A few press mentions, launches & interviews from things I've worked on

• Ness Labs Interview about Supernormal AI
• Stripe Radar Analytics Improvements
• IEEE Spectrum on Fighting Misinformation at Facebook
• Inside Bing's Spell Checker

Academic Research

I no longer actively write academic papers. Although I'm currently working in the tech industry, I'm considering a move back to academia one sunny day.

I completed my Ph.D. in electrical & computer engineering from the University of California Santa Barbara in 2010. My research focus was content-based image retrieval, a mixture of machine learning, computer vision, and search. I received an interdisciplinary fellowship in digital multimedia from NSF for funding this research.

I also attended Rutgers University in my home state of New Jersey. As a graduate assistant at Rutgers, I worked on speech and microphone arrays in Jim Flanagan's lab. My master's thesis combined face detection with acoustic speaker location for steering a hands-free videoconferencing system.

Selected Publications

• Lihong Li, Shunbao Chen, Jim Kleban, and Ankur Gupta. "Counterfactual Estimation and Optimization of Click Metrics for Search Engines." World Wide Web Conference, 2015. pdf
• Victor Fragoso, Steffen Gauglitz, S. Zamora, Jim Kleban, M. Turk. "TranslatAR: A mobile augmented reality translator." 2011 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV). pdf
• J. Kleban, E. Moxley, J. Xu, and B. S. Manjunath, "Global Annotation of Georeferenced Photographs." In Proceedings of ACM Conference on Image and Video Retrieval, Greece, 2009.pdf
• E. Moxley, J. Kleban, J. Xu, and B. S. Manjunath, "Not All Tags Are Created Equal: Learning Flickr Tag Semantics for Global Annotation." In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, New York, 2009. pdf
• J. Kleban, E. Moxley, B. S. Manjunath, "SpiritTagger: A Location-Aware Interactive Web Tool for Annotating Your Photo Collection." The Future of Interactive Media: Workshop on Media Arts, Science, and Technology (MAST), Santa Barbara CA, Jan 2009.
• Dan Overholt, John Thompson, Lance Putnam, Bo Bell, Jim Kleban, Bob Sturm, and JoAnn Kuchera-Morin, "A Multimodal System for Gesture Recognition in Interactive Music Performance." Computer Music Journal 33:4. Winter 2009.
• E. Moxley, J. Kleban, B. S. Manjunath, "SpiritTagger: A Geo-Aware Tag Suggestion Tool Mined from Flickr." In Proceedings of ACM International Conference on Multimedia Information Retrieval (MIR2008), Vancouver, Canada, Oct. 2008.pdf
• J. Kleban, X. Xie, and W. Y. Ma, "Spatial Pyramid Mining for Logo Detection in Natural Scenes." In Proceedings of the International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (2008), Hannover, Germany. pdf
• E. D. Gelasca, S. Joshi, J. Kleban, S. Mangiat, B.S. Manjunath, E. Moxley, A. Sarkar, and J. Xu, "The Vision Research Lab of UCSB at TRECVID 2007", in NIST TRECVID-2007 Workshop, Gaithersburg, MD, November 2007.
• J. Kleban, A. Sarkar, E. Moxley, S. Mangiat, S. Joshi, T. Kuo, and B. S. Manjunath, "Feature fusion and redundancy pruning for rush video summarization." In Proceedings of the International Workshop on TRECVID Video Summarization - ACM-MM, Augsburg, Germany, 2007. pdf
• B. Bell, J. Kleban, D. Overholt, L. Putnam, J. Thompson, and J. Kuchera-Morin, "The multimodal music stand." In Proceedings of the 7th international Conference on New interfaces For Musical Expression (NIME), New York, 2007. pdf