Education Information
2006 - 2011
2006 - 2011Doctorate
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, College Of Engineering, Department Of Electrical And Computer Engineering, United States Of America
2004 - 2006
2004 - 2006Postgraduate
Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Computer Engineering, Turkey
1999 - 2004
1999 - 2004Undergraduate
Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Computer Engineering, Turkey
Dissertations
2011
2011Doctorate
Generation and analysis of segmentation trees for natural images
University Of Illinois At Urbana-Champaign, Department Of Electrical And Computer Engineering
2006
2006Postgraduate
Automatic image annotation by ensemle of visual descriptors
Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Computer Engineering
Research Areas
Computer Sciences
Computer Vision
Computer Vision
Artificial Intelligence, Computer Learning and Pattern Recognition
Computer Learning
Pattern Recognition and Image Processing
Neural Networks
Engineering and Technology
Academic Titles / Tasks
2018 - Continues
2018 - ContinuesAssistant Professor
Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Computer Engineering
2015 - 2018
2015 - 2018Assistant Professor
Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Computer Engineering
2012 - 2015
2012 - 2015Researcher
University of California, Santa Barbara, -, Department Of Psychological And Brain Sciences
2006 - 2011
2006 - 2011Research Assistant
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Mühendislik, Department Of Electrical And Computer Engineering
2005 - 2006
2005 - 2006Research Assistant
Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Computer Engineering
Managerial Experience
2018 - Continues
2018 - ContinuesDeputy Head of Department
Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Computer Engineering
Courses
Advising Theses
2023
2023Postgraduate
Human pose and shape estimation based on masked mesh modelling from single view RGBD
Akbaş E. (Advisor)
Ö.SUAT(Student)
2023
2023Postgraduate
Bridging the MoCap-to-visual domain gap in human mesh recovery from 2D keypoints
Akbaş E. (Advisor)
B.UĞUZ(Student)
2022
2022Doctorate
Generating illustrations for children books using generative adversarial networks
Duygulu Şahin P., Akbaş E. (Co-Advisor)
S.HİÇSÖNMEZ(Student)
2022
2022Postgraduate
Streaming multiscale deep equilibrium models
Cinbiş R. G., AKBAŞ E. (Co-Advisor)
C.UFUK(Student)
2022
2022Postgraduate
Correlation loss: Enforcing correlation between classification and localization in object detection
Kalkan S., Akbaş E. (Co-Advisor)
F.KAHRAMAN(Student)
2022
2022Postgraduate
Character generation through self supervised vectorization
Akbaş E. (Advisor)
G.GÖKÇEOĞLU(Student)
2022
2022Postgraduate
Image generation using only a discriminator network with gradient norm penalty
AKBAŞ E. (Advisor)
C.CEMRE(Student)
2022
2022Postgraduate
Quantifying and mitigating class imbalance in long-tailed visual recognition
Kalkan S., Akbaş E. (Co-Advisor)
Z.SONAT(Student)
2021
2021Postgraduate
Image Generation by Back-Propagation on Input Using a Discriminator Network
Akbaş E. (Advisor)
M.TAPLI(Student)
2021
2021Doctorate
INTEGRATING NEAR AND LONG-RANGE EVIDENCE FOR VISUAL DETECTION
Akbaş E. (Advisor)
N.SAMET(Student)
2021
2021Doctorate
IDENTIFYING AND ADDRESSING IMBALANCE PROBLEMS IN VISUAL DETECTION
Akbaş E. (Co-Advisor), Kalkan S.
K.ÖKSÜZ(Student)
2021
2021Postgraduate
UTILIZING VIDEO COLORIZATION AS A SELF-SUPERVISED AUXILIARY TASK FOR OBJECT TRACKING
Akbaş E. (Advisor)
E.FIRAT(Student)
2020
2020Postgraduate
Training Object Detectors by Directly Optimizing LRP Metric
Kalkan S. (Co-Advisor), Akbaş E.
B.CAN(Student)
2019
2019Postgraduate
Rescoring detections based on contextual scores in object detection
Akbaş E. (Advisor)
E.VURAL(Student)
2019
2019Postgraduate
Human activity prediction using lifelogging data
Akbaş E., Yazıcı A. (Co-Advisor)
G.SARIARSLAN(Student)
2019
2019Postgraduate
Does estimated depth help object detection?
Kalkan S. (Co-Advisor), Akbaş E.
