| Paul Viola | |
| Birth Date: | 22 October 1966 |
| Birth Place: | New York, New York |
| Nationality: | American |
| Fields: | Computer Science |
| Alma Mater: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Christopher G. Atkeson Tomas Lozano-Perez |
| Thesis Title: | Alignment by Maximization of Mutual Information |
| Thesis Year: | 1995 |
| Thesis Url: | http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/9918#files-area |
| Known For: | Computer Vision and Facial Recognition |
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] Heis 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 academicresearch papers with over 56,000 citations.[7]