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Shumeet Baluja, Ph.D. shumeet.baluja.cv —at— gmail.com Curriculum Vitae
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Senior
Staff Research Scientist, 2003-Current Google, Inc. |
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(only published or public research accomplishments described here)
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Wireless /
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Social-{Graphs, Recommendations,
Advertising}: Inferring, understanding, and propagating information
and preferences efficiently within the context of multi-million node and
multi-billion edge social, and inferred-social, networks.
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Video and Audio-Copyright: DRM technology for copyright infringement: research and prototypes of core matching algorithms. Became foundation of Youtube’s copyright system. Related research in combining large-scale hashing and data-stream algorithms on sparse sketches of audio, image and video data resulted in numerous patents and publications on research and system. |
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Image & Vision Computing: Large scale image processing applications. Face processing (detection, attribute recognition), fast indexing, near/duplicate lookup. Page-rank for images (VisualRank). [New York Times, Google-Research-Blog].
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Other: Extensive press and
media coverage for research and projects conducted (1000’s of newspapers and
on-line news and blog sites). Extensive patents
and IP created. Created and held
lectures on “Introduction to Technical Due-Diligence” for corporate acquisitions
(based on an earlier lecture I developed at eCompanies). Supervised and
mentored junior and senior members of research teams. Supervised first Ph.D. thesis
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Previous Employment |
Jamdat Mobile, Inc. |
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IPO: September 29, 2004. Electronic Arts Acquisition of Jamdat Announced December, 2005. |
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Execution: Created the most successful games and entertainment applications on the wireless internet. Responsible for all engineering and technology initiation, design, implementation and maintenance. Oversaw application development across all mobile platforms: WAP, BREW, J2ME. Spearheaded the initiation, design, and implementation of back-end services including comprehensive wireless datamining, billing integration, and detailed usage tracking. |
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Strategy: Completed an oversubscribed Series-B Round funding with CEO (closed 3/2001) from Patricof and Co. Ventures, Sun Microsystems, Qualcomm & Intel. Started raising C-Round. Continually worked to set direction of company and market positioning with CEO and CFO. Work closely with sales and strategy to proliferate Jamdat’s services with carriers and partners. |
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eCompanies, LLC |
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Senior Vice President, Research & Development, 2000 |
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Execution: Built the technical team for 4 of the 12 companies incubated. Once a company entered the incubator, responsibilities included ensuring that each of the companies had a strong technological foundation (making and monitoring technical decisions until team was hired), and building a strong technology team to support the company. |
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Strategy: Responsible for due-diligence of new business plans as well as mining industry and academic sources to discover potential incubatee companies. Researched and analyzed market and technology to determine the feasibility of incubating ASP infrastructure companies, datamining companies, and wireless companies. Spearheaded the wireless practice at eCompanies, which resulted in the creation of eCompanies Wireless, a joint venture between eCompanies and Sprint PCS. |
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Lycos, Inc. |
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Chief Scientist, 1998-2000. |
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Execution: Created the Lycos Research and Applied Technology group. Recruited the team, managed up to 40 people. Managed budget and organization. Deployed numerous services at Lycos: · Ad targeting for user home pages · Web-Log Datamining. · Web Trend Analysis and Profiling · User interaction studies and measurements for search and site navigation. · Automatic Document Categorization for classification into web directories. · Kid-Safe Search for Lycos. · Voice Mail and Voice-Based Products. · Information/Document Retrieval Eval Metrics and Algorithmic improvement. |
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Strategy: Responsible for setting research directions, transfer of research to products, academic collaborations, and ‘advanced’ technical recruiting. Responsible for the technical due diligence of new companies for integration into Lycos.com |
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Research Coordinator, 1997-1998. Research Scientist, 1996 - 1997. |
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Helped to determine direction of machine learning and computer vision research at JPRC. Research on combining machine learning and statistics for applications in computer vision, mixed media databases, and automatic document classification. Research also included probabilistic modeling for optimization in high-dimensional combinatorial search spaces. |
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Department
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Adjunct Research Scientist, 1996 - 2002. |
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Worked with students and faculty on combinatorial and real-valued optimization for high-dimensional search spaces. Also collaborated on projects for vision-based human-computer user interfaces. |
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Adjunct Research Scientist, 1996 - 2005. |
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Worked with students and faculty towards integration of learning and computer vision for object detection, with applications to automatic video-indexing. |
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Education |
Ph.D. 1996, Computer Science |
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Dissertation: Expectation-Based Selective Attention. Primary Advisor: Dr. Dean Pomerleau; Secondary Advisor: Dr. Tom Mitchell. |
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B.S. Honors, High Distinction, 1991 |
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CS Minor: Philosophy/Cognitive Studies. Thesis Advisor: Dr. Dana Richards, National Science Foundation. |
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Research Fellowship |
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Advisor: Dr. Gunar Liepins, Studies in High Dimensional Optimization. |
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Students
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Activities |
Numerous invited talks in academics and industry.
