{"id":133,"date":"2021-03-16T22:18:18","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T19:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/?page_id=133"},"modified":"2021-04-21T08:49:20","modified_gmt":"2021-04-21T05:49:20","slug":"elementor-133","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/?page_id=133","title":{"rendered":"Publications"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"133\" class=\"elementor elementor-133\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-c864aa1 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"c864aa1\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"aux-parallax-section elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-c5904bc\" data-id=\"c5904bc\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-061dc7a elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"061dc7a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Publications<br><\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8aee8f2 elementor-tabs-view-horizontal elementor-widget elementor-widget-tabs\" data-id=\"8aee8f2\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"tabs.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-tabs\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-tabs-wrapper\" role=\"tablist\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-title-1451\" class=\"elementor-tab-title elementor-tab-desktop-title\" aria-selected=\"true\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-1451\" aria-expanded=\"false\">Selected Publications<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-title-1452\" class=\"elementor-tab-title elementor-tab-desktop-title\" aria-selected=\"false\" data-tab=\"2\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-1452\" aria-expanded=\"false\">Sorted by Year<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-title-1453\" class=\"elementor-tab-title elementor-tab-desktop-title\" aria-selected=\"false\" data-tab=\"3\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-1453\" aria-expanded=\"false\">Sorted by Topic<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-tabs-content-wrapper\" role=\"tablist\" aria-orientation=\"vertical\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-tab-title elementor-tab-mobile-title\" aria-selected=\"true\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-1451\" aria-expanded=\"false\">Selected Publications<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-1451\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-1451\" tabindex=\"0\" hidden=\"false\"><ul><li><a class=\"external text\" title=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1807.00511\" href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1807.00511\" rel=\"nofollow\">COSMO: Contextualized Scene Modeling with Boltzmann Machines<\/a><\/li><\/ul><p>I. Bozcan, S. Kalkan<\/p><p>Robotics and Autonomous Systems journal, submitted, 2018.<\/p><ul><li><a class=\"external text\" title=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1807.01696\" href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1807.01696\" rel=\"nofollow\">Localization Recall Precision (LRP): A New Performance Metric for Object Detection<\/a><\/li><\/ul><p>K. Oksuz, B. C. Cam, E. Akbas, S. Kalkan<\/p><p>European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), accepted, 2018.<\/p><ul><li><a class=\"external text\" title=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1710.04981\" href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1710.04981\" rel=\"nofollow\">CINet: A Learning Based Approach to Incremental Context Modeling in Robots<\/a><\/li><\/ul><p>F. I. Dogan, I. Bozcan, M. Celik, S. Kalkan<\/p><p>IEEE\/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), accepted, 2018.\u00a0<\/p><ul><li><a class=\"external text\" title=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1701.05766\" href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1701.05766\" rel=\"nofollow\">A Large-scale Dataset and Benchmark for Similar Trademark Retrieval<\/a><\/li><\/ul><p>O. Tursun, C. Aker, S. Kalkan<\/p><p>major revision. <a class=\"external text\" title=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1701.05766\" href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1701.05766\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u00a0<\/a><a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/LogoDataset\/\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/LogoDataset\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">METU Trademark Retrieval Dataset<\/a>.<\/p><ul><li><a class=\"external text\" title=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1710.05664\" href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1710.05664\" rel=\"nofollow\">What is (missing or wrong) in the scene? A Hybrid Deep Boltzmann Machine For Contextualized Scene Modeling<\/a><\/li><\/ul><p>I. Bozcan, S. Kalkan<\/p><p>International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2018.