Shumeet Baluja
Paper List as of February, 1999

Ph.D. Thesis

  1. Baluja, S. (1996) E xpectation-Based Selective Attention, Ph.D. Thesis, Carnegie Mellon University. October 1996. Available as Carnegie Mellon Technical Report CMU-CS-96-182.

Journal Publications

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. Sukthankar, R., Baluja, S., & Hancock, J. (1997) "Multiple Adaptive Agents for Tactical Driving," accepted for publication in International Journal of Applied Intelligence.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.) N. Griffith, P.M. Todd.

Book Chapters

  1. Baluja, S., Pomerleau, D.A. & Jochem T. (1999) "Towards Automated Artificial Evolution for Computer Generated Images," to appear in N. Griffith & P.M. Todd (eds.), Musical Networks: Parallel Distributed Perception and Performance, MIT Press.
  2. 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, Berlin. 241-257.
  3. 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. Boca Raton, FL. 31-51.
  4. 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. Boca Raton, FL. 139-153. Also Appears in S. Forrest ed., Genetic Algorithms: Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference (ICGA93), Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, San Mateo, CA., 1993.
  5. 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. Menlo Park, CA., 1994.

Refereed Conference Papers

  1. Baluja, S. (1999) "Making Templates Rotationally Invariant: An Application to Rotated Digit Recognition", to appear in Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 11.
  2. Baluja, S. (1999) "Probabilistic Modeling for Face Orientation Discrimination: Learning from Labeled and Unlabeled Examples" to appear in Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 11.
  3. Baluja, S. & Davies, S. (1998) "Fast Probabilistic Modeling for Combinatorial Optimization," to appear in Proceedings of AAAI-1998.
  4. Baluja, S., (1998) "Using Expectation to Guide Processing: A Study of Three Real-World Applications" in Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 10. Oral Presentation (Plenary).
  5. Rowley, H., Baluja, S. & Kanade, T. (1998) "Rotation Invariant Neural Network-Based Face Detection," to appear 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.
  6. Baluja, S. (1998) "Finding Regions of Uncertainty in Learned Models: An Application to Face Detection," to appear in Proceedings of PPSN-V (1998).
  7. Baluja, S. & Davies, S. (1998) "Pool-Wise Crossover in Genetic Algorithms: An Information-Theoretic Perspective," to appear in Proceedings of FOGA-98.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. Baluja, S. (1997) "Genetic Algorithms and Explicit Search Statistics," to appear in Mozer, M.C., Jordan, M.I., Petsche, T. (Eds.) Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 9, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. 1997. 319-325. Spotlight Presentation.
  11. 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.
  12. 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. Hughes College of Engineering, University of Nevada at Las Vegas, 692-697. Full report available as CMU-CS-95-193 via. anonymous ftp at: reports.adm.cs.cmu.edu.
  13. 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.
  14. Rowley, H., Baluja, S., Kanade, T. (1996) "Human Face Detection in Visual Scenes," in Touretzky, D.S., Mozer, M.C., & Hasselmo, M.E. (eds.), Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 8. MIT Press.
    pp. 875-881.
  15. 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): Montreal, Canada. IJCAII & Morgan Kaufmann. San Mateo, CA. pp. 133-139
  16. 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): Lake Tahoe, California. 1995. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers. San Mateo, CA. pp. 38-46. Plenary Presentation.
  17. 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, Cambridge MA, 1995. 451-458. Oral Presentation (Plenary).
  18. 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, San Francisco, CA., 1994. Oral Presentation (Plenary).
  19. 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, San Mateo, CA., 1993.
  20. 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, San Mateo, CA., 1993
  21. Baluja, S. & Scherer T. (1992) "Local Optimization Using Simulated Annealing," I EEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Conference Proceedings, 1992 . IEEE Press. Invited Paper.
  22. 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.

 

Workshop & Technical Reports

  1. Baluja, S. (1997) "Face Detection with In-Plane Rotation: Early Concepts and Preliminary Results,"
    JPRC-TR-97-001. Available from http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~baluja.
  2. Baluja, S. & Davies, S. (1997) "Combining Multiple Optimization Runs with Optimal Dependency Trees," CMU-CS-97-157. Available via anonymous ftp at: reports.adm.cs.cmu.edu and http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~baluja.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. Baluja, S., & Simon, D. (1996) " Evolution-Based Methods for Object Localization: Applications to Computer Assisted Surgery," CMU-CS-96-186.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. Baluja, S. & Fahlman, S.E., (1994) "Reducing Network Depth in the Cascade-Correlation Learning Architecture," CMU-CS-94-209.
  9. 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.
  10. Jochem, T. & Baluja, S. (1993) "A Massively Parallel Road Follower," The Proceedings of the Computer Architectures for Machine Perception Workshop (CAMP) , 1993.
  11. 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?