CS491-492 Senior Design Projects for 2011-12

Project	Jury members	Description
Microscopic Image Analysis Tool for Computer Aided Cancer Diagnosis	S. Aksoy	With the development of technology, image processing and image analysis have been used as a part of early diagnosis operation. In our project, we propose a computer-based solution to be used as the part of early cancer diagnose which would prevent the problems mentioned previously. The system will use the image analysis and processing techniques to detect the affected tissues. The specimen taken from tissues is observed with microscopes and images of this specimen are taken by the system. Image processing and analysis methods will be used to determine the stage of the cancer in addition to the classification of the affected tissues with specialized algorithms.
by T.Ş.Gençoğlu, A.B.Saydere, Y.N.Mehel, E. Kantarcıoğlu, G.Demirel	H. A. Güvenir
	P. D. Şahin
Ollaa: A verb-based social lifestreaming network	F. Can	Ollaa is a social network that people can share specific moments from their life, for instance what are they reading, listening, eating right now using their iPhone/Android phones. Register for beta at http://ollaa.com.
by A.A.Balkan, U.Kumru, E.Ünal	T. Çapın
	P. D. Şahin
Bunchit	F. Can	A cluster engine that is capable of clustering and labelling top rated search results that comes from one of known search engines(Google Search, Yahoo Search). In addition to that we will develop a new clustering algorithm which will be doing such things in most efficient way compared to similar algorithms. Also, this application will include some extensions such as clustering users' email boxes and their favourite Youtube videos. In that way, users can use that application to simplify the internet usage in clustered way.
by E.Gölge, H.B.Şahin, I.Tosunoğlu,	T. Çapın
	P. D. Şahin
New Event Detection Based on Chronological Term Ranking	F. Can	Our project aims to create an efficient algorithm to detect eventes which comes from many news agents around the country and implement that algorithm so as to satisfy the end user's needs. We will use Chronological Term Ranking technique to support our algorithm development. This technique is based on a simple idea such that for a new event the most important information pieces are close to the beginning of the event text rather than the last lines of it.
by B. Acun, A. Başpınar, E. Oğuz, M. İ. Saraç	P. D. Şahin
	H. Ferhatosmanoğlu
Interactive Strategy Game for Facebook	T. Çapın	Our project is to design and implement a web based real time strategy [RTS] game which can be played on Facebook interactively with other Facebook users using any browser. Our aim on this project is ti become a preferable game rather than other strategy games by using the techniques that the well-known games used. We present a game with good graphics, easy gameplay, useful interfaces and some innovations that keep users more interactive and give much more importance to diplomacy with other players. In our game, people can have communication with other playe rs and form groups to play together.
by İ. Aktas , D. Yalcin , O. K. Bulut	H. A. Güvenir
	F. Can
Eye-Tracker Based Game	T. Çapın	Our aim is to improve players’ eye coordination and reflexes by combining fun and beneficial contents at the same time with this Eye-Tracker based game. We combine our creative and knowledge to create game box to expand eye-tracker's area of usage.
A.Korkmaz, C. Alakaş, İ. Ürgüp, B. Üngörmüş	P. D. Şahin
	Ç. G.Demir
Optics Game	D. Davenport	Optics game consists of fixed number of levels. Difficulty of the game increases depending on the levels. When player comes to the further levels, puzzles will be harder than before. In every level, player needs to solve a puzzle with optical items such as mirrors, lenses and prisms. In every level, light enters into the 2D map belong to the level from one point and player need to place optical items into map appropriately in order to make light get out of the map from the point decided for that level. Player expected to be addicted to puzzles and could not give up the game until solving all puzzles. This addiction will also be educational for player because he will start to learn physics laws on optics topic through this game. Therefore, addiction will be a wrong word choice or we can call it sweat addiction.
by E.Akgün, Ç.Karslı,G.Baysal, H. Demircioğlu	W. Sawyer
	B.Tekinerdoğan
WhatsOn	D. Davenport	WhatsOn is a web based application which is accessed through university homepage. The main purpose of the system is increasing the awareness of the community about the events taking place in Bilkent University like conferences, seminars, concerts etc. The system is currently existed but we redesign and implement the existing system.
by B.Arslan, S.Kemaloğlu, G.Y.Küçükayan, M.Nalçakan, F.C.Doğan	F. Can
	B.Tekinerdoğan
An Address Searchable Town Map	T. Dayar	Address Searchable Town Map is a project to be a JAVA API for the programmers who will design JAVA applications for address locating, navigation and such purposes. The API will be an extension for Google Maps. Furthermore, for testing and demonstration purposes, a JSP based web site, which will use the API, will be provided.
