Research Interests
Grants
- "Weakly Supervised Learning and Content-Based Retrieval for Whole Slide Breast Histopathology," sponsored by TUBITAK (Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey), grant no: 117E172, 459,585 TL (~US$102,000), 04/2018-04/2021, Principal Investigator.
- "Computer Vision and Machine Learning Techniques for Automated Classification of Whole-Slide Breast Histopathology Images," sponsored by TUBITAK (Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey), grant no: 113E602, 292,565 TL (~US$130,000), 04/2014-04/2017, Principal Investigator.
- "Interactive Mining of Multi-modal, Multi-spectral, and Multi-dimensional Image Data Sets, and Applications to Medical and Remote Sensing Image Analysis," sponsored by Fulbright, 02/2013-01/2014, Principal Investigator.
- "Mining of Very High Resolution Satellite Images Using Hierarchical Graph Models," sponsored by TUBITAK (Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey), grant no: 109E193, 184,954 TL (~US$123,000), 04/2010-10/2012, Principal Investigator.
- "Probabilistic and Structural Approaches to Image Understanding, Classification and Retrieval, and Applications to Remote Sensing and Medical Image Analysis (CAREER Award)," sponsored by TUBITAK (Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey), grant no: 104E074, 189,360 TL (~US$126,000), 04/2005-04/2010, Principal Investigator.
- "Automatic Detection and Segmentation of Hazelnut Orchards in Northern Turkey," sponsored by European Commission, Joint Research Centre, contract no: 252972, 14,750 Euro, 7/2008-3/2009, Principal Investigator.
- "Automatic Mapping of Linear Woody Vegetation Features in Agricultural Landscapes," sponsored by European Commission, Joint Research Centre, contract no: 253352, 20,750 Euro, 1/2008-6/2008, Principal Investigator.
- "IST-TURKEY: New Information Society Technologies for Turkey (BTT-Turkiye: Turkiye Icin Yeni Bilgi Toplumu Teknolojileri)," sponsored by TUBITAK (Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey), grant no: 105E065, 12/2005-12/2008, Researcher and Head of Intelligent Systems Research Group.
- "Semantic Multimodal Analysis of Digital Media," sponsored by TUBITAK (Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey) and European Commission COST 292 Action, grant no: 104E077, 102,060 TL (~US$64,000), 10/2004-10/2008, Co-Principal Investigator.
- "Hierarchical Classification, Mining and Semantic Retrieval in Remote Sensing Image Archives," sponsored by European Commission, FP6 Marie Curie International Reintegration Grant, grant no: MIRG-CT-2005-017504, 80,000 Euro, 10/2005-10/2007, Principal Investigator.
- "E-DEVLET Icin Bilgisayar Destekli Gorsel Dokumantasyon, Arsiv ve Yonetim Sistemi Gerceklestirilmesi," sponsored by DPT (State Planning Agency), ~5,000 TL, 08/2005-12/2005, Researcher.
- "Interactive Training of Advanced Classifiers for Remote Sensing Image Analysis," sponsored by the U.S. Army, Topographic Engineering Center, grant no: DACA42-03-C-0016, W9132V-04-C-0001, US$850,000, 01/2003-12/2005, Principal Investigator (worked until moving to Bilkent University in 01/2004).
- "Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining based on Hierarchical Segmentation of Image Data," sponsored by NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center, grant no: NAS5-01123, US$430,000, 09/2001-09/2004, Investigator (worked until moving to Bilkent University in 01/2004).
- "A Bayesian Textual and Multimedia Information Retrieval Engine," sponsored by the National Institutes of Health, National Library of Medicine, grant no: 2-R44-LM06520-02, US$750,000, 09/2001-04/2004, Investigator (worked until moving to Bilkent University in 01/2004).
- "GeoBrowse: An Integrated Environment for Satellite Image Retrieval and Mining," sponsored by NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center, grant no: NAS5-98053, US$600,000, 10/1998-08/2001, Researcher (worked during 06/2000-09/2000).
