Completed Projects - 2017 Spring

3D reconstruction of medical objects

Students: Noor Ahmad

Advisors: Fikret Gürgen

A recommendation engine for cafés

Students: Gözde Berk, Denizalp Kapısız

Advisors: Tunga Güngör

A Tool for Contextual Text Normalization

Students: Hasan Basri Yılmaztürk, Uğur Bor

Advisors: Arzucan Özgür

A web-based database for protein-ligand interactions

Students: Efe Erçetin

Advisors: Arzucan Özgür

Auctioning Privacy for Multi Agent Autonomous Vehicles

Students: Mustafa Erdoğan, Tuna Han Salih Meral

Advisors: Pınar Yolum

Autoencoder Neural Networks

Students: Alper Ahmetoğlu

Advisors: Ethem Alpaydın

Autonomous Smart Car

Students: Osman Nuri Kar

Advisors: Arda Yurdakul

Channel estimation using machine learning for molecular communications

Students: Kübra Eşmeli

Advisors: Tuna Tuğcu

Cloud Intelligence for Wireless Home Networks

Students: Ozan Bulut, Abdullah Seleme Topuz

Advisors: Eren Soyak

Constructing Risk Map of Cyber Entities Belonging to Boğaziçi University in terms of Security

Students: Esra Alınca

Advisors: Tuna Tuğcu

CrowdMap: A use case for web annotation data model

Students: Ahmet Ercan Tekden

Advisors: Suzan Üsküdarlı

Developing a Centroid-Based Classification Model for Text Classification

Students: Batuhan Tuna

Advisors: Tunga Güngör

Exome Analysis Framework

Students: Büşra Öziş, İrem Zöğ

Advisors: Arda Yurdakul

Image Parody Detection

Students: Şemsi Yiğit Özgümüş, Çağla Aksoy

Advisors: Albert Ali Salah

Infant Cry Classification

Students: İsmail Enes Yılmaz, Mustafa Buğra Çil

Advisors: Fikret Gürgen

Mini Drone Controller

Students: Ömer Faruk Tayfur, Yiğit Alperen Bildik

Advisors: H. Levent Akın

Movie Database with Recommendation Engine

Students: Arda Yörük, Uğur Tombul

Advisors: Taflan Gündem

Movie Recommendation Engine

Students: Ahmet Zorer, Mahmut Uğur Taş

Advisors: Ali Taylan Cemgil

Nao Robot Avatar

Students: Muhammet Yunus Şeker, Mehmet Özdemir

Advisors: Emre Uğur

Object Classification with Deep Learning on Theano

Students: Doruk Demirci

Advisors: Ali Taylan Cemgil

Parallel Simulation Framework For Nanonetworking

Students: Kerim Gökarslan, Erhan Çağırıcı

Advisors: Tuna Tuğcu

Pre-Temporal Alignment of Sign Language Videos

Students: Işıl Kurt

Advisors: Lale Akarun

Scheduling for graduate applications

Students: Hafize Esma Özelbaş

Advisors: Arda Yurdakul

Sentiment Analysis

Students: Mustafa Haluk Aydın

Advisors: Tunga Güngör

Signal processing for predictive maintenance

Students: Alptekin Orbay

Advisors: Ali Taylan Cemgil

Spectral Clustering for Image Segmentation

Students: Müslüm Barış Uçaktürk

Advisors: Ali Taylan Cemgil

Stochastic Volatility and Options Pricing

Students: Enes Özipek

Advisors: Ali Taylan Cemgil

Topic Modeling for Twitter Accounts

Students: Burak Suyunu, Mehmet Akif Çördük

Advisors: Ali Taylan Cemgil

Tuning of Chess Evaluation Function by Using Genetic Algorithm

Students: Arda Akdemir

Advisors: Tunga Güngör

SERVE: See-Listen-Plan-Act

Students: Abdullah Muaz Ekici, Özer Biber

Advisors: Emre Uğur

3D reconstruction of medical objects

By 3D reconstruction of medical object technique, we can use computer graphics, image processing, computer vision and human-computer interaction techniques to reconstruct 3D stereoscopic image from the given 2D medical images (such as MRI, CT, etc.

Students: Noor Ahmad

Advisors: Fikret Gürgen

A recommendation engine for cafés

The aim of the project is to develop a recommendation system for customers in a cafe with mobile devices.

Students: Gözde Berk, Denizalp Kapısız

Advisors: Tunga Güngör

A Tool for Contextual Text Normalization

Social media is growing rapidly for the last years.

Students: Hasan Basri Yılmaztürk, Uğur Bor

Advisors: Arzucan Özgür

A web-based database for protein-ligand interactions

This project is related to protein-ligand interactions which are important for drug design studies.

Students: Efe Erçetin

Advisors: Arzucan Özgür

Auctioning Privacy for Multi Agent Autonomous Vehicles

Information is one of the most valuable asset in twenty-first century.

Students: Mustafa Erdoğan, Tuna Han Salih Meral

Advisors: Pınar Yolum

Autoencoder Neural Networks

Deep neural networks have had huge success in recent years.

