JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS
1. Timoteos Onur Özçelik, Berk Gökberk, Lale Akarun, “Strategies to address the false-negative pairing problem in contrastive learning”, Signal, Image, and Video Processing, vol 19, available online June 2025.
2. O. Ozdemir, İ.M. Baytas, L. Akarun, "Cross Attentive Multi-Cue Fusion for Skeleton-Based Sign Language Recognition" , IEEE Access, vol 13, pp. 106201-106217, June 2025.
3. M.G. Kantarcı, B. Gökberk, L. Akarun, "Unveiling Limitations of 3D Object Reconstruction Models Through A Novel Benchmark", Signal, Image and Video Processing, vol 19 (1), pp 1-9, Jan 2025.
4. UC Bicici, L Akarun, “Multi-path Routing For Conditional Information Gain Trellis using Cross-Entropy Search and Reinforcement Learning, IEEE Access, vol 12, Page(s): 66319 – 66334, 29 April 2024.
5. UC Bicici, THS Meral, L Akarun, “Conditional Information Gain Trellis, Pattern Recognition Letters, Volume 184, Pages 212-218, August 2024.
6. O. Ozdemir, İ.M. Baytas, L. Akarun, “Multi-cue temporal modeling for skeleton-based sign language recognition”, Frontiers in Neuroscience v.17, p. 487, 2023.
7. AA Kındıroglu, O Özdemir, L Akarun, “Aligning accumulative representations for sign language recognition”, Machine Vision and Applications 34 (1), p. 12, 2023.
8. U.C. Bicici, L. Akarun, “Conditional Information gain networks as sparse mixture of experts”, Pattern Recognition volume 120, December 2021.
9. B.E. Demiroz, Y. Bastanlar, A.A. Salah, L. Akarun, “Affordable Person Detection in Omnidirectional Cameras Using Radial Integral Channel Features”, Machine Vision and Applications 30 (4), 645-655, 2019.
10. B.E. Demiroz, K. Altınel, L. Akarun, “Rectangle Blanket Problem: Binary integer linear programming formulation and solution algorithms”, European Journal of Operational Research 277 (1), 62-83., 2019.
11. Kara, Y. E., Genc, G., Aran, O., Akarun L, “Actively Estimating Crowd Annotation Consensus”, Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, vol. 61, no 2. pp. 363-405, February 2018.
12. Ahmet Alp Kındıroglu, Oya Aran, Lale Akarun, “Multi-domain and multi-task prediction of extraversion and leadership from meeting videos”, EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing, vol 1, pp 77, November 2017.
13. Yunus Emre Kara, Gaye Genç, Oya Aran, Lale Akarun, "Modelling annotator behaviours for crowd labeling", Neurocomputing, Volume: 160 Pages: 141-156, July 2015.
14. Konur, Umut; Gurgen, Fikret S.; Varol, Fusun; Akarun Lale, "Computer aided detection of spina bifida using nearest neighbor classification with curvature scale space features of fetal skulls extracted from ultrasound images", Knowledge-based systems, Vol. 85 Pages: 80-95 , Sep. 2015 2015.
15. F Kirac, YE Kara, L Akarun, “Hierarchically constrained 3D hand pose estimation using regression forests from single frame depth data”, Pattern Recognition Letters, Volume: 50 Special Issue: SI Pages: 91-100, December 1, 2014.
16. I Ari, U Simsekli, A.T. Cemgil, L. Akarun, "Randomized Matrix Decompositions and Exemplar Selection in Large Dictionaries for Polyphonic Piano Transcription", JOURNAL OF NEW MUSIC RESEARCH Volume: 43 Issue: 3 Special Issue: SI Pages: 255-265, 2014.
17. Alyuz, Nese; Gökberk, Berk; Akarun, Lale, “3-D Face Recognition Under Occlusion Using Masked Projection”, IEEE Trans. Information Forensics and Security, Volume: 8 Issue: 5 Pages: 789-802 MAY 2013.
18. Aycan Yuksel, Lale Akarun, Bulent Sankur, “Hand Vein Biometry Based on Geometry and Appearance Methods”, IET Computer Vision, Special Issue: Future Trends in Biometric Processing, vol. 5, no. 6, pp. 398-406, Nov. 2011.
19. Kindiroglu, A., Yalcin, H., Aran, O., Hruz, M. Campr, P., Akarun, L., Karpov, A, “Multi-Lingual Fingerspelling Recognition for Handicapped Kiosk”, Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 395-399, 2011.
20. Marek Hruz, Pavel Campr, Erinc Dikici, Ahmet Alp Kindiroglu, Zdenek Krnoul, Alexander Ronzhin, Hasim Sak, Daniel Schorno, Hulya Yalcin, Lale Akarun, Oya Aran, Alexey Karpov, Murat Saraclar, Milos Zelezny, “Automatic Fingersign-to-Speech Translation System”, Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces, 4(2): 61-79 (2011).
21. Neşe Alyüz, Berk Gökberk, Lale Akarun, “Regional Registration for Expression Resistant 3D Face Recognition”, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security, vol 5, no 3, pp. 425-440, September 2010.
