Refereed Publications^*

1. "Leafsnap: A Computer Vision System for Automatic Plant Species Identification," (oral presentation)
   Neeraj Kumar, Peter N. Belhumeur, Arijit Biswas, David W. Jacobs, W. John Kress, Ida Lopez, João V. B. Soares,
   Proceedings of the 12th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV),
   October 2012.
   [pdf] [bibtex] [slides (ppt)]

   @InProceedings{leafsnap_eccv2012,
   author = {Neeraj Kumar and Peter N. Belhumeur and Arijit Biswas and David W. Jacobs and W. John Kress and Ida Lopez and João V. B. Soares},
   title = {Leafsnap: A Computer Vision System for Automatic Plant Species Identification},
   booktitle = {The 12th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)},
   month = {October},
   year = {2012}
   }
2. "Multi-Attribute Spaces: Calibration for Attribute Fusion and Similarity Search,"
   Walter Scheirer, Neeraj Kumar, Peter N. Belhumeur, Terrance E. Boult,
   Proceedings of the 25th IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR),
   June 2012.
   [pdf] [bibtex] [poster]

   @InProceedings{multiattrs_cvpr2012,
   author = {Walter Scheirer and Neeraj Kumar and Peter N. Belhumeur and Terrance E. Boult},
   title = {Multi-Attribute Spaces: Calibration for Attribute Fusion and Similarity Search},
   booktitle = {The 25th IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
   month = {June},
   year = {2012}
   }
3. "Fusing with Context: a Bayesian Approach to Combining Descriptive Attributes," (oral presentation)
   Walter Scheirer, Neeraj Kumar, Karl Ricanek, Terrance E. Boult, Peter N. Belhumeur,
   Proceedings of the IEEE International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB),
   October 2011.
   [pdf] [bibtex]

   @InProceedings{fusion_ijcb2011,
   author = {Walter Scheirer and Neeraj Kumar and Karl Ricanek and Terrance E. Boult and Peter N. Belhumeur},
   title = {Fusing with Context: a Bayesian Approach to Combining Descriptive Attributes},
   booktitle = {The IEEE International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB)},
   month = {October},
   year = {2011}
   }
4. "Two faces are better than one: Face recognition in group photographs,"
   Ohil K. Manyam, Neeraj Kumar, Peter N. Belhumeur, David J. Kriegman,
   Proceedings of the IEEE International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB),
   October 2011.
   [pdf] [bibtex] [poster]

   @InProceedings{twofaces_ijcb2011,
   author = {Ohil K. Manyam and Neeraj Kumar and Peter N. Belhumeur and David J. Kriegman},
   title = {Two faces are better than one: Face recognition in group photographs},
   booktitle = {The IEEE International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB)},
   month = {October},
   year = {2011}
   }
5. "Describable Visual Attributes for Face Verification and Image Search,"
   Neeraj Kumar, Alexander C. Berg, Peter N. Belhumeur, Shree K. Nayar,
   IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI),
   October 2011.
   [pdf] [bibtex] [slides (ppt)] [video]

   @InProceedings{facever_pami2010,
   author = {Neeraj Kumar and Alexander C. Berg and Peter N. Belhumeur and Shree K. Nayar},
   title = {Describable Visual Attributes for Face Verification and Image Search},
   booktitle = {IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI)},
   month = {October},
   year = {2011}
   }

   
   
6. "Localizing Parts of Faces Using a Consensus of Exemplars,"
   Peter N. Belhumeur, David W. Jacobs, David J. Kriegman, Neeraj Kumar,
   Proceedings of the 24th IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR),
   June 2011.
   [pdf] [bibtex] [slides (ppt)] [poster]

   @InProceedings{fiducials_cvpr2011,
   author = {Peter N. Belhumeur and David W. Jacobs and David J. Kriegman and Neeraj Kumar},
   title = {Localizing Parts of Faces Using a Consensus of Exemplars},
   booktitle = {The 24th IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
   month = {June},
   year = {2011}
   }
7. "Attribute and Simile Classifiers for Face Verification," (oral presentation)
   Neeraj Kumar, Alexander C. Berg, Peter N. Belhumeur, Shree K. Nayar,
   Proceedings of the 12th IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV),
   October 2009.
   [pdf] [bibtex] [slides (ppt)]

   @InProceedings{facever_iccv2009,
   author = {Neeraj Kumar and Alexander C. Berg and Peter N. Belhumeur and Shree K. Nayar},
   title = {Attribute and Simile Classifiers for Face Verification},
   booktitle = {The 12th IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)},
   month = {October},
   year = {2009}
   }
8. "FaceTracer: A Search Engine for Large Collections of Images with Faces,"
   Neeraj Kumar, Peter N. Belhumeur, Shree K. Nayar,
   Proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV),
   pp. 340--353, October 2008.
   [pdf] [bibtex] [slides (ppt)] [poster]

   @InProceedings{facesearch_eccv2008,
   author = {Neeraj Kumar and Peter N. Belhumeur and Shree K. Nayar},
   title = {FaceTracer: A Search Engine for Large Collections of Images with Faces},
   booktitle = {The 10th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)},
   month = {October},
   year = {2008}
   }
9. "What is a Good Nearest Neighbors Algorithm for Finding Similar Patches in Images?,"
   Neeraj Kumar, Li Zhang, Shree K. Nayar,
   Proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV),
   pp. 364--378, October 2008.
   [pdf] [bibtex] [poster]

   @InProceedings{nn_eccv2008,
   author = {Neeraj Kumar and Li Zhang and Shree K. Nayar},
   title = {What is a Good Nearest Neighbors Algorithm for Finding Similar Patches in Images?},
   booktitle = {The 10th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)},
   month = {October},
   year = {2008}
   }
10. "Face Swapping: Automatically Replacing Faces in Photographs," (oral presentation)
    Dmitri Bitouk, Neeraj Kumar, Samreen Dhillon, Peter N. Belhumeur, Shree K. Nayar,
    ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH),
    vol. 27, no. 3, August 2008.
    [pdf] [bibtex] [slides (ppt)] [slides (ppt+videos)]

    @InProceedings{facereplace_siggraph2008,
    author = {Dmitri Bitouk and Neeraj Kumar and Samreen Dhillon and Peter N. Belhumeur and Shree K. Nayar},
    title = {Face Swapping: Automatically Replacing Faces in Photographs},
    booktitle = {ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH)},
    month = {August},
    year = {2008}
    }

Other Publications

1. "Describable Visual Attributes for Face Images," (PhD Thesis)
   Neeraj Kumar,
   Technical Report CUCS-035-11, Department of Computer Science, Columbia University,
   August 2011.
   [pdf] [bibtex] [slides (ppt)]

   @InProceedings{nkthesis,
   author = {Neeraj Kumar},
   title = {Describable Visual Attributes for Face Images},
   booktitle = {Technical Report CUCS-035-11, Department of Computer Science, Columbia University},
   month = {August},
   year = {2011}
   }

* In computer vision, the top conferences are the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), and European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV). These are all rigorously peer-reviewed, with acceptance rates around 20%, and under 5% for oral presentations. The leading journals in the field are the International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV) and Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI). In computer graphics, the top conference is SIGGRAPH, with acceptance rates around 20%. SIGGRAPH papers are published in the ACM Transactions on Graphics.