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Dec 2024 - Poster presentation at IEEE WHISPERS, Finland.

May 2024 - New EU Project: X-CITE, a collaboration with Tampereen Kaupunki (Finland), Nokia Technologies (Finland), Vlaamse Gewest (Belgium), Cegeka (Belgium), Gemeente Rotterdam (Netherlands), Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality, BITES, and more. Contact Erchan Aptoula for details.

Mar 2024 - 2 conference papers accepted to IGARSS'24 by Furkan Gül and Efkan Durakli, see you at Athens this July.

Feb 2024 - New project on domain generalization for remote sensing with 1 PhD and 2 MSc fully funded positions (scholarship and accommodation) starting this spring. Contact Erchan Aptoula for details.

Jan 2024 - Arın Zeyneloğlu has defended his MSc. thesis on evidential deep learning

Dec 2023 - Furkan Gül has defended his MSc. thesis on a distance tranform based loss function for semantic segmentation

Dec 2023 - Deren Ege Turan has defended her MSc. thesis on explainable AI for remote sensing.

Nov 2023 - The Spring 2024 Call of Graduate Applications will remain open until December 1st. Application Link

Oct 2023 - There is a fully funded position for a MSc. student on the topic of document segmentation and recognition for historical Ottoman documents. Contact B. Yanikoglu for details. 

Oct 2023 - There is a fully funded position for a MSc. student on the topic of keyword spotting from historical handwritten Ottoman documents. Contact E. Aptoula for details.

Aug 2023 - Figen Beken Fikri has defended her Ph.D. thesis on deep learning based abstractive summarization.

Jul 2023 - Mehmet Can Yavuz has defended his Ph.D. thesis on self-supervised approaches with biomedical and biometric application.

Jun 2023 - E. Aptoula made a presentation about domain adaptation and domain generalization in the Machine Learning Summer School co-organized by Sabanci and Istanbul Technical Universities. Many thanks to the organizers Uğur Behçet Töreyin and Onur Varol for their invitation. Here are the slides (in Turkish) - link 

Jun 2023 - CFP for the Asian Conference on Machine Learning'23.

Jun 2023 - E. Aptoula was kindly hosted by the School of Computer Science of the University of Lincoln, UK (Laboratory of Vision Engineering) where he provided a couple of presentations on remote sensing and deep domain adaptation. Many thanks to Petra Bosilj, Simon Parsons and Xujiong Ye - Presentation1 Presentation2.

May 2023 - A new event has been added SIU2023 - NST 

Apr 2023 - A webinar about the use of technology and remote sensing in particular for disaster management by B. Yanikoglu, I. Tekin and E. Aptoula (in Turkish) LINK 

Jan 2023 - E. Aptoula has been appointed as an Associated Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing journal.

Nov 2022 - A new Tübitak 1001 project has been awarded to Prof. Berrin Yanikoglu on the "Automatic transcription of Ottoman Turkish documents through deep learning".

Nov 2022 - Our joint paper with the University of Lincoln on domain generalization for object detection has just been accepted to AAAI'23.