Board Member of various startups. Technical Advisory Board, DirectHit.com (acquired by AskJeeves.com) Editorial Board Member - Applied Intelligence Journal – 2007.
Ph.D.
Advisor (joint with Steve Feiner). Maryam Kamvar,
Member
of Thesis Examination Committee for Marcus Gallagher, University ofQueensland,
Member
of Ph.D. Thesis Advisory Committee for Michael C. Nechyba,
The Robotics Institute,
Member
of Ph.D. Thesis Advisory Committee for Henry Rowley, Computer Science,
Member
of Thesis Advisory Committee for Adena Zlochower, Clinical Psychology,
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Reviewed Journal Submissions For: ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence Artificial Intelligence Journal, Evolutionary Computation Journal, IEEE Intelligent Systems, IEEE Knowledge & Data Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, IEEE Robotics and Automation Journal, Image and Vision Computing Journal, International Journal of Artificial Neural Networks, International Journal for Artificial Intelligence in Engineering, International Journal of Applied Intelligence, International Journal of Computer Vision, Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR), Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems, Machine Learning |
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Program
Committee Member and/or reviewer for numerous conferences in Web, Machine
Learning, AI, Robotics, Pattern Recognition, etc. |
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Book |
The
Silicon Jungle: A Novel of Deception, Power, and Internet Intrigue (2011),
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Patents |
Granted |
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7,853,622
Video-related
recommendations using link structure 7,831,531
Approximate
hashing functions for finding similar content 7,779,370
User
interface for mobile devices 7,756,708
Automatic
language model update 7,698,626
Enhanced
document browsing with automatically generated links to relevant information 7,676,117
Systems
and methods for using image duplicates to assign labels to images 7,587,461
Method
and system for activity based email sorting 7,460,735
Systems
and methods for using image duplicates to assign labels to images 7,392,017
Assessing
wireless network quality 6,618,697
Method
for rule-based correction of spelling and grammar errors 6,128,397
Method
for finding all frontal faces in arbitrarily complex visual scenes |
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Disclosed:
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(click
here for currently public ones) 20100186041 Recommending Video Programs 20100153422 Enhanced Document Browsing … 20100104220 Systems and Methods for Socially-Based
Correction of Tilted Images 20100034466 Object Identification in Images 20090172727 SELECTING ADVERTISEMENTS TO PRESENT 20090052784 Detection And Classification Of Matches
Between Time-Based Media 20080276279 Interactive Media Display Across Devices 20080275899 Advertiser and User Association 20080275861 Inferring User Interests 20080232574 Flexible Communication Systems and Methods 20080005668 User interface for mobile devices 20080005271 Data Logging … 20070239529 Targeting and/or scoring advertisements
using information derived from called telephone numbers or the called
telephone numbers themselves 20070234283 Automatic code generation for applications
which run on common platforms 20070233487 Automatic language model update 20070143778 Determining Popularity Ratings Using
Social and Interactive Applications for Mass Media 20070130580 Social and Interactive Applications for
Mass Media 20070124756 Detecting Repeating Content in Broadcast
Media 20070072676 Using information from user-video game
interactions to target advertisements, such as advertisements to be served in
video games for example 20070067329 Overloaded communication session 20070066364 Customized data retrieval applications for
mobile devices providing interpretation of markup language data 20070022442 Dispatch system to remote devices 20070004394 Assessing wireless network quality 20060287913 Allocating advertising space in a network
