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Matthew Brown is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in at the University of Bath. He holds an MEng in Electrical and Information Sciences (Cambridge, 2000) and a PhD in Computer Science (UBC, 2005). Prior to joining the Media Technology Research Centre at Bath he was a postdoctoral researcher at EPFL (2009-2011), and Microsoft Research (2006-2007). His research interests are in Computer Vision, Machine Learning and Environmental Informatics. Recent research projects include learning low-level visual representations, recognition and reconstruction in photo collections, and building energy modelling. In his spare time he can be found in the mountains, or playing music. See my Google Scholar Profile Dr. Matthew Brown, Dept of Computer Science, East Building 3.2, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, UK  (google map, campus map) |
PhD/EngD Opportunities
We have several openings for exceptional candidates in the Vision/Graphics area, email me for further details.
The EngD programme is run by Bath's well funded Centre for Digital Entertainment. The EngD degree combines PhD-level research with taught courses and time in industry. Current sponsor companies include Electronic Arts, Double Negative, Aardman, Frontier and Naturalmotion.
We also have PhD openings in the Media Technology Research Centre. See here for further details on applying. Funding is competitive and you should contact me in the first instance.
MLSUST 2011 Machine Learning for Sustainability Workshop
(In conjunction with NIPS 2011, December 16-17 2011, Sierra Nevada, Spain)In recent years there has been growing interest in applying machine to problems of sustainability, spanning applications in energy, environmental management, and climate modeling. The goal of this workshop will be to bring together researchers from both the machine learning and sustainability application fields to continue and build upon this emerging area.
We invite submissions on machine learning applications to all areas of sustainability. Deadline: October 14th 2011. See MLSUST 2011 website for further details.
Projects
RGB-NIR Imaging for Scene Recognition Silicon's natural NIR sensitivity improves visual scene recognition.
Building Energy Informatics. Data-driven modelling and prediction of building energy usage.
Learning Local Image
Descriptors. Learn optimal features from training data. See also our online patch data.
Minimal Solutions for Panoramic Stitching. 2-point and 3-point algorithms for rotational homographies.
City-Scale Location Recognition. Image recognition for large geotagged datasets.
3D Object Recognition and Reconstruction. Fully automatic structure and motion for unordered image sets.
Multi-Image Matching using Multi-Scale Oriented Patches (MOPS). Minimalist local feature matching.
AUTOSTITCH. The first fully automatic 2D image stitcher. Check out the FREE demo version.
Interactive Image Segmentation using a GMMRF model. Image matting and compositing using statistical models of texture.
Software
I am CTO of Cloudburst Research Inc. Our first product AutoStitch iPhone is now available in the iPhone App Store.
My work on panoramic stitching appears in several commercial products, including Autopano Pro, Calico Panorama and Serif Panorama Plus.
I have also contributed to several Microsoft products including Photosynth and MSR Image Composite Editor.
Press
- Chicago Sun. "iPhone camera apps that will bring out your best photographer". July 14 2011.
- LA Times. "A top five of photo apps for the iPhone". July 13 2011.
- New York Times. AutoStitch iPhone: "Magically analyzes the resulting shots and combines them, beautifully". 27th April 2011.
- USA Today "Get more from your smart phone's camera". July 1 2010
- CNN. Watch Bill Gates demo the Microsoft image stitcher on CNN news here (wmv 14Mb). I worked on this project as an intern at MSR.
- New Scientist. "The Whole Shooting Match". Short article on the Autostitch panorama stitcher. 18th October 2003, page 25.
- Forbes. "Student Develops Software for Digital Panoramas". 2nd October 2003
Publications
See also my Google Scholar Profile
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006 and earlier
Personal
Mountains
- See my TRIPS PAGES
These days I'm mainly hiking, climbing and ski-mountaineering.Music
- I've recently performed with Windjammin, a rock/funk/jazz/schofield band based in Vevey. Before that I was playing with a funk/afrobeat group in Vancouver called Groove Pandemic.
