Yusuf
Sinan Akgul
Assoc.
Prof.
Department
Of Computer Engineering
Gebze
Institute of Technology
Turkey
akgul{at}bilmuh.gyte.edu.tr
+90
262 605 2221
Education
Ph.D.
2000, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University
of Delaware, USA
M.S.
1995, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University
of Delaware, USA
B.S.
1992, Department of Computer Engineering, Middle East Technical
University, Turkey
Work
Experience
2005-
Current, Department of Computer Engineering, GIT, Turkey
2003-2005,
Cognex Corp. Natick, MA, USA, Principal Machine Vision Engineer
2000-2003,
Cognex Corp. Natick, MA, USA, Senior Machine Vision Engineer
Publications
Recent
publications can be seen at GIT
Vision Lab.
Journals
Ayse Betul Oktay and Yusuf Sinan
Akgul, "A Modular Framework for Shape and Image Prior Based
Anatomical Structure Contour Extraction", Journal of Medical
and Biological Engineering, Vol 31, No 6 (2011).
Sema Candemir, Yusuf Sinan Akgul,
"Statistical Significance Based Graph Cut Regularization for
Medical Image Segmentation", Turkish Journal Of Electrical
Engineering & Computer Sciences, 2011, Volume 6753/2011,
304-313
Aydin T and Akgul YS, "Stereo
Depth Estimation Using Synchronous Optimization with Segment
Based Regularization", Pattern Recognition Letters, Volume
31, Issue 15, 1 November 2010, Pages 2389-2396
Aydin T and Akgul YS "An
occlusion insensitive adaptive focus measurement method",
Optics Express, Volume: 18 Issue: 13 Pages: 14212-14224
Published: JUN 21 2010
Ulas Vural and Yusuf Sinan Akgul.
"Eye-gaze Based Real-time Surveillance Video Synopsis",
the Special Issue of Pattern Recognition Letters
Image/Video-based Pattern Analysis and HCI Applications,
doi:10.1016 /j.patrec.2009.03.002.
Yusuf Sinan Akgul and Chandra
Kambhamettu, "A Coarse-to-Fine Deformable Contour
Optimization Framework." IEEE Transactions on Pattern
Analysis and Machine Intelligence 25(2): 174-186 (2003).
Yusuf Sinan Akgul, Chandra
Kambhamettu, and Maureen Stone, "Extraction and Tracking of
The Tongue Contours", IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging,
Special Issue on Model-Based Analysis of Medical Images, Vol 18,
No. 10, October 1999, 1035-1045.
Patents
Bachelder, Ivan ; Akgul, Yusuf;
Morje, Prabhav; Koljonen, Juha, "Method and Apparatus For
Focusing An Optical Inspection System.", United States
Patent, 6,636,298, Issued October 21, 2003, Filed December 18,
2001
Akgul;
Yusuf, Bachelder; Ivan, Morje; Prabhav, Koljonen; Juha, Davis;
Jason, “Method for extracting features from an image using
oriented filters”, United States Patent, 6,983,065,
Issued January 3, 2006.
Akgul; Yusuf, Bachelder; Ivan,
Wagman; Adam, Davis; Jason, Koljonen; Juha, Morje; Prabhav,
“Methods and apparatuses for detecting classifying and
measuring spot defects in an image of an object”, United States
Patent, 7,162,073, Issued January 9, 2007
Akgul, Yusuf Sinan (Gebze, TR),
Vural, Ulas (Gebze, TR), Yildiz, Alparslan Omer (Gebze, TR) 2011
Video Summary System United States Gebze Yuksek Teknoloji
Enstitusu (Gebze, TR) 20110228170, Patent pending
Refereed
Conference Papers
Merve
Kilinc and Yusuf Sinan Akgul. "Human Age Estimation Via
Geometric And Textural Features", The International
Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP),
Rome, February 2012.
Ulas
Vural and Yusuf Sinan Akgul. "Operator Attention Based Video
Surveillance", The Eleventh IEEE International Workshop on
Visual Surveillance, Barcelona, 2011.
Ayse
Betul Oktay and Yusuf Sinan Akgul, "Localization of the
Lumbar Discs using Machine Learning and Exact Probabilistic
Inference", MICCAI, September 2011.
