publications

journal papers

  • Yunus Can Bilge, Ramazan Gokberk Cinbis, Nazli Ikizler-Cinbis, Towards Zero-Shot Sign Language Recognition, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2022. [link]

  • Gokhan Tanisik, Cemil Zalluhoglu, Nazli Ikizler-Cinbis, Multi-stream Pose Convolutional Neural Networks for Human Interaction Recognition in Images, Signal Processing: Image Communication, 2021. [ link ]

  • Emre Boran, Aykut Erdem, Nazli Ikizler-Cinbis, Erkut Erdem, Pranava Madhyastha, Lucia Specia, Leveraging auxiliary image descriptions for dense video captioning, Pattern Recognition Letters, Volume 146, June 2021, Pages 70-76. [link]

  • Gokhan Yaliniz, Nazli Ikizler-Cinbis, Using independently recurrent networks for reinforcement learning based unsupervised video summarization, Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2021.[ link]

  • Cemil Zalluhoglu, Nazli Ikizler-Cinbis, Collective Sports: A multi-task dataset for collective activity recognition, Image and Vision Computing Volume 94, February 2020. [link]

  • Cemil Zalluhoglu, Nazli Ikizler-Cinbis, Region Based Multi-Stream Convolutional Neural Networks for Collective Activity Recognition,
    Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, Volume: 6, Pages: 170-179, April 2019. [link][pdf].

  • Aytac Cavent, Nazli Ikizler-Cinbis, Histogram of Sequences: A Novel Representation for Human Interaction Recognition,
    IET Computer Vision, Volume: 12, Issue: 6, Pages: 844-854, September 2018. [pdf].

  • Shugao Ma, Jianming Zhang, Stan Sclaroff, Nazli Ikizler-Cinbis, Leonid Sigal, Space-Time Tree Ensemble for Action Recognition and Localization,
    International Journal of Computer Vision Volume 126, Issue 2–4, pp 314 –- 332, April 2018.[link].

  • Mert Kilickaya, Burak Kerim Akkus, Ruket Cakici, Aykut Erdem, Erkut Erdem, Nazli Ikizler-Cinbis, Data-driven Image Captioning via Salient Region Discovery, IET Computer Vision Volume 11, Issue 6, p. 398 –- 406, September 2017. [link].

  • Emine Gul Danaci and Nazli Ikizler-Cinbis, Low-level features for visual attribute recognition: An evaluation
    Pattern Recognition Letters , Volume 84, Pages 185–191, December 2016. [link]

  • Gokhan Tanisik, Cemil Zalluhoglu and Nazli Ikizler-Cinbis, Facial Descriptors for Human Interaction Recognition In Still Images
    Pattern Recognition Letters , Volume 73, Pages 44–51, 1 April 2016. [link][dataset]

  • R. Bernardi, R. Cakici, D. Elliott, A. Erdem, E. Erdem, N. Ikizler-Cinbis, F. Keller, A. Muscat, B. Plank, Automatic Description Generation from Images: A Survey of Models, Datasets, and Evaluation Measures, Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research , Volume 55, pages 409-442, February 2016. [pdf]

  • Fadime Sener and Nazli Ikizler-Cinbis, Two-person interaction recognition via spatial multiple instance embedding,
    Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, Volume 32, pp. 63 - 73, Oct 2015.[link]

  • Fadime Sener and Nazli Ikizler-Cinbis, Ensemble of multiple instance classifiers for image re-ranking,
    Image and Vision Computing, Volume 32, Issue 5, pp. 348 - 362, May 2014.[link]

  • Nazli Ikizler-Cinbis and Stan Sclaroff, Web-based Classifiers for Human Action Recognition,
    IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Volume 14, Issue 4, pp. 1031 - 1045, August 2012.[link]

  • Nazli Ikizler and Pinar Duygulu, Histogram of Oriented Rectangles: A New Pose Descriptor for Human Action Recognition,
    Image and Vision Computing, Volume 27, Issue 10, pp. 1515-1526, September 2, 2009. [link]

