Education
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
Research Areas Based on Academic Activities
Avesis Research Areas
WoS Research Areas
Scopus Research Areas
Academic Positions
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 - 2024
2018 - 2024Deputy Head of Department
Middle East Technical University, Faculty Of Engineering, Department Of Computer Engineering
Supervised Theses
2024
2024Postgraduate
Mitigating class imbalance in long-tailed visual recognition through the use of intrinsic dimensionality
Akbaş E. (Co-Advisor), Kalkan S.
Ç.ESER(Student)
2024
2024Doctorate
Exploring dense depth predictions as a supervision source for human pose and shape estimation
Akbaş E. (Advisor)
B.KARAGÖZ(Student)
2024
2024Doctorate
Self-supervised learning for unsupervised image classification and supervised localization tasks
Akbaş E. (Advisor)
M.BAYDAR(Student)
2024
2024Postgraduate
Exploiting spatial redundancy in feature maps to accelerate convolutional neural networks
Akbaş E., Yarman Vural F. T. (Co-Advisor)
M.YASİN(Student)
2024
2024Postgraduate
On calibrating deep object detectors
Akbaş E. (Co-Advisor), Kalkan S.
M.ERTUĞRUL(Student)
2024
2024Postgraduate
Using a ranking-based loss for long-tailed visual recognition
Akbaş E. (Co-Advisor), Kalkan S.
B.GÜLMEZ(Student)
2023
2023Postgraduate
Systematic evaluation of the effects of low-resolution and monochrome images on instant neural graphic primitives based 3d reconstruction
Akbaş E. (Co-Advisor), Şahin E.
İ.EREN(Student)
2023
2023Postgraduate
An extensive analysis on oriented object detection
Kalkan S., Akbaş E. (Co-Advisor)
İ.KOÇ(Student)
2023
2023Postgraduate
Human pose and shape estimation based on masked mesh modelling from single view RGBD
Akbaş E. (Advisor)
Ö.SUAT(Student)
2023
2023Postgraduate
A deep learning approach to proton background rejection for positron analysis with the AMS electromagnetic calorimeter
Akbaş E., DEMİRKÖZ M. B. (Advisor)
R.KARIM(Student)
2023
2023Postgraduate
Bridging the MoCap-to-visual domain gap in human mesh recovery from 2D keypoints
Akbaş E. (Advisor)
B.UĞUZ(Student)
2022
2022Postgraduate
Correlation loss: Enforcing correlation between classification and localization in object detection
Kalkan S., Akbaş E. (Co-Advisor)
F.KAHRAMAN(Student)
2022
2022Doctorate
Generating illustrations for children books using generative adversarial networks
Duygulu Şahin P., Akbaş E. (Co-Advisor)
S.HİÇSÖNMEZ(Student)
2022
2022Postgraduate
Character generation through self supervised vectorization
Akbaş E. (Advisor)
G.GÖKÇEOĞLU(Student)
2022
2022Postgraduate
Quantifying and mitigating class imbalance in long-tailed visual recognition
Kalkan S., Akbaş E. (Co-Advisor)
Z.SONAT(Student)
2022
2022Postgraduate
Image generation using only a discriminator network with gradient norm penalty
AKBAŞ E. (Advisor)
C.CEMRE(Student)
2022
2022Postgraduate
Streaming multiscale deep equilibrium models
Cinbiş R. G., AKBAŞ E. (Co-Advisor)
C.UFUK(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
Postgraduate
Deep Generative Models
Cinbiş R. G., Kalkan S., Akbaş E.
ADVANCED DEEP LEARNING
Kalkan S., Akbaş E.
DEEP LEARNING
Kalkan S., Akbaş E.
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.
Articles
2026
20261. Transformers in Small Object Detection: A Benchmark and Survey of State-of-the-Art
Miri Rekavandi A., Rashidi S., Boussaid F., Hoefs S., AKBAŞ E., Bennamoun M.
ACM COMPUTING SURVEYS
, vol.58, no.3, 2026 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)
2025
20252. DeepKin: Predicting Relatedness From Low-Coverage Genomes and Palaeogenomes With Convolutional Neural Networks
GÜLER M., YILMAZ A., KATIRCIOĞLU B., Kantar S., Ünver T. E., Vural K. B., et al.
Molecular Ecology Resources
, vol.25, no.8, 2025 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)
2025
20253. WAIT: Feature warping for animation to illustration video translation using GANs
Hicsonmez S., Samet N., Samet F., Bakir O., AKBAŞ E., DUYGULU ŞAHİN P.
Neurocomputing
, vol.637, 2025 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)
2025
20254. Colorectal cancer tumor grade segmentation: A new dataset and baseline results
Arslan D., Sehlaver S., Guder E., Temena M. A., Bahcekapili A., Ozdemir U., et al.
