David G. Lowe
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David G. Lowe is a Canadian computer scientist
and a professor
in the Computer Science Department at the University of British Columbia
. Lowe is a researcher in computer vision
, and is the patented author of the scale-invariant feature transform
(SIFT), one of the most popular algorithms in the detection and description of image features.
Computer scientist
A computer scientist is a scientist who has acquired knowledge of computer science, the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and their application in computer systems....
and a professor
Professor
A professor is a scholarly teacher; the precise meaning of the term varies by country. Literally, professor derives from Latin as a "person who professes" being usually an expert in arts or sciences; a teacher of high rank...
in the Computer Science Department at the University of British Columbia
University of British Columbia
The University of British Columbia is a public research university. UBC’s two main campuses are situated in Vancouver and in Kelowna in the Okanagan Valley...
. Lowe is a researcher in computer vision
Computer vision
Computer vision is a field that includes methods for acquiring, processing, analysing, and understanding images and, in general, high-dimensional data from the real world in order to produce numerical or symbolic information, e.g., in the forms of decisions...
, and is the patented author of the scale-invariant feature transform
Scale-invariant feature transform
Scale-invariant feature transform is an algorithm in computer vision to detect and describe local features in images. The algorithm was published by David Lowe in 1999....
(SIFT), one of the most popular algorithms in the detection and description of image features.