22. Ortega-Garcia, J; Fierrez, J; Alonso-Fernandez, F; Galbally, J; Freire, M; Gonzalez-Rodriguez, J; Garcia-Mateo, C; Alba-Castro, J; Gonzalez-Agulla, E; Otero-Muras, E; Garcia-Salicetti, S; Allano, L; Ly-Van, B; Dorizzi, B; Kittler, J; Bourlai, T; Poh, N; Deravi, F; Ng, M; Fairhurst, M; Hennebert, J; Humm, A; Tistarelli, M; Brodo, L; Richiardi, J; Drygajlo, A; Ganster, H; Sukno, F; Pavani, S; Frangi, A; Akarun, L; Savran, A; “The Multi-Scenario Multi-Environment BioSecure Multimodal Database (BMDB)”, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol 32, no 6, pages 1097-1111, June 2010.
23. Oya Aran, Lale Akarun, “Multi-class Classification Strategy for Fisher Scores: Application to Signer Independent Sign Language Recognition”, Pattern Recognition, Vol. 43, no. 5, pp. 1717-1992, May 2010.
24. Ertan Onur, Cem Ersoy, Hakan Deliç, Lale Akarun, “Surveillance with wireless sensor networks in obstruction: Breach paths as watershed contours”, Computer Networks, vol. 54, no.3, pp. 428-441, February 2010.
25. Cem Keskin, Lale Akarun, “STARS: Sign tracking and ecognition system using input-output HMMs”, Pattern Recognition Letters, vol. 30, no. 12, pp. 1086-1095, September 2009.
26. Oya Aran, M.S. Thomas Burger, Alice Caplier, Lale Akarun, “A Belief-Based Sequential Fusion Approach for Fusing Manual and Non-Manual Signs”, Pattern Recognition, vol.42 no.5, pp. 812-822, May 2009.
27. Oya Aran, Ismail Ari, Alexandre Benoit, Pavel Campr, Ana Huerta Carrillo, Franois-Xavier Fanard, Lale Akarun, Alice Caplier, Michele Rombaut, and Bulent Sankur, “Signtutor: An Interactive System for Sign Language Tutoring". IEEE Multimedia, Volume: 16 Issue: 1 Pages: 81-93, Jan-March 2009.
28. Oya Aran, Ismail Ari, Pavel Campr, Erinc Dikici, Marek Hruz, Siddika Parlak, Lale Akarun & Murat Saraclar, Speech and Sliding Text Aided Sign Retrieval from Hearing Impaired Sign News Videos , Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces, vol. 2, n. 1, Springer, 2008.
29. A.A. Salah, N. Alyuz, L. Akarun, “Registration of 3D Face Scans with Average Face Models,” Journal of Electronic Imaging, January-March 2008.
30. Berk Gökberk, Helin Dutağacı, Lale Akarun, Bülent Sankur, “Representation Plurality and Fusion for 3D Face Recognition”, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B, Volume 38, Issue 1, pp. 155-173, February 2008.
31. Alice Caplier, Sébastien Stillittano, Oya Aran, Lale Akarun, Gérard Bailly, Denis Beautemps, Nouredine Aboutabit & Thomas Burger, Image and video for hearing impaired people, EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing, Special Issue on Image and Video Processing for Disability, 2007.
32. Berk Gökberk, M. Okan Irfanoğlu, Lale Akarun, Ethem Alpaydın, “Learning the Best Subset of Local Features for Face Recognition”, Pattern Recognition, Volume 40, Issue 5, Pages 1520-1532, 2007.
33. E. Onur, C. Ersoy, H. Deliç and L. Akarun, " Surveillance wireless sensor networks: Deployment quality analysis", IEEE Network, vol. 21, no. 6, pp.48-53, Nov/Dec 2007.
34. A.A. Salah, H. Çınar, L. Akarun, B. Sankur, “Robust facial landmarking for registration”, Annals of Telecommunications, vol. 62, no:1-2, pp.83-108, January-February 2007
35. Berk Gökberk, M. Okan Irfanoğlu, Lale Akarun, “3D Shape-based Face Representation and Feature Extraction for Face Recognition”, Image and Vision Computing, Volume 24, Issue 8, pp. 857-869, August 2006.
36. Arman Savran, Levent M. Arslan and Lale Akarun, "Speaker Independent 3D Face Synthesis Driven by Speech and Text", Signal Processing, Volume 86, Issue 10, pp. 2932-2951, October 2006.
37. Yıldız, O. T., L. Akarun and H. L. Akın “Fast nearest neighbour testing algorithm for small feature sizes”, Electronics Letters, Vol 40, No 3, pp. 171-172, February 2004.
38. O. Özcan and L. Akarun, “Teaching Interactive Media Design”, Journal of Technology and Design Education, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 161-171, 2002.
39. D. Özdemir and L. Akarun, “An fuzzy algorithm for color quantization of images”, Pattern Recognition (Special Issue on Color Imaging), vol 35, no. 8, pp. 1785-1791, August 2002.
40. Salah, A.A., E. Alpaydın, L. Akarun, "A Selective Attention Based Method for Visual Pattern Recognition with Application to Handwritten Digit Recognition and Face Recognition," IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol.24, No.3, pp. 420-425, March 2002.
41. O. Özcan and L. Akarun, “Mathematics in Design Education”, Design Issues, vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 26-35, Summer 2001.
42. D. Özdemir and L. Akarun, “Fuzzy Algorithms for combined quantization and dithering”, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 10, no 6, pp. 923-931, June 2001.
43. D. Özdemir and L. Akarun, “Fuzzy Error Diffusion”, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 9, no 4, pp. 683-690, April 2000.