  • Nazli Ikizler and David Forsyth, Searching for Complex Human Activities with No Visual Examples,
    International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), Vol. 80 No. 3, December 2008. [link] [dataset]

  • H. Altay Guvenir, Narin Emeksiz, Nazli Ikizler and Necati Ormeci, Diagnosis of gastric carcinoma by classification on feature projections,
    Artificial Intelligence in Medicine. Vol. 31, No. 3, (2004), pp. 231 - 240. [link]

international conference papers

  • Yunus Can Bilge, Nazli Ikizler-Cinbis, R. Gokberk Cinbis, Zero-Shot Sign Language Recognition: Can Textual Data Uncover Sign Languages?, British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), Cardiff, England, September 2019. [pdf].

  • Berkan Demirel, R. Gokberk Cinbis, Nazli Ikizler-Cinbis, Image Captioning With Unseen Objects, British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), Cardiff, England, September 2019. [pdf].

  • Berkan Demirel, R. Gokberk Cinbis, Nazli Ikizler-Cinbis, Learning Visually Consistent Label Embeddings for Zero-Shot Learning, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Taipei, Taiwan, September 2019. [pdf].

  • Arif Akar, Nazli Ikizler-Cinbis, Mask Guided Fusion For Group Activity Recognition In Images, International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing (ICIAP), Trento, Italy, September 2019. [pdf].

  • Semih Yagcioglu, Aykut Erdem, Erkut Erdem, Nazli Ikizler-Cinbis, RecipeQA: A Challenge Dataset for Multimodal Comprehension of Cooking Recipes, Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2018), Brussels, Belgium, October 2018. [pdf].

  • Berkan Demirel, R. Gokberk Cinbis, Nazli Ikizler-Cinbis, Zero-shot Object Detection by Hybrid Region Embedding, British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, September 2018. [pdf].

  • Berkan Demirel, R. Gokberk Cinbis, Nazli Ikizler-Cinbis, Attributes2Classname: A discriminative model for attribute-based unsupervised zero-shot learning, International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Venice, October 2017. [pdf].

  • Mert Kilickaya, Aykut Erdem, Nazli Ikizler-Cinbis and Erkut Erdem, Re-evaluating Automatic Metrics for Image Captioning, In Proc of the 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2017), April 2017. [pdf].

  • Mert Kilickaya, Nazli Ikizler-Cinbis, Erkut Erdem and Aykut Erdem, Leveraging Captions in the Wild to Improve Object Detection,
    In Proc of 5th Workshop on Vision and Language (VL'16), pages 29-38, Berlin, Germany, August 2016. [pdf].

  • Cemil Zalluhoglu and Nazli Ikizler-Cinbis, Counting People in Crowded Scenes via Detection and Regression Fusion,
    In 13th International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition (ICIAR 2016) Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal, July, 2016. Also published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2016, Volume 9730/2016, pp 309-317. [pdf].

  • Shugao Ma, Jianming Zhang, Nazli Ikizler-Cinbis and Stan Sclaroff, Action Recognition and Localization by Hierarchical Space-Time Segments,
    In Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Sydney, Australia, 2013. [project page with pdf and code].

  • Fadime Sener, Cagdas Bas and Nazli Ikizler-Cinbis, On Recognizing Actions in Still Images via Multiple Features,
    In 1st Workshop on Action Recognition and Pose Estimation in Still Images, held in conjunction with European Conference on Computer Vision(ECCV 2012), Florence, Italy, October 2012.
    Also published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science(LNCS), 2012, Volume 7585/2012, 263-272. [pdf].

  • Shugao Ma, Stan Sclaroff and Nazli Ikizler-Cinbis, Unsupervised Learning of Discriminative Relative Visual Attributes,
    In 2nd International Workshop on Parts and Attributes, held in conjunction with European Conference on Computer Vision(ECCV 2012), Florence, Italy, October 2012.
    Also published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science(LNCS), 2012, Volume 7585/2012, 61-70. [pdf].