of displays 20060235933 Method and system for activity based email
sorting 20060230350 Nonstandard locality-based text entry 20060149624 Generating and/or serving local area
advertisements, such as advertisements for devices with call functionality 20060149622 Ad rendering parameters, such as size,
style, and/or layout, of online ads 20060149461 Transportation routing 20060122976 Predictive information retrieval 20060036709 Data logging for resident applications
within portable electronic devices 20060005113 Enhanced document browsing with
automatically generated links based on user information and context 20060004627 Advertisements for devices with call
functionality, such as mobile phones 20050289141 Nonstandard text entry 20030149958 Automatic code generation for applications
which run on common platforms 20030149743 Data logging for resident applications
within portable electronic devices |
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Journal Publications |
Baluja, S. & Covell, M. (2008) “Learning To Hash: Forgiving Hash Functions and Applications” in Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Article on Springer. Baluja, S. & Covell, M. (2008), “Waveprint: Efficient Wavelet-Based Audio Fingerprinting”, to appear in Pattern Recognition. Jing, Y. &
Baluja, S. (2008) “VisualRank: Applying PageRank to Large-Scale Image Search”, to appear in IEEE
Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI) Baluja, S. (2007) “Automated Image Orientation Detection: A Scalable Boosting Approach”, Pattern Analysis and Applications. Article at Springer Kamvar, M. & Baluja, S. (2007), Deciphering
Trends in Baluja, S. & Rowley, H. (2007) “Boosting Sex Identification Performance” International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), Volume 71, Number 1. 111-119. Article at Springer. M. Fink, M. Covell, M. Covell, Baluja, S. (2002) “Using a priori Knowledge to Create Probabilistic Models for Optimization”, International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, Volume 31, Issue 3, pp 193-220. IJAR Baluja, S. Mittal, V., Sukthankar, R. (2000) “Applying machine learning for high-performance named-entity extraction”. Computational Intelligence, 16/4 November 2000. 586-595. (pre-press) (computational intelligence journal) Baluja, S. (2000) “Using Labeled and Unlabeled Data for Probabilistic Modeling of Face Orientation”, International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 14, No. 8 (2000) 1097-1107 .(IJPRAI) Contributing author to Boyan, Buntine, Jagota (ed.) (2000) “Statistical Machine Learning for Large-Scale Optimization” in Neural Computing Surveys 3, 2000. (at citeceer) Baluja, S. & Pomerleau, D.A. (1998) “Dynamic Relevance: Vision Based Focus of Attention using Artificial Neural Networks,” Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 97 (1-2) pp. 381-395. (AIJ) Rowley, H., Baluja, S. & Kanade, T. (1998) “Neural Network-Based Face Detection,” IEEE-Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), Vol. 20, No. 1, January, 1998. IEEE-PAMI Version Sukthankar, R., Baluja, S., & Hancock, J. (1998) “Multiple Adaptive Agents for Tactical Driving,” International Journal of Applied Intelligence, Volume 9, Issue 1, July, 1998. Baluja, S. & Pomerleau, D.A. (1997) “Expectation-Based Selective
Attention for the Visual Monitoring and Control of a Robot Vehicle,” Robotics
and Autonomous Systems Journal, Vol. 22 pp. 329-344. Robotics
and Autonomous Systems Journal Version Baluja, S. & Simon, D. (1997) “Evolution-Based Methods for Selecting Point Data for Object Localization: Applications to Computer-Assisted Surgery,” International Journal of Applied Intelligence, Vol. 8, pp. 1-13. CMU-CS-96-183 Baluja, S. & Maxion, R. (1996) “Artificial Neural Network Based Approaches to Detection and Classification of Plasma-Etch Anomalies,” The Journal of Intelligent Systems, Volume 7, No. 1-2, 57-82, 1997. JIS-97 Baluja, S. (1996) “Evolution of an Artificial Neural Network Based Autonomous Land Vehicle Controller,” IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Vol. 26 No. 3, 450-463, June 1996. (Scanned) Baluja, S., Pomerleau, D.A. & Jochem T.