by B.Öter, E. Bellisoy, O.Çiloğlu, Y. E. Guzel, Z. Akova	İ. Körpeoğlu
	T. Çapın
Zebrafish segmentation for high-throughput analysis	Ç. G.Demir	Zebrafish is vertebrate and its embryos have short development process and they can be kept alive in laboratory conditions for weeks. they are used as model organism for high-throughput microscopic imaging. In these experiments, high-throughput analysis results in huge number of images. These images come along with problems for researchers; segmentation of the embryos and analyzing all this data efficiently.Since the amount of data produced is too high, the problem arises. To cope with this problem, we will develop an algorithm that automatically makes the segmentation of the samples. Biological parts of the embryo (head, tail, yolk sac, trunk, etc.) will be separated.
by A.C.Biler, B.Gökcan, H.Dinç, S.Gülçiçek	S. Aksoy
	A. Acar
Cancerious: An image annotation tool for histopathological image retrieval	Ç. G.Demir	Our project will mainly work on set of images and select similar ones by using reasoned algorithms. It will do selection by picking a image from set and then will bring closely images with their similarity ratings from the image set. Project will provide user friendly tool for doctors to enable getting medical results smoothly and swiftly.
by E. Şahin, E. Ekmekçi, D. T. Şahintepe, S.E. Bekçe	C. Aykanat
	T. Çapın
Textural Property Analyzer for Histopathological Images	Ç. G.Demir	Cancer is one of the most important diseases all over the world. There are lots of people suffering from cancer. On the other hand, some of these people can be treated with the help of early diagnosis. In the current practice of medicine, Histopathological examination is the routinely used method for the diagnosis. Histopathology is the microscopic examination of biopsies for the diagnosis of many diseases including cancer. It is crucial to make this examination accurately. Therefore, computer aided systems become important by the means of reducing human errors. For these reasons, our project offers a computer-based diagnosis system. The system that we propose is a textural property analyzer for biopsy images. In this project, we are going to design and implement a tool for the purpose of combining the computer technology and the medical area, which will be helpful to pathologists. The tool extracts different kinds of textural features from subimages and classifies the images according to the extracted features.
by D. Yeşilyurt, E.Çetin, G.Sarıkaya,I.Özkapıcı, T.Çoban	S. Aksoy
	T. Çapın
Online Turkish Product Reviews	H. Ferhatosmanoğlu	Our project will aggregate and analyze online critics for popular products. We will generate a warehouse of reviews written in Turkish. The data will be continuously extracted from online sources. We will then build a tool to produce and visualize reports about the product. Our current focus is on social media sites such as twitter.com, and review sites such as sikayetvar.com and sikayetim.com. This project can serve as an interface for machine learning tools and provide Turkish data sets ready for analysis.
by G.Ayar, A.Gülek, C.Sagay	A. Acar
	A. Dayanık
Turkish Sign Language Converter via Microsoft® Kinect	U.Güdükbay	The goal of our project is to convert Turkish Sign Language movements into text and sound, thus making sign language used by deaf people understandable for other people who are not familiar with the sign language, making easy the interaction of deaf individuals with society and improving the role that they take part in life. Our project benefits from Kinect's movement recognizing capabilities to detect and identify sign language so that it can convert signs into the corresponding letters and words.
by A. Özer, H. Balcı, T. Çekiç, T. Dışpınar, M. F. Ongun	B. Özgüç
	T. Çapın

Rolling Rock Arena	U.Güdükbay	Rolling Rock Arena is a multiplatform game that we aimed to put a unique game to game market. The players of the Rolling Rock Arena have the controls of a rock which can be rolled in ground. Players will compete in an arena. There will be different types of arenas which have various purposes. For example, purpose of the some arenas will be to reach a target in the shortest time, and purpose of the some arenas will be to be the only survivor by destroying rocks of the other players and so on. Each rock will have different attributes and tools to accomplish the requirements of arenas.
by A.Kılınç, F.Aydoğan, Ö.Taşkın	B. Özgüç
	T. Çapın

Coffee Fortune Teller	H. A. Güvenir	The project, coffee fortune teller, is intended to tell the coffee fortune as it is understood from its name. It is an application which works on smart phones that use android as operating system. When the user runs the application, camera of the phone is automatically turned on in order to take photos of coffee cup. If the photo is not in good condition to process, the user needs to take photo again. After getting a photo in good condition the application start to process the photo. The processing period contains searching the taken photo with the photos which are initially in the database. When the best match is founded the corresponding comment is showed on the screen.
by A.Bulca, A.Usta, A.Armağan, F.Çalışır, C.Kerimoğlu	S. Aksoy
	P. D. Şahin
CRM for Medicine Representatives	H. A. Güvenir	CRM systems are widely used in nearly all business areas since there is a client for each business area. We intend to design our CRM to solve the business problems within the scope of health industry. Our CRM system allows users to show the products of the company, ease them to sell products, describe the potential customers for future reference. Together with that, it provides a better interface for communication via instant messaging service and notification sender. It also utilizes executives in the means of customer satisfaction via tagging between representatives, products and customers. Statistical data about customers and products will also be sent to relevant people who use that system.
