Some of the publications by the members of the RETINA Vision and Learning Group are given below. More recent publications by Dr. Selim Aksoy and Dr. Pınar Duygulu and other group members can be accessed from their personal pages.

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Journal Papers

2008

Selim Aksoy, Krzysztof Koperski, Carsten Tusk, Giovanni Marchisio, "Land Cover Classification with Multi-Sensor Fusion of Partly Missing Data," accepted for publication in Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing, 2008.
H. Gokhan Akcay, Selim Aksoy, "Automatic Detection of Geospatial Objects Using Multiple Hierarchical Segmentations," in IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 46(7):2097-2111, July 2008.

2007

David A. Clausi, Selim Aksoy, James C. Tilton, "Foreword to the Special Issue on Pattern Recognition in Remote Sensing," in IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 45(12):3855-3856, December 2007.

2005

Selim Aksoy, Krzysztof Koperski, Carsten Tusk, Giovanni Marchisio, James C. Tilton, "Learning Bayesian Classifiers for Scene Classification with a Visual Grammar," in IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 43(3):581-589, March 2005.

Book Chapters

2007

Pinar Duygulu, Muhammet Bastan, Derya Ozkan, "Integrating image and text for semantic labeling of images and videos," in M. Cord, ed., Machine Learning for Multimedia, Springer-Verlag, 2007.
Jia-yu Pan, Hyungjeong Yang, Christos Faloutos, Pinar Duygulu, "Cross-modal Correlation Mining using Graph Algorithms," in X. Zhu, I. Davidson, eds., Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining: Challenges and Realities with Real World Data, Idea Group Reference, 2007.

2006

Selim Aksoy, "Spatial Techniques for Image Classification," in C.H. Chen, ed., Signal and Image Processing for Remote Sensing, Taylor & Francis, 2006.
Pinar Duygulu, Muhammet Bastan, "Translating images to words for recognizing objects in large image and video collections," in J. Ponce, M. Hebert, C. Schmid, A. Zisserman, eds., Towards Category-Level Object Recognition, Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series, 2006.

2005

Kobus Barnard, Pinar Duygulu, David Forsyth, "Exploiting Text and Image Feature Co-occurrence Statistics in Large Datasets," in R.C. Veltkamp, H.-P. Kriegel, L. Shapiro, eds., Trends and Advances in Content-Based Image and Video Retrieval, Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series, 2005.

Conference Papers

2007

R. Gokberk Cinbis, Selim Aksoy, "Relative Position-Based Spatial Relationships Using Mathematical Morphology," in IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, San Antonio, Texas, September 16-19, 2007.
H. Gokhan Akcay, Selim Aksoy, "Automated Detection of Objects Using Multiple Hierarchical Segmentations," in IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Barcelona, Spain, July 23-27, 2007.
Emel Dogrusoz, Selim Aksoy, "Modeling Urban Structures Using Graph-Based Spatial Patterns," in IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Barcelona, Spain, July 23-27, 2007.
Esra Ataer, Pinar Duygulu, "Matching Ottoman Words," in ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 9-11, 2007.
Demir Gokalp, Selim Aksoy, "Scene Classification Using Bag-of-Regions Representations," in IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Beyond Patches Workshop, Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 23, 2007.
H. Gokhan Akcay, Selim Aksoy, "Kentsel Yapilarin Bicimbilimsel Bolutlenmesi (in Turkish)," in 15. IEEE Sinyal Isleme ve Iletisim Uygulamalari Kurultayi, Eskisehir, Turkey, June 11-13, 2007.
Emel Dogrusoz, Selim Aksoy, "Bina Oruntuleri Kullanarak Kentlesme Modellemesi (in Turkish)," in 15. IEEE Sinyal Isleme ve Iletisim Uygulamalari Kurultayi, Eskisehir, Turkey, June 11-13, 2007.
R. Gokberk Cinbis, Selim Aksoy, "Konuma Bagli Uzamsal Iliskilerin Bicimbilimsel Modellenmesi (in Turkish)," in 15. IEEE Sinyal Isleme ve Iletisim Uygulamalari Kurultayi, Eskisehir, Turkey, June 11-13, 2007.
Tolga Can, Pinar Duygulu, "Reklamlarin Belirlenmesi ve Takibi (in Turkish)," in 15. IEEE Sinyal Isleme ve Iletisim Uygulamalari Kurultayi, Eskisehir, Turkey, June 11-13, 2007.
Esra Ataer, Pinar Duygulu, "Osmanlica Kelimeleri Esleme (in Turkish)," in 15. IEEE Sinyal Isleme ve Iletisim Uygulamalari Kurultayi, Eskisehir, Turkey, June 11-13, 2007.
Can Acar, Arda Atlas, Koray Cevik, Isa Olmez, Mustafa Unlu, Derya Ozkan, Pinar Duygulu, "Yuz Bulma Yontemlerinin Haber Videolari icin Sistematik Karsilastirmasi (in Turkish)," in 15. IEEE Sinyal Isleme ve Iletisim Uygulamalari Kurultayi, Eskisehir, Turkey, June 11-13, 2007.
H. Gokhan Akcay, Selim Aksoy, "Morphological Segmentation of Urban Structures," in 4th IEEE GRSS/ISPRS Joint Workshop on Remote Sensing and Data Fusion over Urban Areas, Paris, France, April 11-13, 2007.