44. T. Tasdizen, L. Akarun, and C. Ersoy, “Color Quantization with genetic algorithms,” Signal Processing: Image Communication, vol. 12, pp. 49-57, January 1998.
45. L. Akarun, Y. Yardımcı, and A.E. Çetin, "Adaptive Methods for Dithering of Color Images", IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 6, no.7, pp. 950-955, July 1997.
46. L. Akarun, D. Özdemir, and Ö. Yalçın, “A modified quantization algorithm for dithering of color images,” Electronics Letters, vol. 32, no. 13, pp. 1185-1186, June 1996.
47. L. Akarun and R.A. Haddad, "Decimated rank order filtering", IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol 42, pp. 835-845, April 1994.
48. L. Akarun and R.A. Haddad, "Adaptive decimated median filtering", in Pattern Recognition Letters, pp. 57-62, January 1992.
1. Akarun, L., Aras, N., Aydemir, F. B., Bilge, Ü., Selcen, C., Sencer, A., Tuğcu, T., Yerlikaya, S., Yıldız, S. (2020). “A survey on digital maturity models for SMEs”, in E. S. Bayrak Meydanoglu, R. Öztürk, N. Bartholomäus, M. Klein (Eds), Digital Transformation in Business (theory/practice), (pp. 149-169), Peter Lang GmbH, Berlin, Germany.
2. Oya Aran, Ismail Ari, Alp Kindiroglu, Pinar Santemiz, Lale Akarun, "Otomatik İşaret Dili Tanıma ve Türk İşaret Dili için Bilgisayar Uygulamaları”, Ellerle Konuşmak: Türk İşaret Dili araştırmaları, s: 471-498, Editör: Engin Arık, Koç University press, 2016. (In Turkish)
3. Neşe Alyüz, Berk Gökberk, Lale Akarun, "Robust 3D Face Identification in the Presence of Occlusions", in, Face Recognition in Adverse Conditions, IGI Global, pp. 124-146, 2014.
4. Cem Keskin, Furkan Kıraç, Yunus Emre Kara, Lale Akarun, “Real Time Hand Pose Estimation using Depth Sensors”, Consumer Depth Cameras for Computer Vision: : Research Topics and Applications, eds. Andrea Fossati, Juergen Gall, Helmut Grabner, Xiaofeng Ren, Kurt Konolige Springer, 2013.
5. Cem Keskin, Oya Aran, Lale Akarun, “Hand Gesture Analysis”, in Computer Analysis of Human Behaviour, Editors: A.A. Salah, T. Gevers, Springer Verlag London, pp. 125-150, 2011.
6. Berk Gokberk, Albert Ali Salah, Nese Alyuz, Lale Akarun, “3D Face Recognition: Technology and Applications”, in Handbook of Remote Biometrics, M. Tistarelli, S. Z. Li and R. Chelappa; Springer-Verlag, Londra, 2009.
7. B. Gokberk, A.A. Salah, L. Akarun, 3D Face Recognition in "Guide to Biometric Reference Systems and Performance Evaluation" Editors: Dijana Petrovska-Delacrétaz, Gérard Chollet and Bernadette Dorizzi, Publisher Springer-Verlag, London, 2008, ISBN (978-1-84800-291-3)
8. Oya Aran, Thomas Burger, Lale Akarun & Alice Caplier, Gestural Interfaces for Hearing-Impaired Communication, in Multimodal user interfaces: from signals to interaction, Dimitrios Tzovaras (Ed.) Springer, 2008.
9. L. Akarun, Y. Yardımcı, and A.E. Çetin, "Adaptive Methods for Dithering of Color Images", Selected Papers on Digital Halftoning, J. Allebach (Eds.), pp. 674-677, SPIE Press (1999).
10. L. Akarun, Ö. Yalçın, and D. Özdemir, “Joint quantization and dithering of color images,” Selected Papers on Digital Halftoning, J. Allebach (Eds.), pp. 706-709, SPIE Press (1999).
CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS
1. Onur Şero, Oğulcan Özdemir, Lale Akarun, “Kendini Eğiterek Öğrenme Öznitelikleri ve Isı Haritası ile Türk İşaret Dili Tanıma”, 33rd Signal Processing and Telecommunication Applications Conference (SIU), 2025, Istanbul (2nd place, best paper in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Track).
2. Onur Sefa Özçıbık, Lale Akarun, “Bozunmuş Yazarkasa Fiş Görüntülerini Üretici Yaklaşımla Onarma”, 33rd Signal Processing and Telecommunication Applications Conference (SIU), 2025, Istanbul.
3. Karahan Şahin, Kadir Gökgöz, Murat Saraçlar, Lale Akarun, “BUTID: A Large-scale Sign Language Translation Dataset and Benchmarks for Turkish Sign Language Sign Language Recognition, Translation and Production, ” CVPR Workshops, Nashville, USA, June 2025.
4. E. Girgin, B. Gokberk, L. Akarun, “Detection and Quantification of Occlusion for 3D Human Pose and Shape Estimation”, 2nd Workshop on Facial and Body Expressions (FBE 2024), in conjunction with ICPR, Calcutta, Dec 1, 2024.
5. Ahmet Alp Kındıroğlu, Özgür Kara, Oğulcan Özdemir, Lale Akarun, “Transfer Learning for Cross-dataset Isolated Sign Language Recognition in Under-Resourced Datasets”, 18th IEEE Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, Istanbul, 2024.
