Dr. Mustafa Sert

Research

With the advances in information technology, the amount of multimedia data captured, produced and stored is increasing rapidly. However, traditional systems are not suitable to manage multimedia data, since multimedia data have their own characteristics, which differentiate it from simple textual or numerical data. Thus, interpreting this data in a high-level and human-understandable manner is a complicated task. Additionally, it is essential to bridge the semantic gap between the raw data and the information required by the users.

To this end, we develop automated methods to manage multimedia data, to extract some kind of meaningful information, and to structure multimedia data by assigning them a contextual meaning.

For more details on our current projects, please visit MULTIMEDIA DATABASE RESEARCH page at METU.

Current Research Interests

Audio Content Analysis and Understanding

Multimedia Databases and Queries

Wireless and Mobile Computing

Object-Oriented Software Engineering

Research Activities

2009-to date: Research Scientist, "Semantic Content Extraction, Storage and Querying of Visual, Audio, and Text Data in Videos", supported by TÜBİTAK. Web: http://multimedia.ceng.metu.edu.tr/

2002-2006: PhD Thesis, "Structural and Semantic Analysis of Audio Content for Content-based Querying and Browsing", Gazi University, Ankara TURKEY.

2001-2002: Research Scientist, "Design and Implementation of MPEG7-based Audio database". Research Project, TÜBİTAK-BİLTEN, METU, Ankara TURKEY.

1999-2001: Software Engineer, "Development of a Real-time Digital Signal Processing, Classification and Demodulation System". Industrial Project supported by TÜBİTAK-UEKAE in Baskent University, Ankara TURKEY.

Other Projects

"WEB-based Student Registration System", Baskent University, Ankara, Turkey, (1997-1998).

"Student Registration and Grading System", Baskent University-PreSchool, Ankara, Turkey, (1997-1998).

Talks

Over 10 talks in refereed international conferences (See the publications)/

Audio Information Retrieval, to Multimedia Research Group at Computer Eng. of METU, April 8, 2007.

(http://multimedia.ceng.metu.edu.tr/)

Supervised Graduation Projects (Selected)

"Music Search Engine", Department of Computer Engineering, Baskent University, Ankara, TURKEY, 2009-2010

"Scene-based Video Retrieval System", Department of Computer Engineering, Baskent University, Ankara, TURKEY, 2009-2010

"Location-based Photo Library", Department of Computer Engineering, Baskent University, Ankara, TURKEY, 2009-2010

"Web-based Climate Monitoring System", Department of Computer Engineering, Baskent University, Ankara, TURKEY, 2009-2010

"Automatic Music Recognition", Department of Computer Engineering, Baskent University, Ankara, TURKEY, 2006-07

"Automatic Audio Classification", Department of Computer Engineering, Baskent University, Ankara, TURKEY, 2005-06.

"Object Tracking and Localization with RFID", Department of Computer Engineering, Baskent University, Ankara, TURKEY, 2005-06.

"S-SMS: Secure SMS Software for Mobile Devices", Department of Computer Engineering, Baskent University, Ankara, TURKEY, 2005-06.

"Web-based Management System for ESR (Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate) Devices", Department of Computer Engineering, Baskent University, Ankara, TURKEY, 2005-06.

"Audio Content Analysis and Fingerprinting", Department of Computer Engineering, Baskent University, Ankara, TURKEY, 2004-05.

"A Java-based Decision Support System for Interpretation of EEG Signals", Department of Computer Engineering, Baskent University, Ankara, TURKEY, 2004-05.

"Content-Based Retrieval of Audio", Department of Computer Engineering, Baskent University, Ankara, TURKEY, 2003-04. (Presented in CeBIT 2004)

"Content-Based Retrieval of Medical Images Using MPEG-7 LLDs", Department of Computer Engineering, Baskent University, Ankara, TURKEY, 2002-03. (Presented in ICSP'03 Conference)

"Content-based Retrieval of Images: Oracle Intermedia", Department of Computer Engineering, Baskent University, Ankara, TURKEY, 2001-02.