2006

Selim Aksoy, Emel Kaya-Dogrusoz, "Modeling Urbanization Using Spatial Building Patterns," in 4th IAPR International Workshop on Pattern Recognition in Remote Sensing, Hong Kong, China, August 20, 2006.
Selim Aksoy, "Modeling of Remote Sensing Image Content using Attributed Relational Graphs," in IAPR International Workshop on Structural and Syntactic Pattern Recognition, (also in Lecture Notes in Computer Science), Hong Kong, China, August 17-19, 2006.
Derya Ozkan, Pinar Duygulu, "A Graph Based Approach for Naming Faces in News Photos," in IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, New York, NY, June 17-22, 2006.
Ozge Cavus, Selim Aksoy, "Haber Videolarinda Ilgililik Geribeslemesiyle Icerik Tabanli Erisim (in Turkish)," in 14. IEEE Sinyal Isleme ve Iletisim Uygulamalari Kurultayi, Antalya, Turkey, April 17-19, 2006.
Derya Ozkan, Pinar Duygulu, "Yuz ve Isim Iliskisi Kullanarak Haberlerdeki Kisilerin Bulunmasi (in Turkish)," in 14. IEEE Sinyal Isleme ve Iletisim Uygulamalari Kurultayi, Antalya, Turkey, April 17-19, 2006.
Muhammet Bastan, Pinar Duygulu, "Haber Videolarinda Nesne Tanima ve Otomatik Etiketleme (in Turkish)," in 14. IEEE Sinyal Isleme ve Iletisim Uygulamalari Kurultayi, Antalya, Turkey, April 17-19, 2006.
Yalin Bastanlar, I. Sengor Altingovde, Anil Aksay, Orhan Alav, Ozge Cavus, Yasemin Yardimci, Ozgur Ulusoy, Ugur Gudukbay, Enis Cetin, Gozde Bozdagi Akar, Selim Aksoy, "E-Muze: Muzeler Icin Web-Tabanli Gezi ve Bilgi Sistemi (in Turkish)," in 14. IEEE Sinyal Isleme ve Iletisim Uygulamalari Kurultayi, Antalya, Turkey, April 17-19, 2006.

