İsmet Zeki Yalnız

PhD Candidate

Department of Computer Science

University of Massachusetts, Amherst
e-mail: zeki[at]cs[dot]umass[dot]edu

AREAS OF INTEREST

• Computer Vision

• Pattern Recognition

• Content-based Retrieval

• Document Analysis

• Remote Sensing

EDUCATION

• PhD in Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (since 2009)

o Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. R. Manmatha

• PhD in Computer Engineering, Bilkent University (2008 - 2009, transferred)

o Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Selim Aksoy

• M.S. in Computer Engineering, Bilkent University (2006 - 2008)

Thesis title: Integrated Segmentation and Recognition of Connected Ottoman Script

o Supervisor: Prof. Ozgur Ulusoy

o Co-supervisor: Assc. Prof. Ugur Gudukbay

• B.S. in Computer Engineering, Bilkent University (2002 - 2006)

PUBLICATIONS

Journal:

[1] Aksoy S., Yalniz I. Z., Tasdemir K.. Automatic Detection and Segmentation of Orchards Using Very High-Resolution Imagery, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. X, No. XX, pp: 1-15, 2012 [pdf]

[2] Yalniz I. Z., Aksoy S.. Unsupervised Detection and Localization of Structural Textures using Projection Profiles, Pattern Recognition, Vol. 43, Issue 10, pp: 3324-3337, 2010. [pdf] [source code]

[3] Yalniz I. Z., Altingovde I. S., Gudukbay U., Ulusoy O.. Ottoman Archives Explorer: A Retrieval System for Digital Ottoman Archives. ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, Vol. 2, No. 3, Article No. 8, 20 pages, December 2009. [pdf]

[4] Yalniz I. Z., Altingovde I. S., Gudukbay U., Ulusoy O.. Integrated Segmentation and Recognition of Connected Ottoman Script, Optical Engineering, Vol. 48, No. 11, Article 117205, 12 pages, November 2009. [pdf]

Conference & Workshop:

[1] Yalniz I. Z., Manmatha R.. Finding Translations in Scanned Book Collections. ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (SIGIR’12), Portland, Oregon, USA, August 12-16th, 2012 (to appear, full paper)

[2] Yalniz I. Z., Manmatha R.. An Efficient Framework for Searching Text in Noisy Document Images. 10th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems (DAS’12), Gold Coast, Australia, March 27-29th, 2012 [pdf] [slides]

HONORABLE MENTION AWARD

[3] Yalniz I. Z., Can E. F., Manmatha R.. Partial Duplicate Detection for Large Book Collections. International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM’11), Glasgow, UK, pp. 469-574, October 24-28, 2011 [pdf] [slides]

[4] Yalniz I. Z., Manmatha R.. A Fast Alignment Scheme for Automatic OCR Evaluation of Books. International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR’11), Beijing, China, pp. 754-758, September 18-21, 2011 [pdf] [dataset]

[5] Yalniz I. Z., Aksoy S.. Detecting Regular Plantation Areas in Satellite Images. IEEE 17th Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference, Antalya, Turkey, pp. 289-292, April 9-11, 2009 [pdf]

Theses:

[1] Integrated Segmentation and Recognition of Connected Ottoman Script, Master's thesis, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, Technical Report No: BU-CE-0808, 8.8.2008.

HONORS & SCHOLARSHIPS

• Assistantship is granted by University of Massachusetts-Amherst for Ph.D. study including tuition waiver and health insurance.

• TUBITAK BIDEB 2210 fellowship is awarded by the Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey for M.S. study.

• Assistantship is granted by Bilkent University for M.S. and PhD studies including tuition waiver, accommodation and health insurance.

• Scholarship awarded by Bilkent University for B.S. study including tuition waiver

• "High Honor" student during undergraduate study

ACTIVITIES & MEMBERSHIPS

• Program Committee Member, International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM’12)

• Reviewer for Pattern Recognition Letters (since 2008)

• Reviewer for IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems (DAS’12)

• Reviewer for International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR’11)

• External reviewer for Scientific and Statistical Database Management Conference (SSDBM’09)