Paul Viola, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Paul Viola

American computer scientist

Date of Birth: 22-Oct-1966

Place of Birth: New York City, New York, United States

Profession: computer scientist, university teacher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Paul Viola is a computer vision researcher, former MIT professor, and vice president of science for Amazon Air.
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.