  • Nazli Ikizler-Cinbis and Stan Sclaroff, Object, Scene and Actions: Combining Multiple Features for Human Action Recognition,
    In 11th European Conference on Computer Vision(ECCV 2010), Crete, Greece, September 2010. Also published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2010, Volume 6311/2010, 494-507. [pdf][ link]

  • Nazli Ikizler-Cinbis and Stan Sclaroff, Object Recognition and Localization via Spatial Instance Embedding,
    In 20th International Conference on Pattern Recognition(ICPR 2010), Istanbul, Turkey, August 2010. [pdf]

  • Nazli Ikizler-Cinbis, R. Gokberk Cinbis and Stan Sclaroff, Learning Actions From The Web,
    In International Conference on Computer Vision(ICCV 2009), Kyoto, Japan, September 2009. [pdf] [dataset]

  • Nazli Ikizler, R. Gokberk Cinbis and Pinar Duygulu, Human Action Recognition With Line and Flow Histograms,
    In 19th International Conference on Pattern Recognition(ICPR 2008), December 2008, Tampa, FL. [pdf]

  • Nazli Ikizler , R. Gokberk Cinbis, Selen Pehlivan and Pinar Duygulu, Recognizing Actions in Still Images,
    In 19th International Conference on Pattern Recognition(ICPR 2008), December 2008, Tampa, FL. [pdf] [dataset] [update]

  • Nazli Ikizler and Pinar Duygulu, Human Action Recognition Using Distribution of Oriented Rectangular Patches
    2nd Workshop on Human Motion Understanding, Modeling, Capture and Animation held in conjunction with
    Eleventh IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2007), October 2007.
    also published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science [pdf] [link]

  • Nazli Ikizler and David Forsyth, Searching Video for Complex Activities with Finite State Models,
    In Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2007), June 2007. [pdf] [dataset]

  • Nazli Ikizler and Pinar Duygulu, Person Search Made Easy,
    In Proceedings of The Fourth International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR), Singapore, July 20-22, 2005.
    also published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 3568/2005 [pdf]

  • Nazli Ikizler and H. Altay Guvenir. Maximizing Benefit of Classifications Using Feature Intervals,
    In Proceedings of Seventh International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems (KES 2003),
    also published in Lecture Notes in AI, Springer-Verlag, Oxford 2003. [pdf]

national conference papers

  • Cagdas Bas, Cemil Zalluhoglu, Nazli Ikizler-Cinbis, Using deep multiple instance learning for action recognition in still images (in Turkish), 25. IEEE Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU), May 2017.

  • Berkan Demirel, R. Gokberk Cinbis, Nazli Ikizler-Cinbis, Visual Saliency Estimation via Attribute Based Classifiers and Conditional Random Fields(Nitelik Tabanlı Sınıflandırıcılar ve Kosullu Rastgele Alan ile Dikkat Çeken Görsel Bölge Tespiti)(in Turkish), 24. IEEE Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU), May 2016. [pdf] Alper Atalay Best Student Paper Award - Third Prize.

  • Mesut Erhan Unal, Begum Citamak, Semih Yagcioglu, Aykut Erdem, Erkut Erdem, Nazli Ikizler Cinbis, Ruket Cakici, TasvirEt: A Benchmark Dataset for Automatic Turkish Description Generation from Images (TasvirEt: Görüntülerden Otomatik Türkçe Açıklama Oluşturma İçin Bir Denektaşı Veri Kümesi)(in Turkish), 24. IEEE Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU), May 2016. [pdf] Alper Atalay Best Student Paper Award - First Prize.

  • E. Ekiz, N. Ikizler-Cinbis, A Multiple Region Selection Based Approach for Scene Recognition (Sahne Tanima için Coklu Alan Secimi Tabanli Bir Yaklasim)(in Turkish), 23. IEEE Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU), Malatya, April 2015. [pdf].

  • E. G. Danaci, N. Ikizler-Cinbis, A Comparison of Low-level Features for Visual Attribute Recognition (Gorsel Nitelik Ogrenmede Alt-Duzey Ozniteliklerin Karsilastirilmasi)(in Turkish), 23. IEEE Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU), Malatya, April 2015. [pdf].