B.ÇETİNKAYA(Student)
2019
2019Postgraduate
Automated learning rate search using batch-level cross-validation
Akbaş E. (Advisor)
D.KABAKCI(Student)
2019
2019Postgraduate
Improved knowledge distillation with Dynamic Network Pruning
Akbaş E. (Advisor)
E.ŞENER(Student)
2019
2019Postgraduate
2D/3D human pose estimation using deep convolutional neural nets
AKBAŞ E.
M.Kocabaş(Student)
2019
2019Postgraduate
Activity prediction from auto-captured lifelog images
Akbaş E., Yazıcı A. (Co-Advisor)
K.BELLİ(Student)
2017
2017Postgraduate
Decoding cognitive states using the bag of words model on fMRI time series
AKBAŞ E.
G.Sucu(Student)
Designed Lessons
Taught Courses And Trainings
Research Infrastructure Information
January 2021
January 2021
CENTER FOR ROBOTICS AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Implementation and Research Center - Directorate
Şahin E., Koku A. B., Ankaralı M. M., Akbaş E., Cinbiş R. G., Kalkan S., et al.
Published journal articles indexed by SCI, SSCI, and AHCI
2024
2024AIDCON: An Aerial Image Dataset and Benchmark for Construction Machinery
Ersöz A. B., Pekcan O., Akbaş E.
REMOTE SENSING
, vol.16, no.17, 2024 (SCI-Expanded)
2024
2024SegIns: A simple extension to instance discrimination task for better localization learning
Baydar M., AKBAŞ E.
Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation
, vol.100, 2024 (SCI-Expanded)
2024
2024Dense depth alignment for human pose and shape estimation
Karagoz B., Suat O., Uguz B., AKBAŞ E.
Signal, Image and Video Processing
, 2024 (SCI-Expanded)
2023
2023HoughNet: Integrating Near and Long-Range Evidence for Visual Detection
SAMET N., Hicsonmez S., AKBAŞ E.
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
, vol.45, no.4, pp.4667-4681, 2023 (SCI-Expanded)
2022
2022One Metric to Measure Them All: Localisation Recall Precision (LRP) for Evaluating Visual Detection Tasks
Oksuz K., Cam B. C., KALKAN S., AKBAŞ E.
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PATTERN ANALYSIS AND MACHINE INTELLIGENCE
, vol.44, no.12, pp.9446-9463, 2022 (SCI-Expanded)
2022
2022Just noticeable difference for machine perception and generation of regularized adversarial images with minimal perturbation
Akan A. K., AKBAŞ E., YARMAN VURAL F. T.
SIGNAL IMAGE AND VIDEO PROCESSING
, vol.16, no.6, pp.1595-1606, 2022 (SCI-Expanded)
2022
2022Does depth estimation help object detection?
Cetinkaya B., Kalkan S., Akbaş E.
Image and Vision Computing
, vol.122, 2022 (SCI-Expanded)
2021
2021HPRNet: Hierarchical point regression for whole-body human pose estimation
SAMET N., AKBAŞ E.
Image and Vision Computing
, vol.115, 2021 (SCI-Expanded)
2021
2021Imbalance Problems in Object Detection: A Review
Oksuz K., Cam B. C., Kalkan S., Akbas E.
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PATTERN ANALYSIS AND MACHINE INTELLIGENCE
, vol.43, no.10, pp.3388-3415, 2021 (SCI-Expanded)
2020
2020Low-level multiscale image segmentation and a benchmark for its evaluation
AKBAŞ E., Ahuja N.
COMPUTER VISION AND IMAGE UNDERSTANDING
, vol.199, 2020 (SCI-Expanded)
2020
2020GANILLA: Generative adversarial networks for image to illustration translation
Hicsonmez S., SAMET N., AKBAŞ E., DUYGULU ŞAHİN P.
IMAGE AND VISION COMPUTING
, vol.95, 2020 (SCI-Expanded)
2017
2017Object detection through search with a foveated visual system
Akbas E., ECKSTEIN M. P.
PLOS COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY
, vol.13, no.10, 2017 (SCI-Expanded)
2017
2017Humans, but Not Deep Neural Networks, Often Miss Giant Targets in Scenes
ECKSTEIN M. P., KOEHLER K., WELBOURNE L. E., Akbas E.
CURRENT BIOLOGY
, vol.27, no.18, pp.2827-2835, 2017 (SCI-Expanded)
2015
2015Optimal and human eye movements to clustered low value cues to increase decision rewards during search
ECKSTEIN M. P., SCHOONVELD W., ZHANG S., MACK S. C., Akbas E.
