Paul Viola

Paul Viola
Born (1966-10-22) October 22, 1966 (age 58)
New York, New York
NationalityAmerican
Alma materMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Known forComputer Vision and Facial Recognition
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Science
Institutions
ThesisAlignment by Maximization of Mutual Information (1995)
Doctoral advisorChristopher G. Atkeson
Tomas Lozano-Perez

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]

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