| Oct 2021 |
Our work on low-light image enhancement has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. Read more at our project website |
| Aug 2021 |
Our paper on multimodal procedural reasoning is accepted to ICCV 2021: "SLAMP: Stochastic Latent Appearance and Motion Prediction". Read more about our paper at our project website. |
| Apr 2021 |
I have been awarded the distinguished the 2021 Young Scientist Award (BAGEP 2021) by the Science Academy in Computer Engineering category. |
| Jan 2021 |
I will be teaching a new graduate-level course: COMP547 Deep Unsupervised Learning.
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| Nov 2020 |
I received a gift fund from Adobe Research to work on learning-based approaches for editing indoor scenes. I will be collaborating with Duygu Ceylan of Adobe Research, Erkut Erdem and Deniz Yuret of KUIS AI LAB in this exciting project. Thanks Adobe! |
| Sep 2020 |
I moved to Koç University as an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Engineering. I am also affiliated with KUIS AI Lab. |
| May 2020 |
Our recent ACM TOG paper on manipulating transient attributes of natural scenes was featured on Two Minute Papers. |
| Jan 2020 |
Our joint work with the Cognition, Learning and Robotics (CoLoRs) lab at Bogazici University on reasoning about action effects on articulated multi-part objects has been accepted to ICRA 2020.
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| Oct 2019 |
Our work on manipulating transient attributes of natural scenes via hallucination has been accepted for publication in ACM Transactions on Graphics. Read more about our paper at our project website. |
| Aug 2019 |
Our paper on multimodal procedural reasoning is accepted to CoNLL 2019: "Procedural Reasoning Networks for Understanding Multimodal Procedures". Read more about our paper at our project website. |
| Feb 2019 |
Our joint work with the ICON lab at the National Magnetic Resonance Research Center (UMRAM) on utilizing GANs for multi-contrast MRI image synthesis has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging. An early version of the manuscript is available on arXiv. |
| Feb 2019 |
Together with Erkut, I will give a tutorial on Multimodal Learning with Vision and Language at IPTA 2019.
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| Dec 2018 |
I will give a talk on Multimodal Machine Comprehension at ITURO 2019. |
| Nov 2018 |
RecipeQA was featured by MIT Technology Review as one of the most creative datasets at EMNLP 2018. |
| Aug 2018 |
Our paper on multimodal machine comprehension is accepted to EMNLP 2018: "RecipeQA: A Challenge Dataset for Multimodal Comprehension of Cooking Recipes". Read our paper, download the data, and submit your predictions at our project website. |
| Aug 2018 |
Our work on manipulating transient attributes of natural scenes via hallucination is out on arXiv. See our demo and results at project website |
| Jun 2018 |
I am invited to Dagstuhl Seminar on Joint Processing of Language and Visual Data for Better Automated Understanding. |
| Mar 2018 |
I will be a panelist in a discussion on deep learning at ISBCS 2018. Slides of my talk is here. |
| Feb 2018 |
I will be teaching a new graduate-level course: CMP 784 Deep Learning. You can follow my deep learning related tweets at @aykuterdemml.
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| Nov 2017 |
Our work on deep dynamic saliency prediction will be published in IEEE Transactions on Multimedia: "Spatio-Temporal Saliency Networks for Dynamic Saliency Prediction". |
| Sep 2017 |
New TUBITAK 1003 project on "Summarization Approaches Towards Interpreting Big Visual Data", in partnership with Somera. |
| June 2017 |
Our work on sampling-based image and video matting will be published in IEEE Transactions on Image Processing: "Alpha Matting with KL-Divergence Based Sparse Sampling". |
| May 2017 |
Slides from our "Adversarial Training and Generative Adversarial Networks" tutorial at SIU 2017 are now available online.
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| Dec 2016 |
Our work on evaluation of automatic metrics for image captioning is accepted to EACL 2017 as a long paper: "Re-evaluating Automatic Metrics for Image Captioning". slides |
| Dec 2016 |
Our paper on using GANs to generate outdoor scenes from attributes and semantic layouts is out on arXiv. |
| Nov 2016 |
Our work on learning dynamic saliency will be published in Signal Processing: Image Communication: "A Comparative Study for Feature Integration Strategies in Dynamic Saliency Estimation". |
| Jul 2016 |
Our paper on deep models for dynamic saliency estimation is out on arXiv. |
| May 2016 |
Slides from our "Deep Learning in Computer Vision" tutorial at SIU 2016 are now available online. |
| May 2016 |
Our paper on Turkish image captioning won the Alper Atalay Best Student Paper Award (First Prize) at SIU 2016. |
| May 2016 |
Our paper on photo collection summarization won the IEEE Best Student Paper Award (Second Prize) at SIU 2016. |
| Apr 2016 |
Our part-based tracking work will be published in Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation: "Deformable Part-based Tracking by Coupled Global and Local Correlation Filters". |
| Apr 2016 |
Our work on Turkish Image Description Generation is featured on national TV. |
| Mar 2016 |
I am awarded a hardware donation (a Tesla K40 GPU) from NVIDIA for my research. |
| Feb 2016 |
A full paper accepted to Eurographics 2016: "An Objective Deghosting Quality Metric for HDR Images". |
| Jan 2016 |
I'll be speaking at YAZGIG 2016. |
| Jan 2016 |
We'll be giving a tutorial on deep learning at SIU 2016.
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| Sep 2015 |
One paper accepted to ICCV 2015: Image Matting with KL-Divergence Based Sparse Sampling. |
| Aug 2015 |
Journal version of our image memorability work will be published in Image and Vision Computing: Predicting Memorability of Images Using Attention-driven Spatial Pooling and Image Semantics. |
| Jun 2015 |
One paper accepted to ACL 2015 as a short paper: A Distributed Representation Based Query Expansion Approach for Image Captioning. |
| Mar 2015 |
A state-of-the-art report (STAR) accepted to Eurographics 2015: The State of the Art in HDR Deghosting: A Survey and Evaluation.
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| Oct 2014 |
One paper accepted to WACV 2015: City Scale Image Geolocalization via Dense Scene Alignment. |
| Jul 2014 |
One paper accepted to BMVC 2014: Top down saliency estimation via superpixel-based discriminative dictionaries. |
| Jan 2014 |
New TÜBİTAK 3501 Career Development Program grant awarded. More details below.
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| Sep 2013 |
One paper accepted to SIGGRAPH Asia 2013: Structure-Preserving Image Smoothing Via Region Covariances. |
| Jul 2013 |
New TÜBİTAK 1001 Support Program for Scientific and Technological Research Projects grant awarded. More details below. |
| Jun 2013 |
Hacettepe University Computer Vision Lab's (HUCVL) website is now online. Visit http://vision.cs.hacettepe.edu.tr |