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

  • Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, Associate Editor, 2010-Current

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