Paul Viola is a computer vision researcher, and Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft. He is a former MIT professor, and a former vice president of science for Amazon Prime Air.[1][2] He is best known for his seminal work in facial recognition and machine learning. He is the co-inventor of the Viola–Jones object detection framework along with Michael Jones.[3][4] He won the Marr Prize in 2003 and the Helmholtz Prize from the International Conference on Computer Vision in 2013.[5] He is the holder of at least 57 patents in the areas of advanced machine learning, web search, data mining, and image processing.[6] He is the author of more than 50 academic research papers with over 56,000 citations. [7]
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| Born | October 22, 1966 |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Known for | Computer Vision and Facial Recognition |
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| Fields | Computer Science |
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| Thesis | Alignment by Maximization of Mutual Information (1995) |
| Doctoral advisor | Christopher G. Atkeson Tomas Lozano-Perez |
References
edit- ^ "Amazon taps former MIT professor to helm Prime Air, its planned drone delivery program". Retrieved 5 May 2018.
- ^ "Despite FAA Setbacks, Amazon Prime Air Makes Notable Engineering, NASA And Aerospace Hires – TechCrunch". techcrunch.com. 20 August 2014. Retrieved 5 May 2018.
- ^ Viola, Paul; Jones, Michael (2001). "Rapid object detection using a boosted cascade of simple features". Accepted Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2001. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.10.6807.
- ^ Viola, Paul; Jones, Michael J. (1 May 2004). "Robust Real-Time Face Detection". International Journal of Computer Vision. 57 (2): 137–154. doi:10.1023/B:VISI.0000013087.49260.fb. ISSN 0920-5691. S2CID 2796017.
- ^ "Helmholtz Prize • IEEE Computer Society". www.computer.org. Retrieved 1 November 2018.
- ^ "Google Patent Search". Retrieved 1 November 2018.
- ^ "Google Scholar". Retrieved 1 November 2018.