VISION RESEARCH
, vol.113, pp.137-154, 2015 (SCI-Expanded)
2014
2014Low-Level Hierarchical Multiscale Segmentation Statistics of Natural Images
Akbas E., Ahuja N.
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PATTERN ANALYSIS AND MACHINE INTELLIGENCE
, vol.36, no.9, pp.1900-1906, 2014 (SCI-Expanded)
Articles Published in Other Journals
2022
2022Improved Knowledge Distillation with Dynamic Network Pruning
Şener E., AKBAŞ E.
Gazi Üniversitesi Fen Bilimleri Dergisi Part C: Tasarım ve Teknoloji
, vol.10, no.3, pp.650-665, 2022 (Peer-Reviewed Journal)
2021
2021Automated learning rate search using batch-level cross-validation
KABAKÇI D., AKBAŞ E.
Sakarya University Journal of Computer and Information Sciences (Online)
, vol.4, no.3, pp.312-325, 2021 (Peer-Reviewed Journal)
Refereed Congress / Symposium Publications in Proceedings
2024
2024A multi-level multi-label text classification dataset of 19th century Ottoman and Russian literary and critical texts
Gokceoglu G., Cavusoglu D., AKBAŞ E., Dolcerocca O. N.
Findings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2024, Hybrid, Bangkok, Thailand, 11 - 16 August 2024, pp.6585-6596
2023
2023Correlation Loss: Enforcing Correlation between Classification and Localization
Kahraman F., Oksuz K., KALKAN S., AKBAŞ E.
37th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2023, Washington, United States Of America, 7 - 14 February 2023, vol.37, pp.1087-1095
2022
2022Streaming Multiscale Deep Equilibrium Models
ERTENLİ C. U., AKBAŞ E., CİNBİŞ R. G.
17th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2022, Tel-Aviv-Yafo, Israel, 23 - 27 October 2022, vol.13671 LNCS, pp.189-205
2021
2021Mask-aware IoU for Anchor Assignment in Real-time Instance Segmentation
ÖKSÜZ K., ÇAM B. C., Kahraman F., Baltacı Z. S., KALKAN S., AKBAŞ E.
The 32nd British Machine Vision Conference, United Kingdom, 22 November 2021
2021
2021Rank & Sort Loss for Object Detection and Instance Segmentation
Oksuz K., Cam B. C., AKBAŞ E., KALKAN S.
18th IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), ELECTR NETWORK, 11 - 17 October 2021, pp.2989-2998
2021
2021ADVERSARIAL SEGMENTATION LOSS FOR SKETCH COLORIZATION
Hicsonmez S., Samet N., AKBAŞ E., DUYGULU ŞAHİN P.
2021 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2021, Alaska, United States Of America, 19 - 22 September 2021, vol.2021-September, pp.2403-2407
2020
2020Generating positive bounding boxes for balanced training of object detectors
Oksuz K., Cam B. C., Akbaş E., Kalkan S.
2020 IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision, WACV 2020, Colorado, United States Of America, 1 - 05 March 2020, pp.883-892
2020
2020HoughNet: Integrating Near and Long-Range Evidence for Bottom-Up Object Detection
Samet N., Hicsonmez S., Akbaş E.
16th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2020, Glasgow, United Kingdom, 23 - 28 August 2020, vol.12370 LNCS, pp.406-423
2020
2020A ranking-based, balanced loss function unifying classification and localisation in object detection
Oksuz K., Cam B. C., AKBAŞ E., KALKAN S.
34th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, NeurIPS 2020, Virtual, Online, 6 - 12 December 2020, vol.2020-December
2020
2020Reducing Label Noise in Anchor-Free Object Detection
Samet N., Hicsonmez S., AKBAŞ E.
31st British Machine Vision Conference, BMVC 2020, Virtual, Online, 7 - 10 September 2020
2019
2019MicroExpNet: An Extremely Small and Fast Model For Expression Recognition From Face Images
Cugu I., Sener E., AKBAŞ E.
9th International Conference on Image Processing Theory, Tools and Applications (IPTA), İstanbul, Turkey, 6 - 09 November 2019
2019
2019Self-Supervised Learning of 3D Human Pose using Multi-view Geometry
Kocabas M., Karagoz S., AKBAŞ E.
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), California, United States Of America, 16 - 20 June 2019, pp.1077-1086
2019
2019Modeling and Decoding Complex Problem Solving Process by Artificial Neural Networks
Akan A. K., Kivilcim B. B., AKBAŞ E., Newman S. D., YARMAN VURAL F. T.