(1994) “Towards Automated Artificial Evolution for Computer Generated
Images,” Connection Science, Volume 6, 2 & 3. 1994. (connection science) Also appears in Musical
Networks: Parallel Distributed Perception and Performance (eds.)
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Book
Chapters |
Baluja, S. (2006) “Incorporating a priori Knowledge in Probabilistic-Model Based Optimization”, in M. Pelikan, K. Sastry, E. Cantu-Paz (eds.) Scalable Optimization via Probabilistic Modeling: From Algorithms to Applications, 205-219, Springer (book on amazon) Baluja, S., Pomerleau, D.A. & Jochem T.
(1999) “Towards Automated Artificial Evolution for Computer Generated
Images,” in Baluja, S., Sukthankar, R., Hancock, J. (1996) “Prototyping
Intelligent Vehicle Modules Using Evolutionary Algorithms,” in Dasgupta, D. & Michalewicz,
Z. (eds.) Evolutionary Algorithms in Engineering Applications.
Springer Verlag, Baluja, S. (1995)
“Evolving Artificial Neural Networks: Learning to Steer a Land Vehicle,” The
Practical Handbook of Genetic Algorithms, Vol II.
Chambers, L. (Ed). CRC Press. Baluja, S. (1995)
“Structure and Performance of Fine Grain Parallelism in Genetic Search,” The
Practical Handbook of Genetic Algorithms, Vol. II. (book
on amazon) Chambers, L. (Ed). CRC Press. Jochem, T. & Baluja, S. (1994) “Massively Parallel,
Adaptive, Color Image Processing for Autonomous Road Following,” Massively
Parallel Artificial Intelligence. Hiroaki Kitano & James Hendler (Eds.), AAAI Press.
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Conference Publications |
Baluja, S. & Covell, M., Beyond “Near-Duplicates” (2010) Learning
Hash Codes for Efficient Similar-Image Retrieval”, 20th International
Conference on Pattern Recognition 2010. ICPR Baluja, S. & Covell, M. “Finding Images and Line Drawings in
Document-Scanning Systems” (2009) Proc. International Conference on
Document Analysis and Retrieval, 2009. ICDAR-2009 Covell, M. & Baluja, S. “LSH Banding for Large-Scale
Retrieval with Memory and Recall Constraints” (2009) International
Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2009. ICASSP-2009 Baluja, S., Ravichandran, D. & Sivakumar,
D., “Text Classification Through Time: Efficient Label Propagation in
Time-Based Graphs” (2009) International Conference on Knowledge Discovery
and Information Retrieval, 2009. KDIR-2009 Gossweiler, R., Kamvar, M. &
Baluja, S., “What's Up CAPTCHA? A CAPTCHA Based On Image Orientation”, WWW
2009. WWW-2009 S. Baluja, R. Seth, D. Sivakumar, Y. Jing, J. Yagnik, S. Kumar, D. Ravichandran, M. Aly (2008), Video Suggestion and Discovery for YouTube: Taking Random Walks Through the View Graph, Proceedings of WWW-2008 (WWW-2008), WWW-2008 Y.Jing, S. Baluja (2008) PageRank for Product Image Search, Proceedings of WWW-2008 (WWW-2008) WWW-2008 S. Baluja, M. Covell, S. Ioffe (2008), Permutation Grouping: Intelligent Hash Function Design for Audio & Image Retrieval, International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP-2008), ICASSP-2008 M. Kamvar, S. Baluja,
(2008), Query Suggestions for Mobile Search: Understanding Usage Patterns, SIGCHI-2008:
Computer Human Interaction. CHI-2008 S. Baluja, M. Covell
(2007) Audio Fingerprinting: Combining
Computer Vision and Data Stream Processing. International Conference