6. Oğulcan Özdemir, İnci M. Baytaş, Lale Akarun, “Hand Graph Topology Selection for Skeleton-based Sign Language Recognition”, 18th IEEE Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, Istanbul, 2024.
7. Timoteos Onur Özçelik, Berk Gökberk, Lale Akarun, “Kendini Eğiterek Sık Görsel Temsil Öğrenimi” 32nd Signal Processing and Telecommunication Applications Conference (SIU), 2024, Tarsus. (3rd place, Alper Atalay Best Student Paper Award).
8. Merve Gül Kantarcı, Berk Gökberk, Lale Akarun, “3B Nesne Geriçatma Için Parça-Tabanlı Değerlendirme Önerisi” 32nd Signal Processing and Telecommunication Applications Conference (SIU), 2024, Tarsus. (2nd place, Alper Atalay Best Student Paper Award).
9. Emre Girgin, Berk Gökberk, Lale Akarun, “A novel occlusion index”, 31st Signal Processing and Telecommunication Applications Conference (SIU), 2023, İstanbul (3rd place, Sıddık Yarman Binboga Award).
10. Efehan Atıcı, Berk Gökberk, Lale Akarun, “Title: Detection of Free-Standing Conversational Groups with Graph Convolutional Networks”, International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPR 2022, Montreal, August 2022.
11. Giray Eryilmaz, Lale Akarun, “Weakly Supervised Blur detection and localisation”, 30th Signal Processing and Telecommunication Applications Conference (SIU), 2022.
12. Ahmet Faruk Çelimli; Oğulcan Özdemir, Lale Akarun “Attention modeling with temporal shift in sign language”, 30th Signal Processing and Telecommunication Applications Conference (SIU), 2022.
13. Merve Gül Kantarcı; Berk Gökberk, Lale Akarun, “Analysis of 3D Reconstruction Techniques”, 30th Signal Processing and Telecommunication Applications Conference (SIU), 2022.
14. H Temiz, B Gökberk, L Akarun, “TurCoins: Turkish republic coin dataset”, 29th Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU), 2021.
15. Ç. Gökçe, O. Özdemir, A.A. Kındıroğlu, L. Akarun, “Score-level Multi Cue Fusion for Sign Language Recognition”, SLRTP Workshop, ECCV 2020.
16. Ogulcan Özdemir, Ahmet Alp Kındıroglu, Necati Cihan Camgöz and Lale Akarun, “BosphorusSign22k Sign Language Recognition Dataset”, Proceedings 9th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages, LREC 2020, pp. 181-188.
17. Recep Doga Siyli, Batuhan Gundogdu, Murat Saraclar, Lale Akarun, “ Unsupervised key hand shape discovery of sign language videos with correspondence sparse autoencoders”, International Conference on acoustics, speech and signal processing (ICASSP), 2020, Barcelona, Spain.
18. Alptekin Orbay, Lale Akarun, “Neural Sign Language Translation by Learning Tokenization”, 15th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition 2020, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
19. Akarun L, Aras N., Aydemir F.B., Bilge Ü., Selcen C., Sencer A., Tuğcu T., Yerlikaya S., Yıldız S., “A survey on digital maturity models for SMEs”, 1st Annual Business Administration Conference on Digital Transformation in Business (theory/practice), Nov 2019, İstanbul, Turkey.
20. Hüseyin Temiz, Berk Gökberk, Lale Akarun, “Multi-view Reconstruction of 3D Human Pose with Procrustes Analysis”, International Conference on Image Processing Theory, Tools and Applications (IPTA) 2019.
21. Müjde Aktaş, Berk Gökberk, Lale Akarun, “Recognizing Non-Manual Signs in Turkish Sign Language”, International Conference on Image Processing Theory, Tools and Applications (IPTA) 2019.
22. Ahmet Alp Kindiroglu, Ogulcan Ozdemir, Lale Akarun, “Temporal Accumulative Features for Sign Language Recognition”, ICCV Workshop on Human Behaviour Understanding, Korea, 2019.
23. Melike Esma İlter, Arzucan Özgür, Lale Akarun, “Identifying image related sentences in news articles”, 27th Signal Processing and Communication Application Conference (SIU2019).
24. Nazif Can Tamer, Oğulcan Özdemir, Murat Saraçlar, Lale Akarun, “Dynamic time warping based sign retrieval”, 27th Signal Processing and Communication Application Conference (SIU2019).
25. Ufuk Can Bicici, Cem Keskin, Lale Akarun, “Conditional Information Gain Networks”, ICPR 2018, Beijing, China, August 2018.
26. O. Özdemir, A.A. Kındıroglu, L. Akarun , “Isolated sign language recognition using spatio-temporal descriptors”, 26th Signal Processing and Communication Application Conference (SIU2018).
27. Hilal Ozdemir, Yuko Ozasa, Hideo Saito, Lale Akarun, “Person Re-identification by Deep Part Learning”, IWFCV-2018, February 2018, Japan.
28. Berkay Aydın, Alp Kındıroglu, Oya Aran, Lale Akarun, “Automatic Personality Prediction from Audiovisual Data Using Random Forest Regression”, Contest Session, Multimedia Challenges Beyond Visual Analysis, International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), December 2016, Mexico.
29. NC Camgöz, AA Kındıroğlu, L Akarun, “Sign Language Recognition for Assisting the Deaf in Hospitals, International Workshop on Human Behavior Understanding, pp. 89-101, Sept. 2016.
