About Paul Viola
Born 1966. Paul Viola is an American university teacher and computer scientist, known for Computer vision.
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. 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. He won the Marr Prize in 2003 and the Helmholtz Prize from the International Conference on Computer Vision in 2013.
He
is the holder of at least 57 patents in the areas of advanced machine learning, web search,
data mining, and image processing.
He is the author of more than 50 academic
research papers with over 56,000 citations.
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Who is Paul Viola?
American computer scientist
When was Paul Viola born?
Paul Viola was born on 22 October 1966 in New York City.
What is Paul Viola's occupation?
Paul Viola is a university teacher and computer scientist.
What is Paul Viola known for?
Paul Viola is known for Computer vision.
What nationality is Paul Viola?
Paul Viola is American.
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