on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP-2007). ICASSP-2007 M. Covell, S. Baluja (2007) Known-Audio Detection Using Waveprint: Spectrogram Fingerprinting by Wavelet Hashing. International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP-2007). ICASSP-2007 S. Baluja, M. Covell (2007) Learning “Forgiving” Hash Functions: Algorithms and Large Scale Tests, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2007 (IJCAI). IJCAI-2007 M. Kamvar, S. Baluja (2007), The Role of Context in Query Input: Using contextual signals to complete queries on Mobile Devices, Proceedings of Mobile HCI 2007. Mobile-HCI 2007. Y.Jing, S. Baluja, H. Rowley (2007) Canonical Image Selection from the Web, Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR-2007) CIVR-2007 M. Covell, S. Baluja, M. Fink (2006), Advertisement Detection and Replacement using Acoustic and Visual Repetition, in Proceedings of Multimedia Signal Processing, 2006. MMSP-2006 S. Baluja, M. Covell (2006), Content Fingerprinting using Wavelets, in Proceedings of Conference on Visual Media Production, 2006, CVMP-2006 (invited) S. Baluja (2006), Browsing on Small Screens: Recasting Web-Page Segmentation into an Efficient Machine Learning Framework, in Proceedings of WWW-2006. WWW-2006 M. Fink, M. Covell, S. Baluja (2006), Social- and Interactive-Television Applications Based on Real-Time Ambient-Audio Identification, Best Paper Award, in Proceedings of Euro-ITV, 2006. Euro-ITV 2006 M. Kamvar, S. Baluja (2006), A Large Scale Study of Wireless Search Behavior: Google Mobile Search, in SIGCHI-2006: Computer Human Interaction. CHI-2006 Rowley, H., Jing, Y., Baluja, S. (2006), Large-Scale Image-Based Adult-Content Filtering, International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications. RJB-2006 S. Baluja, & H.Rowley (2005) Boosting Sex Identification Performance. Proceedings of Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 2005: AAAI-IAAI 2005. IAAI 2005 (pdf) S. Baluja & H. Rowley (2005) Large Scale Performance Measurement of Content-Based Automated Image-Orientation Detection. Proceedings of the International Conference on Image Processing, 2005. ICIP 2005 (pdf) S. Baluja, M. Sahami, H. Rowley (2004) Efficient Face Orientation Discrimination. Proceedings of the International Conference on Image Processing, 2004. ICIP-2004 (pdf) M. Sahami, V. Mittal, S. Baluja, H. Rowley (2004), The Happy Searcher: Challenges in Web Information Retrieval, To appear in: Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2004. PRICAI-2004 (pdf) T. Sim, R. Sukthankar, M. Mullin, S. Baluja (2000) Memory-based face recognition for visitor identification. Proceedings of IEEE Face and Gesture, 2000. ARENA-99 Baluja, S., Mittal, V. & Sukthankar, R. (1999) “Applying Machine Learning for High Performance Named Entity Extraction,” appeared in The Proceedings of the Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics (PACLING-99). PACLING-99 Baluja, S. (1999) “Making Templates Rotationally Invariant: An Application to Rotated Digit Recognition”, in M. S. Kearns, S. A. Solla, D. A. Cohn, eds Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 11, MIT Press, 1999. NIPS-98 Baluja, S. (1999) “Probabilistic Modeling for Face Orientation Discrimination: Learning from Labeled and Unlabeled Examples” in M. S. Kearns, S. A. Solla, D. A. Cohn, eds., Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 11, MIT Press, 1999. NIPS-98 Baluja, S. & Davies, S. (1998) “Fast Probabilistic Modeling for Combinatorial Optimization,” in Proceedings of the American Association of Artificial Intelligence, 1998. (AAAI-1998). AAAI-98 Baluja, S.,
