With Royal Society funding he moved to the University of Cambridge to research early visual perception mechanisms with Horace Barlow.
[18] The event ran from 27 to 28 September, involved teams from 12 different countries in a variety of competitions, had over 2,500 visitors and is features in the Guinness Book of Records.
[12] The MSSM software platform for matching images evolved over the next decade where it was used for a variety of commercial applications including 3D stereo reconstruction,[23] GIS,[24] surgical planning for Maxillo-Facial reconstruction,[25] dental archiving,[20] Data Fusion,[26] MRI image labelling[27] and navigation for mobile robotics.
[28] In 1983, Mowforth was part of the machine learning team that worked on the NASA space shuttle auto-lander project.
[33] After the death of his parents he shared their letters sent during the Second World War with a local historical association, which led to significant media interest and television appearances, including on The One Show.