30. Necati Cihan Camgöz, Ahmet Alp Kındıroğlu, Serpil Karabüklü, Meltem Kelepir, Lale Akarun, Sumru Özsoy, “BosphorusSign: Turkish Sign Language Recognition Corpus in Health and Finance Domains.”, Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) 2016.
31. O. Özdemir, N.C. Camgöz, L. Akarun , “Isolated sign language recognition using Improved Dense Trajectories”, 2016 24th Signal Processing and Communication Application Conference (SIU2016).
32. Necati Cihan Camgöz, Vitomir Struc, Berk Gökberk, Lale Akarun, "Facial Landmark Localization in Depth Images using Supervised Ridge Descent", International Conference on Computer Vision, Chalearn Workshop, Santiago Chile, December 2015.
33. Muhammed Miraç Süzgün, Hilal Özdemir, Necati Cihan Camgöz, Ahmet Alp Kındıroğlu, Doğaç Basaran, Cengiz Togay, Lale Akarun, “HospiSign: An Interactive Sign Language Platform for Hearing Impaired”, Eurasia Graphics 2015.
34. Necati Cihan Camgöz, Berk Gökberk, Lale Akarun, “Facial Landmark Localization in Depth Images using Supervised Descent Method”, Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU), 2015.
35. Necati Cihan Camgöz, Ahmet Alp Kindiroglu and Lale Akarun, "Gesture Recognition using Template Based Random Forest Classifiers", Chalearn Looking at People Workshop, ECCV Workshop, September 6-7 2014, Zürich, Switzerland.
36. Baris Evrim Demiroz, Albert Salah and Lale Akarun, "Coupling Fall Detection and Tracking in Omnidirectional Cameras", Human Behavior Understanding Workshop, ECCV Workshop, September 2, 2014, Zürich, Switzerland.
37. Neşe Alyüz, Berk Gökberk, Lale Akarun, "Detection of Realistic Facial Occlusions for Robust 3D Face Recognition", International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR2014), Stockholm, Sweden, August 25-28, 2014.
38. Necati Cihan Camgöz, Ahmet Alp Kındıroğlu, Lale Akarun, Oya Aran, “Domain Adaptation for Gesture Recognition using Hidden Markov Models”, Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU), 2014.
39. Ismail Arı, Ali Taylan Cemgil, Lale Akarun, "ID for data with multiple clusters", 21st Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU) Location: CYPRUS Date: APR 24-26, 2013. (Best paper award).
40. Murat Arar, Hua Gao, H. Kemal Ekenel, Lale Akarun, “Selection and Combination of Local Gabor Classifiers for Robust Face Verification”, BTAS 2012, Washington DC, USA.
41. İsmail Arı, Umut Şimşekli, Ali Taylan Cemgil, Lale Akarun, “Large scale polyphonic music transcription using randomized matrix decompositions”, EUSIPCO 2012, August 27-31, Bucharest Romania.
42. Cem Keskin, Furkan Kıraç, Yunus Emre Kara, Lale Akarun, “Hand Pose Estimation and Hand Shape Classification using Multi--layered Randomized Decision Forests”, ECCV 2012, Firenze, Italy.
43. Cem Keskin, Eray Berger, Lale Akarun, “A Unified Framework for Concurrent Usage of Hand Gesture, Shape and Pose” CVPR Workshop on Gesture Recognition, June 2012 , Rhode Island, USA (Best Demo Award).
44. Cem Keskin, Furkan Kıraç, Yunus Emre Kara, Lale Akarun, “Randomized Decision Forests for Static and Dynamic Hand Shape Classification”, CVPR Workshop on Gesture Recognition, June 2012 , Rhode Island, USA.
45. Ufuk Can Biçici, Lale Akarun, “Shadow Height Maps for Terrain Shadowing”, Eurasia Graphics, May 2012, İstanbul.
46. N. Alyuz, B. Gokberk, L. Spreeuwers, R. Veldhuis, L. Akarun, “Robust 3D Face Recognition in the Presence of Realistic Occlusions”, International Conference on Biometrics, April 2012, India.
47. Keskin C. Kıraç F., Kara Y.E., Akarun L."Real Time Hand Pose Estimation using Depth Sensors", ICCV Workshop on Consumer Depth Cameras for Computer Vision, CDC4CV 2011, Barcelona.
48. Keskin C. Cemgil A. T., Akarun L.,“DTW Based Pre-Clustering to Improve Hand Gesture Recognition”, 2nd Int. Workshop on Human Behavior Understanding, HBU 2011, Amsterdam.
49. A.A.Kindiroglu, H.Yalcin, O.Aran, M.Hruz, P.Campr, L.Akarun, A.Karpov, “Multi-Lingual Fingerspelling Recognition for Handicapped Kiosk”, PRIA2010, Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis: New Information Technologies, St. Petersburg, December 2010.
50. Karpov, Alexey, Ronzhin, Andrey, Kipyatkova, Irina, Ronzhin, Alexander, Akarun, Lale, “Multimodal Human Computer Interaction with MIDAS Intelligent Infokiosk”, Proceedings International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR2010), Istanbul, August 2010.
51. Aycan Yüksel, Lale Akarun, and Bülent Sankur, “Biometric Identification through Hand Vein Patterns”, The First International Workshop on Emerging Techniques and Challenges for Hand-based Biometrics (ETCHB2010, Istanbul, August 2010.
