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With the advances in information technology, the amount of multimedia data captured, produced and stored is increasing rapidly. Additionally, multimedia content is widely used in many applications in today’s world, and hence, a need for organizing this data and accessing it from repositories with vast amount of information has been appeared.

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. On the other hand, 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 current projects, please visit our MULTIMEDIA DATABASE RESEARCH page at METU.

 

Current Research Interests

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)
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Talks

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

  • April 8, 2007
    Topic: Audio Information Retrieval
    Audience
    : Multimedia Research Group@Department of Computer Engineering, METU.
    (
    http://multimedia.ceng.metu.edu.tr/)

Supervised Graduation Projects (Selected)

"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.