David G. Lowe is a

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working for

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as a Senior Research Scientist. He was a former

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in the Computer Science Department at the

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and

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Works

Lowe is a researcher in

computer vision Computer vision is an Interdisciplinarity, interdisciplinary scientific field that deals with how computers can gain high-level understanding from digital images or videos. From the perspective of engineering, it seeks to understand and automate t ...

, and is the author of the patented

scale-invariant feature transform The scale-invariant feature transform (SIFT) is a computer vision algorithm to detect, describe, and match local '' features'' in images, invented by David Lowe in 1999. Applications include object recognition, robotic mapping and navigation, ...

(SIFT), one of the most popular algorithms in the detection and description of image features.

Awards and honors

* 2015. Lowe received the biennial PAMI Distinguished Researcher Award.

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