Completed Projects - 2016 Spring

A Hashtag Segmentation System for Turkish

Twitter is one of the most popular social network and microblogging tools worldwide.

Students: Atalay Furkan Yırık

Advisors: Arzucan Özgür

A Real-Time Map-Matching Algorithm

Map matching is the problem of matching recorded geographic coordinates to a logical model of the real world.

Students: Hüseyin Barış Özmen

Advisors: Arda Yurdakul

A Sentiment Analysis System for Turkish Tweets

Twitter is one of the most common platforms that people share their ideas about any topic.

Students: Bünyamin İnce, Oğuzhan Karaçakır

Advisors: Arzucan Özgür

A Speech Databse Application for SVM

This application detects human voice in a noisy sound file.

Students: Cenk Temeloğlu

Advisors: Fikret Gürgen

An Augmented Reality Campus Tour iOS Application

We implemented an augmented reality campus tour application for iPhone.

Students: Emre Oral, Emre Miraç Paksoy

Advisors: Albert Ali Salah

An Information Retrieval System For Extracting Bacteria Names In Biomedical Documents

An information retrieval system which provides structural and comprehensive classification of species in documents and articles is crucial in bioinformatics studies.

Students: Berfu Büyüköz, Mehmet Alper Yayıkçı

Advisors: Arzucan Özgür

An interactive tool to visualize Nazım Hikmet's poetry

Digital Humanities is an area where computing and humanistic disciplines intersect.

Students: Özge Dağ, Onur Musaoğlu

Advisors: Albert Ali Salah

Analysis of Musical Sounds for Music Information Retrieval

Music is an integral part of human life.

Students: Göktuğ Erce Gürel, Görkem Önder

Advisors: Ali Taylan Cemgil

Average Case Complexity

While investigating the complexity of a problem the start point is complexity for a single input and then running time of an algorithm starts to depend the distribution of the instances.

Students: Mehmet Eren Söğüt

Advisors: A. C. Cem Say

Benchmark Suite for Parallel Programming Design Patterns

The first computers are single core.

Students: Mehmet Bilal Yaşar

Advisors: Alper Şen

Boun NLP: A Morphological Analysis System for Turkish

Morphological analysis is a very important sub-task of natural language processing.

Students: Erdem Toraman, Atakan Arıkan

Advisors: Arzucan Özgür

Customer behavior analysis from simulated telecom data

In a growing industry, keeping a customer in an operator has become an important issue in telecommunication world in recent years and companies are conducting many researches to understand their customers’ behavior.

Students: Mehmet Deniz Baloğlu, Emre Ün

Advisors: Albert Ali Salah

Database Management System for Beta Lactamage

Beta lactamase antibiotics are one of the widely used antibiotics in the world.

Students: Burak Coşkun, Buse Buz

Advisors: Arzucan Özgür

Dataflow Graph Generation From an SQL Query

As the programs represented as dataflow graphs can be implemented in the hardware level, a performance gain is achieved compared to ordinary programs, especially in the execution of data retrieval queries.

Students: Can Güler

Advisors: Arda Yurdakul

Decision Tree Learning Algorithms

We worked with different algorithms: C4.

Students: Mert Can Çüçen, Fatih Doğan

Advisors: Ethem Alpaydın

Determining the Optimal Position for the Goalkeeper in Robot Soccer

Cerberus is the robot soccer team of Boğaziçi University which competes in RoboCup Standard Platform League since 2001.

Students: Bahar Hilal Yüksel

Advisors: H. Levent Akın

Development of a Graphical User Interface for RoboCup Rescue Simulation to Control Agents

This project aims to implement a Graphical User Interface for the RoboRescue Simulation Competition Simulator where users can send commands to the agents.

Students: Mustafa Taha Koçyiğit

Advisors: H. Levent Akın

Efficient Kernel Space Capture and Processing of Thermal Video

Visible light constitutes a small fraction of electromagnetic spectrum.

Students: Mustafa Efendioğlu

Advisors: Cem Ersoy

Extending Web Content Accessibility via Re-narration

Much of the content on the Web is not globally accessible.

Students:

Advisors: Suzan Üsküdarlı

Facial Age Estimation for Elderly

Age estimation is one research field of face analysis.

Students: Çağla Balçık

Advisors: Albert Ali Salah

Financial Analysis using Machine Learning Methods

Machine Learning methods have long been applied to financial data.

Students: Doruk Kilitçioğlu

Advisors: Ali Taylan Cemgil

Financial Text Classification using Machine Learning Techniques

The motivation behind this project is to be able to make a sentiment analysis on Turkish financial documents.

Students: Mert Oğuz

Advisors: Ali Taylan Cemgil

Generating Web Application from QT Designer Output

In this project our aim is to develop a software application which targets to generate a web application from a User Interface (UI) file generated by the Qt Creator’s Designer.