27th Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU), Sivas, Turkey, 24 - 26 April 2019
2019
2019Activity Learning from Lifelogging Images
Belli K., AKBAŞ E., Yazici A.
18th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing (ICAISC), Zakopane, Poland, 16 June 2019 - 20 June 2109, vol.11509, pp.327-337
2018
2018MultiPoseNet: Fast Multi-Person Pose Estimation Using Pose Residual Network
KOCABAŞ M., KARAGÖZ S., AKBAŞ E.
15th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2018, Munich, Germany, 8 - 14 September 2018, pp.437-453
2018
2018Localization recall precision (LRP): A new performance metric for object detection
Öksüz K., Çam B. C., Akbaş E., Kalkan S.
15th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2018, Munich, Germany, 8 - 14 September 2018, pp.521-537
2018
2018Who draw this? Caricaturist recognition using convolutional neural networks Bunu kim çizdi? Evrişimsel sinir aǧlari ile karikatürist tanima
Hicsonmez S., SAMET N., AKBAŞ E., Duygulu P.
26th IEEE Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference, SIU 2018, İzmir, Turkey, 2 - 05 May 2018, pp.1-4
2017
2017Could we create a training set for image captioning using automatic translation? Görüntü Altyazilama için Otomatik Tercüeyle Eǧitim Kümesi Oluşturulabilir mi?
SAMET N., HİÇSÖNMEZ S., Duygulu P., AKBAŞ E.
25th Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference, SIU 2017, Antalya, Turkey, 15 - 18 May 2017
2017
2017Could We Create A Training Set For Image Captioning Using Automatic Translation?
SAMET N., Hicsonmez S., Duygulu P., AKBAŞ E.
25th Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU), Antalya, Turkey, 15 - 18 May 2017
2016
2016Decoding Cognitive States Using the Bag of Words Model on fMRI Time Series
Sucu G., AKBAŞ E., Oztekin I., Mizrak E., Vural F. Y.
24th Signal Processing and Communication Application Conference (SIU), Zonguldak, Turkey, 16 - 19 May 2016, pp.2245-2248
2014
2014A Framework for Machine Vision based on Neuro-Mimetic Front End Processing and Clustering
Akbas E., WADHWA A., ECKSTEIN M., MADHOW U.
52nd Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing Allerton, Illinois, United States Of America, 1 - 03 October 2014, pp.311-318
2010
2010Pedestrian recognition with a learned metric
Dikmen M., AKBAŞ E., Huang T. S., Ahuja N.
10th Asian Conference on Computer Vision, ACCV 2010, Queenstown, New Zealand, 8 - 12 November 2010, vol.6495 LNCS, pp.501-512
2009
2009From ramp discontinuities to segmentation tree
AKBAŞ E., Ahuja N.
9th Asian Conference on Computer Vision, ACCV 2009, Xian, China, 23 - 27 September 2009, vol.5994 LNCS, pp.123-134
2010
2010Low-level image segmentation based scene classification
Akbas E., Ahuja N.
2010 20th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPR 2010, İstanbul, Turkey, 23 - 26 August 2010, pp.3623-3626
2007
2007Automatic image annotation by ensemble of visual descriptors
Akbas E., VURAL F. T. Y.
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Minnesota, United States Of America, 17 - 22 June 2007, pp.3620-3621
2006
2006Design of a feature set for face recognition problem
Akbas E., YARMAN-VURAL F. T.
21st International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences (ISCIS 2006), İstanbul, Turkey, 1 - 03 November 2006, vol.4263, pp.239-241
2006
2006A hierarchical classification system based on adaptive resonance theory
UYSAL M., Akbas E., YARMAN-VURAL F. T.
IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2006), Georgia, United States Of America, 8 - 11 October 2006, pp.2913-2914
2006
2006A comparison of features spaces for face recognition problem
OZYER G. T., Akbas E., VURAL F. Y.
IEEE 14th Signal Processing and Communications Applications, Antalya, Turkey, 16 - 19 April 2006, pp.750-751
2005
2005A comparison of fuzzy ARTMAP and AdaBoost methods in image retrieval problems Görüntü erişiminde bulanik ARTMAP ve AdaBoost yöntemlerinin karşilaştirmasi
AKBAŞ E., ÖZCANLI Ö. C., VURAL F. Y.
