Publications

Selected publications. Please contact me (mubastan@gmail) if you need further information about the articles (e.g., pdf).

Google Scholar Profile

• O. Barbany, X. Lin, M. Bastan, A. Dhua, "ProcSim: Proxy-based Confidence for Robust Similarity Learning", WACV 2024,  arXiv: 2311.00668

• S. Chakraborty, S. Naha, M. Bastan, A. Kumar, D. Samaras, "Unsupervised and semi-supervised co-salient object detection via segmentation frequency statistics", WACV 2024, arXiv:2311.06654

• Z. Yang, M. Bastan, X. Zhu, D. Gray, D. Samaras, "Hierarchical Proxy-based Loss for Deep Metric Learning", WACV 2022, arXiv: 2103.13538, Amazon Science blog post.

• M. Bastan, A. Ramisa, M. Tek, "T-VSE: Transformer-Based Visual Semantic Embedding",  CVPR Workshop on Computer Vision for Fashion, Art and Design (CVFAD), arXiv:2005.08399, 2020.

• D. Manandhar, M. Bastan, K.H. Yap, "Dynamically Modulated Deep Metric Learning for Visual Search", ICASSP, ieeexplore, 2020.

• M. Bastan, H.Y. Wu, T. Cao, B. Kota, M. Tek, "Large Scale Open-Set Deep Logo Detection", arXiv:1911.07440, 2019 (OSLD Dataset).

• D. Manandhar, M. Bastan, K.H. Yap, "Semantic Granularity Metric Learning for Visual Search", Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, arXiv:1911.06047.

• D. Manandhar, M. Bastan, K.H. Yap,  "Tiered Deep Similarity Search for Fashion", ECCV 2018 Workshop on Computer Vision for Fashion, Art and Design (pdf).

• M. Bastan, K.H. Yap, L.P. Chau, "Remote Detection of Idling Cars Using Infrared Imaging and Deep Networks", Neural Computing and Applications (NCAA), 2018 (arXiv:1804.10805).

• M. Bastan, K.H. Yap, L.P. Chau, "System and Methods for Remote Sensing of Idling Cars", TD/329/17, NTU, Singapore.

• M. Bastan, K.H. Yap, L.P. Chau, "Idling Car Detection with ConvNets in Infrared Image Sequences", ISCAS, 2018.

• D. Manandhar, K.H. Yap, M. Bastan, Z. Heng, "Brand-Aware Fashion Clothing Search using CNN Feature Encoding and Re-ranking", ISCAS, 2018.

• M. Bastan, O. Yilmaz, "Multi-View Product Image Search Using Deep ConvNets Representations", International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools, Vol. 27, No. 08, December  2018, (arXiv:1608.03462, link).

• M. Bastan, S. Bukhari, T. Breuel, "Active Canny: Edge Detection and Recovery with Open Active Contour Models", IET Image Processing, 2017, (arXiv:1609.03415).

• M. Bastan, H. Kandemir, B. Cantürk, "MT3S: Mobile Turkish Scene Text-to-Speech System for the Visually Impaired", arXiv:1608.05054, 2016.

• F. Çalışır, M. Bastan, O. Ulusoy, U. Gudukbay, "Mobile Multi-View Object Image Search", Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2016, (website, pdf).

• H. Kandemir, B. Cantürk, M. Bastan, "Mobile Reader: Turkish Scene Text Reader for the Visually Impaired (Mobil Okur: Görme Engelliler İçin Türkçe Yazı Okuma Sistemi)", IEEE SIU, 2016.

• M. Bastan, "Multi-View Object Detection in Dual Energy X-Ray Images", Machine Vision and Applications, 10.1007/s00138-015-0706-x, 26(7), 1045-1060, 2015 (pdf) (Springer link).

• F. Calisir, M. Bastan, U. Gudukbay, O. Ulusoy, "Mobile Image Search Using Multi-Query Images", IEEE SIU, 2015.

• K. Karasu, M. Bastan, "Turkish OCR on Mobile and Scanned Document Images", IEEE SIU, 2015 (dataset).

• S. Genc, M. Bastan, U. Güdükbay, V. Atalay, Ö. Ulusoy,  "HandVR: A Hand-Gesture-Based Interface to a Video Retrieval System", Signal, Image and Video Processing, Springer, 2015.