\u00a0<\/p><ul><li><a class=\"external text\" title=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1710.04975\" href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1710.04975\" rel=\"nofollow\">A Deep Incremental Boltzmann Machine for Modeling Context in Robots<\/a><\/li><\/ul><p>I. Dogan, S. Kalkan<\/p><p>International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2018.<\/p><ul><li><a class=\"external text\" title=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1706.05726\" href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1706.05726\" rel=\"nofollow\">Using Deep Networks for Drone Detection<\/a><\/li><\/ul><p>C. Aker, S. Kalkan<\/p><p>International Workshop on Small-Drone Surveillance, Detection and Counteraction Techniques organised within AVSS, 2017.<\/p><ul><li><a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/electronicimaging.spiedigitallibrary.org\/article.aspx?articleid=2528400\" href=\"http:\/\/electronicimaging.spiedigitallibrary.org\/article.aspx?articleid=2528400\" rel=\"nofollow\">Performance Evaluation of similarity measures for dense multimodal stereo vision<\/a><\/li><\/ul><p>M. Yaman, S. Kalkan\u00a0<\/p><p>J. Electron. Imaging 25(3), 033013, 2016. .<\/p><ul><li><a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/METU-CENG-TR-2015-01.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/METU-CENG-TR-2015-01.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">Learning Context on a Humanoid Robot using Incremental Latent Dirichlet Allocation<\/a><\/li><\/ul><p>H. Celikkanat, G. Orhan, N. Pugeault, F. Guerin, E. Sahin, S. Kalkan<\/p><p>IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, 8(1):42-59, 2016.\u00a0<\/p><ul><li><a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1109\/TAMD.2015.2418678\" href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1109\/TAMD.2015.2418678\" rel=\"nofollow\">A Probabilistic Concept Web in a Humanoid Robot<\/a><\/li><\/ul><p>H. Celikkanat, G. Orhan, S. Kalkan<\/p><p>IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development (TAMD), (7)2:92-106, 2015.\u00a0<\/p><ul><li><a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/Celikkanat_ICAR2015.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/Celikkanat_ICAR2015.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">Integrating Spatial Concepts into a Probabilistic Concept Web<\/a><\/li><\/ul><p>H. Celikkanat, E. Sahin, S. Kalkan<\/p><p>17th International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR), IEEE, Istanbul, 2015.<\/p><ul><li><a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.jbe-platform.com\/content\/journals\/10.1075\/is.15.1.01kal\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jbe-platform.com\/content\/journals\/10.1075\/is.15.1.01kal\" rel=\"nofollow\">Verb Concepts from Affordances<\/a><\/li><\/ul><p>S. Kalkan, N. Dag, O. Yuruten, A. M. Borghi, E. Sahin<\/p><p>Interaction Studies Journal, 15(1):1-37, 2014.<\/p><ul><li><a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/adb.sagepub.com\/content\/early\/2013\/08\/21\/1059712313497976.abstract\" href=\"http:\/\/adb.sagepub.com\/content\/early\/2013\/08\/21\/1059712313497976.abstract\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Learning of Adjectives and Nouns from Affordance and Appearance Features<\/a><\/li><\/ul><p>O. Yuruten, E. Sahin, S. Kalkan<\/p><p>Adaptive Behavior, 21(6):437-451, 2013.<\/p><ul><li><a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/Kruger-2013-TPAMI.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/Kruger-2013-TPAMI.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">Deep Hierarchies in the Primate Visual Cortex: What Can We Learn For Computer Vision?<\/a><\/li><\/ul><p>N. Krueger, P. Janssen, S. Kalkan, M. Lappe, A. Leonardis, J. Piater, A. J. Rodriguez-Sanchez, L. Wiskott<\/p><p>IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), 35(8):1847-1871, August 2013.<\/p><ul><li><a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/adb.sagepub.com\/content\/18\/3-4\/258.short\" href=\"http:\/\/adb.sagepub.com\/content\/18\/3-4\/258.short\" rel=\"nofollow\">Traversability: A Case Study for Learning and Perceiving Affordances in Robots<\/a>.<\/li><\/ul><p>Ugur E., Sahin, E<\/p><p>Adaptive Behavior journal. Available as: <a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~erol\/publications\/pdf\/Ugur-AB-2010.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~erol\/publications\/pdf\/Ugur-AB-2010.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf<\/a>. 