Research Projects

Internationally Funded Projects:

• FIRESENSE: Fire Detection and Management through a Multi- Sensor Network for the Protection of Cultural Heritage Areas from the Risk of Fire and Extreme Weather Conditions
  Sponsored by European Commission, 7th Framework Programme
• Heterogeneous Chip Multiprocessor Design (HTCMP)
  Sponsored by European Commission FP7-People Marie Curie Actions
• Training, Research and Innovations in Computing Education
  Sponsored by Lifelong Learning Programme of the European Commission
• 3DPHONE
  Sponsored by European Commission, 7th Framework Programme
• NEWCOM++ (Network of Excellence in Wireless Communications++)
  Sponsored by European Commission, 7th Framework Programme
• Automatic Detection and Segmentation of Hazelnut Orchards in Northern Turkey
  Sponsored by European Commission, Joint Research Centre
• Automatic Mapping of Linear Woody Vegetation Features in Agricultural Landscapes
  Sponsored by European Commission, Joint Research Centre
• CILL: Constrained Intuitionistic Linear Logic
  Sponsored by European Commission FP6 Marie Curie Actions
• Wireless Networking Curriculum Enhancement
  Sponsored by Intel Higher Education Program
• Hierarchical Classification, Mining and Semantic Retrieval in Remote Sensing Image Archives
  Sponsored by European Commission FP6 Marie Curie Actions
• MUSCLE-Multimedia Understanding, Through Semantics, Computation, and Learning
  Sponsored by The European Community Sixth Framework Programme (FP6)
• 3DTV-Integrated 3-D Television: Capture, Transmission and Display
  Sponsored by The European Community Sixth Framework Programme (FP6)
  
• South Eastern GRid Enabled eInfrastructure Development
  Sponsored by TheEuropean Community Sixth Framework Programme (FP6)
• Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks
  Sponsored by The European Community Sixth Framework Programme (FP6)
• European Thematic Network for Doctoral Education in Computing
  Sponsored by Socrates Erasmus Programme of the European Commission
• A Tool for Visually Handicapped People
  Sponsored by Microsoft Research Ltd., Cambridge, UK.
• Kronecker Operations to Define Large Markov Chains Underlying Structured Representations
  Sponsored by AvH (Alexander von Humboldt) Foundation, Germany
• Complexity Management Techniques in Graph Visualization
  Sponsored by Tom Sawyer Software, Berkeley, CA.
• Turkish Natural Language Processing Initiative
  Sponsored by NATO Science for Stability Program.
• Unstructured Domain Mapping for Distributed Memory Architectures
  Sponsored by Commission of the European Communities.
• Time-Cognizant Trigger Processing In Mobile Distributed Systems
  Sponsored by NATO Collaborative Research Grant Program.

Jointly Sponsored Projects:

• Leonardo Mobility Project
  Sponsored by European Union Leonardo Program and State Planning Organization of Turkey
• Semantic Multimodal Analysis of Digital Media
  Sponsored by TÜBITAK (Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey) and European Commission COST 292 Action
• Data Mining Techniques for the Location and Air-Cache management Problems
  Sponsored by TÜBITAK (Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey) and GSRT (The General Secretariat for Research and Technology of Greece).
• Storing and Querying Multimedia Presentations from XML Documents
  Sponsored by TÜBITAK (Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey) and NSF (National Science Foundation).
• New Methods for Large State Spaces in Performance Evaluation with Markovian Modeling - II
  Sponsored by TÜBITAK (Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey) and CNRS (Center National de la Recherche Scientifique of France).
• New Methods for Large State Spaces in Performance Evaluation with Markovian Modeling - I
  Sponsored by TÜBITAK (Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey) and CNRS (Center National de la Recherche Scientifique of France).

Projects sponsored by TÜBITAK (Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey):

• Novelty Detection in Topic Tracking for Turkish and its Application to a Large-Scale News Portal (108E074)
• Exploiting Semantic Relationships for the Scalability and Efficiency of Web Search Engines (108E008)
• Instant new event detection and tracking and retrospective event clustering in Turkish news using Web resources (106E014)
• State estimation and dynamic feedback behaviors for a legged robot (106E089)
• BTT-TÜRKIYE: Türkiye için Yeni Bilgi Toplumu Teknolojileri (105E065)
• Supporting Real-Time Traffic in Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks (CAREER Grant 104E028)
• Automatic Construction and Sophisticated Querying of Domain-Specific Web Search Engines (105E024)
• PATIKA: A Project on Modeling and Analysis of Biological Pathways to Aid Rapid Knowledge Acquisition, Drug Development and Disease Identification
• Developing an Urban Visualization System for Virtual Environments using Computer Graphics (CAREER Grant 104E029)
• Probabilistic and Structural Approaches to Image Understanding, Classification and Retrieval, and Applications to Remote Sensing and Medical Image Analysis (CAREER Grant 104E074)
• Multimedia Data Mining: Integration of Multi-modal Data for a Better Retrieval and Analysis (CAREER Grant 104E065)
• Efficient Parallel Crawling of Web Content (103E028)
• Bluetooth Scatternet Construction and Bluetooth Applications (103E014)
• Development of Benefit Maximization and Interesting Rule Learning Algorithms for Feature Projection Based Classification Systems (101E044)
• Data Modelling and Querying for Video Databases (199E025)
  
• Polygonal Approximation Algorithms for Multiresolution Modeling (198E018)
  
• Continuous Function Approximation Using Feature Projections (198E015)
  
• Development of algorithms and parallel object-oriented programming techniques for SMP clusters (EEEAG-247)
  
• Real-Time Data Management in Mobile Computer Systems (EEEAG-246)
  
• Learning Translation Templates from Bilingual Translation Examples Using Machine Learning Techniques (EEEAG-244)
  
• Investigation of Numerical Solution Methods for Computing the Stationary Distribution of Markov Chains (EEEAG-161)
  
• Development of Batch Machine Learning Techniques for Multi-concept Descriptions in the form of Feature Partitioning and Overlapping Feature Intervals (EEEAG-153)
  
• Real-Time Database Transaction Scheduling (EEEAG-137)
  

Projects sponsored by DPT (State Planning Organization):

• E-DEVLET Icin Bilgisayar Destekli Gorsel Dokumantasyon, Arsiv ve Yonetim Sistemi Gerceklestirilmesi (in Turkish)
  Sponsored by Devlet Planlama Teskilati (YUUP: Yayginlastirilmis Ulusal ve Uluslararasi Proje) (E_DEVLET)