Shumeet Baluja
Co-Authors
Shumeet was formerly the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of JAMDAT Mobile, Inc., where he oversaw all aspects of technology initiation, development and deployment. Previously, Shumeet was Chief Scientist at Lycos Inc., where he led the Research and Applied Technology Group in the quantitative and qualitative analysis of user behavior, including data mining and trend analysis, advertisement optimization, and statistical modeling of traffic and site interactions. As Senior Vice President of R&D at eCompanies LLC, he spearheaded the creation of their wireless practice and was responsible for finding and evaluating new technologies and technology entrepreneurs.
Shumeet has filed numerous patents and has published scientific papers in fields including computer vision and facial image processing, advertisement display and optimization, automated vehicle control, statistical machine learning, and high-dimensional optimization. Shumeet graduated from the University of Virginia with a Bachelor of Science, with high distinction, in 1991. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University in 1996.
Google Publications
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ICCS 2016, 2302–2311
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Labeling the Features Not the Samples: Efficient Video Classification with Minimal Supervision
Marius Leordeanu, Alexandra Radu, Shumeet Baluja, Rahul Sukthankar
AAAI (2016)
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arXiv (2016)
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Physical and Virtual Cell Phone Sensors for Traffic Control: Algorithms and Deployment Impact
Shumeet Baluja, Michele Covell, Rahul Sukthankar
2016 IEEE Sensors Application Symposium
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NINTH TRIENNIAL SYMPOSIUM ON TRANSPORTATION ANALYSIS (2016) (to appear)
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Variable Rate Image Compression with Recurrent Neural Networks
George Toderici, Sean M. O'Malley, Sung Jin Hwang, Damien Vincent, David Minnen, Shumeet Baluja, Michele Covell, Rahul Sukthankar
International Conference on Learning Representations (2016)
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Approximating the Effects of Installed Traffic Lights: A Behaviorist Approach Based on Travel Tracks
Shumeet Baluja, Michele Covell, Rahul Sukthankar
International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (2015)
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Micro-Auction-Based Traffic-Light Control: Responsive, Local Decision Making
Michele Covell, Shumeet Baluja, Rahul Sukthankar
International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (2015)
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The Virtues of Peer Pressure: A Simple Method for Discovering High-Value Mistakes
Shumeet Baluja, Michele Covell, Rahul Sukthankar
International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns (2015)
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Efficient and Accurate Label Propagation on Dynamic Graphs and Label Sets
Michele Covell, Shumeet Baluja
International Journal on Advances in Networks and Services, vol. 6 (2013), pp. 246-259
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Efficient and Accurate Label Propagation on Large Graphs and Label Sets
Michele Covell, Shumeet Baluja
Proceedings International Conference on Advances in Multimedia, IARIA (2013)
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Neighborhood Preserving Codes for Assigning Point Labels: Applications to Stochastic Search
Shumeet Baluja, Michele Covell
Procedia Computer Science: 2013 International Conference on Computational Science, Elsevier, pp. 956-965
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Point Representation for Local Optimization: Towards Multi-Dimensional Gray Codes
Shumeet Baluja, Michele Covell
Proceedings IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, IEEE (2013)
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A Tale of Two (Similar) Cities: Inferring City Similarity Through Geo-Spatial Query Log Analysis
Rohan Seth, Michele Covell, Deepak Ravichandran, D. Sivakumar, Shumeet Baluja
Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval (2011)
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Beyond “Near-Duplicates”: Learning Hash Codes for Efficient Similar-Image Retrieval
Shumeet Baluja, Michele Covell
20th International Conference on Pattern Recognition 2010
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Looking for Pieces of Needles in Millions of Haystacks: Finding Distorted Audio/Video Snippets
Michele Covell, Shumeet Baluja
International Workshop on Computer Vision (2010)
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Finding Images and Line Drawings in Document-Scanning Systems
Shumeet Baluja, Michele Covell
Proc. International Conference on Document Analysis and Retrieval, IAPR (2009)
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LSH Banding for Large-Scale Retrieval with Memory and Recall Constraints
Michele Covell, Shumeet Baluja
International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, IEEE (2009)
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Text Classification Through Time: Efficient Label Propagation in Time-Based Graphs
