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Researcher

Jana Košecká

Also known as Jana Kosecka

Jana Košecká is a computer vision researcher whose work spans 3-D reconstruction, autonomous driving, sign-language access, and vision-language navigation. She studied electrical engineering and computer science in Bratislava, completed a PhD at Penn in 1996, and worked on computer vision for autonomous driving at Berkeley. She won the 1999 Marr Prize for a paper on Euclidean reconstruction and reprojection, and she coauthored An Invitation to 3-D Vision in 2004. At George Mason, she began computer-vision research on American Sign Language in 2019 and coauthored a 2025 navigation paper that uses large language and vision-language models. As of October 2026, she is a professor of computer science at George Mason University and one of the general chairs of ECCV 2026.

Works
223
Citations
8,508
h-index
44

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 15 October 2026.

Timeline

  1. 1990s

    From Slovakia to Berkeley

    She earns bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering and computer science at Slovak Technical University in Bratislava, then completes a PhD at Penn in 1996. At Berkeley, she takes a postdoctoral position in autonomous driving, where her team builds a vision-based car that changes lanes and keeps a safe distance from the vehicle ahead.

  2. 1999

    An ICCV Marr Prize

    She shares the 1999 ICCV Marr Prize with Yi Ma, Stefano Soatto, and S. Shankar Sastry for Euclidean Reconstruction and Reprojection up to Subgroups.

  3. 2004

    An Invitation to 3-D Vision

    She coauthors An Invitation to 3-D Vision: From Images to Geometric Models with Yi Ma, Stefano Soatto, and S. Shankar Sastry in 2004.

  4. 2019–February 2023

    Computer vision for sign language

    She begins studying computer vision for American Sign Language with Huzefa Rangwala and Parth Pathak in 2019; in February 2023, Amazon funds her work on systems that translate continuous American Sign Language into English.

  5. October 2023

    General Chair at ICCV

    She serves as a general chair of ICCV in Paris in October 2023.

  6. 2025

    TRAVEL for language navigation

    In 2025, she coauthors TRAVEL, a zero-shot vision-language navigation method that uses large language and vision-language models to turn natural-language instructions into path hypotheses.

  7. As of October 2026

    Professor at George Mason

    She is a professor of computer science at George Mason University and one of ECCV 2026's general chairs.

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  1. Oral-History:Jana Kosecka - Engineering and Technology History Wiki ethw.org. Checked 14 October 2026.
  2. Jana Košecká - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org. Checked 14 October 2026.
  3. Book Reviews A. Bultheel people1.cs.kuleuven.be. Checked 14 October 2026.
  4. AI-assisted computer vision research aims to improve accessibility for deaf, hard of hearing content.gmu.edu. Checked 14 October 2026.
  5. ICCV 2023 People - International Conference on Computer Vision - October 2-6, 2023 - Paris - France - ICCV2023 iccv2023.thecvf.com. Checked 14 October 2026.
  6. TRAVEL: Training-Free Retrieval and Alignment for Vision-and-Language Navigation arxiv.org. Checked 14 October 2026.
  7. Jana Kosecka, Professor, Computer Science, George Mason University people.cs.gmu.edu. Checked 14 October 2026.
  8. 2026 Organizing Committee eccv.ecva.net. Checked 14 October 2026.