Alparslan
Yildiz, Abdullah Akay and Yusuf Sinan Akgul, "Wii Remote
Calibration Using the Sensor Bar", Second IEEE International
Workshop on Computer Vision for Computer Games - CVPR, Colorado
Springs, June 2011.
Sema
Candemir and Yusuf Akgul, "Statistical Significance Based
Graph Cut Segmentation for Shrinking Bias", Int.Conf. on
Image Analysis and Recognition, 2011.
Alparslan
Yildiz and Yusuf Akgul, "A Fast Method for Tracking People
with Multiple Cameras", Third Workshop on HUMAN MOTION
Understanding, Modeling, Capture and Animation, Greece, September
2010.
Ayse
Betul Oktay ve Yusuf Sinan Akgul, "Kalp Duvarlarının
Adaboost ve Düzey Kümesi ile Bulunması", IEEE 18. Sinyal
İşleme ve İletişim Uygulamaları Kurultayı, Diyarbakır,
Nisan 2010.
Sema
Candemir, Yusuf Sinan Akgul: Adaptive Regularization Parameter
for Graph Cut Segmentation. ICIAR (1) 2010: 117-126
Fatih
Kaleli and Yusuf Sinan Akgul. "Vision-Based Railroad Track
Extraction Using Dynamic Programming", 12th Int. IEEE
Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2009.
Tarkan
Aydin and Yusuf Sinan Akgul. "A Stereo Depth Recovery Method
Using Layered Representation of the Scene", The German
Association for Pattern Recognition, 2009.
Alparslan
Yildiz and Yusuf Sinan Akgul. "A Gradient Descent
Approximation For Graph Cuts", The German Association for
Pattern Recognition, 2009.
Ayse
Betul Oktay and Yusuf Sinan Akgul. "Echocardiographic
Contour Extraction with Local and Global Priors through Boosting
and Level Sets", Mathematical Methods in Biomedical Image
Analysis (MMBIA), 2009.
Ilktan
Ar and Yusuf Sinan Akgul. "A Generic System for The
Classification of Marble Tiles Using Gabor Filters",
International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences,
2008.
Alpaslan
Yildiz, Adem Ozgur and Yusuf Sinan Akgul. "Fast Non-Linear
Video Synopsis", International Symposium on Computer and
Information Sciences, 2008.
Ayse
Betul Oktay and Yusuf Sinan Akgul. "Prior Information Based
Segmentation: A 3D Level Set Surface Matching Approach",
International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences,
2008.
Tarkan
Aydin and Yusuf Sinan Akgul. "A New Adaptive Focus Measure
for Shape From Focus", British Machine Vision Conference,
2008.
Ayse
Betul Oktay and Yusuf Sinan Akgul. "A Novel Level Set Based
Echocardiographic Contour Extraction Method with Prior
Knowledge", British Machine Vision Conference, 2008.
Sema
Candemir and Yusuf Sinan Akgul. "A Nonparametric Statistical
Approach for Stereo Correspondence", International Symposium
on Computer and Information Sciences, 2007.
Alparslan
Yildiz and Yusuf Sinan Akgul. "A Multi-View Camera System
for The Generation of Real-Time Occlusion-Free Scene Video",
The German Association for Pattern Recognition, 2007. (Lecture
Notes in Computer Science, 2007, Vol 4713)
Tarkan
Aydin and Yusuf Sinan Akgul. "3D Structure Recovery From
Stereo Using Synchronous Optimization Processes", British
Machine Vision Conference, 2006.
Ali
Iskurt, Sema Candemir, Yusuf Sinan Akgul. "Identification of
Luminal and Medial Adventitial Borders in Intravascular
Ultrasound Images using Level sets", International Symposium
on Computer and Information Sciences, 2006. (Lecture Notes In
Computer Science, 2006, Vol 4263)
Ulas
Vural and Yusuf Sinan Akgul. "A Multiple Graph Cut Based
Approach For Stereo Analysis", The German Association for
Pattern Recognition, 2006. (Lecture Notes In Computer Science,
2006, Vol 4174)
Yusuf Sinan Akgul and Chandra
Kambhamettu. "Acoustic Flow and Its Applications",
International Symposium on Computer and Information
Sciences(Lecture Notes In Computer Science, 2005, Vol 3733)
Yusuf Sinan Akgul, Chandra
Kambhamettu and Maureen Stone, "A Task-Specific Contour
Tracker for Ultrasound", IEEE Workshop on Mathematical
Methods in Biomedical Image Analysis (MM-BIA2000), 135-141, South
Carolina, June 2000.