52. Ilker Yildirim, Oya Aran, Pinar Yolum, Lale Akarun, “Cooperative Sign Language Tutoring: A Multiagent Approach”, Proceedings ESAW 2009: 213-228, November 2009 (LNAI vol. 5881) (best paper award).
53. Pinar Santemiz, Oya Aran, Murat Saraclar and Lale Akarun , Automatic Sign Segmentation from Continuous Signing via Multiple Sequence Alignment, Proc. IEEE Int. Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction, Oct. 4, 2009, Kyoto, Japan.
54. Koray Balcı, Lale akarun, “Motion graphs from pose clusters”, Proceedings ISCIS 2009, Cyprus, Oct. 2009.
55. Hamdi Dibeklioglu, Berk Gokberk, Lale Akarun, Nasal Region-based 3D Face Recognition Under Pose and Expression Variation, in Advances in Biometrics, LNCS 5558, pp.309-318, Proc. Int. Conference on Biometrics, 2-5 June 2009, Italy.
56. Pinar Santemiz, Oya Aran, Murat Saraclar, Lale Akarun, “Extraction of Isolated Signs from Sign Language Videos via Multiple Sequence Alignment,” in Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM’09), pp. 117–122, St.Petersburg, Russia, 2009.
57. Oya Aran, Lale Akarun, “Multi-class Classification Strategies for Fisher Scores of Gesture and Sign Sequences”, International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR) 2008, Florida.
58. Nese Alyuz, Berk Gokberk, Lale Akarun, “A 3D Face Recognition System for Expression and Occlusion Invariance”, BTAS 2008, Washington DC, October 2008.
59. Hamdi Dibeklioglu, Albert Ali Salah, Lale Akarun, “3D Facial Landmarking under Expression, Pose, and Occlusion Variations”, BTAS 2008, Washington DC, October 2008.
60. Baris Fidaner, Lale Akarun, “Combined Color and Appearance Tracking for Video Post-Editing”, ISCIS 2008, Istanbul, Oct. 2008.
61. Koray Balci, Lale Akarun, “Clustering Poses of Motion Capture Data Using Limb Centroids”, ISCIS 2008, Istanbul, Oct. 2008.
62. Ismail Ari, Asli Uyar, Lale Akarun, “Facial Feature Tracking and Expression Recognition for Sign Language”, ISCIS 2008, Istanbul, Oct. 2008.
63. Nese Alyuz, Berk Gokberk, Hamdi Dibeklioglu, Lale Akarun, “Component-based Registration with Curvature Descriptors for Expression Insensitive 3D Face Recognition”, IEEE Int. Conf. On Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, Amsterdam, Holland, 17-19 Sept. 2008.
64. Arman Savran, Nese Alyuz, Hamdi Dibeklioğlu, Oya Celiktutan, Berk Gokberk, Bulent Sankur, Lale Akarun: “Bosphorus Database for 3D Face Analysis”, The First COST 2101 Workshop on Biometrics and Identity Management (BIOID 2008), Roskilde, Denmark, 7-9 May 2008.
65. Nese Alyuz, Berk Gokberk, Hamdi Dibeklioğlu, Arman Savran, Lale Akarun, Bulent Sankur: “3D Face Recognition Benchmarks on the Bosphorus Database with Focus on Facial Expressions”, The First COST 2101 Workshop on Biometrics and Identity Management (BIOID 2008), Roskilde, Denmark, 7-9 May 2008.
66. M. Bicego, A.A. Salah, E. Grosso, M. Tistarelli, L. Akarun, “Generalization in holistic versus analytic processing of faces, 14th int. Conf. On Image Analysis and Processing (ICIAP), Modena, Italy, Sept. 2007.
67. Savvas Argyropoulos, Konstantinos Moustakas, Alexey A. Karpov, Oya Aran, Dimitrios Tzovaras, Thanos Tsakiris, Giovanna Varni, Byungjun Kwon, “A multimodal framework for the communication of the disabled”, Proceedings of eNTERFACE 2007, The Summer Workshop on Multimodal Interfaces, Istanbul, Turkey, 2007.
68. Ferda Ofli, Cristian Canton-Ferrer, Yasemin Demir, Koray Balcı, Joelle Tilmanne, Elif Bozkurt, Idil Kızoglu, Yucel Yemez, Engin Erzin, A. Murat Tekalp, Lale Akarun, A. Tanju Erdem, “Audio-driven human body motion analysis and synthesis”, Proceedings of eNTERFACE 2007, The Summer Workshop on Multimodal Interfaces, Istanbul, Turkey, 2007.
69. Ramon Morros, Albert Ali Salah, Ben Schouten, Carlos Segura Perales, Jordi Luque Serrano, Onkar Ambekar, Ceren Kayalar, Cem Keskin, Lale Akarun, “Event Recognition for meaningful human-computer interaction in a smart environment”, Proceedings of eNTERFACE 2007, The Summer Workshop on Multimodal Interfaces, Istanbul, Turkey, 2007.
70. Arman Savran, Oya Celiktutan, Aydın Akyol, Jana Trojanova, Hamdi Dibeklioglu, Semih Esenlik, Nesli Bozkurt, Cem Demirkır, Erdem Akagunduz, Kerem Calıskan, Nese Alyuz, Bulent Sankur, Ilkay Ulusoy, Lale Akarun, Tevfik Metin Sezgin, “3D face recognition performance under adversarial conditions”, Proceedings of eNTERFACE 2007, The Summer Workshop on Multimodal Interfaces, Istanbul, Turkey, 2007.