18 no. 3-4 258-284, 2010<\/p><ul><li><a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1007\/s00521-010-0355-y\" href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1007\/s00521-010-0355-y\" rel=\"nofollow\">Steering Self-organized Robot Flocks through Externally Guided Individuals.<\/a>\u00a0<\/li><\/ul><p>Celikkanat H., Sahin, E.<\/p><p><a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.springer.com\/new+%26+forthcoming+titles+%28default%29\/journal\/521\" href=\"http:\/\/www.springer.com\/new+%26+forthcoming+titles+%28default%29\/journal\/521\" rel=\"nofollow\">Neural Computing and Applications<\/a> journal. Volume 19, Number 6, 849-865. Available as: <a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~erol\/publications\/pdf\/Celikkanat-NCA-2010.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~erol\/publications\/pdf\/Celikkanat-NCA-2010.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf<\/a>, 2010.<\/p><ul><li><a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1016\/j.tcs.2010.03.006\" href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1016\/j.tcs.2010.03.006\" rel=\"nofollow\">The pros and cons of flocking in the long-range &#8220;migration&#8221; of mobile robot swarms<\/a><\/li><\/ul><p>Gokce, F., Sahin, E.<\/p><p><a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.elsevier.com\/wps\/find\/journaldescription.cws_home\/505625\/description#description\" href=\"http:\/\/www.elsevier.com\/wps\/find\/journaldescription.cws_home\/505625\/description#description\" rel=\"nofollow\">Theoretical Computer Science<\/a>\u00a0journal. Available as:\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~erol\/publications\/pdf\/Gokce-TCS-2010.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~erol\/publications\/pdf\/Gokce-TCS-2010.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf<\/a>, 2010.<\/p><ul><li><a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/Ugur-Epirob-2009.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/Ugur-Epirob-2009.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">Affordance learning from range data for multi-step planning<\/a><\/li><\/ul><p>E. Ugur, E. Oztop, E. Sahin<\/p><p>Proc. of the Ninth Intl. Conf. on Epigenetic Robotics (Epirob&#8217;09), Lund University Cognitive Science Studies, 146, pp. 177-184, 2010.<\/p><ul><li>\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1007\/s11721-008-0016-2\" href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1007\/s11721-008-0016-2\" rel=\"nofollow\">Self-Organized Flocking in Mobile Robot Swarms<\/a><\/li><\/ul><p>Turgut A.E., Celikkanat H., Gokce, F., Sahin, E.<\/p><p>\u00a0Swarm Intelligence, vol 2, no:2-4, pp. 97-120. Earlier version also available as: <a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/Turgut-J-SI-2008.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/Turgut-J-SI-2008.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf<\/a>, 2008.<\/p><ul><li><a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/METU-CENG-TR-2006-02.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/METU-CENG-TR-2006-02.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">To afford or not to afford: A new formalization of affordances towards affordance-based robot control<\/a>\u00a0<\/li><\/ul><p>Sahin E., Cakmak M., Dogar M.R., Ugur E., Ucoluk G.<\/p><p>\u00a0Adaptive Behavior, Vol. 15, No. 4, 447-472, 2007. Also available as <a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/html\/to_afford_or_not_to_afford.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/html\/to_afford_or_not_to_afford.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">web page<\/a><\/p><ul><li><a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.springer.com\/sgw\/cda\/frontpage\/0,11855,5-40109-22-39113233-0,00.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.springer.com\/sgw\/cda\/frontpage\/0,11855,5-40109-22-39113233-0,00.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Swarm Robotics: State-of-the-art Survey<\/a><\/li><\/ul><p>Sahin E. and Spears W. (editors)<\/p><p>3342, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Berlin Heidelberg, Springer-Verlag, 2005.<\/p><ul><li>Dorigo M., Trianni V., Sahin E., Gross R., Labella T., Baldassarre, Nolfi S., Deneubourg J.-L., Mondada F., Floreano D., and Gambardella L. (2004). Evolving Self-Organizing Behaviors for a Swarm-Bot, Autonomous Robots. volume 17, pages 223-245.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Bahceci E., Soysal O., Sahin E. (2003) A Review: Pattern Formation and Adaptation in Multi-Robot Systems. Technical Report\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.ri.cmu.edu\/pubs\/pub_4534.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ri.cmu.edu\/pubs\/pub_4534.