• Personal Info
• Education
• Work Experience
• Academic Projects
• Administrative Projects
• Administrative Duties
• Thesis Supervised
• Courses Given 
• Memberships
• Publications

Personal Info

Date and Place of Birth:  

1951, İstanbul

Married to Hüseyin Vural, with one child Derviş Can Vural

Education

Work Experience

Academic Projects

 More than 20 projects have been supported by organizations listed below:

• National Science Foundation (NSF)
  
• American Naval Air Development Center
• Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO)
• Turkish Scientific and Technological Research Center (TÜBİTAK)
• General Directorate of Post and Telegraph Organization (PTT)
  
• Yapıtel Telecommunications and Information Ltd. World Bank (WB)
• World Health Organization (WHO)
  
• Independent European Program Group (IEPG)

 Some completed projects:

• Modelling for Stochastic Systems, (NSF PhD Theses)
• Reduction of Noise Level in Old Speech Records, (TÜBİTAK)
• Product Classification by Remote Sensing (TÜBİTAK)
• Geological Fault Line Recognition by Remote Sensing (NSF, MIT, postdoc research support)
• Museum Automation System Feasibility Study (Ministry of Culture and Tourism)
• Library Automation System Feasibility Study (Ministry of Culture and Tourism)
• Space Program for Turkey (Contel Int. Support)
• Intelligent Structures (Contel Int. Support)
• Computer-based Reading System for the Visually Impaired (Ankara Lions Club)
• Automation of 011 and 021 Systems for the Postal Service (Ministry of Transportation)
• Optical Character Recognition for the Ottoman Archives (TÜBİTAK)
• Strategic Planning for the Health Information System (Ministry of Health))
• Development of High Speed Target Recognition Systems (IEPG)
• Kyrgyzstan Health Information System (World Bank)
• Ankara University, Computing and Information Services
• İLEMOD – Systems Analysis and Design for Ministry of Interior
• İDEA (Internet-based Asynchronised Education )
• Content-based Document and Image Recognition (State Planning Organization)

 Administrative Projects

• Faculty Development Program (ÖYP), (SPO)
• Postdoctoral Research Program (DOSAP), (METU)
• Integrated National and International Projects (YUUP), (SPO)
• Smart Classes (SPO)
• Science and Society (SPO) 

Administrative Duties

Thesis Supervised

1. C. Mertayak, “Toward the Frontiers of Stacked Generalization Architecture for Learning”, MS Thesis, METU 2007.
2. İ. Yalabık, “A Pattern Classification Approach Boosted with Genetic Algorithms”, MS Thesis, METU 2007.
3. M. Uysal, “A Hierarchical Object Localization and Image Retrieval Framework”, PhD Thesis, METU 2006.
4. E. Akbaş, “Automatic Image Annotation by Ensemble of Visual Descriptors”, MS Thesis, METU 2006.
5. Ö.C. Özcanlı, “An Image Retrieval System Based on Region Classification”, MS Thesis, METU 2004.
6. Ö.Ö. Tola, “18 Generalized Beam Angle Statistics”, MS Thesis, METU 2004.
7. A. Çarkacıoğlu, “Texture Descriptors for Content-Based Image Retrieval”, MS Thesis, METU 2003.
8. N. Arıca, “SHAPE: Representation, Description, Similarity and Recognition”, PhD Thesis, METU 2003.
9. P. Duygulu-Şahin, “Translating Images to Words: A Novel Approach for Object Recognition”, PhD Thesis, METU 2003.
10. M. Balcı, “3 –D Fast Terrain Rendering”, MS Thesis, METU 2001.
11. O. Mut, “Segmentation by Genetic Algorithm”, MS Thesis, METU 2001.
12. N. Dicle, “A New File Format for Content Based Coding of Images”, MS Thesis , METU 2000.
13. M. Uysal, "Color Similarity Matrix: A Color Similarity Measure As a Tool for Color Image Processing", MS Thesis, METU 1999.
14. N. Arıca, "An off-line Character Recognition System for Free Style Handwriting", MS Thesis, METU 1998.
15. M.A. Özdil, "Optical Character Recognition without Segmentation", MS Thesis, METU 1997.
16. T. Özsoy, "A Temporal Database for Real Estates", MS Thesis, METU 1997.
17. A.Çarkacıoğlu, "A New Set of Texture Similarity Measures", MS Thesis, METU 1997.
18. A. Atıcı, "Recognition of Ottoman Script", MS Thesis, METU 1994.
19. A. Şişman, "Transcription of Ottoman Script", MS Theses, METU 1995.
20. A. Atıcı, "Ottoman Script Recognition by Using Hidden Markov Model”, MS Thesis, METU 1994.
21. L. Yener, "ODTÜ VISION- An Image Processing Toolkit", MS Thesis, METU 1994.
22. K. Özdemir, "Ottoman Script Recognition by Hidden Markov Models", MS Thesis, METU 1992.
23. O. Şener, "Application of Markov Random Fields to Textured Images", MS Thesis, METU 1990.
24. M. Pyron, "Parametric Estimation of EEG under Acceleration Stress", MS Thesis, Drexel University 1987.
25. K. Jakobs, "Acceleration Induced Blackout Detection Using Matched Filtering", MS Thesis, Drexel University 1987.

Courses Given 

1. Numerical Computation (BS)

2. Probability Theory (BS)

3. Signals and Systems (BS)

4. Circuits and Systems (BS)

5. Communication (BS)

6. Operational Mathematics (BS)

7. Linear Sistems (BS)

8. Fundamentals of Image Processing (BS)

9. Artificial Intelligence (MS)

10. Speech Processing (MS)

11. Image Processing (MS)

12. Advanced Probability (MS)

13. Digital Communication (MS)

14. Pattern Recognition (MS)

Memberships

1. Chamber of Electrical Engineers
2. Informatics Association of Turkey
3. Turkish Informatics Foundation
4. IEEE Computer Society
5. IEEE Signal Processing Society

Publications

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