Students: Mert İmre, Abdurrahman Can Kurtan

Advisors: Can Özturan

Image based detection of exam questions in question banks

Students: Setenay Ronael, Ömer Mücahit Temel

Advisors: Albert Ali Salah

Implementation of a Realtime Pitch Tracker

This project is about implementing a VST plugin that works on a host interface.

Students: Murat Cenk Batman

Advisors: Ali Taylan Cemgil

Implementation of a Realtime Tempo Tracker as a VST Plugin

This project aims at implementing a VST plugin that tracks the tempo of a musical piece in BPM (beats per minute) in real time, namely the RealTime Tempo Tracker plugin.

Students: Behlülcan Mert Çotuk, Umut Gülsün

Advisors: Ali Taylan Cemgil

Learning by doing

Project is about creating a Virtual Reality work environment, in which player can enhance their abilities.

Students: Levent Özmen

Advisors: Bert Arnrich

Learning Sequences Using Recurrent Neural Networks

Songs, poems, books, movies, dialogues are just some examples of data found in a sequential form.

Students: Mert Yaşin

Advisors: Ethem Alpaydın

Logistic Regression for Sales Prediction

In this paper, we present a system to predict sales of a product.

Students: Cem Özen

Advisors: Ali Taylan Cemgil

NAO Robot Avatar

In this project, you will implement a system that enables seeing from NAO’s eyes and moving with NAO’s body.

Students: M. Yunus Seker, Mehmet Ozdemir

Advisors: Emre Uğur

Ontology Based Categorization of Habitat Entities using Information Retrieval Techniques

Gathering information about habitats of bacteria and representing them in a normalized way is the key point of microbiology studies.

Students: Hakan Şahin, Mert Tiftikçi

Advisors: Arzucan Özgür

Parkinson Monitoring by using Mobile Systems

In the project Mobile Application for Parkinson Monitoring, the very beginning starting point for us was exhibiting a product that helps medical personnel and doctors to track and interpret the symptoms of a Parkinson patient better compared to old-fashioned order.

Students: Furkan Caymaz, Hamza Temel Can Kandaz

Advisors: Cem Ersoy

Player Rating & Matchmaking via Bayesian Inference

Player rating systems are essential nearly to any game situated in different contexts (video games, sports etc).

Students: Mustafa Onur Eken

Advisors: Ali Taylan Cemgil

Privacy Awareness and Violation Checking

Increasing use of social media comes with its privacy issues and enormous data.

Students: Ahmet Safa Orhan, Hamza Öztürk

Advisors: Pınar Yolum

Product Validation and Verification using Raspberry Pi

In this project, we build a system for identifying and counting beverage cans inside commercial fridges by placing a hidden camera into the fridge.

Students: Onur Güler

Advisors: Albert Ali Salah

Real-time Audio Localization and Enhancement Using Microphone Arrays

Introduction

Students: Siray Ocak

Advisors: Cem Ersoy

Recommendation System with Apache Spark

The aim of this project is to implement a movie recommendation system using apache spark.

Students: Ömer Ulusal, Fatih Çataltepe

Advisors: Fikret Gürgen

Row Store and Column Store Comparison in Clinical Data

Clinical data is growing repeatedly with its characteristics such as sparseness, high dimensionality and changing set of attributes.

Students: Murat Sinan Açlan, Oğuz Erdoğmuş

Advisors: Taflan Gündem

Sleep Quality Monitoring with the Smart Watch

Our objective for the project is to detect physical and biological changes occurred during the sleep and their relation with the sleep quality.

Students: Akın Toksan, Ayşe Müge Kurtipek

Advisors: Bert Arnrich

Smart Watch Smoking Cessation Assistant

Over the past few years, there has been considerable research effort on the active research area directed towards the prevention of smoking, which has been called the single biggest preventable cause of death in the world.

Students: Narın Mahmutı

Advisors: Bert Arnrich

Stress Detection with Smart Watch

In this project, we found correlation between heart rate, physical activity and stress level.

Students: Şeyma Ertem, Bülent Hacıoğlu

Advisors: Bert Arnrich

Structural Inference Using Monte Carlo

In this project, we present several algorithms that infers a Bayesian network that explains the observed data naturally (maximizing p(Model | Data)) by using Stochastic Gradient Langevin Dynamics MCMC, thermodynamic integration and generalized importance sampling.

Students: Mehmet Burak Kurutmaz

Advisors: Ali Taylan Cemgil

Time Series Analysis

Time series is anything that you can represent with numbers and extract statistical information.

Students: Buğrahan Şahin

Advisors: Ali Taylan Cemgil

Walkability

Nowadays, smartwatches have become very popular.

Students: Serpil Kuzu, , Gamze Irem Kaş

Advisors: Bert Arnrich