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Overview

Shumeet Baluja is affiliated with Google in the United States, focusing on research in computer science with a significant concentration in computer vision and pattern recognition. Their work spans multiple subfields including computer graphics and computer-aided design, artificial intelligence, and cognitive neuroscience.

The primary topics of their research involve computer graphics and visualization techniques, image retrieval and classification techniques, image processing and 3D reconstruction, computational geometry and mesh generation, image enhancement techniques, aesthetic perception and analysis, and advanced data compression techniques.

Baluja has contributed to several peer-reviewed articles and conference papers. Notable recent publications include:

  • Evolving Deeper LLM Thinking, 2025, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Immediate gestalt: shapes, typography and (quite irregular) shape packing, 2020, Journal of Mathematics and the Arts
  • A natural representation of colors with textures, 2022, The Visual Computer
  • Texture for Colors: Natural Representations of Colors Using Variable Bit-Depth Textures, 2021, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Interpretable Actions: Controlling Experts with Understandable Commands, 2021, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Frequent coauthors in Baluja's research include David Marwood, Michele Covell, Ashwin Baluja, Kuang-Huei Lee, and Ian Fischer.

The venues where Baluja's work is commonly published reflect a blend of theoretical and applied research communities, including:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • The Visual Computer
  • Journal of Mathematics and the Arts
  • Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  • Dagstuhl Research Online Publication Server

Baluja's multidisciplinary approach to computer science research spans foundational technological advances and the exploration of aesthetic and perceptual dimensions related to visualization and image processing. Their presence at leading publication forums signifies engagement with both academic and practical aspects of computer science innovation.

Best Publications

  • Neural network-based face detection

    H.A. Rowley;S. Baluja;T. Kanade

  • Rotation invariant neural network-based face detection

    H.A. Rowley;S. Baluja;T. Kanade

  • Removing the Genetics from the Standard Genetic Algorithm

    Shumeet Baluja;Rich Caruana

  • Video suggestion and discovery for youtube: taking random walks through the view graph

    Shumeet Baluja;Rohan Seth;D. Sivakumar;Yushi Jing

  • VisualRank: Applying PageRank to Large-Scale Image Search

    Yushi Jing;S. Baluja

  • Human Face Detection in Visual Scenes

    Henry A. Rowley;Shumeet Baluja;Takeo Kanade

  • Boosting sex identification performance

    Shumeet Baluja;Henry A. Rowley

  • Non-Intrusive Gaze Tracking Using Artificial Neural Networks

    Shumeet Baluja;Dean Pomerleau

  • Using Optimal Dependency-Trees for Combinatorial Optimization: Learning the Structure of the Search Space

    Shumeet Baluja;Scott Davies

  • A large scale study of wireless search behavior: Google mobile search

    Maryam Kamvar;Shumeet Baluja

  • Hiding images in plain sight: deep steganography

    Shumeet Baluja

  • Variable Rate Image Compression with Recurrent Neural Networks

    George Toderici;Sean M. O'Malley;Sung Jin Hwang;Damien Vincent

  • Detecting repeating content in broadcast media

    Shumeet Baluja;Michele Covell;Michael Fink

  • Neural network-based face detection

    H.A. Rowley;S. Baluja;T. Kanade

  • Pagerank for product image search

    Yushi Jing;Shumeet Baluja

  • Interactive Media Display Across Devices

    Richard C. Gossweiler;Rohan Seth;Shumeet Baluja

  • Generating and/or serving local area advertisements, such as advertisements for devices with call functionality

    Shumeet Baluja;Henry A. Rowley

  • Adversarial Transformation Networks: Learning to Generate Adversarial Examples

    Shumeet Baluja;Ian Fischer

  • Automatische aktualisierung eines sprachmodells

    Michael H. Cohen;Shumeet Baluja;Pedro J. Moreno

  • What's up CAPTCHA?: a CAPTCHA based on image orientation

    Rich Gossweiler;Maryam Kamvar;Shumeet Baluja

Frequent Co-Authors

Michele Covell
Michele Covell Google (United States)
Henry Allan Rowley
Henry Allan Rowley Google (United States)
Rahul Sukthankar
Rahul Sukthankar Google (United States)
Dandapani Sivakumar
Dandapani Sivakumar Google (United States)
Mehran Sahami
Mehran Sahami Stanford University
Richard Carl Gossweiler
Richard Carl Gossweiler Google (United States)
Takeo Kanade
Takeo Kanade Carnegie Mellon University
Pedro J. Moreno
Pedro J. Moreno Google (United States)
Rich Caruana
Rich Caruana Microsoft (United States)

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