IEEE 13th Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference, SIU 2005, Kayseri, Turkey, 16 - 18 May 2005, vol.2005, pp.691-694
Supported Projects
2021 - 2026
2021 - 2026Modernizing Empires: Enlightenment, Nationalist Vanguards and Non-Western Literary Modernities (NONWESTLIST)
H2020 Project
Akbaş E. (Executive), Gökçeoğlu G.
2018 - 2022
2018 - 2022Derin Sinir Ağı Tabanlı Nesne Algılama Yöntemlerine Bağlam Modeli Entegre Edilmesi
Project Supported by Higher Education Institutions
AKBAŞ E. (Executive), DULGER O.
2018 - 2021
2018 - 2021
Derin Sinir Ağları Ile Videolarda Nesne Algılama
TUBITAK Project
(Project Abstract)
AKBAŞ E. (Executive)
2018 - 2018
2018 - 2018İNSANSIZ HAVA ARAÇLARINDA TEK VE ÇİFT KAMERA İLE İNİŞ NOKTASINA BAĞIL KONUM KESTİRİMİ
Project Supported by Other Private Institutions
AKBAŞ E., KALKAN S. (Executive)
2016 - 2017
2016 - 2017Fovealı Görme Gistemi ile Nesne Algılama
TUBITAK Project
AKBAŞ E. (Executive)
Patent
2023
2023System for training neural networks that predict the parameters of a human mesh model using dense depth and part-based UV map annotations
Patent
Registered / Approved, The Invention Registration Number: US11798182B1 , Standard Registration
2022
2022System for estimating a pose of one or more persons in a scene (US 11321868)
Patent
Registered / Approved, The Invention Registration Number: US 11,321,868 B1 , Standard Registration
2022
2022System for estimating a three dimensional pose of one or more persons in a scene (US 11348279)
Patent
Registered / Approved, The Invention Registration Number: 11348279 , Standard Registration
2022
2022System for estimating a three dimensional pose of one or more persons in a scene (US11521373B1)
Patent
Registered / Approved, The Invention Registration Number: US11521373B1 , Standard Registration
2021
2021SYSTEM FOR ESTIMATING A THREE DIMENSIONAL POSE OF ONE OR MORE PERSONS IN A SCENE (US 11182924)
Patent
Registered / Approved, The Invention Registration Number: US 11,182,924 B1 , Standard Registration
2021
2021System for estimating a pose of one or more persons in a scene
Patent
Registered / Approved, The Invention Registration Number: US 11,074,711 B1 , Standard Registration
2020
2020System for estimating a three dimensional pose of one or more persons in a scene
Patent
Registered / Approved, The Invention Registration Number: US 10,853,970 B1 , Standard Registration
Activities in Scientific Journals
2022 - Continues
2022 - ContinuesTurkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Committee Member
Scientific Refereeing
June 2021
June 2021COGNITIVE SYSTEMS RESEARCH
Journal Indexed in SCI-E
April 2021
April 2021TURKISH JOURNAL OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCES
Journal Indexed in SCI-E
January 2019
January 2019IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2019
Other journals
December 2018
December 2018TURKISH JOURNAL OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING & COMPUTER SCIENCES
SCI Journal
May 2018
May 2018European Conference on Computer Vision 2018
Other journals
April 2018
April 2018TURKISH JOURNAL OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING & COMPUTER SCIENCES
SCI Journal
January 2018
January 2018IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2018
Other journals
Awards
June 2022
June 2022ODTÜ Yılın Tezi Ödülü
Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi, Fen Bilimleri Enstitüsü
April 2022
April 2022Bilim Akademisi Genç Bilim İnsanları Ödül Programı
Bilim Akademisi
December 2020
December 2020ODTÜ Parlar Vakfı Araştırma Teşvik Ödülü
Odtü Parlar Vakfı
March 2018
March 2018H2020 MSCA IF Eşik Üstü Ödülü
TÜBİTAK
May 2010
May 2010COGS/AI Award
The Beckman Institute For Advanced Science And Technology
August 2006
August 2006Yılın en iyi tezi ödülü
Fen Bilimleri Enstitusu, Orta Dogu Teknik Universitesi
Invited Talks
December 2022
December 2022Imbalance in object detection and ranking-based loss functions to the rescue
Seminar
Workshop in Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV 2022)-China
August 2020
August 2020Unified Evaluation and Training of Object Detectors using Localization-Recall-Precision (LRP)
Workshop
ECCV2020 Workshop on "Beyond mAP" -United Kingdom
Scholarships
2016 - 2018
2016 - 2018