71. Oya Aran, Thomas Burger, Alice Caplier, Lale Akarun, “Sequential belief-based fusion of manual and non-manual signs”, Gesture Workshop, Lisbon, April 2007.
72. Thomas Burger, Alexandra Urankar, Oya Aran, Lale Akarun & Alice Caplier, Cued Speech Hand Shape Recognition , 2nd International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP'07), Spain, 2007.
73. Thomas Burger, Oya Aran, Alexandra Urankar, Alice Caplier and Lale Akarun, “A Dempster—Shafer Theory based combination of classifiers for hand gesture recognition”, VISIGRAPP 2007, CCIS 21, pp. 137-150, 2008.
74. Cem Keskin, Koray Balci, Oya Aran, Bülent Sankur & Lale Akarun, A Multimodal 3D Healthcare Communication System , 3DTV Conference, 2007.
75. Salah, A.A., M. Bicego, L. Akarun, E. Grosso, M. Tistarelli, "Hidden Markov Model-based face recognition using selective attention", SPIE Conference on Human Vision and Electronic Imaging, 2007.
76. Salah, A.A., N. Alyüz, L. Akarun, "Alternative face models for 3D face registration", SPIE Conference on Electronic Imaging: Vision Geometry, 2007.
77. Oya Aran, Lale Akarun, “Recognizing Two Handed Gestures with Generative, Discriminative and Ensemble Methods via Fisher Kernels”, LNCS Volume 4105/2006, pp. 159-166, International Workshop on Multimedia Content Representation, Classification and Security, Istanbul, September 2006.
78. Albert Ali Salah, Lale Akarun, “3D Information for Facial Feature Localization”, LNCS Volume 4105/2006, pp.338-345, International Workshop on Multimedia Content Representation, Classification and Security, Istanbul, September 2006.
79. Berk Gökberk, Lale Akarun, “Comparative Analysis of Decision-level Fusion Algorithms for 3D Face Recognition”, International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR) 2006, Hong Kong (best paper award).
80. Aran, O., Ari, I., Benoit, A., Carrillo, A.H., Fanard, F., Campr, P., Akarun, L., Caplier, A., Rombaut, M. & Sankur, B, “SignTutor: An Interactive Sign Language Tutoring Tool”, Proceedings of eNTERFACE 2006, The Summer Workshop on Multimodal Interfaces, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 2006.
81. Salah, A.A., L. Akarun, "Factor Analysis Based Robust 3D Facial Landmarking", presented at the 3rd Summer School for Advanced Studies on Biometrics for Secure Authentication: New Sensors, Evaluation and Database Collection, Alghero, June 2006.
82. H. Çınar, A.A. Salah, L. Akarun, B. Sankur, "2D/3D facial feature extraction", presented at. SPIE Conf. on Image Processing, January 2006, USA.
83. Berk Gökberk, Lale Akarun, “Selection and Extraction of Patch Descriptors for 3D Face Recognition”, The 20th International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences, (ISCIS’05), P. Yolum et al.(Eds.): ISCIS 2005, LNCS 3733, pages 718–727, October 2005, İstanbul, Turkey.
84. L. Akarun, B. Gökberk, A.A. Salah, “3D face recognition for biometric applications”, European Signal Processing Conference, EUSIPCO, Antalya, September 2005.
85. O. Aran, C. Keskin, L. Akarun, “Sign Language Tutoring Tool”, European Signal Processing Conference, EUSIPCO Demonstration Session, Antalya, September 2005.
86. C. Keskin, O. Aran, L. Akarun, “Real-time gestural interface for generic applications”, European Signal Processing Conference, EUSIPCO Demonstration Session, Antalya, September 2005.
87. B. Gokberk, A.A. Salah, L. Akarun, “Rank-based decision fusion for 3D shape-based face recognition”, Audio- and Video-based Biometric Person Authentication (AVBPA), Terrytown, New York, July 2005.
88. A. Savran, L. Arslan, L. Akarun, “Speech Driven MPEG-4 facial animation for Turkish”, Proceedings SPECOM2004, St. Petersburg, September 2004.
89. M. O. Irfanoğlu, B. Gökberk, L. Akarun, “3D Shape-based Face Recognition using Automatically Registered Facial Surfaces”, Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR2004), 2004, Cambridge.
90. B. Gökberk, L. Akarun, B. Aksan, “How to deceive a face recognizer?”, Proceedings of the Biometrics: Challenges arising from Theory to Practice Workshop (BCTP2004), 2004, Cambridge.
91. B. Gökberk, M.O. Irfanoğlu, L. Akarun, E. Alpaydın, “Optimal Gabor kernel location selection for face recognition”, Proc. ICIP, Barcelona, Spain, September 2003.
92. B. Gökberk, L. Akarun E. Alpaydın, “Selection of Kernel Location, Frequency, and Orientation Parameters of 2-D Gabor Wavelets for Face Recognition”, Perception, Vol.32, pp.1-1., 2003, Paris.
93. A. Erkan, C. Keskin, L. Akarun, “Real time hand tracking and 3D gesture recognition for interactive interfaces using HMM”, Proc. ICANN/ICONIP, pp. 567-570, İstanbul, June 2003.
94. Gökberk, B., L. Akarun, E. Alpaydın, “Feature selection for pose invariant face recognition,” Proc. ICPR 2002, Quebec City, Canada, August 2002.
