Prof. Dr. Sibel Tari

    METU
    Computer Engineering Dept.
    Email: stari at metu.edu.tr

    Academic Titles
    2009 Full Professor
    2003 Associate Professor
    1998 Assistant Professor

    Doctoral Degree
    1997 Northeastern University
    Advisor: Jayant Shah

    Affiliated with
  • Neuroscience Program
  • METU Image Analysis Center

    		• TEACHING

    Dynamic Systems
       CENG382

    Research Methods/Ethics
       CENG590

    Image Processing
       CENG566
       CENG466

    Vision
       CENG583

    Shape Analysis
       CENG777

    Probability/Statistics
       CENG222


    		 NEWS

    New Event!
    July 2019, ICERM at Brown University,
    I will be co-leading a Data Science collaborative research project with Carlotta Domeniconi
    on Modeling Spatial and Temporal Dynamics in Networks (Project 4)
    Interested students (Machine Learning and/or Nonlinear Dynamics) may contact us.

    TU Munich Ambassador Award (2014) link  picture

    Alexander von Humboldt Award for Experienced Researchers (2009)

    July 2017, ICERM at Brown University,
    I will be co-leading a Data Science collaborative research project with Carlotta Domeniconi
    on The Hubness Phenomenon in High Dimensional Spaces
    Interested students (strong in math and statistics) may contact us.

    JMIV Special Issue: Shape Analysis Beyond Eikonal PDE

    Co-organizing Computational Problems in Creative Design with Shapes
    Co-organizing SIGGRAPH ASIA Creative Shape Modeling
    Graphical Models Special Issue: Creative Shape Modelling and Design

    Team Leader in Women in Shape Analysis (UCLA - IPAM) WiSh

    TUBITAK Projects
    TUBITAK 1001 Grant on Symmetry and Escher's art (as PI) --- Funding available
    TUBITAK 1001 Grant on Analysis of Seljuk Architecture Design Processes (as Consultant, PI: Mine Ozkar)
    TUBITAK 1001 Grant on Simultaneous Spectral and Spatial Modelling of Shapes (as PI)

    Devin Tari


    Current Students

    		  PhD Alumni

    Ferhat Arslan

    Merve Aydinlilar
    (with O. Akyuz)

    Furkan Cengel
    (with V. Adanova)

    Sema Kose
    (with V. Adanova)

    Gulce Bal
      Aykut Erdem
      Current Position: Associate Prof., Hacettepe University
      PhD Thesis: Category Knowledge, Skeleton-Based Shape Matching and Shape Classification, Sep 2004-Oct 2008

      Erkut Erdem
      Current Position: Associate Prof., Hacettepe University
      PhD Thesis: Simultaneous Bottom up/Top down Processing in Early and Mid Level Vision, Sep 2004-Nov 2008

      Hacer Yalim Keles -- coadvisor: Mine Ozkar
      Current Position: Assistant Prof., Ankara University and Research Director, Kolektif Bilisim
      PhD Thesis: Part Embedding for Shape Grammars, Sep 2007-July 2010

      Venera Adanova
      Current Position: Assistant Prof., TED University
      PhD Thesis: Symmetry Beyond Symmetry Groups, 2016

      Murat Genctav, 2018
      Current Position: Aselsan

      Asli Genctav, 2018   Funded Project
      Current Position: Post-doctoral researcher
      Co-advised PhD Alumni

      Metin Burak Altinoklu -- coadvised with I. Ulusoy
      Current Position: Assistant Prof., Konya Food and Agriculture University
      PhD Thesis: Object Recognition and Segmentation via Shape Models, 2016


    Some Recent Articles
    NonLocal via Local — NonLinear via Linear: A New Part-coding Distance Field via Screened Poisson Equation
    Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision 2016 (M. Genctav, A. Genctav and S. Tari) link
    Landmarks inside the shape: Shape matching using image descriptors
    Pattern Recognition January 2016 (R. Guler, S. Tari and G. Unal) link
    Beyond symmetry groups: A grouping study on Escher’s Euclidean ornaments
    Graphical Models 2016 (V. Adanova and S. Tari) link
    The role of diffusion in figure hunt games
    Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision 2015 (J. Diebold, S. Tari and D. Cremers) pdf
    A robust method for scale independent detection of curvature-based criticalities and intersections in line drawings
    Pattern Recognition January 2015 (H. Keles and S. Tari) pdf
    Screened Poisson hyper-fields for shape coding
    SIAM Imaging Science Journal December 2014 (R. Guler, S. Tari and G. Unal) link pdf
    From a non-local Ambrosio-Tortorelli to a randomized part hierarchy tree
    Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision May 2014 (S. Tari and M. Genctav) pdf
    Screened Poisson shape fields for ornament analysis
    In: Micheal Breuss, Alfred Bruckstein, Petros Maragos, Stefanie Wuhrer (eds.) New Perspectives in Shape Analysis. (in press)

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