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Jana Košecká

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Jana Košecká is a Slovak computer scientist specializing in computer vision. She is a professor of computer science at George Mason University.[1] Previously, Košecká was a researcher at Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley.

Education and career

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Košecká earned bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering and computer science at the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava; her master's thesis was on agricultural applications of artificial intelligence.[2] After seeing a conference talk on robotics by Ruzena Bajcsy, she became interested in the subject and moved to the General Robotics, Automation, Sensing & Perception Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania, where she completed her Ph.D. with Bajcsy as her doctoral advisor in 1996. Her dissertation was A Framework for Modeling and Verifying Visually Guided Agents: Design, Analysis and Experiments.[2][3] She held visiting positions at Google, and Nokia Research.

Košecká spent three years doing postdoctoral research on the applications of computer vision to self-driving cars at the University of California, Berkeley, before taking her present position as a faculty member at George Mason University.[2] During her time at Berkeley, Košecká was a visiting scholar at Stanford University.

Book

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With Yi Ma, Stefano Soatto, and S. Shankar Sastry, Košecká is the author of the book An Invitation to 3-D Vision: From Images to Geometric Models (Springer, 2004).[4]

Recognition

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With Ma, Soatto, and Shastry, Košecká won the 1999 Marr Prize for their paper "Euclidean reconstruction and reprojection up to subgroups".[5] She was a keynote speaker at the 2018 International Conference on Robotics and Automation.[6]

References

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  1. ^ Computer science faculty, George Mason University, retrieved 2018-10-27
  2. ^ a b c Šabanović, Selma (January 23, 2015), Jana Kosecka: An interview, Indiana University and the IEEE History Center, retrieved 2018-10-27
  3. ^ Jana Košecká at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ^ Reviews of An Invitation to 3-D Vision:
  5. ^ ICCV Best Paper Award (Marr Prize), IEEE Computer Society, archived from the original on 2018-11-26, retrieved 2018-10-27
  6. ^ "Keynote speakers: Jana Kosecka", International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2018, retrieved 2018-10-27
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