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">CMU-RI-TR-03-43<\/a>. Carnegie Mellon Univ, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-tab-title elementor-tab-mobile-title\" aria-selected=\"false\" data-tab=\"2\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-1452\" aria-expanded=\"false\">Sorted by Year<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-1452\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"2\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-1452\" tabindex=\"0\" hidden=\"hidden\"><h2><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">2018<\/span><\/h2><ul><li><a class=\"external text\" title=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1807.00511\" href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1807.00511\" rel=\"nofollow\">COSMO: Contextualized Scene Modeling with Boltzmann Machines<\/a><\/li><\/ul><p>I. Bozcan, S. Kalkan<\/p><p>Robotics and Autonomous Systems journal, submitted, 2018.<\/p><ul><li><a class=\"external text\" title=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1807.01696\" href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1807.01696\" rel=\"nofollow\">Localization Recall Precision (LRP): A New Performance Metric for Object Detection<\/a><\/li><\/ul><p>K. Oksuz, B. C. Cam, E. Akbas, S. Kalkan<\/p><p>European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), accepted, 2018.<\/p><ul><li><a class=\"external text\" title=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1710.04981\" href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1710.04981\" rel=\"nofollow\">CINet: A Learning Based Approach to Incremental Context Modeling in Robots<\/a><\/li><\/ul><p>F. I. Dogan, I. Bozcan, M. Celik, S. Kalkan<\/p><p>IEEE\/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), accepted, 2018.<\/p><ul><li><a class=\"external text\" title=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1701.05766\" href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1701.05766\" rel=\"nofollow\">A Large-scale Dataset and Benchmark for Similar Trademark Retrieval<\/a><\/li><\/ul><p>O. Tursun, C. Aker, S. Kalkan<\/p><p>major revision. <a href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/LogoDataset\/\">METU Trademark Retrieval Dataset<\/a><\/p><ul><li><a class=\"external text\" title=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1710.05664\" href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1710.05664\" rel=\"nofollow\">What is (missing or wrong) in the scene? A Hybrid Deep Boltzmann Machine For Contextualized Scene Modeling<\/a><\/li><\/ul><p>I. Bozcan, S. Kalkan<\/p><p>International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2018.<\/p><ul><li><a class=\"external text\" title=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1710.04975\" href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1710.04975\" rel=\"nofollow\">A Deep Incremental Boltzmann Machine for Modeling Context in Robots<\/a><\/li><\/ul><p>I. Dogan, S. Kalkan<\/p><p>International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2018.<\/p><h2><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">2017<\/span><\/h2><ul><li><a class=\"external text\" title=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1706.05726\" href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1706.05726\" rel=\"nofollow\">Using Deep Networks for Drone Detection<\/a><\/li><\/ul><p>C. Aker, S. Kalkan<\/p><p>International Workshop on Small-Drone Surveillance, Detection and Counteraction Techniques organised within AVSS, 2017.<\/p><ul><li><a class=\"external text\" title=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1109\/AVSS.2017.8078464\" href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1109\/AVSS.2017.8078464\" rel=\"nofollow\">Drone-vs-Bird detection challenge at IEEE AVSS2017<\/a><\/li><\/ul><p>Coluccia et al.<\/p><p>International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS), 2017.<\/p><ul><li><a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/ArslanKalkanAcarturk-IDAP2017.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/ArslanKalkanAcarturk-IDAP2017.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">Dynamic Gaze Analysis<\/a><\/li><\/ul><p>U. A. Aydin, S. Kalkan, C. Acarturk<\/p><p>International Artificial Intelligence and Data Processing Symposium, 2017 (in Turkish).<\/p><ul><li>A Gaze-Centered Multimodal Approach to Human-Human Social Interaction<\/li><\/ul><p>U. A. Aydin, S. Kalkan, C. Acarturk<\/p><p>3rd IEEE International Conference on Cybernetics Workshop on Cognition in Mixed Realities, Exeter, UK, 2017.<\/p><ul><li><a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/AkerTursunKalkan_SIU2017.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/AkerTursunKalkan_SIU2017.