Shumeet Baluja, Deepak Ravichandran, D. Sivakumar
International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval (2009)
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What's Up CAPTCHA? A CAPTCHA Based On Image Orientation
Rich Gossweiler, Maryam Kamvar, Shumeet Baluja
WWW 2009
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Coordinated Multi-Device Presentations: Ambient-Audio Identification
Michael Fink, Michele Covell, Shumeet Baluja
Encyclopedia of Wireless and Mobile Communications, Taylor & Francis (2008), pp. 274-285
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Shumeet Baluja, Michele Covell
Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (2008)
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Mass Personalization: Social and Interactive Applications using Sound-Track Identification
Michael Fink, Michele Covell, Shumeet Baluja
Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications, vol. 36 (2008), pp. 115-132
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PageRank for Product Image Search
Yushi Jing, Shumeet Baluja
WWW-2008
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Permutation Grouping: Intelligent Hash Function Design for Audio & Image Retrieval
Shumeet Baluja, Michele Covell, Sergey Ioffe
International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP-2008)
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Query Suggestions for Mobile Search: Understanding Usage Patterns
Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in computing systems (CHI) (2008)
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Video Suggestion and Discovery for YouTube: Taking Random Walks Through the View Graph
Shumeet Baluja, Rohan Seth, D. Sivakumar, Yushi Jing, Jay Yagnik, Shankar Kumar, Deepak Ravichandran, Mohamed Aly
WWW-2008
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VisualRank: Applying PageRank to Large-Scale Image Search
Yushi Jing, Shumeet Baluja
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 30 (2008), pp. 1877-1890
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Waveprint: Efficient Wavelet-Based Audio Fingerprinting
Shumeet Baluja, Michele Covell
Pattern Recognition (2008)
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Audio Fingerprinting: Combining Computer Vision & Data Stream Processing
Shumeet Baluja, Michele Covell
Proceedings of the 2007 International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing
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Automated Image Orientation Detection: A Scalable Boosting Approach
Pattern Analysis and Applications (2007)
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Boosting Sex Identification Performance
Shumeet Baluja, Henry A. Rowley
International Journal of Computer Vision, vol. 71 (2007), pp. 111-119
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Canonical Image Selection from the Web
Yushi Jing, Shumeet Baluja, Henry A. Rowley
ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (2007)
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Deciphering Trends in Mobile Search
IEEE Computer, vol. 40, no. 8 (2007), pp. 58-62
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Known-Audio Detection Using Waveprint: Spectrogram Fingerprinting By Wavelet Hashing
Michele Covell, Shumeet Baluja
Proceedings of the 2007 International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing
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Learning Forgiving Hash Functions: Algorithms and Large Scale Tests
Shumeet Baluja, Michele Covell
IJCAI-07: International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (2007)
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The Role of Context in Query Input: Using contexual signals to complete queries on mobile devices
Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (Mobile HCI) (2007)
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A Large Scale Study of Wireless Search Behavior: Google Mobile Search
Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in computing systems (CHI) (2006)
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Advertisement Detection and Replacement using Acoustic and Visual Repetition
Michele Covell, Shumeet Baluja, Michael Fink
Proceedings of the 2006 International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, IEEE
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Browsing on Small Screens: Recasting Web-Page Segmentation into an Efficient Machine Learning Framework
Proceedings of the Fifteenth International World Wide Web Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland (2006)
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Content Fingerprinting Using Wavelets
Shumeet Baluja, Michele Covell
Proceedings of the Conference of Visual Media Production, IET (2006)
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Detecting Ads in Video Streams using Acoustic and Visual Cues
Michele Covell, Shumeet Baluja, Michael Fink
Computer Magazine (2006), pp. 135-137
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Large Scale Image-Based Adult-Content Filtering
Henry A. Rowley, Yushi Jing, Shumeet Baluja
1st International Conference on Computer Vision Theory, Sebutal, Portugal (2006)
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Social- and Interactive-Television Applications Based on Real-Time Ambient-Audio Identification
