Matt is a Research Scientist at Google. Previously, he was an Associate Professor (Reader) at the University of Bath (2011-2015), Founder and CTO of Cloudburst Research Inc. (2009-2015), and a Postdoctoral Researcher at EPFL (2009-2011), UBC (2008-2009) and Microsoft Research (2006-2007). His research interests are in Computer Vision, Machine Learning and Environmental Informatics. In 2017 he won the ICCV Helmholtz Prize (test of time award) for his work with David Lowe on panoramic image stitching. See my Google Scholar Profile

Projects

• Cut-and-Paste GAN Learn segmentation without ground truth by playing cut and paste.
  
  
• Deep Learning of Depth and Ego Motion Cameras and dense depth from video.
  
  
• Video Segmentation in Dynamic Scenes Learning motion features for hierarchical video segmentation.
  
  
• 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. Try the free demo for Windows or Mac OSX.
  
  
• Interactive Image Segmentation using a GMMRF model. Image matting and compositing using statistical models of texture.
  
  

Software

I was a Founder and CTO of Cloudburst Research Inc (2009-2015). Cloudburst developed mobile versions of AutoStitch for iPhone, iPad and Android.
My previous work on panoramic stitching appeared 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.

Teaching

• Winter 2022: UBC CPSC 425 Computer Vision
• Spring 2020: UW CSE P576 Computer Vision

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

Personal

Mountains

• I enjoy hiking, climbing, skiing and biking in the mountains of British Columbia, Washington, the Alps and beyond.