• M. Bastan, W. Byeon, T. Breuel,  "Object Recognition in Multi-View Dual Energy X-ray Images", BMVC, 2013 (pdf).

• M. Bastan, M. R. Yousefi, T. Breuel,  "Visual Words on Baggage X-Ray Images", Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns, 2011.

• P. Duygulu, M. Bastan, "Multimedia Translation for Linking Visual Data to Semantics in Videos", Machine Vision and Applications, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 99-115, 2011 (Springer link).

• M. Bastan, H. Çam, U. Güdükbay, Ö. Ulusoy, "BilVideo-7: An MPEG-7 Compatible Video Indexing and Retrieval System", IEEE Multimedia, vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 62-73, 2010 (pdf).

• O. Kucuktunc, M. Bastan, U. Güdükbay and Ö. Ulusoy, "Video Copy Detection Using Multiple Visual Cues and MPEG-7 Descriptors", Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation - Special Issue on Large-Scale Image and Video Search: Challenges, Technologies and Trends, vol. 21, no. 8, pp. 838–849, 2010 (pdf).

• E. Saykol, M. Bastan, U. Güdükbay, Ö. Ulusoy, "Keyframe Labeling Technique for Surveillance Event Classification", Optical Engineering, vol. 49, no. 11, 2010.

• T. Sevilmis,  M. Bastan, U. Güdükbay and Ö. Ulusoy, "Automatic Detection of Salient Objects and Spatial Relations in Videos for a Video Database System", Image and Vision Computing, vol. 26, no. 10, pp. 1384-1396, 2008 (pdf).

• M. Bastan, U. Güdükbay and Ö. Ulusoy, "Segmentation-based Extraction of Important Objects from Video for Object-based Indexing", IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo, pp. 1357-1360, 2008.

• M. Bastan, U. Güdükbay and Ö. Ulusoy, "Automatic Extraction of Important Objects for an MPEG-7 Compliant Video Database System (MPEG-7 Uyumlu Video Veri Tabanlari Için Önemli Nesnelerin Otomatik Olarak Bulunmasi)", IEEE SIU, Didim, Turkey, April 20-22, 2008.

• P. Duygulu, M. Bastan and D. Ozkan, "Combining Textual and Visual Information for Semantic Labeling of Images and Videos", Machine Learning Techniques for Multimedia, Springer Verlag, Editors: Matthieu Cord and P. Cunnigham, pp. 205-226, 2008.

• P. Duygulu, M. Bastan and D. A. Forsyth, "Translating Images to Words for Recognizing Objects in Large Image and Video Collections", Towards Category-Level Object Recognition - Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series,, Springer Verlag, Editors: Jean Ponce, Martial Hebert, Cordelia Schmid and Andrew Zisserman, vol. 4170, pp. 258-276, 2006.

• M. Bastan, P. Duygulu, "Recognizing Objects and Scenes in News Videos", International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR), 2006.

• M. Bastan, P. Duygulu, "Object Recognition and Auto-annotation in News Videos (Haber Videolarinda Nesne Tanima ve Otomatik Etiketleme)", IEEE SIU, Antalya, Turkey, April 17-19, 2006

     Misc:

• M. Bastan,  X. Shi,  J. Gu,  Z. Heng, C. Zhuo, D. Sng, A. Kot, "NTU ROSE Lab at TRECVID 2018: Ad-hoc Video Search and Video to Text", TRECVID 2018 (pdf).

• M. Bastan, H. Çam, U. Güdükbay, Ö. Ulusoy, "An MPEG-7 Compatible Video Retrieval System with Integrated Support for Complex Multimodal Queries", Bilkent University, Department of Computer Engineering, Technical Report BU-CE-0905, 2009.

• O. Kucuktunc, M. Bastan, U. Gudukbay, O. Ulusoy, "Bilkent University Multimedia Database Group at TRECVID 2008", Proceedings of TREC Video Retrieval Evaluation (TRECVid), Gaithersburg, MD, 2008 (pdf).

• S. Aksoy, P. Duygulu, G. Akcay, E. Ataer, M. Bastan, T. Can, O. Cavus, E. Dogrusoz, D. Gokalp, A. Akaydin, L. Akoglu, P. Angin, G. Cinbis, T. Gur, M. Unlu, "Bilkent University at TRECVID 2006", Proceedings of TREC Video Retrieval Evaluation (TRECVid), Gaithersburg, MD, 2006 (pdf).