Erchan Aptoula

Erchan Aptoula (Erhan Abdullah), PhD

Professor of Computer Science

Hello and welcome to my webpage!

I am a full professor of Computer Science at the Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences of Sabancı University, Türkiye, working in computer vision and digital image analysis. My current research focuses on domain adaptation and generalization, generalized category discovery, explainable and reliable AI, and multimodal learning, with applications in Earth observation, biomedical imaging, precision agriculture, industrial inspection, and intelligent transportation.

Contact

Address: Sabanci University, Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Office #1108, Tuzla, 34956, Istanbul, Türkiye
Phone: +90 216 483 95 14
E-mail: erchan.aptoula_at_sabanciuniv.edu
Computer Vision and Pattern Analysis Laboratory - VPALab

News

Sep 2026 - New journal article with A. Kosar, I. Butun, T. Parlayici and S. Celik at Microsystems & Nanoengineering.
Aug 2026 - New conference paper at IEEE Sensors'26 by S. N. Alhasan, E. Aptoula and M. K. Yapıcı.
Aug 2026 - New journal article with Paulo Teodoro on soybean disease detection from hyperspectral data.
Aug 2026 - New conference paper at the 11th ISIC Skin Analysis Workshop (MICCAI'26) with A. Aktan, U. Şen and B. Yanikoglu.
Aug 2026 - New journal article by İlter Türkmenli at RSL titled KalmanMix: A Novel Domain Generalization Method for Flood Mapping Using Satellite Imagery
Jul 2026 - Amirreza Khoshbakht received the best paper award in the image processing and computer vision track of IEEE SIU'26.
Jun 2026 - New conference paper at BIOMAP workshop (in conjunction with IEEE ICPR) about 3D reconstruction by Berk Kıvılcım.
May 2026 - New conference paper at IEEE ICIP'26 about change detection with mLSTMs by Elman Ghazaei.
Apr 2026 - New journal article on Hyperbolic Prototype Learning for Open-Set Joint HSI-LiDAR Classification by A. Khoshbakht at IEEE GRSL
Apr 2026 - New conference paper with Amirreza Khoshbakht about open-set medical image recognition at the PHAROS CVPR workshop.
Mar 2026 - New conference paper at IEEE WCCI'26 about retinal segmentation with R. A. A. Saleh, L Álvarez-Rodríguez, B. Cordon, E. Garcia-Martin, J. de Moura and M.Ortega.

past news