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Paul Viola
American computer vision researcher / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 | (1966-10-22) October 22, 1966 (age 57) |
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 |
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