by C. Tuzla,T. Kesten, A. Eroğlu, B. Aydın	H. Ferhatosmanoğlu
	A. Acar
Target Tracking by Using Seismic Sensors	İ. Körpeoğlu	In this project, we propose a solution for tracking of a moving target within an area where seismic sensors are previously deployed. Based on the detection from the seismic sensors, the route of the target will be calculated and it will be compared with the original route of the target as a performance criteria.
by H.G.Özsema, A.R.Duran, İ. M.Özçelik, M.O.Karsavuran	Ö. Ulusoy
	B. Tekinerdoğan
Fish Modeling	B. Özgüç	Realistic body motions of creatures have always been challenging and famous topics for the computer generated animations. Our project, Fish Modeling, will present this dynamics at computer generated fishes. Fish Modeling aims to produce realistic motion of fishes and inspecting fishes’ movements in large groups. Fishes will be modeled in detail and textured in aesthetic way. In order to achieve realism in movements of the fish, movement will be based on mathematical formulas and physical laws.
by A. B. Şimşek, L. Gökçin, Y. Salor	U.Güdükbay
	T. Çapın
Simulation of Drop	B. Özgüç	Simulation of a drop in a surface that has specific friction rate. Our project also examines the angle of the surface and there also included some other external forces. While drop sliding it leaves particules behind. Briefly, our project examines the behaviour of drops in different angles with different surfaces with changable external forces such as wind and wave.
by C. Önal, S. Öz, C. Canpolat, Ç. Y. Kaya, P.Sağlam	U.Güdükbay
	T. Çapın
Myth of Kyanite	B. Özgüç	This project is a 3D multiplayer real time strategy game. The game will contain both real time strategy and hero based strategy game features.
by T. Akyürek, E. Budak, H. Çelik, Y. Özen	U.Güdükbay
	T. Çapın
2Sign	Ö. Öztürk	2Sign is a software that provides effective conversion of speech to text and video as sign language. 2Sign is for the people who are hard of hearing or deaf to provide easiness in their daily life and activities. It will be developed both for compatible phones and internet browsers.
by S. Sancar, M. Alay, M. E. Kalender, N. F. Kayaalp	B. Tekinerdoğan
	A. A. Selçuk
Image Tracking System	P. D. Şahin	Image tracking system will investigate images in terms of faces and objects. System will make connections with those different images according to their contents. With the help of the image tracking system, categorizing and recognizing images will be handled in a fast and automatic manner.
by E. Şener, B. Uzun, U.C.Yücel, S. Aksoy, İ.Büyükgebiz	S. Aksoy
	F. Can
Face and Motion Detection-Recognition	P. D. Şahin	Our project is to design a system that first detects the faces of people from a video data and then tries to recognize the faces of the people by matching the video data with the existing photos in the database. Moreover, our project aims to recognize movements of the people such that, the system will try to understand where a person is going and then the system will decide that the person is walking or running.
by Y.Gökçer, N. Atılgan, K. S. Karaca, O. Polatkan	S. Aksoy
	F. Can
Online Newspaper	A. A. Selçuk	This project aims to combine both online newspaper and blogging. What makes it different than other blog web sites is, normal blog web sites only have one user. In here the idea is to make a multi-user blog web site so that more than people can work together and create their own newspaper. With help of the online news paper project different characters can take place in the same blog. Author, editors, reporters, photographers are some of these characters.
by C. Tuksavul, M. Menevşe, O.Yılmaz	B. Tekinerdoğan
	İ. Körpeoğlu
Feature Modeling Tool Development for Multiple Product Lines	B. Tekinerdoğan	Feature Modeling Tool is an Eclipse Plug - in that supports multiple product line commonality and variability analysis and modeling. The tool supports all the concepts in feature meta-model,domain engineering, and application engineering.
by F. Basık, A.Özcan, E.Nevayeshirazi, O.Çetin, M.Y.Ertekin	İ. Körpeoğlu
	A. A. Selçuk
Active Citizen	B. Tekinerdoğan	Mobile application to be used by the citizens in order to actively participate in the city management. The users can register to and log on to the system and will be able to make comments on the problems occurring around their locations. They will also be able to make reviews about newly-opened places in the city.These comments and reviews will be reached by the administrative establishments such as the municipalities. There will be further functionalities involving the active citizenship responsibilities. The application will provide ease of access to the governmental structures such as municipalities when it is crucial to declare problems faced in a particular city and also a chance to commit complaints and follow the status of the complaint on the administrator's side.
by H. Güler, E. K. Takmaz, B. N. Kökcan, İ. Tanrıseven	D. Davenport
	İ. Körpeoğlu