Simon A. J. Winder, PhD
Research Scientist (Research Gate)
Current Research Interests
- Number theory, finite group theory
- Computational geometry and discrete topology
- Plausible reasoning and hypothesis formation (after E.T. Jaynes)
- Information theoretic approaches to fundamental physics
Prior Experience
- Master's degree in Electrical Engineering with first class honors
School of Electrical Engineering, Bath, UK, 1986-1990 - Electronic Engineer
GEC Marconi Avionics / GEC Sensors, Basildon, UK, 1989-1991 - PhD in Computational Neuroscience and Visual Perception
School of Mathematical Sciences, Bath, UK, 1991-1996 - Software Engineer in developing MPEG-4 video compression
Partnership in Advanced Computing Technologies, Bristol University, SGS-Thompson Microelectronics, Bristol, UK, 1996-1997 - Extensive career at Microsoft / Microsoft Research
Microsoft, Redmond, WA, USA, 1997-2015- Information theory, efficient data representations, and image and video data compression
- Computer vision, real-time feature matching and tracking, robust model estimation, and 3D reconstruction
- Scale space theory, wavelet representations, and the structure and statistics of natural images and video
- Extracting scale-invariant descriptors for multi-view correspondence matching in large media datasets
- Robust probabilistic data-fitting, machine learning, and convolutional neural networks
- Computational feasibility and discovering efficient algorithms for signal processing and image manipulation
- Research Consultant
Impressive Machines LLC, USA, Murley Moss Research, UK, 2015-
Publications and Patents
I have co-authored papers and patents with:
- Michael Cohen Facebook
- Matthew Brown Google Research
- Richard Hartley Professor and Group Head, Computer Vision Group, Australian National University
- Gang Hua Vice President and Chief Scientist, Wormpex AI Research
- Michael Kallay Liberty Reach
- Sing Bing Kang Distinguished Scientist, Zillow Group
- Richard Szeliski Facebook
- Desney Tan Principal Researcher and Director, Microsoft Research Medical Devices Group
- Matt Uyttendaele Facebook
- Larry Zitnick Lead Research Scientist, Facebook AI Research
Below you will find a selection of my publications:
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Discriminant Learning of Local Image Descriptors
in IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Computer Society, Vol.33, No.1, pp. 43-57, January, 2011. (pdf)
High-quality multi-pass image resampling
no. MSR-TR-2010-10, February 2010. (pdf)
Picking the Best Daisy
in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, IEEE Computer Society, June 2009. (pdf)
CueFlik: Interactive Concept Learning in Image Search
in CHI 2008 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2008. (pdf)
Discriminant Embedding for Local Image Descriptors
in International Conference on Computer Vision, October 2007. (pdf)
Learning Local Image Descriptors
in IEEE Computer Society Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, June 2007. (pdf)
Also see Matthew Brown's page about this publication.
Object instance recognition using triplets of feature symbols
no. MSR-TR-2007-53, April 2007. (pdf)
Multi-Image Matching using Multi-Scale Oriented Patches
in IEEE Computer Society Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, IEEE Computer Society, June 2005. (pdf)
Multi-Scale Oriented Patches
no. MSR-TR-2004-133, December 2004. (pdf)
High-Quality Video View Interpolation Using a Layered Representation
in ACM SIGGRAPH, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., August 2004. (pdf)
Free-viewpoint video with stereo and matting, in Picture Coding Symposium
San Francisco, CA, December 2004.
High-Quality Video View Interpolation Using a Layered Representation
in ACM SIGGRAPH, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., August 2004. (pdf)
High-quality Image-based Interactive Exploration of Real-World Environments
in IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications (CG&A), vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 52-63, IEEE Computer Society, May 2004.
High-quality Image-based Interactive Exploration of Real-World Environments
October 2003. (pdf)
Including Contrast Gain Control in a Parallel Simulation of the Visual Cortex
in Computational Neursocience: Trends in Research 1995, J. M. Bower (editor), Academic Press Inc., 297-302, 1996.
Simulation of Retinal Contrast Gain Control Mechanisms
in Computational Neursocience: Trends in Research 1995, J. M. Bower (editor), Academic Press Inc., 291-296, 1996.
Current Developments in MPEG-4 Video
First Advanced Digital Video Compression Engineering Conference, 89-96. Presented at ADVICE'96, Jesus College Cambridge, UK, July 8-11, 1996.
A Model for Biological Winner-Take-All Neural Competition Employing Inhibitory using Modulation of NMDA-Mediated Excitatory Gain
Neurocomputing 26-27, 1999, 587-592.
Computer Simulation of Interactions Responsible for Length and Width Tuning in the Striate Cortex
presented at AVA'96, University of Reading, UK, April 1-3, 1996.-
Image Descriptor Quantization
April 2014, Patent: US8712159B21 -
Surface Normal Computation on Noisy Samples of Points
May 2015, Patent: US9043186B21
Artwork
I am a keen artist and have created many works in a variety of media, from handmade works to digital images and animations. Recently I created a range of works exploring interesting mathematical relations, geometry, fundamental physics, perception, and metaphysics.