sciences, 2022), "Video Coding using Fast Geometry-Adaptive Partitioning and an Elastic Motion Model" (Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, 2012), "Video Coding Using Elastic Motion Model and Larger Blocks" (IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 2010), and "Scalable Video Coding by Stream Morphing" (IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 2005). His work has had a lasting impact on video coding technologies and standards.

Professional Email: j.arnold@adfa.edu.au