Prof. Dr. Sinan Kalkan
Dept. of Computer Engineering
Middle East Technical University
Inonu Bulvari, 06531 Ankara (Turkey)
E-mail: skalkan [at] metu [dot] edu [dot] tr
Office: A-209
Research Groups
Proud member of the following research centers, labs and groups:
- METU Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Center [Webpage].
- METU Image Analysis Center [Webpage].
- METU Image Processing Laboratory [Webpage].
- METU Balance [Webpage].
- METU Energy [Webpage].
- Cambridge University AFAR [Webpage].
Research Interests
- Computer Vision: Object Detection, Segmentation, Recognition.
- Machine/Deep Learning: Imbalance Problems, Bias and Fairness.
- Robotics.
Selected Publications
- F. Yavuz, B. C. Cam, A. H. Dogan, K. Oksuz, E. Akbas*, S. Kalkan*,
"Bucketed Ranking-based Losses for Efficient Training of Object Detectors",
18th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024.
*Equal senior contribution.
(Preprint |
Code)
- B. Cetinkaya, S. Kalkan*, E. Akbas*,
"RankED: Addressing Imbalance and Uncertainty in Edge Detection Using Ranking-based Losses",
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024.
(Preprint |
Publisher's webpage |
Code)
- J. Cheong, S. Kalkan, H. Gunes,
"FairReFuse: Referee-Guided Fusion for Multi-Modal Causal Fairness in Depression Detection",
32nd Int. Joint Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2024.
- Z. S. Baltaci, K. Oksuz, S. Kuzucu, K. Tezoren, B. K. Konar, A. Ozkan, E. Akbas*, S. Kalkan*,
"Class Uncertainty: A Measure to Mitigate Class Imbalance",
under review, 2023.
(Arxiv).
*Equal senior contribution.
- 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 |
Code).
*Equal senior contribution.
- 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/a> |
Repository).
*Equal senior contribution.
- 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 |
Code).
* Equal senior contribution.
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N. Krueger, P. Janssen, S. Kalkan, M. Lappe, A. Leonardis, J. Piater, A. J. Rodriguez-Sanchez, L. Wiskott,
"Deep Hierarchies in the Primate Visual Cortex: What Can We Learn For Computer Vision?",
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), 35(8):1847-1871, August 2013.
(Preprint |
Publisher's Website)
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S. Kalkan, F. Woergoetter, N. Krueger,
"Statistical Analysis of Local 3D Structure in 2D Images",
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2006.
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