Matthew Turk

Current title: Researcher

Microsoft Corp.
One Microsoft Way, 9s/1085
Redmond, WA 98052
mturk@microsoft.com

Research/Job interests
Computer vision applied to human/computer interaction. Image database query and annotation.

Vismod Advisor: Sandy Pentland

Education
1991 Ph.D., MIT, Media Laboratory
1982 M.S., Carnegie Mellon Univ., Dept. of Elec. and Computer Engr.
1978 B.S., Virginia Tech, Elec. Engr. Dept.

Experience
Computer Scientist, Teleos Research, 1993-94
Visiting Researcher, LIFIA (Grenoble, France), 1992
Senior Engineer, Martin Marietta Denver Aerospace, 1984-87

Project/Research Description

Computer vision research at Microsoft Research. I'm interested in vision applications that affect the way people communicate with machines.

Project(s) in Vismod

I worked with Sandy Pentland on human face recognition, developing a technique generically refered to as "eigenfaces" to represent, locate, and identify faces. I built a system to track a person in a room, find his or her head, and then attempt to recognize the individual.

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