95. B. Gokberk, L. Akarun, E. Alpaydin, “Gabor wavelet based pose estimation for face recognition”, Proc. ISCIS’01, Antalya, November 2001.
96. A.A. Salah, E. Alpaydin, L. Akarun, “A selective attention based method for visual pattern recognition”, Proc. 23rd Annual Conf. of the Cognitive science Society, p. 881-886, August 2001, Edinburgh, Scotland.
97. L. Akarun, N. Özdilek, B.U. Öztekin, “A novel technique for data hiding in color paletted images”, Proceedings EUSIPCO 2000, September 2000, Tampere, Finland.
98. Z. Melek, L. Akarun, “Automated lip synchronized speech driven facial animation”, Proceedings IEEE Int. Conf. On Multimedia and Expo., July 2000, New York.
99. E. Demir, L. Akarun, E. Alpaydın, “Two-stage approach for pose-invariant face recognition”, Proceedings ICASSP 2000, June 2000, İstanbul, Turkey.
100.A.A. Salah, E. Alpaydın, L. Akarun, “Selective attention based optical recognition of handwritten digits”, Proceedings of the First Balkan Conference on signal processing, communications, circuits and systems, İstanbul, June 2000.
101.D. Özdemir and L. Akarun, “Fuzzy VQ algorithms for color quantization”, Proc. IEEE workshop on nonlinear signal and image processing (NSIP’99), vol. I, pp.249-253, Antalya, 1999.
102.S.B. Gokturk, L. Akarun, and I. Bozma, “Automated inspection of PCB’s using a novel approach”, Proc. IEEE workshop on nonlinear signal and image processing (NSIP’99), vol. I, pp. 180-184, Antalya, 1999.
103.D. Özdemir and L. Akarun, “Fuzzy approaches in error diffusion of color images”, Proc. ISCIS’98, pp. 214-221, Antalya, 1998.
104.E. B. Abay, L. Akarun, and E. Alpaydin, “A comparative analysis of different feature sets for face recognition,” Proc. ISCIS’97, pp. 220-227, Antalya, 1997.
105.L. Akarun, D. Özdemir and E. Alpaydin, “Fuzzy error diffusion of color images,” Proc. ICIP, vol 3, pp.46-49, Santa Barbara, USA, 1997.
106.L. Akarun, Ö. Yalçın, and D. Özdemir, “Joint quantization and dithering of color images,” Proc. ICIP, vol 1, pp. 557-560, Lausanne, Switzerland, 1996.
107.L. Akarun, Y. Yardımcı, and A.E. Çetin, "Adaptive Methods for Dithering of Color Images", Proc. ICIP, vol. 3, pp. 125-128, Washington DC, 1995.
108.L. Akarun and M. Mazlumoğlu, "Coding of palettized color images", Proc. ISCIS’95, vol 1, pp. 95-101, Izmir, 1995.
109.T. Bayik and L. Akarun, “Color edge detection using vector order statistic filters”, Proc. summer school on Morphological Image and Signal Processing, pp.1-5, Poland, 1995.
110.L. Akarun Y. Yardımcı and A. E. Çetin, "New methods for the dithering of color images", Proc. 1995 IEEE Workshop on Nonlinear Signal and Image Processing, vol 2, pp. 523-526, Greece, 1995.
111.C. Ersoy and L. Akarun, "Topological network design using neural networks", Proc. COMCON 95, Greece, 1995.
112.Y. Yardimci, H. Altun and L. Akarun, "Robust signal estimation for mobile communication systems using antenna arrays", Proc. COMCON 95, Greece, 1995.
113.M. Okatan, L. Akarun, and E. Alpaydın, "Feature-based neural network face recognition", Proc. ICRAM’95, vol.1, pp. 157-164, Istanbul, 1995.
114.L. Akarun, Y. F. Sarıgöz, and M. Mazlumoğlu, "Vector quantization of color images using color ordering", Proceedings ISCIS, pp. 734-741, Antalya, 1994.
115.L. Akarun and Y. F. Sarıgöz, "Vector quantization of textile patterns for jacquard looms", Proceedings MELECON, pp. 109-112, Antalya, 1994.
116.L. Akarun and R.A. Haddad, "Adaptive decimated median filters for image processing", Proceedings ICASSP '93,vol 5, pp. 69-72, Minneapolis, 1993.
117.L. Akarun, R.A. Haddad and C. Ersoy, "Use of bitonic sorters for rank order filtering", Proceedings EUSIPCO'92, pp.1141-1144, Brussels, 1992.
118.L. Akarun and R.A. Haddad, "Performance measures for rank order filters", Proceedings ICASSP 1991, pp.2537-2540, Toronto, 1991.
OTHER:
1. Akarun, L, Kolluoglu, B. “Standing up for the University”, Comment, Nature Human Behaviour, April 2023.
2. Akarun, L., Barbarosoğlu, G., Özkısacık, K., Türçak, H., Yalgın, R. (2003). Disaster Management Database Design and Implementation Project for Istanbul (AYBİS), Afet Sonrası Yapılandırma Semposyumu, Düzce. (local conference paper)
3. L. Akarun, G. Barbarosoğlu, M. Erdik, G. Fişek, K. İnelmen, H. Kabasakal, S. Müderrisoğlu, A. İşeri Say, Ö. Yüzügüllü, (Bogazici University)“Istanbul Earthquake Master Plan Project”, Project Report, The Municipality of Istanbul (IBB), 2003. (project report)