Professional Activities

• Organizer/Lecturer, Advanced GPU Programming Seminar (lectured 45 participants from various universities and industry for 3 days), 23-25 October 2013.
• Organizing member of IEEE Signal Processing Society Summer School on Game Audio, 2012.
• Principal Investigator – Virtual Reality and Computer Vision (VRCV) Research Group
• Principal Investigator – METU NVIDIA CUDA Research Center
• EU EUREKA program expert evaluator 2011- .
• Organising member of IEEE Signal Processing Society Summer School on Game Audio, 2012.
• Organizer/Lecturer, Introduction to General Purpose GPU Programming (lectured 110 participants from various universities and industry), 25 February 2011.
• Area Chair (Design and Implementation of Signal Processing Systems Track) of EUSIPCO 2011.
• Organising member and one of the chairs of the IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Services 2007.
• Organising member and one of the chairs of the IEEE Signal Processing, Communication and Applications Conference (SIU) 2008.

• Ad-hoc reviewer for the following journals:

• IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters
• Springer Pattern Analysis and Applications Journal
• IET Transactions on Image Processing
• IEEE Signal Processing Letters
• SPIE Journal of Optical Engineering
• IET Electronics Letters
• EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing
• IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
• European Transactions on Communications
• IEEE JSTARS




Graduate Students 

 Completed:


• Ugur Guler (MSc, 2015) – “Automated Detection of Viewer Engagement by Head Motion Analysis”
• Ilker Gurcan (MSc, 2014) – “Hybrid CPU-GPU Implementation of Tracking-Learning-Detection Algorithm”
• Eldjon Kepucka (MSc, 2014) – “A Mobile Sensing Framework for Audience Emotion Analysis”
• Ayse Elvan Gunduz (MSc, co-supervised, 2014) – Anomaly Detection Using Sparse Features and Spatio-Temporal Hidden Markov Model for Pedestrian Zone Video Surveillance
• Cihan Öngün (MSc, co-supervised, 2014) – Anomaly Detection for Video Surveillance in Crowded Environments
• Burcin Buket Ogul (MSc, 2013) – A Learning-Based Method for Person Re-Identification
• Fariba Yousefi (MSc, co-supervised, 2013) – Evaluation of Feature Descriptors for Finger Vein Recognition
• Coskun Ayyildiz (MSc-project, 2013) – Comparative Evaluation of Particle Filter and Mean Shift Tracking for Video Surveillance
• Puren Guler (MSc, co-supervised, 2012) - Automated Crowd Behavior Analysis for Video Surveillance Applications
• Deniz Emeksiz (MSc, 2012) - Object Tracking System with Seamless Object Handover between Stationary and Moving Camera Modes
• Yusuf Sayita (MSc, co-supervised, 2012) – Classification of Migraineurs Using Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy Data
• Kutlug Bilge Kosehan (MSc-project, 2012) – Informatics Institute Android Application
  
• Musa Atas (PhD, co-supervised, 2011) - Hyperspectral Imaging and Machine Learning of Texture Foods for Classification
• Safak Bal (MSc-project, 2011) - CamDroid: A Web Services Based Live Camera Display Engine for Android Platform
• Cigdem Beyan (MSc,2010) - Object Tracking For Surveillance Applications Using Thermal And Visible Band Video Data Fusion
• Ahmet Yigit (MSc,2010) - Thermal and Visible Band Image Fusion for Abandoned Object Detection
• Mustafa Teke (MSc,2010) - Multispectral Satellite Image Registration Using SURF
• Firat Vural  (MSc, co-supervised, 2009)  - Registration of Multi-Spectral Satellite Images Using OR-SIFT Method
• Ali Saglam (MSc, 2009) - Adaptive Camera Tamper Detection for Video Surveillance
• Meral Ozkaya (MSc, 2009) - Road Extraction from High Resolution Satellite Images
• Yalin Bastanlar (PhD, co-supervised, 2009) - Structure-From-Motion for Systems With Perspective and Omnidirectional Cameras





Ongoing:


• Erkam Akkurt (MSc) – “UBDROID: A Tool for Monitoring Smartphone Application Usage for User Behavior Analysis”
• Serdar Buyuksarac (MSc, co-supervising) – “GPU-Enabled Real-Time Panoramic Background Subtraction”
• Emine Cimen (PhD) – “Low Density Crowd Behavior Analysis using Social Signal Processing”
• Pelin Bayraktar  (PhD, co-supervising) – “A Spatio-Temporal Approach For Detection of Abnormal Events From Multimodal Surveillance Videos”
• Mustafa Yagcioglu (PhD) – “Object Tracking with Range Gated Camera System”
• Berker Logoglu (PhD, co-supervising) – “An Instance Level RGB-D Object Recognition System”
• Ahmet Yigit (PhD) – “Thermal and Visible Band Image Fusion for Real-Time Applications”
• Ferhat Kutlu (PhD, co-supervising) – “Automatic Audience Analysis with Video Surveillance and Mobile Sensing: A Cognitive Approach”
• Mehmet Ali Arabacı (PhD) – “Automated Event Detection and Video Summarization in Challenging Environments”








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