Boris Babenko

Biography

i'm a machine learning / computer vision engineer. i received a PhD from UCSD where I was advised by serge belongie. most of my graduate work was funded by an NSF IGERT traineeship and a 2010 google fellowship, and revolved around weakly supervised learning and its applications to object detection, recognition and tracking; one of my algorithms is included in OpenCV 3.0. after finishing my PhD, I started a company called anchovi labs which was acquired by dropbox; i worked at dropbox for 2.5 years. i spent the next 3 years at orbital insight, where i developed computer vision algorithms to analyze satellite imagery. i currently work on medical imaging applications at google. oh, and if you haven't noticed already, i have no respect for capital letters.

in my spare time i play guitar, read/watch sci-fi, and occasionally blog/tweet.

Blog Posts

2018-04-27 - weight decay vs L2 regularization
2018-04-23 - practical tips (life, machine learning, and everything)
2017-10-01 - precision and recall
2017-08-25 - moving my website and blog to github
2016-03-27 - multiprocessing and seeded RNGs
2015-01-03 - deep net highlights from 2014
2014-11-29 - template matching basics
2014-05-24 - learning low-level vision feautres in ~10 lines of code
2014-04-20 - convolutional learnings: things i learned by implementing convolutional neural nets
2013-08-12 - dear zappos: here’s a way you can significantly improve user experience
2013-07-28 - when hogs py
2013-05-13 - harry potter and the curse of dimensionality

Projects

Ongoing Projects

GrOCR

Kai Wang , Boris Babenko , Grant Van Horn , Serge Belongie

Visipedia

Steve Branson , Catherine Wah , Grant Van Horn , Florian Schroff , Serge Belongie , Boris Babenko

Publications

2011

Boris Babenko, Ming-Hsuan Yang, Serge Belongie, "Visual Tracking with Online Multiple Instance Learning", IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI)August, 2011.

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BibTex - Visual Tracking with Online Multiple Instance Learning

@article { 393, title = {Visual Tracking with Online Multiple Instance Learning}, journal = {IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI)}, year = {2011}, month = {August}, URL = {http://vision.ucsd.edu/~bbabenko/project_miltrack.shtml}, author = {Boris Babenko and Ming-Hsuan Yang and Serge Belongie} }

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Boris Babenko, Nakul Verma, Piotr Dollár, Serge Belongie, "Multiple Instance Learning with Manifold Bags", International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), Bellevue, WA 2011.

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BibTex - Multiple Instance Learning with Manifold Bags

@inproceedings { 411, title = {Multiple Instance Learning with Manifold Bags}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2011}, address = {Bellevue, WA}, author = {Boris Babenko and Nakul Varma and Piotr Dollar and Serge Belongie} }

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Kai Wang, Boris Babenko, Serge Belongie, "End-to-End Scene Text Recognition", IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Barcelona, Spain 2011.

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BibTex - End-to-End Scene Text Recognition

@inproceedings { 417, title = {End-to-End Scene Text Recognition}, booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)}, year = {2011}, address = {Barcelona, Spain}, author = {Kai Wang and Boris Babenko and Serge Belongie} }

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2010

Steve Branson, Catherine Wah, Boris Babenko, Florian Schroff, Peter Welinder, Pietro Perona, Serge Belongie, "Visual Recognition with Humans in the Loop", European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Heraklion, CreteSeptember, 2010.

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BibTex - Visual Recognition with Humans in the Loop

@inproceedings { 372, title = {Visual Recognition with Humans in the Loop}, booktitle = {European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)}, year = {2010}, month = {Sept.}, address = {Heraklion, Crete}, URL = {http://www.vision.caltech.edu/visipedia}, author = {Steve Branson and Catherine Wah and Boris Babenko and Florian Schroff and Peter Welinder and Pietro Perona and Serge Belongie} }

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2009

Boris Babenko, Ming-Hsuan Yang, Serge Belongie, "Visual Tracking with Online Multiple Instance Learning", IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Miami, FL 2009.

