Matthew Brown is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of British Columbia. He holds an MEng in Electrical and Information Sciences (Cambridge, 2000) and a PhD in Computer Science (UBC, 2005). He has worked with the Computer Vision and Robotics group at Cambridge University, the Vision Technology groups at Microsoft Research in Redmond (2006-2007) and Cambridge, and currently works at the Laboratory for Computational Intelligence, UBC. In his spare time he can be found in the mountains, or playing with his funk band. Office 109, Dept of Computer Science, 2366 Main Mall, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4, Canada.

Projects

• Building Energy Informatics. Predict building energy usage from the weather.
  
  
• 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.
  
  

Publications

Journal Papers

Conference Papers

Technical Reports

Thesis

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

• CNN News. BILL GATES demos the Microsoft image stitcher on CNN news. I worked on this project as an intern at Microsoft Research in November 03 -- Februray 04. See the video (wmv 14Mb)
• 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

Personal

Mountains

• See my TRIPS PAGES

These days I'm mainly hiking, climbing and ski-mountaineering.

Music

• I'm playing with a funk/afrobeat band and we're looking for gigs!