2005

Selim Aksoy, Ozge Cavus, "A Relevance Feedback Technique for Multimodal Retrieval of News Videos," in EUROCON, Belgrade, Serbia & Montenegro, November 21-24, 2005.
Selim Aksoy, Akin Avci, Erman Balcik, Ozge Cavus, Pinar Duygulu, Zeynep Karaman, Pinar Kavak, Cihan Kaynak, Emre Kucukayvaz, Cagdas Ocalan, Pinar Yildiz, "Bilkent University at TRECVID 2005," in TREC Video Retrieval Evaluation (TRECVID), Gaithersburg, MD, November 14-15, 2005.
Giridharan Iyengar, Pinar Duygulu, Shaolei feng, Pavel Ircing, Sanjeev Khudanpur, Dietrich Klakow, Matthew Krause, R. Manmatha, Harriet J. Nock, Desislava Petkova, Brock Pytlik, Paola Virga, "Joint Visual-Text Modeling for Automatic Retrieval of Multimedia Documents," in 13th ACM Multimedia Conference, Singapore, November 6-12, 2005.
Nazli Ikizler, Pinar Duygulu, "Person Search Made Easy," in 4th International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval, Singapore, July 20-22, 2005, also published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 3568/2005.
Paola Virga, Pinar Duygulu, "Systematic Evaluation of Machine Translation Methods for Image and Video Annotation," in 4th International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval, Singapore, July 20-22, 2005, also published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 3568/2005.
Demir Gokalp, Selim Aksoy, "Finding Faces in News Videos," in 4th International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing, Riga, Latvia, June 21-23, 2005.
Selim Aksoy, H. Gokhan Akcay, "Multi-resolution Segmentation and Shape Analysis for Remote Sensing Image Classification," in 2nd International Conference on Recent Advances in Space Technologies, Istanbul, Turkey, June 9-11, 2005.
Nazli Ikizler, Pinar Duygulu, "Haber Videolari icin Yuz Bulma Yontemlerinin Iyilestirilmesi (in Turkish)," in 13. IEEE Sinyal Isleme ve Iletisim Uygulamalari Kurultayi, Kayseri, Turkey, May 16-18, 2005.

2004

Selim Aksoy, Korhan Bircan, Selim Ciraci, Pinar Duygulu, Evren Karaca, Serdar Kasirga, Tarkan Sevilmis, Mustafa Sener, "Bilkent University at TRECVID 2004," in TREC Video Retrieval Evaluation (TRECVID), Gaithersburg, MD, November 15-16, 2004.
Pinar Duygulu, "El Yazisi Tanima (in Turkish)," in Bilisim Ansiklopedisi, (invited paper).
Pinar Duygulu, Jia-Yu Pan, David Forsyth, "Towards Auto-Documentary: Tracking the evolution of news on time," in ACM Multimedia Conference, New York, NY, October 10-16, 2004.
Selim Aksoy, Krzysztof Koperski, Carsten Tusk, Giovanni Marchisio, "Interactive Training of Advanced Classifiers for Mining Remote Sensing Image Archives," in ACM International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, pp:773-782, Seattle, WA, August 22-25, 2004.
Jia-Yu Pan, HyungJeong Yang, Christos Faloutsos, Pinar Duygulu, "Automatic Multimedia Crossmodal Correlation Discovery," in ACM International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Seattle, WA, August 22-25, 2004.
Pinar Duygulu, Alex Hauptmann, "What's news, what's not? Associating news videos with words," in 3rd International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval, also published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 3115/2004, pp. 132-140.
Jia-Yu Pan, Hyung-Jeong Yang, Christos Faloutsos, Pinar Duygulu, "GCap: Graph-based Automatic Image Captioning," in 4th International Workshop on Multimedia Data and Document Engineering, in conjunction with Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference, Washington, DC, July 2, 2004.
Pinar Duygulu, Ming-yu Chen, Alex Hauptmann, "Comparison and combination of two novel commercial detection methods," in IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, Taipei, Taiwan, June 27-30, 2004.
Jia-yu Pan, Hyung-Jeong Yang, Pinar Duygulu, Christos Faloutsos, "Automatic Image Captioning," in IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, Taipei, Taiwan, June 27-30, 2004.

Theses and Reports

Elif Onalan, Korhan Bircan, Fatih Koca, Ozan Dincer, "IRIS Video Analysis and Retrieval System," Senior Design Project Report, Department of Computer Engineering, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, May 2005.