Erchan Aptoula (Erhan Abdullah), PhD
Professor of Computer Science
Hello and welcome to my webpage!
I'm a computer scientist working at the Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences of Sabanci University, Türkiye.
I'm affiliated with the Computer Vision and Pattern Analysis Laboratory - VPALab.
Besides teaching at undergraduate and graduate levels, I conduct research on digital image analysis and computer vision, mostly with remote sensing images (aerial and satellite) and (bio)medical data, to a lesser degree. For specific applications you can check the projects, research and publications tabs.
Address: Sabanci University, Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Office #1108, Orta Mahalle - Tuzla, 34956, Istanbul, Türkiye
Tel: +90 216 483 95 14
E-mail: erchan.aptoula_at_sabanciuniv.edu
Oct 2025 - A paper in collaboration with the National Centre for Physics of Pakistan, on cross-domain hyperspectral image classification was accepted to IEEE WHISPERS.
Aug 2025 - A new paper on open-set domain generalization for hyperspectral image classification by Amirreza Khoshbakht was accepted to IEEE WHISPERS.
Jul 2025 - I gave a lecture about domain adaptation and domain generalization in remote sensing at the AI4AGRI Summer School, organized by Prof. Mihai Ivanovici at Braşov, Romania.
Jul 2025 - A study about pollen classification by S. N. Büyükbaş, V. Süzerer, M. Thota, P. Bosilj and E. Aptoula has been accepted to ICIP 2025. It was a collaboration between Sabanci Univ., Bingöl Univ. and Lincoln Univ (UK). It also includes a brand new dataset!
Jun 2025 - Congratulations to Amirreza Khoshbakht for achieving 2nd place at the student paper awards of IEEE SIU'25.
May 2025 - Multiple papers (10+) accepted to IEEE SIU'25.
Mar 2025 - Paper accepted to XAI'2025 on SSVEPs for explainability.
Feb 2025 - Three papers accepted to IEEE JURSE 2025, see you at Tunisia in May.
Nov 2024 - New conference paper at IEEE WHISPERS on domain generalization for scene classification, see you at Finland in December!
Nov 2024 - A new bilateral project between Türkiye and Tunisia has been accepted on explainable medical image analysis, led by Prof. B. Yanıkoğlu, where I'm tasked as a researcher on domain adaptation and generalization.
Sep 2024 - New journal article at IEEE GRSL about histogram layers for semantic segmentation with İlter Türkmenli and Prof. Koray Kayabol.