Publications
Books
Programming with Python for Engineers, S. Kalkan, O. T. Sehitoglu, G. Ucoluk, 2021.
Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR), Editors: S. Kalkan, U. Saranli, 27-31 July, 2015, IEEE (IEEEXplore page)
Introduction to programming concepts with case studies in Python, G. Ucoluk, S. Kalkan, Springer, 2012.
Journal & Conference Papers
2023
F. Kahraman, K. Oksuz, S. Kalkan, E. Akbas, “Correlation Loss: Enforcing Correlation between Classification and Localization”, Thirty-Seventh AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, accepted, 2023.
J. Cheong, S. Kalkan, H. Gunes, “Causal Structure Learning of Bias for Fair Affect Recognition”, The Fourth Workshop on Demographic Variations in Performance of Biometrics and Related Technology, IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV 2023) Workshops, 2023. [Preprint]
2022
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], [GitHub] *Equal senior contribution.
O. Aslan, B. Bolat, B. Bal, T. Tumer, E. Sahin, S. Kalkan, “AssembleRL: Learning to Assemble Furniture from Their Point Clouds”, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2022. [Arxiv], [GitHub]
J. Cheong, S. Kalkan, H. Gunes, “Counterfactual Fairness for Facial Expression Recogntion”, ECCV 2022 Workshop and Challenge on People Analysis: From Face, Body and Fashion to 3D Virtual Avatars, 2022. [Preprint]
I.H. Kocdemir, A.O. Akyuz, A. Koz, A. Chalmers, A. Alatan, S. Kalkan, “Object Detection for Autonomous Driving: High-Dynamic Range vs. Low-Dynamic Range Images”, IEEE 24th International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP), 2022. [Publisher’s Page]
F. Yavuz, S. Kalkan, “Segment Augmentation and Differentiable Ranking for Logo Retrieval”, 26th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), 2022. [Arxiv], [Publisher’s Page]
S. E. Kucukbay, A. Yazici, S. Kalkan, “Hand-crafted versus Learned Representations for Audio Event Detection”, Multimedia Tools and Applications, 81:30911-30930, 2022. [Publisher’s Page]
I. G. Dino, E. Kalfaoglu, O. K. Iseri, B. Erdogan, S. Kalkan, A. Alatan, “Vision-based estimation of the number of occupants using video cameras”, Advanced Engineering Informatics, 53:101662, 2022. [Publisher’s Page]
B. Cetinkaya, S. Kalkan, E. Akbas, “Does Depth Estimation Help Object Detection?”, Image and Vision Computing, 122(104427):1-12, 2022. [Arxiv], [Publisher’s Page]
J. Tjomsland, S. Kalkan, H. Gunes, “Mind Your Manners! A Dataset and A Continual Learning Approach for Assessing Social Appropriateness of Robot Actions”, Frontiers in Robotics and AI, Special Issue on Lifelong Learning and Long-term Human-Robot Interaction, 9:1-18,2022. [Publisher’s Page], [GitHub]
2021
N. Churamani, S. Kalkan, H. Gunes, “Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Facial Actions using Lifecycle-Aware Capsule Networks”, IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG), 2021. [Preprint], [Publisher’s Page]
J. Cheong, S. Kalkan, H. Gunes, “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Bias and Fairness in Facial Affective Signal Processing”, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 38(6):39-49, 2021. [Preprint], [Publisher’s Page]
K. Oksuz, B. C. Cam, F. Kahraman, Z. S. Baltaci, S. Kalkan*, E. Akbas, “Mask-aware IoU for Anchor Assignment in Real-time Instance Segmentation”, British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), 2021. [Arxiv], [GitHub] *Equal senior contribution.
K. Oksuz, B. C. Cam, E. Akbas, S. Kalkan, “Rank & Sort Loss for Object Detection and Instance Segmentation”, International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), oral presentation, 2021. [Arxiv], [GitHub] *Equal senior contribution.
A. Koz, B. Demirkilic, Y. B. Kurt, A. O. Akyuz, S. Kalkan, A. Alatan, A. Chalmers, “HDR Image Construction from Trifocal Multiexposure Images”, IEEE 23rd International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP), 2021. [Publisher’s Page]
H. I. Ugurlu, S. Kalkan, A. Saranli, “Reinforcement Learning versus Conventional Control for Controlling a Planar Bi-rotor Platform with Tail Appendage”, Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, 102(77), 2021. [Publisher’s Page]
U. A. Aydin, S. Kalkan, C. Acarturk, “Speech Driven Gaze in a Face-to-Face Interaction”, Frontiers in Neurorobotics, 15:8, 2021. [Publisher’s Page]
Y. Terzioglu, O. Aslan, B. Bolat, B. Bal, T. Tumer, F. C. Kurnaz, S. Kalkan, E. Sahin, “APPRENTICE: Towards a Cobot Helper in Assembly Lines”, ICRA2021 Workshop on Unlocking the Potential of HRC for Industrial Applications, 2021. [PDF], [Video]
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], [GitHub] *Equal senior contribution.
2020
- 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], [GitHub]
Equal senior contribution.
J. Tjomsland, S. Kalkan, H. Gunes, “Mind Your Manners! A Dataset and A Continual Learning Approach for Assessing Social Appropriateness of Robot Actions”, RO-MAN 2020 Workshop on Lifelong Learning for Long-term Human-Robot Interaction (LL4LHRI), 2020. [Arxiv]
F. Alamri, S. Kalkan, N. Pugeault, “Transformer-Encoder Detector Module: Using Context to Improve Robustness to Adversarial Attacks on Object Detection”, 25th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), 2020. [Arxiv]
T. Xu, J. White, S. Kalkan, H. Gunes, “Investigating Bias and Fairness in Facial Expression Recognition”, ECCV2020 Workshop: ChaLearn Looking at People workshop ECCV: Fair Face Recognition and Analysis, 2020. [Arxiv]
E. Kalfaoglu, S. Kalkan, A. Alatan, “Late Temporal Modeling in 3D CNNs with BERT for action recognition”, ECCV2020 2nd Workshop on Video Turing Test: Toward Human-Level Video Story Understanding, 2020. [Arxiv], [GitHub]
F. C. Kurnaz, B. Hocaoglu, M. K. Yilmaz, I. Sulo, S. Kalkan, “ALET (Automated Labeling of Equipment and Tools): A Dataset, a Baseline and a Usecase for Tool Detection in the Wild”, ECCV2020 Workshop on International Workshop on Assistive Computer Vision and Robotics, 2020. [Arxiv], [Code and dataset]
N. Churamani, S. Kalkan, H. Gunes, “Continual Learning for Affective Robotics: Why, What and How?”, The 29th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (Ro-Man), 2020. [Preprint], [Publisher’s webpage]
I. G. Dino, A. E. Sari, O. K. Iseri, S. Akin, E. Kalfaoglu, B. Erdogan, S. Kalkan, A. Alatan, “Image-based construction of building energy models using computer vision”, Automation in Construction, 116(103231), 2020. [Publisher’s webpage]
- K. Oksuz, B. C. Cam, E. Akbas, S. Kalkan, “Generating Positive Bounding Boxes for Balanced Training of Object Detectors”, IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2020. [Arxiv], [Publisher’s page], [GitHub] *Equal senior contribution.