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">Analyzing Deep Features for Trademark Retrieval<\/a><\/li><\/ul><p>C. Aker, O. Tursun, S. Kalkan<\/p><p>25th Conference on Signal Processing and Applications (SIU), Turkey, 2017 (in Turkish).<\/p><ul><li><a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/DoganKalkan-METU-CENG-TR-2017-01.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/DoganKalkan-METU-CENG-TR-2017-01.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">Hierarchical Context Modeling Using Incremental Deep Boltzmann Machines<\/a><\/li><\/ul><p>F. I. Dogan, S. Kalkan<\/p><p>Technical Report No: METU-CENG-TR-2017-01, Dept. of Computer Engineering, Middle East Technical University, 2017.<\/p><ul><li><a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/BozcanKalkan-METU-CENG-TR-2017-02.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/BozcanKalkan-METU-CENG-TR-2017-02.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">Combining Different Knowledge-bases into a Single Partially-grounded Robotic Knowledge-base<\/a><\/li><\/ul><p>I. Bozcan, S. Kalkan<\/p><p>Technical Report No: METU-CENG-TR-2017-02, Dept. of Computer Engineering, Middle East Technical University, 2017.<\/p><ul><li><a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/CelikKalkan-METU-CENG-TR-2017-03.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/CelikKalkan-METU-CENG-TR-2017-03.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">An Approach to Modeling Context Using Semantic Maps<\/a><\/li><\/ul><p>M. Celik, S. Kalkan<\/p><p>Technical Report No: METU-CENG-TR-2017-03, Dept. of Computer Engineering, Middle East Technical University, 2017.<\/p><h2><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">2016<\/span><\/h2><ul><li><a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/Yaman2016_JEI.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/Yaman2016_JEI.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">Performance Evaluation of similarity measures for dense multimodal stereo vision<\/a><\/li><\/ul><p>M. Yaman, S. Kalkan<\/p><p>J. Electron. Imaging 25(3), 033013, 2016.\u00a0<\/p><ul><li><a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/METU-CENG-TR-2015-01.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/METU-CENG-TR-2015-01.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">Learning Context on a Humanoid Robot using Incremental Latent Dirichlet Allocation<\/a><\/li><\/ul><p>H. Celikkanat, G. Orhan, N. Pugeault, F. Guerin, E. Sahin, S. Kalkan<\/p><p>IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, 8(1):42-59, 2016.<\/p><ul><li><a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/DoganKalkan-TORK2016.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/DoganKalkan-TORK2016.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">The hierarchical nature of context<\/a><\/li><\/ul><p>F. I. Dogan, S. Kalkan<\/p><p>Turkiye Robotbilim Konferansi (ToRK), Istanbul Gedik University Publications, ISBN: 9786058557215, pp. 48-51, 2-3 November, 2016 (in Turkish)<\/p><ul><li><a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/CelikKalkan-TORK2016.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/CelikKalkan-TORK2016.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">Contexts and concepts in robots: Too far, too close<\/a><\/li><\/ul><p>M. Celik, S. Kalkan\u00a0<\/p><p>Turkiye Robotbilim Konferansi (ToRK), Istanbul Gedik University Publications, ISBN: 9786058557215, pp. 52-55, 2-3 November, 2016 (in Turkish)\u00a0<\/p><h2><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">2015<\/span><\/h2><ul><li><a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/METU-CENG-TR-2015-01.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/METU-CENG-TR-2015-01.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">Learning Context on a Humanoid Robot using Incremental Latent Dirichlet Allocation<\/a><\/li><\/ul><p>H. Celikkanat, G. Orhan, N. Pugeault, F. Guerin, E. Sahin, S. Kalkan<\/p><p>IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development (TAMD), (accepted with revision), 2015.<\/p><ul><li>H. Celikkanat, G. Orhan, S. Kalkan, &#8220;A Probabilistic Concept Web in a Humanoid Robot&#8221;, IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development (TAMD), (7)2:92-106, 2015.\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/2015-TAMD-Celikkanat-Concept.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/2015-TAMD-Celikkanat-Concept.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">Preprint<\/a><a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1109\/TAMD.2015.2418678\" href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1109\/TAMD.2015.2418678\" rel=\"nofollow\">Publisher&#8217;s Website<\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul><li>H. Celikkanat, E. Sahin, S. Kalkan, &#8220;Integrating Spatial Concepts into a Probabilistic Concept Web&#8221;, 17th International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR), IEEE, Istanbul, 2015.