David G. Lowe

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
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.cs.ubc.ca/~lowe/

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.