Projects at Bilkent University
Object Recognition Using Contextual Inference
(2008-present)
Detecting Compound Structures in Remote Sensing Images
(Sponsored by TUBITAK, 2008-present)
Segmentation and Classification of Cervical Cells
(Sponsored by TUBITAK, 2008-present)
Data Clustering Using Particle Swarm Optimization
(Sponsored by TUBITAK, 2008-present)
Segmentation of Orchards in Remote Sensing Images
(Sponsored by TUBITAK and European Commission, Joint Research Centre,
2008-present)
Performance Measures for Object Detection Evaluation
(Sponsored by TUBITAK, 2008)
Automatic Mapping of Vegetation in Remote Sensing Images
(Sponsored by TUBITAK and European Commission, Joint Research Centre, 2008)
Semantic Scene Classification for Image Annotation and Retrieval
(Sponsored by TUBITAK and European Commission COST 292 Action, 2007-2008)
Geospatial Object Recognition in Remote Sensing Images
(Sponsored by TUBITAK and European Commission, FP6 Marie Curie
International Reintegration Grant, 2006-2008)
Modeling High-Level Urban Structures Using Spatial Patterns
(Sponsored by TUBITAK and European Commission, FP6 Marie Curie
International Reintegration Grant, 2006-2007)
Modeling Position-Based Spatial Relationships
(Sponsored by TUBITAK and European Commission, FP6 Marie Curie
International Reintegration Grant, 2005-2008)
Morphological Segmentation of Remote Sensing Images
(Sponsored by TUBITAK and European Commission, FP6 Marie Curie
International Reintegration Grant, 2006-2007)
Scene Classification in Large Image and Video Databases
(Sponsored by TUBITAK and European Commission COST 292 Action, 2005-2007)
Relevance Feedback for Content-Based Image and Video Retrieval
(Sponsored by TUBITAK and European Commission COST 292 Action, 2005-2007)
Interactive Mining of Remote Sensing Image Archives
(Sponsored by TUBITAK and European Commission, FP6 Marie Curie
International Reintegration Grant, 2005-2007)
Region-Based Remote Sensing Image Classification
(Sponsored by TUBITAK and European Commission, FP6 Marie Curie
International Reintegration Grant, 2005-2006)
Content-Based Image Retrieval for E-Museum
(Sponsored by State Planning Agency, 2005)
Face Detection
(Sponsored by TUBITAK and European Commission COST 292 Action, 2005)
IRIS: Information Retrieval as Integration of Image and Semantics
Please also visit the RETINA Vision and Learning Group for more information about our research group including our projects and group members.
International Collaboration
Projects at Insightful Corporation
VisiMine: Interactive Mining in Image Databases
(Sponsored by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and the U.S. Army, 2000-2003)
Scene Modeling and Image Mining with a Visual Grammar
(Sponsored by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and the U.S. Army, 2001-2003)
Land Cover Analysis with Missing Data
(Sponsored by the U.S. Army, 2003)
Tissue Image Classification
(Sponsored by the National Institutes of Health, 2001-2003)
Information Extraction and Text Mining
(Sponsored by DARPA, 2001-2002)
Projects at the University of Washington
Probabilistic Similarity Measures for Content-Based Image Retrieval
(Sponsored by NASA and the National Science Foundation, 1999-2001)
Relevance Feedback for Content-Based Image Retrieval
(Sponsored by NASA and the National Science Foundation, 1999-2001)
Graph-Theoretic Clustering for Image Grouping and Retrieval
(Sponsored by NASA, 1998-1999)
Textural Features for Content-Based Image Retrieval
(Sponsored by NASA and Office of Naval Research, 1997-1998)
Model-Based Shape Recognition
(Sponsored by the Office of Naval Research, 1997-1998)
Automatic Target Recognition
(Sponsored by the Office of Naval Research, 1996)
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