Students: Alper Ahmetoğlu

Advisors: Ethem Alpaydın

Autonomous Smart Car

In autonomous smart car project, the aim is to creating a smart car using IoT(Internet of Things) technologies, sensors, and making data analysis so that a car will have capabilities of remotely being able to controlled, taking the control from the driver in critical and emergency cases, driving itself aoutonomously using velocity change,and route change mechanisms.

Students: Osman Nuri Kar

Advisors: Arda Yurdakul

Channel estimation using machine learning for molecular communications

While there have been improvements about nanonetwork area, it is sufficient to solve the problem of enabling communication between nanomachines.

Students: Kübra Eşmeli

Advisors: Tuna Tuğcu

Cloud Intelligence for Wireless Home Networks

ISPs today offer 100 Mbps to modems, but people never seem to get that through their WiFi.

Students: Ozan Bulut, Abdullah Seleme Topuz

Advisors: Eren Soyak

Constructing Risk Map of Cyber Entities Belonging to Boğaziçi University in terms of Security

The object of my dissertation is identifying the ways to exploit vulnerabilities to defeat the security features of system components used in Boğaziçi University.

Students: Esra Alınca

Advisors: Tuna Tuğcu

CrowdMap: A use case for web annotation data model

Annotation is way of associating information with resources.

Students: Ahmet Ercan Tekden

Advisors: Suzan Üsküdarlı

Developing a Centroid-Based Classification Model for Text Classification

In libraries, books are classified into some categories according to their topics in order to be found easily.

Students: Batuhan Tuna

Advisors: Tunga Güngör

Exome Analysis Framework

Geneticists are trying to accomplish exome analysis which is a method for exploring disease-related variance within the exome which makes the 1% of the whole genome.

Students: Büşra Öziş, İrem Zöğ

Advisors: Arda Yurdakul

Image Parody Detection

In this project , we built an image parody detection system.

Students: Şemsi Yiğit Özgümüş, Çağla Aksoy

Advisors: Albert Ali Salah

Infant Cry Classification

Recently, researches have been invested into developing automated methods to recognize baby’s need using a short audio recording of its live cry.

Students: İsmail Enes Yılmaz, Mustafa Buğra Çil

Advisors: Fikret Gürgen

Mini Drone Controller

Nanonetworking is a new communication paradigm in computer networks, which gained interest in last decade.

Students: Ömer Faruk Tayfur, Yiğit Alperen Bildik

Advisors: H. Levent Akın

Movie Database with Recommendation Engine

Our project is a web application that contains a recommendation engine based on a movie database for university students.

Students: Arda Yörük, Uğur Tombul

Advisors: Taflan Gündem

Movie Recommendation Engine

Recommendation system’s main goal is to provide decent special suggestions to users about their interest according to their taste and profile.

Students: Ahmet Zorer, Mahmut Uğur Taş

Advisors: Ali Taylan Cemgil

Nao Robot Avatar

Nao Robot Avatar project is implementation of a system that enables seeing from NAO’s eyes and moving with NAO’s body.

Students: Muhammet Yunus Şeker, Mehmet Özdemir

Advisors: Emre Uğur

Object Classification with Deep Learning on Theano

Machine Learning is a trend topic that aims to solve problems about future by learning the past.

Students: Doruk Demirci

Advisors: Ali Taylan Cemgil

Parallel Simulation Framework For Nanonetworking

Nanonetworking is a new communication paradigm in computer networks, which gained interest in last decade.

Students: Kerim Gökarslan, Erhan Çağırıcı

Advisors: Tuna Tuğcu

Pre-Temporal Alignment of Sign Language Videos

Sign language is a language which is used by deaf people.

Students: Işıl Kurt

Advisors: Lale Akarun

Scheduling for graduate applications

Scheduling is a fundamental issue that comes up in many different application areas and needs to be solved in the most optimal way possible given the problem parameters.

Students: Hafize Esma Özelbaş

Advisors: Arda Yurdakul

Sentiment Analysis

Opinions in natural language are mostly expressed in very complex manner.

Students: Mustafa Haluk Aydın

Advisors: Tunga Güngör

SERVE: See-Listen-Plan-Act

The aim of this project is to integrate existing speech processing and synthesis tools to communication with the Baxter robot.

Students: Abdullah Muaz Ekici, Özer Biber

Advisors: Emre Uğur

Signal processing for predictive maintenance

Engineering systems are designed to perform their functions at high quality and most efficiency.

Students: Alptekin Orbay

Advisors: Ali Taylan Cemgil

Spectral Clustering for Image Segmentation

In the last decade, spectral clustering has become a very active area of research in the machine learning community, with many extensions and applications of the algorithm being developed.

Students: Müslüm Barış Uçaktürk

Advisors: Ali Taylan Cemgil

Stochastic Volatility and Options Pricing

Option is a crucial phenomenon for investors to make profitable moves in their trades.

Students: Enes Özipek

Advisors: Ali Taylan Cemgil

Topic Modeling for Twitter Accounts

Makers, scientists, influencers and many other people share their ideas, products and innovations via the most intellectual social network Twitter.

Students: Burak Suyunu, Mehmet Akif Çördük

Advisors: Ali Taylan Cemgil

Tuning of Chess Evaluation Function by Using Genetic Algorithm

For the last two decades Chess has been a trending topic among Artificial Intelligence researchers.

Students: Arda Akdemir

Advisors: Tunga Güngör