Yücel Yemez Professor Department of Computer Engineering Koç University Rumeli Feneri Yolu 34450 Sarıyer, Istanbul, Turkey Tel: +90 (212) 338-1585   E-Mail: yyemez@ku.edu.tr

Curriculum Vitae

Research

My research is on Computer Vision, Human-Computer Interaction and Multimedia Signal Processing, currently focused on:

Prospective graduate students willing to pursue an MS or PhD study on the fields related to my research are welcome to contact me. We are especially looking for motivated graduate students that will work in the scope of various projects that we have been involved in, such as

• JOKER, IUI - 'JOKe and Empathy of a Robot/ECA: Towards social and affective relations with a robot', European FP7 Chist-Era Project
• ReGround - Relational symbol grounding through affordance learning, European FP7 Chist-Era Project
• SIMILAR, European FP6 Network of Excellence on ‘Human-machine interfaces similar to human-human communication’
• 3DTV,  European FP6 Network of Excellence on ‘Integrated 3-D Television – Capture, Transmission and Display’
• TUBITAK, 'Navigation from Language and Visual Cues'
• TUBITAK, 'Multimodal Analysis and Modeling of Human Body Gestures and Speech under Affective and Interactive Communication Scenarios'
• TUBITAK, '3D Shape Correspondence in Sequential Surface Meshes'

Visit KUIS AI Lab and MVGL for further information and available positions.

Teaching

• COMP 408/508 (Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition)
• COMP 451/551 (Computer Vision with Deep Learning)
  
• Comp 410/510 (Computer Graphics)
• Comp 106 (Discrete Mathematics for Computer Science and Engineering)
• Comp 132 (Advanced Programming )
• Comp 130 (Introduction to Programming with Java)

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