Michael Jones

MERL Research / Technical Staff
Principal Technical Staff
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997

Phone: (617) 621 7587
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Mike Jones joined MERL in the fall of 2001 after 4 years at the Digital/Compaq Cambridge Research Laboratory. Mike's main area of interest is computer vision, and he is particularly interested in using machine-learning approaches for solving computer vision problems. He has focused on algorithms for detecting and analyzing people in images and video such as face detection, skin detection and facial analysis using morphable models. Recent Projects include Fast Face Detection using a Cascade of Detectors.

Recent Projects:

2-D Face Recognition
Face Detection using Real-valued Hyperplanes

Recent Publications:

Viola, P.; Jones, M.J.; Snow, D., "Detecting Pedestrians Using Patterns of Motion and Appearance", IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Vol. 2, pp. 734-741, October 2003 (IEEE Xplore, TR2003-090)

Viola, P.; Jones, M., "Rapid Object Detection Using a Boosted Cascade of Simple Features", IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), ISSN: 1063-6919, Vol. 1, pp. 511-518, December 2001 (IEEE Xplore, TR2004-043)

Recent Technical Reports:

TR2008-027 Pedestrian Detection Using Boosted Features over Many Frames
TR2007-074 A New Weak Learning Algorithm for Real Hyperplane Features Applied to Face Detection
TR2005-044 A System for Automatic Iris Capturing
TR2003-096 Fast Multi-view Face Detection
TR2003-025 Face Recognition Using Boosted Local Features