(1998) “Using Expectation to Guide Processing: A Study of Three Real-World
Applications” in M.I. Jordan, M. J. Kearns, S. A. Solla,
eds., Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 10, MIT Press,
1998. (Plenary Presentation). Neural
Information Processing Systems 10 Rowley, H., Baluja, S. & Kanade, T. (1998) “Rotation Invariant Neural Network-Based Face Detection,” in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 1998. Also available as CMU-CS-97-201 via anonymous ftp at: reports.adm.cs.cmu.edu. Oral Presentation. CMU-CS-97-201 & JPRC-TR-97-001 Baluja, S. (1998) “Finding Regions of Uncertainty in Learned Models: An Application to Face Detection,” in Eibenm Back, Schwefel, Schoenauer (eds.) Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 1498, PPSN – Parallel Problem Solving from Nature. (at Springer) Baluja, S. & Davies, S. (1997) “Using Optimal Dependency-Trees for Combinatorial Optimization: Learning the Structure of the Search Space,” in Fisher, D.H. (ed.), Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on Machine Learning, 1997 (ICML-97), pp. 30-38. Also available as CMU-CS-97-107 via. Anonymous ftp at: reports.adm.cs.cmu.edu. CMU-CS-97-107 ICML'97 Version Sukthankar, R., Baluja, S., & Hancock, J. (1997) “Prototyping Intelligent Vehicle Modules,” The International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 1997 (ICRA-97). Baluja, S. (1997)
“Genetic Algorithms and Explicit Search Statistics,” in Mozer,
M.C., Jordan, M.I., Petsche, T. (Eds.) Advances
in Neural Information Processing Systems 9, MIT Press, Rowley, H., Baluja, S., Kanade, T. (1996) “Neural Network Based Face Detection,” in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 1996. IEEE Computer Society, CA. 203-208. Oral Presentation. Compressed postscript Longuet-Higgins prize for "a contribution that has stood the test of time." (2006). Baluja, S. (1996)
“An Empirical Comparison of Seven Iterative and Evolutionary Heuristics for
Static Function Optimization (Extended Abstract),” Proceedings of the
Eleventh International Conference on Systems Engineering. Howard. R. Caruana, R., Baluja, S., Mitchell, T. (1996) “Using the Future to ‘Sort-Out’ The Present: Rankprop and Multitask Learning for Medical Risk Evaluation,” in Touretzky, D.S., Mozer, M.C., & Hasselmo, M.E. (eds.), Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 8. MIT Press. pp. 959-965. Pneumonia-NIPS95 Rowley, H.,
Baluja, S., Kanade, T. (1996) “Human Face Detection
in Visual Scenes,” in Touretzky, D.S., Mozer, M.C., & Baluja, S. & Pomerleau, D.A. (1995) “Using the Representation in a
Neural Network’s Hidden Layer for Task-Specific Focus of Attention,” C. Mellish (ed.) The International Joint Conference on
Artificial Intelligence 1995 (IJCAI-95): Baluja, S. & Caruana, R. (1995) “Removing the Genetics from the
Standard Genetic Algorithm,” In Prieditis, A., Russel, S.(eds)
The International Conference on Machine Learning 1995 (ML-95): Baluja, S. & Pomerleau, D.A. (1995) “Using a Saliency Map for Active
Spatial Selective Attention: Implementation & Initial Results,” Advances
in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) 7. G. Tesauro,
D.S. Touretzky and T.K. Leen,
(eds.), MIT Press, Baluja, S. & Pomerleau, D.A. (1994) “Non-Intrusive Gaze Tracking Using
Artificial Neural Networks,” Advances in Neural Information Processing
Systems (NIPS) 6. Cowan, J.D., Tesauro, G.