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BibTex - Visual Tracking with Online Multiple Instance Learning

@inproceedings { 157, title = {Visual Tracking with Online Multiple Instance Learning}, booktitle = {IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)}, year = {2009}, address = {Miami, FL}, author = {Boris Babenko and Ming-Hsuan Yang and Serge Belongie} }

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Boris Babenko, Ming-Hsuan Yang, Serge Belongie, "A Family of Online Boosting Algorithms", Online Learning for Computer Vision (OLCV), Kyoto, Japan 2009.

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BibTex - A Family of Online Boosting Algorithms

@inproceedings { 240, title = {A Family of Online Boosting Algorithms}, booktitle = {Online Learning for Computer Vision (OLCV)}, year = {2009}, address = {Kyoto}, author = {Boris Babenko and Ming-Hsuan Yang and Serge Belongie} }

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Boris Babenko, Steve Branson, Serge Belongie, "Similarity Metrics for Categorization: from Monolithic to Category Specific", International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Kyoto, Japan 2009.

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BibTex - Similarity Metrics for Categorization: from Monolithic to Category Specific

@inproceedings { 233, title = {Similarity Metrics for Categorization: from Monolithic to Category Specific }, booktitle = {International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)}, year = {2009}, address = {Kyoto, Japan}, author = {Boris Babenko and Steve Branson and Serge Belongie} }

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Boris Babenko, Piotr Dollár, Serge Belongie, "Multiple Instance Learning with Query Bags", 2009.

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2008

Piotr Dollár, Boris Babenko, Pietro Perona, Serge Belongie, Zhuowen Tu, "Multiple Component Learning for Object Detection", European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2008.

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BibTex - Multiple Component Learning for Object Detection

@inproceedings { 19, title = {Multiple Component Learning for Object Detection}, booktitle = {European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)}, year = {2008}, author = {Piotr Doll{\'a}r and Boris Babenko and Pietro Perona and Serge Belongie and Zhuowen Tu} }

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Boris Babenko, Piotr Dollár, Zhuowen Tu, Serge Belongie, "Simultaneous Learning and Alignment: Multi-Instance and Multi-Pose Learning", RealFaces, Marseille, France 2008.

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BibTex - Simultaneous Learning and Alignment: Multi-Instance and Multi-Pose Learning

@inproceedings { Array, title = {Simultaneous Learning and Alignment: Multi-Instance and Multi-Pose Learning}, booktitle = {RealFaces}, year = {2008}, address = {Marseille, France}, author = {Boris Babenko and Piotr Doll{\'a}r and Zhuowen Tu and Serge Belongie} }

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Carolina Galleguillos, Boris Babenko, Andrew Rabinovich, Serge Belongie, "Weakly Supervised Object Recognition and Localization with Stable Segmentations", European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Marseille, France 2008.

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BibTex - Weakly Supervised Object Recognition and Localization with Stable Segmentations

@inproceedings { Array, title = {Weakly Supervised Object Recognition and Localization with Stable Segmentations}, booktitle = {European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)}, year = {2008}, address = {Marseille, France}, author = {Carolina Galleguillos and Boris Babenko and Andrew Rabinovich and Serge Belongie} }

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2007

Boris Babenko, Piotr Dollár, Serge Belongie, "Task Specific Local Region Matching", ICCV, Rio de Janeiro 2007.

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BibTex - Task Specific Local Region Matching

@inproceedings { Array, title = {Task Specific Local Region Matching}, booktitle = {ICCV}, year = {2007}, address = {Rio de Janeiro}, author = {Boris Babenko and Piotr Doll{\'a}r and Serge Belongie} }

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2006

Nadav Ben-Haim, Boris Babenko, Serge Belongie, "Improving Web-based Image Search via Content Based Clustering", SLAM, New York City 2006.

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BibTex - Improving Web-based Image Search via Content Based Clustering

@inproceedings { Array, title = {Improving Web-based Image Search via Content Based Clustering}, booktitle = {SLAM}, year = {2006}, address = {New York City}, author = {Nadav Ben-Haim and Boris Babenko and Serge Belongie} }

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