Jon Barron

I am a second year PhD student in the computer science department at UC Berkeley. My advisor is Jitendra Malik.

I've spent time at NASA Ames Research Center, Google NYC, the NYU Media Research Lab, and the Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research.

I did my bachelors at the University of Toronto.

I've worked on Astrometry.net.

I have a CV.

My email address is my name, @gmail.com.

Research

I'm interested in computer vision problems and machine-learning techniques. I've also done research in medical image analysis and astronomy.

blind-date

Blind Date: Using proper motions to determine the ages of historical images
Barron, J. T., Hogg, D. W., Lang, D., & Roweis, S., 2008,
Astronomical Journal, 136 1490–1501.
Using only raw pixel data and known catalog proper motions, it is possible to accurately estimate the date of origin of historical imagery. This allows us to retrieve lost meta-data, improve astrometric calibration, and re-estimate proper motions.

Soon to be in use at Astrometry.net
clean-usnob

Cleaning the USNO-B Catalog through automatic detection of optical artifacts
Barron, J. T., Stumm, C., Hogg, D. W., Lang, D., & Roweis, S., 2008,
Astronomical Journal, 135 414–422.
Much of the USNO-B Catalog appears to be spurious entries resulting from diffraction spikes and circular reflection halos around bright stars in the original imaging data. We use computer vision techniques to identify and remove them.

In use at Astrometry.net