Highlights

Our work on a GAN-based unified framework for domain adaptation, image synthesis and manipulation accepted to SIGGRAPH Asia 2024.

Our work on sequential compositional generalization in multimodal models accepted to NAACL 2024.

Our work on video synthesis from events will be published in IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Our work on evaluating zero-shot linguistic and temporal understanding capabilities of video-language models accepted to ICLR 2024.

Our paper exploring the relationship between training dynamics and compositional generalization has been accepted for EMNLP Findings 2023.

Our paper on hyperspectral image denoising has been accepted for publication in Signal Processing journal.

Our work on omnidirectional video saliency prediction got accepted to BMVC 2023.

Our work on text-guided image manipulation will be published in ACM Transactions on Graphics. We will be presenting our work at SIGGRAPH Asia 2023 at Sydney.

I received a gift fund from Adobe Research. With Duygu Ceylan of Adobe Research and Aykut Erdem of KUIS AI LAB, we will develop novel methods for text-guided image synthesis and editing. Thanks Adobe!.

We will be organizing the on Multimodal, Multilingual Natural Language Generation and Multilingual WebNLG Challenge at INLG/SIGDial 2023 in September 2023

BIG-bench paper has been accepted for publication in Transactions on Machine Learning Research.

Our work on omnidirectional image quality assessment got accepted to ICASSP 2023.

I am honored to be recognized as one of the 2022 Outstanding Associate Editors of IEEE Transactions on Multimedia.

We ranked 2nd in the euphemism detection shared task organized by the Figurative Language Processing workshop at EMNLP 2022.

Our work on language-guided video manipulation accepted to BMVC 2022.

Our work on language-guided image analysis got the best paper award at 5th Multimodal Learning and Applications Workshop.

We will be organizing a training school on Representation Mediated Multimodality at Schloss Etelsen, Germany in September 26-30. 2022

Our work on language-guided image analysis got accepted to 5th Multimodal Learning and Applications Workshop.

Our survey paper on neural natural language generation has been accepted for publication in Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research.

Our work on causal reasoning got accepted to Findings of ACL 2022.

I will be teaching the undergraduate-level course: BBM444 Fundamentals of Computational Photography.

Our work on query-specific video summarization has been accepted for publication in Multimedia Tools and Application.

Excited to share that our project on event-based vision under extremely low-light conditions will be funded by TUBITAK-1001 program. With Aykut Erdem, we will explore hybrid approaches to bring traditional and event cameras together to solve crucial challenges we face when processing dark videos.

I received a gift fund from Adobe Research. With Duygu Ceylan of Adobe Research, and Aykut Erdem and Deniz Yuret of KUIS AI LAB, we will develop novel methods for semantic image editing. Thanks Adobe!.

Our work on low-light image enhancement will be published in IEEE Transactions on Image Processing.

I was appointed to an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (T-MM).

Our work on stochastic video prediction got accepted to ICCV 2021.

Our work on Turkish video captioning has been published in the Machine Translation journal

Our work on dynamic saliency prediction will be published in IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems.

Our joint work with HUCGLab on the use of synthetic data to analyze the performance of trackers under adverse weather conditions has been accepted for publication in Signal Processing: Image Communication.

Our collaborative work with HUCGLab on joint person re-identification and attribute recognition has been accepted for publication in Image and Vision Computing.

Our joint work with HUCGLab on procedural generation of person videos has been accepted for publication in Computer Graphics Forum.

Our collaborative work with HUCGLab on procedural generation of person videos has been accepted for publication in Computer Graphics Forum.

Our joint work with ICON lab at UMRAM, Bilkent University on multi-contrast MRI synthesis has been accepted for publication in Medical Image Analysis.

I will be teaching the undergraduate-level course: BBM406 Fundamentals of Machine Learning.

Our work on dense video captioning has been accepted for publication in Pattern Recognition Letters.

Our work on learning visually-grounded cross-lingual representations got accepted to EACL 2021.

Our work on visual story graphs has been accepted for publication in Signal Processing: Image Communication.

Our ACM TOG paper on manipulating transient attributes of natural scenes was featured on Two Minute Papers.

Our joint work with the Cognition, Learning and Robotics (CoLoRs) lab at Bogazici University on reasoning about action effects on articulated multi-part objects has been accepted to ICRA 2020.

Our work on manipulating transient attributes of natural scenes via hallucination has been accepted for publication in ACM Transactions on Graphics.

Our work about reasoning on procedural data is accepted to CoNLL 2019: "Procedural Reasoning Networks for Understanding Multimodal Procedures".

I will give a tutorial on "Multimodal Learning with Vision and Language" together with Aykut Erdem at IPTA 2019.

Our joint work with ICON lab at UMRAM, Bilkent University on multi-contrast MRI synthesis with GANs has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging.

I will give a talk on Integrated Vision and Language at ITURO 2019.

I have received The Young Researcher Award given by Turkish Academy of Sciences.

Our work on multimodal machine comprehension is accepted to EMNLP 2018: "RecipeQA: A Challenge Dataset for Multimodal Comprehension of Cooking Recipes". Read our paper, download the data, and submit your predictions at our project website.