David G. Lowe | |
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Residence | Seattle, WA |
Citizenship | Canada |
Fields |
Computer Science Computer Vision Artificial Intelligence Robotics |
Institutions |
Google New York University University of British Columbia |
Alma mater |
University of British Columbia Stanford University (1985, PhD) |
Thesis | Perceptual Organization and Visual Recognition (1985) |
Doctoral advisor | Thomas Binford |
Doctoral students | Ken Perlin |
Known for | SIFT |
Website www |
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.
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.