James Hays
Professor
Works on computer vision and robotics problems such as object detection, tracking and localization using new data sources.
James Hays's lab at Georgia Tech works on recognition, detection & segmentation, embodied & active vision and robot perception & SLAM. 22 papers since 2023, 15 at top venues, mostly CoRL and WACV. 5 PhD students. 19 alumni, most often to Meta and Adobe. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 6/ year
- at T1 venues
- 68%
- PhD students
- 5
- MS students
- 0
- alumni listed
- 19
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 5 papers2026 · T1 3 · collecting
- 2 papers2025 · T1 2
- 10 papers2024 · T1 7
- 5 papers2023 · T1 3
T1 venuesOtherVenues: CoRL, WACV, CVPR, ICLR, ICRA
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Recognition, detection & segmentation4 papers
- Embodied & active vision2 papers
- object detection2 papers
- Robot perception & SLAM1 paper
- localization1 paper
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20265 papers
- WACV3D Gaussian Point Encoders (opens in a new tab)
- ICLR (T1)Do Vision-Language Models Respect Contextual Integrity in Location Disclosure? (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)GaussianFormer3D: Multi-Modal Gaussian-based Semantic Occupancy Prediction with 3D Deformable Attention (opens in a new tab)
- ACL (T1)GeoRC: A Benchmark for Geolocation Reasoning Chains (opens in a new tab)
- CVPR FindingsShelfGaussian: Shelf-Supervised Open-Vocabulary Gaussian-based 3D Scene Understanding (opens in a new tab)
20252 papers
202410 papers
- EMNLP (T1)Granular Privacy Control for Geolocation with Vision Language Models (opens in a new tab)
- ECCV (T1)I Can't Believe It's Not Scene Flow! (opens in a new tab)
- WACV WorkshopLANe: Lighting-Aware Neural Fields for Compositional Scene Synthesis (opens in a new tab)
- ECCV OralOmniNOCS: A unified NOCS dataset and model for 3D lifting of 2D objects (opens in a new tab)
- CVPR (T1)Personalized Residuals for Concept-Driven Text-to-Image Generation (opens in a new tab)
- WACVPressureVision++: Estimating Fingertip Pressure from Diverse RGB Images (opens in a new tab)
- CoRL (T1)Shelf-Supervised Multi-Modal Pre-Training for 3D Object Detection (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)The Un-Kidnappable Robot: Acoustic Localization of Sneaking People (opens in a new tab)
- CoRL (T1)What Matters in Range View 3D Object Detection (opens in a new tab)
- ICLR (T1)ZeroFlow: Fast Zero Label Scene Flow via Distillation (opens in a new tab)
20235 papers
- WACVFar3Det: Towards Far-Field 3D Detection (opens in a new tab)
- ICML (T1)Learning Lightweight Object Detectors via Multi-Teacher Progressive Distillation (opens in a new tab)
- IROS (T1)Lidar Panoptic Segmentation and Tracking without Bells and Whistles (opens in a new tab)
- Siggraph ConferenceModulating Pretrained Diffusion Models for Multimodal Image Synthesis (opens in a new tab)
- CVPR (T1)Soft Augmentation for Image Classification (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went19 listed, 90% to industry
Industry 9Academia 1
Most often to
- Meta
- Adobe
- Apple
Also to
- NYU
Apply to Georgia TechFall 2027
Georgia Tech Computer Science PhD
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