\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/Celikkanat_ICAR2015.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/Celikkanat_ICAR2015.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf<\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul><li>O. Oztimur, M. A. Akkus, S. Kalkan, &#8220;An MRF Framework for Co-Solving Image Segmentation and Border Ownership&#8221;, IEEE 23rd Conference on Signal Processing and Communication Applications, Malatya, Turkey, 2015 (in Turkish).\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/BO_Segmentation_v2.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/BO_Segmentation_v2.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf<\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul><li>W. Tuerxun, S. Kalkan, &#8220;A Challenging Big Dataset for Benchmarking Trademark Retrieval&#8221;, 14th IAPR Conference on Machine Vision and Applications, Tokyo, 2015.\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/MVA15_0154_MS.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/MVA15_0154_MS.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf<\/a><a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/LogoDataset\/\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/LogoDataset\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">METU Trademark Dataset<\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul><li>I. Atil, S. Kalkan, &#8220;Towards an Embodied Developing Vision System&#8221;, Kuenstliche Intelligenz (German Journal of Artificial Intelligence), Invited for a special issue on &#8220;Bio-inspired Vision Systems&#8221;, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, (in press), 2015.\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/AtilKalkan_KI2015.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/AtilKalkan_KI2015.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">Preprint<\/a><a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1007\/s13218-015-0351-6\" href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1007\/s13218-015-0351-6\" rel=\"nofollow\">Publisher&#8217;s Website<\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul><li>M. Yaman, S. Kalkan, &#8220;An Iterative Adaptive Multi-modal Stereo-vision Method using Mutual Information&#8221;, Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, 26(0):115-131, 2015.\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/MYaman-JVCI2014.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/MYaman-JVCI2014.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">Preprint<\/a><a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jvcir.2014.11.010\" href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jvcir.2014.11.010\" rel=\"nofollow\">Publisher&#8217;s Website<\/a><\/li><\/ul><h2><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span class=\"mw-headline\">2014<\/span><\/span><\/h2><ul><li>H. Celikkanat, G. Orhan, N. Pugeault, F. Guerin, E. Sahin and S. Kalkan, &#8220;Insansi Robotlarda Baglamin Ogrenilmesi&#8221;, 1nci Turkiye Otonom Robotlar Konferansi (TORK), ODTU, 6-7 Kasim 2014.\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/Hande_TORK2014.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/Hande_TORK2014.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf (in Turkish)<\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul><li>F. Gokce, S. Olgunsoylu, G. Ucoluk, E. Sahin and S. Kalkan, &#8220;Goruntu Isleme ile Mikro Insansiz Hava Araclarinin Algilanmasi&#8221;, 1nci Turkiye Otonom Robotlar Konferansi (TORK), ODTU, 6-7 Kasim 2014.\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/Fatih_TORK2014.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/Fatih_TORK2014.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf (in Turkish)<\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul><li>H. Celikkanat, G. Orhan, N. Pugeault, F. Guerin, E. Sahin and S. Kalkan, &#8220;Learning and Using Context on a Humanoid Robot Using Latent Dirichlet Allocation&#8221;, Int. Conference on Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL-Epirob), 2014.\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/Celikkanat_EPIROB2014.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/Celikkanat_EPIROB2014.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf<\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul><li>S. Kalkan, N. Dag, O. Yuruten, A. M. Borghi, E. Sahin, &#8220;Verb Concepts from Affordances&#8221;, Interaction Studies Journal, 15(1):1-37, 2014.\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/IS2013-preprint.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/IS2013-preprint.