Paul Viola
American computer vision researcher
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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]
- Marr Prize (2003)
- Longuet-Higgins Prize (2011)
- ICCV Helmholtz Prize (2013)
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| Born | 22 October 1966 |
| 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 |