Heliyon
, vol.11, no.4, 2025 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)
2024
20245. A comparison of deep learning models for proton background rejection with the AMS electromagnetic calorimeter
Hashmani R., AKBAŞ E., DEMİRKÖZ M. B.
Machine Learning: Science and Technology
, vol.5, no.4, 2024 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)
2024
20246. Dense depth alignment for human pose and shape estimation
Karagoz B., Suat O., Uguz B., AKBAŞ E.
SIGNAL IMAGE AND VIDEO PROCESSING
, vol.18, no.12, pp.8577-8584, 2024 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)
2024
20247. AIDCON: 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, Scopus)
2024
20248. SegIns: 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, Scopus)
2023
20239. HoughNet: 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, Scopus)
2022
202210. One 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, Scopus)
2022
202211. Improved 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 (TRDizin)
2022
202212. Just 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, Scopus)
2022
202213. Does depth estimation help object detection?
Cetinkaya B., Kalkan S., Akbaş E.
IMAGE AND VISION COMPUTING
, vol.122, 2022 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)
2021
202114. HPRNet: Hierarchical point regression for whole-body human pose estimation
SAMET N., AKBAŞ E.
Image and Vision Computing
, vol.115, 2021 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)
2021
202115. Imbalance 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, Scopus)
2021
202116. Automated 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 (TRDizin)
2020
202017. Low-level multiscale image segmentation and a benchmark for its evaluation
AKBAŞ E., Ahuja N.
COMPUTER VISION AND IMAGE UNDERSTANDING
, vol.199, 2020 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)
2020
202018. GANILLA: 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, Scopus)
2017
201719. Object detection through search with a foveated visual system
Akbas E., ECKSTEIN M. P.
PLOS COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY
, vol.13, no.10, 2017 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)
2017
201720. Humans, 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, Scopus)
2015
201521. Optimal 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, Scopus)
2014
201422. Low-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, Scopus)
Papers Presented at Peer-Reviewed Scientific Conferences
2025
20251. Data Imbalance in Large-Scale Face Recognition B y k l ekli Y z Tanimada Veri Dengesizligi
Erturkmen A., Akkaya K., Boncu E. S., Ozden H., Akbas E., ALATAN A. A.
33rd IEEE Conference on Signal Processing and Communications Applications, SIU 2025, İstanbul, Turkey, 25 - 28 June 2025, (Full Text)
2024
20242. A 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, (Full Text)
2024
20243. RankED: Addressing Imbalance and Uncertainty in Edge Detection Using Ranking-based Losses
Çetinkaya B., Kalkan S., Akbaş E.
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Washington, United States Of America, 16 - 22 June 2024, pp.3239-3249, (Full Text)
2024
20244. MoCap-to-Visual Domain Adaptation for Efficient Human Mesh Estimation from 2D Keypoints
Uguz B., Suat O., Karagoz B., Akbaş E.
2024 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, CVPRW 2024, Washington, United States Of America, 16 - 22 June 2024, pp.1622-1632, (Full Text)
2023
20235. Correlation Loss: Enforcing Correlation between Classification and Localization
Kahraman F., ÖKSÜZ K., KALKAN S., AKBAŞ E.
Thirty-Seventh AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, United States Of America, 7 - 14 February 2023, (Full Text)
2022
20226. Streaming 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, (Full Text)
2021
20217. Mask-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, (Full Text)
2021
20218. Rank & Sort Loss for Object Detection and Instance Segmentation
ÖKSÜZ K., ÇAM B. C., AKBAŞ E., KALKAN S.
IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), United States Of America, 11 October 2021, pp.3009-3018, (Full Text)
2021
20219. ADVERSARIAL 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, (Full Text)
2021
202110. Rank & 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, (Full Text)
2020
202011. Reducing Label Noise in Anchor-Free Object Detection
SAMET N., Hiçsönmez S., AKBAŞ E.
British Machine Vision Conference, Çevrimiçi, England, 7 - 10 September 2020, (Full Text)
2020
202012. Generating 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, (Full Text)
2020
202013. Reducing 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, (Full Text)
2020
202014. A 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, (Full Text)
2020
202015. HoughNet: 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, (Full Text)
2019
201916. Activity 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, (Full Text)
2019
201917. MicroExpNet: 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, (Full Text)
2019
201918. Self-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, (Full Text)
2019
201919. Modeling 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, (Full Text)
2018
201820. Localization 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, (Full Text)
2018
201821. MultiPoseNet: 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, (Full Text)
2018
201822. Who 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, (Full Text)
2017
201723. Could 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, (Full Text)
2017
201724. Could 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, (Full Text)
2016
201625. Decoding 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, (Full Text)
2014
201426. A 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, (Full Text)
2010
201027. Pedestrian 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, (Full Text)
2009
200928. From 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, (Full Text)
2010
201029. Low-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, (Full Text)
2007
200730. Automatic 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, (Full Text)
2006
200631. Design 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, (Full Text)
2006
200632. A 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, (Full Text)
2006
200633. A 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, (Full Text)
2005
200534. A 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, (Full Text)
Funded Projects
2024 - Present
2024 - PresentUSTA: İnsan-Robot etkileşiminde yapay zeka destekli gerçek zamanlı doğal iletişim
Project Supported by Higher Education Institutions , BAP Research Project
ŞAHİN E. (Executive), CİNBİŞ R. G., KALKAN S., SÜRER E., ÇAKIR M. P., AKBAŞ E.
