--- title: "James H. Hays — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "James H. Hays, Georgia Institute of Technology: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2014–2026), h-index 52 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/james-h-hays/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/james-h-hays/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / James H. Hays # James H. Hays James H. Hays has 2 papers in our library, in 2014–2026, most of them on [Evaluation & benchmarks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/), [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/); often with [Alan Ritter](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alan-ritter/), [C. Lawrence Zitnick](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/c-lawrence-zitnick/), [Piotr Dollár](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/piotr-dollar/). 2 papers in our library · 2014–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5016775802) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7016-4252) · [**h-index 52**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5016775802) · [146 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5016775802) · [62,933 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5016775802&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/james-h-hays/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 2,648 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/james-h-hays/cited-by/) · [9 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #686](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/7/#star-686) The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=James+H.+Hays) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=James+H.+Hays) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=James+H.+Hays) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=James+H.+Hays) ## Affiliations [🎓**Georgia Institute of Technology** Atlanta · United States 2016–2026 · 73 papersEmployment · Professor, Interactive Computing*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/georgia-institute-of-technology/) · [🎓**Brown University** Providence · United States 2010–2016 · 25 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/brown-university/) · [🎓**Carnegie Mellon University** Pittsburgh · United States 2004–2023 · 23 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/carnegie-mellon-university/) · [🎓**Massachusetts Institute of Technology** Cambridge · United States 2010 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/massachusetts-institute-of-technology/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 7 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 6 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [Human-Computer Interaction · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/human-computer-interaction/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Arts and Humanities · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Language and Linguistics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Evaluation & benchmarks · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Reasoning · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/james-h-hays/year/2026/) ### 2010s [**2014** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/james-h-hays/year/2014/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Microsoft COCO: Common Objects in Context](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lin-2014-microsoft-coco-common-objects-context/)** *(2014 · 5,131 citations)* Earlier object recognition datasets mostly show objects in canonical, uncluttered poses, often as single objects against simple backgrounds. 2. **[GeoRC: A Benchmark for Geolocation Reasoning Chains](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/talreja-2026-georc-benchmark-geolocation-reasoning-chains/)** *(2026)* GeoRC addresses a gap between how well vision-language models (VLMs) guess where a photo was taken and how well they justify those guesses. ## All works 11 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 2 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. [**Microsoft COCO: Common Objects in Context arXiv:1405.0312**Tsung-Yi Lin, Michael Maire, Serge Belongie, et al.*2014 · 5,131 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lin-2014-microsoft-coco-common-objects-context/) 2. **[Argoverse: 3D Tracking and Forecasting With Rich Maps ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/cvpr.2019.00895) IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · no summary yet**Ming-Fang Chang et al.*2019 · 1,482 citations* 3. **[Scribbler: Controlling Deep Image Synthesis with Sketch and Color ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/cvpr.2017.723) IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · no summary yet**Patsorn Sangkloy et al.*2017 · 508 citations* 4. **[Composing Text and Image for Image Retrieval - an Empirical Odyssey ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/cvpr.2019.00660) IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · no summary yet**Nam Vo et al.*2019 · 417 citations* 5. **[Learning deep representations for ground-to-aerial geolocalization ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/cvpr.2015.7299135) IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · no summary yet**Tsung-Yi Lin et al.*2015 · 406 citations* 6. **[Cross-View Image Geolocalization ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/cvpr.2013.120) IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · no summary yet**Tsung-Yi Lin, Serge Belongie, James H. Hays*2013 · 296 citations* 7. **[ContactDB: Analyzing and Predicting Grasp Contact via Thermal Imaging ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/cvpr.2019.00891) IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · no summary yet**Samarth Brahmbhatt et al.*2019 · 206 citations* 8. **[FrameBreak: Dramatic Image Extrapolation by Guided Shift-Maps ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/cvpr.2013.155) IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · no summary yet**Yinda Zhang et al.*2013 · 78 citations* 9. **[A Sketch is Worth a Thousand Words: Image Retrieval with Text and Sketch ↗](https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-19839-7_15) Lecture notes in computer science · no summary yet**Patsorn Sangkloy et al.*2022 · 33 citations* 10. **[GeoRC: A Benchmark for Geolocation Reasoning Chains](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/talreja-2026-georc-benchmark-geolocation-reasoning-chains/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Mohit Talreja, Joshua Diao, Jim James, et al.*2026* 11. **[Proceedings of the Workshop on 3D Geometry Generation for Scientific Computing ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/wacvw60836.2024.00088) IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision Workshops (WACVW) · no summary yet**Marissa Ramirez de Chanlatte et al.*2024* ## Co-authors here 7 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Alan Ritter](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alan-ritter/) - [C. Lawrence Zitnick](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/c-lawrence-zitnick/) - [Piotr Dollár](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/piotr-dollar/) - [Ross Girshick](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ross-girshick/) - [Serge Belongie](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/serge-belongie/) - [Tsung-Yi Lin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tsung-yi-lin/) - [Wei Hong Xu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wei-hong-xu/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings ×7 - [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/): [ACL 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2026/) - IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision Workshops (WACVW) - Lecture notes in computer science ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 2,648 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [288 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/james-h-hays/cited-by/). Updated 2 November 2026