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Suggestion and Discovery for YouTube: Taking
Random Walks Through the View Graph PageRank for Product Image Search Permutation
Grouping: Intelligent Hash Function Design for Audio & Image Retrieval Query
Suggestions for Deciphering
Trends in Audio
Fingerprinting: Combining Computer Vision & Data Stream Processing Learning
“Forgiving” Hash Functions: Algorithms and Large Scale Tests Browsing
on Small Screens: Recasting Web-Page Segmentation into an Efficient Machine
Learning Framework
Content
Fingerprinting using Wavelets A Large Scale Study
of Wireless Search Behavior: Google Mobile Search |
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Journals |
Baluja, S. (2007) “Automated Image Orientation Detection: A Scalable Boosting Approach”, Pattern Analysis and Applications (to appear). 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.
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 .
Contributing author to Boyan, Buntine, Jagota (ed.) (2000) “Statistical Machine Learning for Large-Scale Optimization” in Neural Computing Surveys 3, 2000.
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.
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.
Baluja, S., Pomerleau, D.A. & Jochem T. (1994) “Towards
Automated Artificial Evolution for Computer Generated Images,” Connection
Science, Volume 6, 2 & 3. 1994. 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. 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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Conferences &
Refereed Workshops |
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), Y.Jing, M. Kamvar, S. Baluja, (2008), Query Suggestions for 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,
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
M. Fink,
M. Covell, S. Baluja (2006), Social- and Interactive-Television Applications
Based on Real-Time Ambient-Audio Identification
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:
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.
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). Proceedings are in electronic form. ICRA97
Baluja, S. (1997) “Genetic Algorithms and Explicit Search
Statistics,” in Mozer, M.C.,
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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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.
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.
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? |
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Ph.D. Dissertation |
Baluja, S. (1996)
Expectation-Based Selective Attention, Ph.D. Thesis, |
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