Michael Fink, Michele Covell, Shumeet Baluja
European Interactive TV Conference (Euro-ITV) (2006)
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Boosting Sex Identification Performance
Shumeet Baluja, Henry A. Rowley
Proceedings of the Seventeenth Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference, AAAI (2005), pp. 1508-1513
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Large Scale Performance Measurement of Content-Based Automated Image-Orientation Detection
Shumeet Baluja, Henry A. Rowley
International Conference on Image Processing, Genova, Italy (2005)
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Efficient Face Orientation Discrimination
Shumeet Baluja, Mehran Sahami, Henry A. Rowley
International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP-2004)
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The Happy Searcher: Challenges in Web Information Retrieval
Mehran Sahami, Vibhu Mittal, Shumeet Baluja, Henry A. Rowley
The Eighth Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI-2004)
Previous Publications
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Browsing on small screens: recasting web-page segmentation into an efficient machine learning framework
WWW (2006), pp. 33-42
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Using a priori knowledge to create probabilistic models for optimization
Int. J. Approx. Reasoning, vol. 31 (2002), pp. 193-220
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Applying Machine Learning for High-Performance Named-Entity Extraction
Shumeet Baluja, Vibhu O. Mittal, Rahul Sukthankar
Computational Intelligence, vol. 16 (2000), pp. 586-596
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Memory-Based Face Recognition for Visitor Identification
Terence Sim, Rahul Sukthankar, Matthew Mullin, Shumeet Baluja
FG (2000), pp. 214-220
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Using Labeled and Unlabeled Data for Probabilistic Modeling of Face Orientation
IJPRAI, vol. 14 (2000), pp. 1097-1107
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Evolution-Based Methods for Selecting Point Data for Object Localization: Applications to Computer-Assisted Surgery
Shumeet Baluja, David Simon
Appl. Intell., vol. 8 (1998), pp. 7-19
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Fast Probabilistic Modeling for Combinatorial Optimization
Shumeet Baluja, Scott Davies
AAAI/IAAI (1998), pp. 469-476
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Making Templates Rotationally Invariant. An Application to Rotated Digit Recognition
NIPS (1998), pp. 847-853
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Neural Network-Based Face Detection
Henry A. Rowley, Shumeet Baluja, Takeo Kanade
IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell., vol. 20 (1998), pp. 23-38
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Probabilistic Modeling for Face Orientation Discrimination: Learning from Labeled and Unlabeled Data
NIPS (1998), pp. 854-860
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Rotation Invariant Neural Network-Based Face Detection
Henry A. Rowley, Shumeet Baluja, Takeo Kanade
CVPR (1998), pp. 38-44
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Dynamic Relevance: Vision-Based Focus of Attention Using Artificial Neural Networks. (Technical Note)
Shumeet Baluja, Dean Pomerleau
Artif. Intell., vol. 97 (1997), pp. 381-395
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Expectation-based selective attention for visual monitoring and control of a robot vehicle
Shumeet Baluja, Dean Pomerleau
Robotics and Autonomous Systems, vol. 22 (1997), pp. 329-344
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Integrating Text and Face Detection for Finding Informative Poster Frames
Michael Smith, Shumeet Baluja, Henry A. Rowley
AAAI Spring Symposium (1997), pp. 95-101
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Using Expectation to Guide Processing: A Study of Three Real-World Applications
NIPS (1997)
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Using Optimal Dependency-Trees for Combinational Optimization
Shumeet Baluja, Scott Davies
ICML (1997), pp. 30-38
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Genetic Algorithms and Explicit Search Statistics
NIPS (1996), pp. 319-325
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Neural Network-Based Face Detection
Henry A. Rowley, Shumeet Baluja, Takeo Kanade
CVPR (1996), pp. 203-208
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Human Face Detection in Visual Scenes
Henry A. Rowley, Shumeet Baluja, Takeo Kanade
NIPS (1995), pp. 875-881
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Removing the Genetics from the Standard Genetic Algorithm
Shumeet Baluja, Rich Caruana
ICML (1995), pp. 38-46
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Using the Future to Sort Out the Present: Rankprop and Multitask Learning for Medical Risk Evaluation
Rich Caruana, Shumeet Baluja, Tom M. Mitchell
NIPS (1995), pp. 959-965
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Using the Representation in a Neural Network's Hidden Layer for Task-Specific Focus of Attention
Shumeet Baluja, Dean Pomerleau
IJCAI (1995), pp. 133-141
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Non-Intrusive Gaze Tracking Using Artificial Neural Networks
Shumeet Baluja, Dean Pomerleau
NIPS (1993), pp. 753-760










