Michael Jones (scientist)

{{Other people|Michael Jones}}

{{Infobox academic

| name = Michael Jones

| education = Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD)

| workplaces = Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories

| discipline = Computer science

| sub_discipline = Computer vision
Machine learning
Artificial intelligence
Data analytics

}}

Michael J. Jones is an American computer scientist and inventor working as a computer vision researcher at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories.{{Cite web|url=http://www.merl.com/people/mjones/|title=People - Michael Jones|website=www.merl.com|access-date=2018-05-05}}

Education

Jones earned a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1997{{Cite web |title=People - Michael J. Jones |url=https://www.merl.com/people/mjones/ |access-date=2022-08-23 |website=www.merl.com}} under Tomaso Poggio.{{cite web |title=Michael Jones |url=https://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=259287 |website=The Mathematics Genealogy Project |access-date=17 November 2022}}{{cite web |title=Michael Jeffrey Jones |url=https://openreview.net/profile?id=~Michael_Jeffrey_Jones1 |website=OpenReview |access-date=17 November 2022}}

Career

Jones is the co-inventor, with Paul Viola, of the Viola–Jones face detection method,{{Cite journal|title=Rapid object detection using a boosted cascade of simple features - IEEE Conference Publication|language=en-US|doi=10.1109/CVPR.2001.990517}} an ICCV 2003 Marr Prize{{Cite web|url=http://lear.inrialpes.fr/people/triggs/events/iccv03/marr.php|title=ICCV'03 - Marr Prize|website=lear.inrialpes.fr|access-date=2018-05-05}} and CVPR Longuet-Higgins Prize{{Cite web|url=https://www.computer.org/web/tcpami/longuet-higgins-prize|title=Longuet-Higgins Prize • IEEE Computer Society|website=www.computer.org|language=en-US|access-date=2018-05-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180316152540/https://www.computer.org/web/tcpami/longuet-higgins-prize|archive-date=2018-03-16|url-status=dead}} winner.

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