(Lowe, 1999), which is a local feature used in computer vision for tasks such as object recognition and wide-baseline matching, etc. The SIFT descriptor is arguably the most widely used feature type for these tasks. Hubel was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 1982. Personal life Hubel married Ruth Izzard in 1953; she died February 17, 2013. The couple had three sons and four grandchildren. He died in Lincoln, Massachusetts from kidney failure on September 22, 2013 at the age of 87. See also Neocognitron References External links David H. Hubel papers, 1953-2005 (inclusive), 1966-1991 (bulk) H MS c 253. Harvard Medical Library, Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Boston, Mass. Robert H. Wurtz, "David H. Hubel", Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences (2014) 1926 births 2013 deaths Canadian expatriate academics in the United States Canadian neuroscientists Canadian Nobel laureates Foreign Members of the Royal Society Founding members of the World Cultural Council Harvard University faculty History of neuroscience Johns Hopkins University faculty United States Army Medical Corps officers McGill University Faculty of Science alumni Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences People from Windsor, Ontario Neurophysiologists Vision scientists McGill University Faculty of Medicine alumni Canadian neurologists Canadian Fellows of the Royal Society Members of the American Philosophical Society