Yusuf
Sinan Akgul and Chandra Kambhamettu, "A Scale-Space Based
Approach for Deformable Contour Optimization", Second
International Conference on Scale-Space Theories in Computer
Vision, 410-422, Kerkyra, Greece, September 1999.
Yusuf
Sinan Akgul and Chandra Kambhamettu, "Recovery and Tracking
of Continuous 3D Surfaces from Stereo Data Using A
Deformable-Mesh", 7th IEEE International Conference on
Computer Vision, 765-772, Kerkyra, Greece, September 1999.
Yusuf
Sinan Akgul and Chandra Kambhamettu, "A New Multi-Level
Framework for Deformable Contour Optimization", IEEE
Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition,
II-465-470, Fort Collins, CO, June 1999.
Yusuf
Sinan Akgul, Chandra Kambhamettu and Maureen Stone, "Analysis
of The Tongue Surface Movement Using A Spatiotemporally Coherent
Deformable Model", Fourth IEEE Workshop on Applications of
Computer Vision, 109-114, Princeton, New Jersey, Oct. 9-21, 1998.
Yusuf
Sinan Akgul, Chandra Kambhamettu and Maureen Stone, "Automatic
Analysis of Tongue Surface Motion from Ultrasound Images",
IEEE Workshop on Biomedical Image Analysis, 126-132, Santa
Barbara CA, June 26-27, 1998.
Yusuf Sinan
Akgul, Chandra Kambhamettu and Maureen Stone, "Extraction
and Tracking of The Tongue Surface from Ultrasound Image
Sequences", IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern
Recognition, 298-303, Santa Barbara, CA, June 23-25 1998.
Theses Supervised
Ph.D.
Ayse Betul Oktay. "Machine
Learning Based Object Localization And Contour Extraction In
Medical Images With Prior Information", PhD Thesis, GIT,
2011.
Sema Candemir. "Statistical
Significance Based Computer Vision Applications", PhD
Thesis, GIT, 2011.
Tarkan Aydin. "Recovering 3D
Structure From Images With Dual Meshes By Using Stereo, Focus and
Defocus Information", PhD Thesis, GIT, 2011.
M. Sc.
Alparslan Yildiz. "A
Realtime Multi-Camera System For The Generation Of Occlusion-Free
Video", MS Thesis, GIT, 2009.
Ulas Vural. "Recovery of 3D
Structure Using Deformable Surfaces", MS Thesis, GIT, 2006
Funded
Projects Supervised
X-ray Baggage Inspection System
Design, [Supported by Ministry of Science, Industry and
Technology of Turkey, Project No: 00754-STZ-2010-2, Total Budget:
220.000 TL, 2010 – 2012]
Operator Performance Tuned
Surveillance System Using Video Summary Density [Supported by
TUBITAK, Project No:110E033, Total Budget: 133,115 TL, 2010 –
2012]
A Computer Vision Method For
Recovering 3D Structure Of Objects By Using Dual Meshes
[Supported by TUBITAK, Project No:105E097, 2006 - 2009]
Scientific
Journal Editorial Boards
Journals
and Conferences Served as Referee
IEEE
Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence,
IEEE
Transactions on Image Processing,
IEEE
Transactions on Medical Imaging,
Pattern
Recognition,
Image
and Vision Computing
Computer
Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering
IEEE
Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
IEEE
Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Conference
Program Committee Member
IEEE
Workshop on Articulated and Nonrigid Motion, June 27 2004,
Washington, DC.
Asian
Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV) January 22-25, 2006,
Hyderabad, India.
22nd
International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences
(ISCIS07) November 2007, Ankara, Turkey.
Awards
and Honors
Frank
Pehrson Graduate Student Achievement Award, University of
Delaware, 1999
Quantum
Leap Innovations Graduate Student Excellence Award, University of
Delaware, 1999
Departmental
Candidate for the best Ph.D. thesis, University of Delaware, 2000
TUBITAK
Career Grant, Turkey, 2006
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