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James Hays
Georgia TechProfessor
Hays helped establish data-driven computer vision: using enormous image collections to complete scenes, recognize places and transfer visual knowledge. At Georgia Tech he studies how models learn from Internet-scale data and develops benchmarks that expose what visual systems understand.
Career & education
Current role
Professor
Previously
Postdoctoral researcher
Manning Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.
Citation Trend
Total citations to scholarly work, including research papers, technical reports, books and theses, as recorded by Google Scholar. Each point is a dated snapshot.
citations110,338As of Nov 1, '26
citations+2,681Since last snapshot, Sep 1, '26
Selected contributions
Microsoft COCO: Common Objects in Context
With Tsung-Yi Lin, Michael Maire, Serge Belongie, Lubomir Bourdev, Ross Girshick, Pietro Perona, Deva Ramanan and others ·A dataset of everyday scenes with individual objects labeled and outlined.
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