David G. Lowe
Canadian computer scientist
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David G. Lowe is a Canadian computer scientist working for Google as a senior research scientist. He was a former professor in the computer science department at the University of British Columbia and New York University.
David G. Lowe | |
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| Citizenship | Canada |
| Alma mater | University of British Columbia Stanford University (1985, PhD) |
| Known for | SIFT |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer Science Computer Vision Artificial Intelligence Robotics |
| Institutions | Google New York University University of British Columbia |
| Thesis | Perceptual Organization and Visual Recognition (1985) |
| Doctoral advisor | Thomas Binford |
| Doctoral students | Ken Perlin |
| Website | www |
Works
Lowe is a researcher in computer vision, and is the author of the patented scale-invariant feature transform (SIFT), one of the most popular algorithms in the detection and description of image features.[1][2][3]
Awards and honors
- 2015. Lowe received the biennial PAMI Distinguished Researcher Award.
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