Dr. Matt Flagg

Dr. Matt Flagg, a Principal of Flagg Visual Computing LLC, is a consultant for multiple companies in computer vision R&D, patent development and product development in partnership with Dr. Satya Mallick, Principal of Big Vision LLC and Interim CEO of OpenCV.org. After earning a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech and specializing in computer vision, graphics and human-computer interaction in 2010, he co-founded a gesture recognition company named PlayMotion, which deployed hundreds of projector-camera systems in hospitals, museums and family entertainment centers, including three divisions of Disney parks! Adding to his list of astonishing accomplishments, Flagg also contributed to technology which won a technical Oscar at Industrial Light & Magic as well as the Best Student Paper award at the British Machine Vision Conference (2010) for a novel segmentation-based tracking technique. He then went on to recieve a Best Reviewer Award at the International Conference on Computer Vision 2013 and still regularly reviews for CVPR, ICCV, and ECCV.