& Alspector, J. (eds.) Morgan Kaufmann
Publishers, Baluja, S. (1993)
“Structure and Performance of Fine Grain Parallelism in Genetic Search,” In S.Forrest (ed.), Genetic Algorithms: Proceedings of
the Fifth International Conference (ICGA93), Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Baluja, S. (1993)
“The Evolution of Genetic Algorithms: Towards Massive Parallelism,” in P.E. Utgoff, (ed.), Machine Learning: Proceedings of the
Tenth International Conference (ICML93), Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Baluja, S. & Scherer T. (1992) “Local Optimization Using Simulated Annealing,” IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Conference Proceedings, 1992. IEEE Press. Invited Paper. Liepins, G. & Baluja, S. (1992) “apGA: an Adaptive Parallel Genetic Algorithm,” Computer Science and Operations Research, New Developments in Their Interfaces, Balci, Sharda & Zenios (eds). Pergamon Press, 1992.
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Other
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Sim, T., Sukthankar, R.,
Mullin, D., Baluja, S. (1999) “High Performance Memory-Based Face Recognition
for Visitor Identification, Baluja, S. (1997) “Face Detection with In-Plane Rotation: Early Concepts and Preliminary Results,” JPRC-TR-97-001. JPRC-TR-97-001 Baluja, S. & Davies, S. (1997) “Combining Multiple Optimization Runs with Optimal Dependency Trees,” CMU-CS-97-157. CMU-CS-97-157 Smith, M., Baluja, S., & Rowley, H. (1997) “Integrating Text and Face Detection for Finding Informative Poster Frames,” AAAI-96 Spring Symposium on Intelligent Integration and Use of Text, Image, Video and Audio Corpora. (symposium) Sukthankar, R., Hancock, J., Baluja, S., Pomerleau D. & Thorpe C. (1996) “Adaptive Intelligent Vehicle Modules for Tactical Driving.” AAAI-96 Workshop on Intelligent Adaptive Agents. (Citeceer) Baluja, S., & Simon, D. (1996) “Evolution-Based Methods for Object Localization: Applications to Computer Assisted Surgery,” CMU-CS-96-186. Baluja, S. (1995) “An Empirical Comparison of Seven Iterative and Evolutionary Function Optimization Heuristics,” CMU-CS-95-193. Available via. anonymous ftp at: reports.adm.cs.cmu.edu. CMU-CS-95-193 Rowley, H., Baluja, S., Kanade, T. (1996) “Human Face Detection in Visual Scenes,” ARPA Image Understanding Workshop, 1996. Complete Report: CMU-CS-95-158R. Available via. anonymous ftp at: reports.adm.cs.cmu.edu. Baluja, S. & Fahlman, S.E., (1994) “Reducing Network Depth in the Cascade-Correlation Learning Architecture,” CMU-CS-94-209. CMU-CS-94-209 Baluja, S. (1994) “Population-Based Incremental Learning: A Method for Integrating Genetic Search Based Function Optimization and Competitive Learning,” CMU-CS-94-163. Available via anonymous ftp at: reports.adm.cs.cmu.edu. CMU-CS-94-163 Jochem, T. & Baluja, S. (1993) “A Massively Parallel Road Follower,” The Proceedings of the Computer Architectures for Machine Perception Workshop (CAMP), 1993. Pomerleau, D.A., Baluja, S. (1993) “Non-Intrusive Gaze Tracking Using Artificial Neural Networks,” AAAI Fall Symposium Series, Machine Learning in Computer Vision: What, Why and How? Baluja, S. (1996)
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Academic
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1995 National Aeronautics and Space Administration Graduate Fellowship. Administered
by the 1993 National Science Foundation Graduate Student Fellowship. 1993
Winner, International Competitions. Massively Parallel, Adaptive, Color Image Processing for Autonomous Road Following. With Dr. Todd Jochem. 1993 National MasPar Grand Challenge Contest, second. With Todd Jochem. 1990
Department of Energy Research Semester Fellowship, 1990
Winner of the 1990 Fall
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