Emre Akbas

emre akbas

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Phone: (217) 244-4392

Address:

1520 Beckman Institute

405 N. Mathews Ave.

Urbana, IL 61801

Biography:

Emre Akbas received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science in 2004 and 2006, respectively, from the Department of Computer Engineering, Middle East Technical University. He conducted his MS thesis research under the supervision of Dr. Fatos Yarman Vural. He is currently a Ph.D candidate in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, under the supervision of Dr. Narendra Ahuja.

Research Description:

Emre’s research interests are in automatic image segmentation, perceptual grouping and machine learning in computer vision.

Publications

  • Emre Akbas and Narendra Ahuja, “From ramp discontinuities to segmentation tree”, Asian Conference in Computer Vision, (ACCV 2009).
  • Emre Akbas and F. T. Yarman Vural, “Automatic Image Annotation by Ensemble of Visual Descriptors”, Workshop on Semantic Learning Applications in Multimedia, Intl. Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, (CVPR 2007).
  • Mutlu Uysal, Emre Akbas, F. T. Yarman Vural, “A Hierarchical Classification System Based on Adaptive Resonance Theory”, Intl. Conf. on Image Processing, (ICIP 2006).
  • Emre Akbas and F. T. Yarman Vural, “Design of a Feature Set for Face Recognition Problem”,  Intl. Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences – ISCIS 2006, Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
  • Gulsah Tumuklu, Emre Akbas, F. T. Yarman Vural, “A Comparison of Feature Spaces for Face Recognition Problem” (in Turkish), IEEE Conf. on Signal Processing and Communications Applications, 2006.
  • Emre Akbas, Ozge Ozcanlı, F. T. Yarman Vural, “A Comparison of the Performances of Fuzzy ARTMAP and AdaBoost Classification Algorithms in Image Retrieval” (in Turkish), IEEE Conf. on Signal Processing and Communications Applications, 2005.