Yusuf Sinan Akgul

Assistant 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, Assistant Prof. 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

Below are the publications before joining GIT in 2005. Recent publications can be seen at GIT Vision Lab.

 

Journals

·        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.

·        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).

 

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

 

Refereed Conference Papers

·        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.
 

 

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

·        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