  • M. Kılıçkaya, E. Erdem, A. Erdem, N. Ikizler-Cinbis, R. Cakici, Data-driven Image Captioning with Meta-class Based Retrieval (Meta-Class Tabanlı Getirme ile Veriye Dayalı İmge Altyazilama)(in Turkish), 22. IEEE Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU), Northern Cyprus, April 2014. [pdf].

  • Gokhan Tanisik, Oguzhan Guclu and Nazli Ikizler-Cinbis, Recognizing Human Actions in Images Using Segment and Contour Features (Bolut ve Kontur Ozniteliklerini Kullanarak Imgelerdeki Insan Hareketlerini Tanima)(in Turkish), 21. IEEE Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU), Northern Cyprus, April 2013. [pdf].

  • Cagdas Bas and Nazli Ikizler-Cinbis, Comparison of Clustering Methods for Pose Based Video Summarization (Poz Tabanli Video Ozetleme Icin Kumeleme Yontemlerinin Karsilastirilmasi)(in Turkish), 21. IEEE Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU), Northern Cyprus, April 2013. [pdf].

  • Fadime Sener, Nermin Samet, Pinar Duygulu, Nazli Ikizler-Cinbis, Recognizing Human Actions From Noisy Videos via Multiple Instance Learning (Gurultu Iceren Videolardan Insan Hareketlerinin Coklu Ornekle Ogrenme ile Taninmasi) (in Turkish), In Proceedings of Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU), April 2013. [pdf].

  • Aytac Cavent, Nazli Ikizler-Cinbis, Recognition of complex human activities by using sequential pyramid matching (Karmasik Insan Hareketlerinin Sirasal Piramit Eslesmesi ile Taninmasi)(in Turkish), Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU), April 2012. [pdf].

  • Fadime Sener, Nazli Ikizler-Cinbis, Pnar Duygulu, Multiple instance learning for re-ranking of web image search results (Gorsel Arama Sonuclarinin Coklu Ornekle Ogrenme Yontemiyle Yeniden Siralanmasi)(in Turkish), Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU), April 2012. [pdf].

  • Sare Gul Sevil, Hilal Zitouni, Nazli Ikizler, Derya Ozkan, Pinar Duygulu, Resim Arama Sonuclarinin Cizge Tabanli
    bir Yontemle Yeniden Siralanmasi (in Turkish),
    In Proceedings of IEEE 16. Sinyal Isleme, Iletisim ve Uygulamalari Kurultayi (SIU 2008), Didim, Turkey, April 20-22, 2008. [pdf]

  • Nazli Ikizler and Pinar Duygulu, Haber Videolari icin Yuz Bulma Yontemlerinin Iyilestirilmesi (in Turkish),
    In Proceedings of IEEE 13. Sinyal Isleme ve Iletisim Uygulamalari Kurultayi (SIU 2005), Kayseri, Turkey, May 16-18, 2005. [pdf]

  • Nazli Ikizler and H. Altay Guvenir. Feature Dependency in Benefit Maximization: A Case Study in the Evaluation of Bank Loan Applications,
    In Proceedings of the Twelfth Turkish Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks (TAINN’2003),
    Canakkale, Turkey, July, 2003. [pdf]

  • Nazli Ikizler and H. Altay Guvenir. Mining Interesting Rules in Bank Loans Data,
    In Proceedings of the Tenth Turkish Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks (TAINN’2001),
    Gazimagusa, T.R.N.C., June 2001. [pdf]

technical reports

  • Nazli Ikizler, Jai Vasanth, Linus Wong and David Forsyth, Finding Celebrities in Video,
    EECS Department University of California, Berkeley Technical Report No. UCB/EECS-2006-77, 2006. [link]

  • Nazli Ikizler, Benefit Maximizing Classification Using Feature Intervals,
    Technical Report BU-CE-0208, Bilkent University, September 2002. [pdf]

theses

  • Nazli Ikizler, Understanding Human Motion: Recognition and Retrieval of Human Activities,
    PhD Thesis, Bilkent University, Turkey, May 2008. [pdf]

  • Nazli Ikizler, Benefit Maximizing Classification Using Feature Intervals,
    MS Thesis, Bilkent University, Turkey, September 2002.