Paul Viola

Paul Viola
Paul Viola
Born	22 October 1966 (age 58); New York, New York
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Known for	Computer Vision and Facial Recognition
Awards	Marr Prize (2003); Longuet-Higgins Prize (2011); ICCV Helmholtz Prize (2013);
	Scientific career
Fields	Computer Science
Institutions	Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Cambridge Research Laboratory (HP, Compaq); Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories; Microsoft Research; Amazon Prime Air;
Thesis	Alignment by Maximization of Mutual Information (1995)
Doctoral advisor	Christopher G. Atkeson; Tomas Lozano-Perez

Paul Viola is a computer vision researcher, and Distinguished Engineer at Zoox. He is a former MIT professor, a former vice president of science for Amazon Prime Air and a former Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft.^[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]

References

^ "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". computer.org. Retrieved 1 November 2018.
^ "Google Patent Search". Retrieved 1 November 2018.
^ "Google Scholar". Retrieved 1 November 2018.

External links

Detecting Faces (Viola Jones Algorithm) – Computerphile

[1] "Amazon taps former MIT professor to helm Prime Air, its planned drone delivery program". Retrieved 5 May 2018.

[2] "Despite FAA Setbacks, Amazon Prime Air Makes Notable Engineering, NASA And Aerospace Hires – TechCrunch". techcrunch.com. 20 August 2014. Retrieved 5 May 2018.

[3] 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.

[4] 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.

[5] "Helmholtz Prize • IEEE Computer Society". computer.org. Retrieved 1 November 2018.

[6] "Google Patent Search". Retrieved 1 November 2018.

[7] "Google Scholar". Retrieved 1 November 2018.

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