Paul Viola

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Paul Viola

Computer Science

#1196

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#1236

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#621

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Machine Learning

#155

World Rank

#156

Historical Rank

#46

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Database

#372

World Rank

#390

Historical Rank

#166

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According to Wikipedia, 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 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.

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Paul Viola's Published Works

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Published Works

Rapid object detection using a boosted cascade of simple features (2001) (18929)
Robust Real-Time Face Detection (2001) (15842)
Robust Real-time Object Detection (2001) (4133)
Alignment by Maximization of Mutual Information (1995) (3938)
Detecting Pedestrians Using Patterns of Motion and Appearance (2003) (2668)
Multi-modal volume registration by maximization of mutual information (1996) (1739)
Fast pose estimation with parameter-sensitive hashing (2003) (916)
Multiple Instance Boosting for Object Detection (2005) (790)
Boosting Image Retrieval (2000) (743)
Fast Multi-view Face Detection (2003) (742)
Fast and Robust Classification using Asymmetric AdaBoost and a Detector Cascade (2001) (582)
MIMIC: Finding Optima by Estimating Probability Densities (1996) (571)
Learning from one example through shared densities on transforms (2000) (421)
A unified learning framework for real time face detection and classification (2002) (284)
Unsupervised improvement of visual detectors using cotraining (2003) (269)
Learning Joint Statistical Models for Audio-Visual Fusion and Segregation (2000) (201)
Interactive Information Extraction with Constrained Conditional Random Fields (2004) (168)
Integrated feature selection and higher-order spatial feature extraction for object categorization (2008) (165)
Face Recognition Using Boosted Local Features (2003) (157)
Multiple-Instance Pruning For Learning Efficient Cascade Detectors (2007) (150)
Learning silhouette features for control of human motion (2004) (134)
Classifying Facial Action (1995) (122)
Texture recognition using a non-parametric multi-scale statistical model (1998) (118)
A Non-Parametric Multi-Scale Statistical Model for Natural Images (1997) (117)
Roxels: responsibility weighted 3D volume reconstruction (1999) (111)
Alignment by maximisation of mutual information (1993) (105)
Cooperative control of a semi-autonomous mobile robot (1990) (104)
Ambiguity and Constraint in Mathematical Expression Recognition (1998) (100)
Empirical Entropy Manipulation for Real-World Problems (1995) (93)
Learning to extract information from semi-structured text using a discriminative context free grammar (2005) (85)
Restructuring Sparse High Dimensional Data for Effective Retrieval (1998) (76)
Corrective feedback and persistent learning for information extraction (2006) (71)
Structure Driven Image Database Retrieval (1997) (64)
Face Recognition using Discriminatively Trained Orthogonal Rank One Tensor Projections (2007) (57)
A cluster-based statistical model for object detection (1999) (57)
Text recognition of low-resolution document images (2005) (48)
Fast Multiview Face Detection (2003) (45)
Ausio-visual Segmentation and "The Cocktail Party Effect" (2000) (42)
Learning nongenerative grammatical models for document analysis (2005) (42)
Boosting-Based Multimodal Speaker Detection for Distributed Meeting Videos (2008) (40)
Spatial recognition and grouping of text and graphics (2004) (39)
Learning silhouette features for control of human motion (2005) (38)
Complex Feature Recognition: A Bayesian Approach for Learning to Recognize Objects (1996) (36)
Bayesian Model of Surface Perception (1997) (34)
Recognition and grouping of handwritten text in diagrams and equations (2004) (33)
Flexible histograms: a multiresolution target discrimination model (1998) (32)
Boosting-Based Multimodal Speaker Detection for Distributed Meetings (2006) (28)
Online decoding of Markov models under latency constraints (2006) (25)
Efficient geometric algorithms for parsing in two dimensions (2005) (23)
Feature-Based Recognition of Objects (1993) (22)
Image Guided Microscopic Surgery System Using Mutual-Information Based Registraion (1996) (20)
Learning Informative Statistics: A Nonparametnic Approach (1999) (20)
Learning to Group Text Lines and Regions in Freeform Handwritten Notes (2007) (16)
The AGENT0 manual (1991) (14)
Boosting-based transductive learning for text detection (2005) (14)
Automatic Fax Routing (2004) (11)
Neurally Inspired Plasticity in Oculomotor Processes (1989) (11)
Network Based Autonomous Robot Motor Control: from Hormones to Learning (1990) (10)
Learning to parse hierarchical lists and outlines using conditional random fields (2004) (9)
Nonparametric estimation of aspect dependence for ATR (1999) (8)
Recurrent Eye Tracking Network Using a Distributed Representation of Image Motion (1991) (6)
Learning A* underestimates: Using inference to guide inference (2007) (5)
Implementing a Learning System for Subsumption Architectures (1989) (3)
Machine Learning for Prediction and Control (1997) (1)
Integral Image (2014) (1)
Variable Viewpoint Reality (特集論文 NTT-MIT共同研究) (2000) (1)
A Texture-Based Statistical Model for Face Detection (2007) (0)
Identification of individuals using several types of input (2007) (0)
Image and Video Retrieval using a Visual Encyclopedia 9807-NTT 03 Proposal for 1998-1999 Funding (1999) (0)
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) deployment of passive control stabilizers (2015) (0)
Boosting Image Database Retrieval (1999) (0)
Optical Character Recognition low-resolution camera for documents acquired (2005) (0)
Image Database Retrieval 9807-NTT 03 Final Progress Report : June 30 , 2000 Paul Viola Project Overview (2000) (0)
From the journals … (2007) (0)
2 Estimating Entropy with Parzen Densities (0)
Memo No . 1669 Spetember , 1999 Boosting Image Database Retrieval (1999) (0)
9807-28 Variable Viewpoint Reality (1999) (0)
Topic-Centered Multi-Level Representations for Text Retrieval (1997) (0)
Alignment and Tracking using Graphics (1996) (0)

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