{"id":12,"date":"2015-04-30T21:37:43","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T18:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/atemizel\/?page_id=12"},"modified":"2026-01-05T15:29:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T12:29:32","slug":"graduate-students","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/atemizel\/graduate-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Supervised\/co-supervised 37 MSc and 10 PhD students to successful completion.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3><big>Completed:<\/big><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Deniz Kizaro\u011flu (MSc, 2026), &#8220;Unified Local-Global Prompt Learning for Few-Shot Vision-Language Adaptation via Optimal Transport&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Meryem Mine Kurt (MSc, 2025), &#8220;Modeling Disease Progression with Diffusion-Based Generative Models&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Ant Duru (MSc, 2025), &#8220;Adaptive Data Augmentation Through Prompt-Driven Policy Optimization with Large Language Models&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Volga Sezen (MSc, 2025), &#8220;Joint Temperature-Luminosity Classification of Stellar Spectra with a Distance-Aware Loss Function&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>G\u00f6rkem Polat (PhD, 2023), \u201cComputer-Aided Estimation of Endoscopic Activity in Ulcerative Colitis\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Mehmet Ali Arabac\u0131 (PhD, 2023 &#8211; principal supervisor), &#8220;Multi-Modal Egocentric Activity Recognition Through Decision Fusion&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>\u00dclk\u00fc Uzun (PhD, 2022), &#8220;Employment of Cycle-Spinning in Deep Learning&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Berat Tuna Karl\u0131 (MSc, 2022), &#8220;Attack Independent Perceptual Improvement of Adversarial Examples&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Alperen \u0130nci (MSc, 2022), &#8220;<span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">Active Learning Based Synthetic Sample Selection for Endoscopic Image <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">Classification&#8221;<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Ayberk Ayd\u0131n (MSc, 2022), &#8220;Improving Perceptual Quality of Spatially Transformed Adversarial Examples&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Deniz \u015een (MSc, 2022), &#8220;Universal Adversarial Perturbations using Alternating Loss Functions&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>\u00dcmit Mert \u00c7a\u011flar (MSc, 2022), &#8220;Improving Classification Performance of Endoscopic Images with Generative Data Augmentation&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Cihan Ongun (PhD, 2021) &#8211; \u201cGeneration and Modification of 3D Models with Deep Neural Networks\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/open.metu.edu.tr\/bitstream\/handle\/11511\/92889\/cihan_ongun_tez_merged.pdf\">pdf<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Ayse Elvan Aydemir (PhD, 2021, co-supervised), &#8220;A Data Driven Performance Evaluation Framework for Sports Analytics&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Hilmi Kumdak\u00e7\u0131 (MSc, 2021) \u2013 \u201cVehicle Detection on Small Scale Data by Generative Data Augmentation\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Hamza Eray (MSc, 2021) \u2013 \u201cParallelization of Noise Subspace-Based DOA Estimation Algorithms on CPU and GPU\u201d<\/li>\n<li>At\u0131l \u0130lerialkan (MSc, 2019 &#8211; co-supervised) \u2013 \u201cSpeaker and Posture Classification using Instantaneous Acoustic Features of Breath Signals\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blgnksy.github.io\/\">Bilgin Aksoy<\/a> (MSc, 2019) &#8211; \u201cPerceptual Quality Preserving Adversarial Attacks\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Fatih Ozkan (MSc, 2017 &#8211; principal supervisor) &#8211; \u201cFirst-Person Activity Recognition with Multiple Kernel Learning\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Gokhan Yilmaz (MSc, 2017 &#8211; principal supervisor)\u2013 \u201cAccelerating Line-of-Sight Analysis Algorithms with Parallel Programming\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/dcfu\/gpuviewshed\/\">source code<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Ahmet Yigit (PhD, 2016) \u2013 \u201cConjoint Individual and Group Tracking with Online Learning\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kuartis.com\/en\/about-us-2\/\">Berker Logoglu<\/a> (PhD, 2016 &#8211; principal supervisor) \u2013 \u201cSpatial 3D Local Descriptors for Object Recognition in RGB-D Images\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Mustafa Yagcioglu (PhD, 2015 &#8211; principal supervisor) \u2013 \u201cObject Tracking with Range Gated Camera System\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Serdar Buyuksarac (MSc, co-supervised, 2015) \u2013 \u201cGPU-Enabled Real-Time Panoramic Background Subtraction\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Ibrahim Serdar Acikgoz (MSc-project, 2015) \u2013 \u201cGPU Accelerated Framework for Satellite Image Processing\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Erkam Akkurt (MSc, 2015- principal supervisor) \u2013 \u201cUBDROID: A Tool for Monitoring Smartphone Application Usage for User Behavior Analysis\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Ugur Guler (MSc, 2015) \u2013 \u201cAutomated Detection of Viewer Engagement by Head Motion Analysis\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Ilker Gurcan (MSc, 2014) \u2013 \u201cHybrid CPU-GPU Implementation of Tracking-Learning-Detection Algorithm\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Eldjon Kepucka (MSc, 2014) \u2013 \u201cA Mobile Sensing Framework for Audience Emotion Analysis\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/aelvangunduz\/\">Ayse Elvan Gunduz<\/a> (MSc, co-supervised, 2014)\u00a0\u2013 Anomaly Detection Using Sparse Features and Spatio-Temporal Hidden Markov Model for Pedestrian Zone Video Surveillance<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/cihanongun.medium.com\/\">Cihan \u00d6ng\u00fcn<\/a> (MSc, co-supervised, 2014)\u00a0\u2013 Anomaly Detection for Video Surveillance in Crowded Environments<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cankaya.edu.tr\/akademik_birimler\/Dersler\/%C3%96%C4%9Fr.G%C3%B6r.Bur%C3%A7inBuketO%C4%9EUL\">Burcin Buket Ogul<\/a> (MSc, 2013)\u00a0\u2013 A Learning-Based Method for Person Re-Identification<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/rse.shef.ac.uk\/contact\/fariba-yousefi\/\">Fariba Yousefi<\/a> (MSc, co-supervised, 2013) \u2013\u00a0Evaluation of Feature Descriptors for Finger Vein Recognition<\/li>\n<li>Coskun Ayyildiz (MSc-project, 2013) \u2013 Comparative Evaluation of Particle Filter and Mean Shift Tracking for Video Surveillance<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/profile\/puren\">Puren Guler<\/a> (MSc, co-supervised, 2012) &#8211; 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