| David G. Lowe | |
| Citizenship: | Canada |
| Fields: | Computer Science Computer Vision Artificial Intelligence Robotics |
| Workplaces: | Google New York University University of British Columbia |
| Alma Mater: | University of British Columbia Stanford University (1985, PhD) |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Thomas Binford |
| Doctoral Students: | Ken Perlin |
| Thesis Title: | Perceptual Organization and Visual Recognition |
| Thesis Year: | 1985 |
| Thesis Url: | http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a150826.pdf |
| Known For: | SIFT |
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.
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.