2024 - Present
2024 - PresentGörsel Tanımada İleri Yapay Zeka Teknikleri
Project Supported by Higher Education Institutions , BAP Other
KALKAN S. (Executive), AKBAŞ E., CİNBİŞ R. G.
2023 - 2026
2023 - 2026Separation of Positrons from Background Protons and Measurement of Positron Ratio with Innovative Deep Learning Based Image Processing Models by Processing the Data of Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS)
TUBITAK Project , 1001 - Program for Supporting Scientific and Technological Research Projects
(Project Abstract)
Demirköz M. B. (Executive), Akbaş E.
2023 - 2026
2023 - 2026EuroCC2 - National Competence Centers in the Framework of EuroHPC Phase2
EU Supported Other Project
Toffoli H. (Executive), Günel Kiliç B. (Executive), Akagündüz E., Akbaş E., Dülger Ö., Karaca M., et al.
2021 - 2026
2021 - 2026Modernizing Empires: Enlightenment, Nationalist Vanguards and Non-Western Literary Modernities (NONWESTLIST)
H2020 Project , ERC H2020 European Research Council Project
Akbaş E. (Executive), Gökçeoğlu G.
2022 - 2024
2022 - 2024İhalar Kullanılarak İnşaat Hafriyat İşleri İçin Yapay Zeka Ve Bilgisayarlı Görü Tabanlı Kübaj Hesaplama Yöntemi Geliştirilmesi
TUBITAK Project , 1001 - Program for Supporting Scientific and Technological Research Projects
Pekcan O. (Executive), Sahillioğlu Y., Akbaş E., Karaman H., Ersöz A. B.
2021 - 2023
2021 - 2023Görsel Tanıma Problemlerinde Sınıf Dengesizliğini Ölçerek Ve Belirsizlik Kullanarak İyileştirme (Denge)
TUBITAK Project , 1001 - Program for Supporting Scientific and Technological Research Projects
KALKAN S. (Executive), AKBAŞ E.
2018 - 2022
2018 - 2022Derin Sinir Ağı Tabanlı Nesne Algılama Yöntemlerine Bağlam Modeli Entegre Edilmesi
Project Supported by Higher Education Institutions , BAP Other
AKBAŞ E. (Executive), DULGER O.
2018 - 2021
2018 - 2021
Derin Sinir Ağları Ile Videolarda Nesne Algılama
TUBITAK Project , 3501 - National Young Researcher Career Development Program
(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
KALKAN S. (Executive), AKBAŞ E.
2016 - 2017
2016 - 2017Fovealı Görme Gistemi ile Nesne Algılama
TUBITAK Project , 2232 - Dormitory Research Scholarship Program
AKBAŞ E. (Executive)
Patent
2024
2024System for estimating a pose of one or more persons in a scene (US 12094159-B1)
Patent
Registered / Approved, The Invention Registration Number: 12094159 , Standard Registration
2023
2023System for estimating a three dimensional pose of one or more persons in a scene (US11688139B1)
Patent
Registered / Approved, The Invention Registration Number: 11688139 , Standard Registration
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
2023
2023System for estimating a pose of one or more persons in a scene (US11631193B1)
Patent
Registered / Approved, The Invention Registration Number: 11631193 , 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
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
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 - 2025
2022 - 2025Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Committee Member
Peer Reviews in Scientific Publications
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
Roles in Event Organizations
July 2024
July 2024BAYÖYO 2024: Bilim Akademisi - TED Üniversitesi - Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Yapay Öğrenme Yaz Okulu
Science / Art Camp or Summer School Organization
Akbaş E., Cinbiş R. G., Kalkan S., Çapın T. K., Adanova V., Albayrak Ö., et al.
Ankara, Turkey
November 2022
November 2022Nesne Tespiti Probleminde Güncel İlerlemeler
Workshop Organization
Kalkan S., Akbaş E., Cinbiş R. G.
Turkey
August 2020
August 2020Imbalance Problems in Computer Vision
Workshop Organization
Akbaş E., Kalkan S.
United Kingdom
Awards
October 2023
October 2023ODTÜ Yılın Tezi Ödülü
Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi, Fen Bilimleri Enstitüsü
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
2024 - 2025
2024 - 20252219
TUBITAK
2016 - 2018
2016 - 2018