Prof. Dr. Sinan Kalkan
Dept. of Computer Engineering Middle East Technical University Inonu Bulvari, 06531 Ankara (Turkey)
E-mail: skalkan [at] metu [dot] edu [dot] tr Office: A-209
Research Groups
Proud member of the following research centers, labs and groups:- METU Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Center [Webpage].
- METU Image Analysis Center [Webpage].
- METU Image Processing Laboratory [Webpage].
- METU Balance [Webpage].
- METU Energy [Webpage].
- Cambridge University AFAR [Webpage].
Research Interests- Computer Vision: Object Detection, Segmentation, Recognition.
- Machine/Deep Learning: Imbalance Problems, Bias and Fairness.
- Robotics.
Selected Publications- F. Yavuz, B. C. Cam, A. H. Dogan, K. Oksuz, E. Akbas*, S. Kalkan*, "Bucketed Ranking-based Losses for Efficient Training of Object Detectors", 18th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024. *Equal senior contribution. (Preprint | Code)
- B. Cetinkaya, S. Kalkan*, E. Akbas*, "RankED: Addressing Imbalance and Uncertainty in Edge Detection Using Ranking-based Losses", IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024. (Preprint | Publisher's webpage | Code)
- J. Cheong, S. Kalkan, H. Gunes, "FairReFuse: Referee-Guided Fusion for Multi-Modal Causal Fairness in Depression Detection", 32nd Int. Joint Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2024.
- Z. S. Baltaci, K. Oksuz, S. Kuzucu, K. Tezoren, B. K. Konar, A. Ozkan, E. Akbas*, S. Kalkan*, "Class Uncertainty: A Measure to Mitigate Class Imbalance", under review, 2023. (Arxiv). *Equal senior contribution.
- K. Oksuz, B. C. Cam, S. Kalkan*, E. Akbas*, "One Metric to Measure them All: Localisation Recall Precision (LRP) for Evaluating Visual Detection Tasks", IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), 44(12):9446-9463, 2022. (Arxiv | >Publisher's webpage | Code). *Equal senior contribution.
- K. Oksuz, B. C. Cam, S. Kalkan*, E. Akbas*, "Imbalance Problems in Object Detection: A Review", IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), 43(10):3388-3415, 2021. (Arxiv | Publisher's webpage/a> | Repository). *Equal senior contribution.
- K. Oksuz, B. C. Cam, E. Akbas*, S. Kalkan*, "A Ranking-based, Balanced Loss Function Unifying Classification and Localisation in Object Detection", Thirty-fourth Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), spotlight paper, 2020. (Arxiv | Conference page | Code). * Equal senior contribution.
- N. Krueger, P. Janssen, S. Kalkan, M. Lappe, A. Leonardis, J. Piater, A. J. Rodriguez-Sanchez, L. Wiskott, "Deep Hierarchies in the Primate Visual Cortex: What Can We Learn For Computer Vision?", IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), 35(8):1847-1871, August 2013. (Preprint | Publisher's Website)
- S. Kalkan, F. Woergoetter, N. Krueger, "Statistical Analysis of Local 3D Structure in 2D Images", IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2006. (PDF)
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