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">Preprint<\/a><a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.jbe-platform.com\/content\/journals\/10.1075\/is.15.1.01kal\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jbe-platform.com\/content\/journals\/10.1075\/is.15.1.01kal\" rel=\"nofollow\">Publisher&#8217;s webpage<\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul><li>H. Celikkanat, S. Kalkan, &#8220;Using Slowness Principle for Feature Selection: Relevant Feature Analysis&#8221;, 22nd IEEE Conference on Signal Processing and Applications (Special Session on Cognitive Robotics and Applications), Trabzon, Turkey, 2014.\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/Celikkanat_SIU2014.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/Celikkanat_SIU2014.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf (in Turkish)<\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul><li>F. Yousefi, E. Sivri, O. Kaya, S. Suloglu, S. Kalkan, &#8220;Analysis of Widely-used Descriptors for Finger-vein Recognition&#8221;, Int. Conf. on Computer Vision Theory and Applications, 2014.\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/Fariba-Visapp2014.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/Fariba-Visapp2014.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf<\/a><\/li><\/ul><h2><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span class=\"mw-headline\">2013<\/span><\/span><\/h2><ul><li>O. Yuruten, E. Sahin, S. Kalkan, &#8220;The Learning of Adjectives and Nouns from Affordance and Appearance Features&#8221;, Adaptive Behavior, 21(6):437-451, 2013.\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/AB2013-preprint.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/AB2013-preprint.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">Preprint<\/a><a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/adb.sagepub.com\/content\/early\/2013\/08\/21\/1059712313497976.abstract\" href=\"http:\/\/adb.sagepub.com\/content\/early\/2013\/08\/21\/1059712313497976.abstract\" rel=\"nofollow\">Publisher<\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul><li>N. Krueger, P. Janssen, S. Kalkan, M. Lappe, A. Leonardis, J. Piater, A. J. Rodriguez-Sanchez, L. Wiskott, &#8220;Deep Hierarchies in the Primate Visual Cortex: What Can We Learn For Computer Vision?&#8221;, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), 35(8):1847-1871, August 2013.\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/Kruger-2013-TPAMI.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/Kruger-2013-TPAMI.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">Preprint<\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul><li>H. Celikkanat, E. Sahin, S. Kalkan, &#8220;Recurrent Slow Feature Analysis for Developing Object Permanence in Robots&#8221;, IROS Workshop on Neuroscience and Robotics, Tokyo, Japan, November, 2013.\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/Celikkanat_IROS2013.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/Celikkanat_IROS2013.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf<\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Uyanik K.F., Caliskan Y., Bozcuoglu A.K., Yuruten O., Kalkan S. and Sahin, E., &#8220;Learning Social Affordances and Using Them for Planning&#8221;, 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 2013.\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/Kadir-Social-affordances.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/Kadir-Social-affordances.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf<\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul><li>G. Orhan, S. Olgunsoylu, E. Sahin, S. Kalkan, &#8220;Co-learning nouns and adjectives&#8221;, IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and on Epigenetic Robotics, Osaka, Japan, 2013.\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/OrhanEtAl-EPIROB2013.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/OrhanEtAl-EPIROB2013.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf<\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Yaman M., Kalkan S., &#8220;Multimodal Stereo Vision Using Mutual Information with Adaptive Windowing&#8221;, 13th IAPR Conference on Machine Vision and Applications, Kyoto, Japan, 2013. Available as:\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/MVA13_Yaman.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/MVA13_Yaman.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf<\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Sivri E., Kalkan S., &#8220;Global Binary Patterns: A Novel Shape Descriptor&#8221;, 13th IAPR Conference on Machine Vision and Applications, Kyoto, Japan, 2013. Available as:\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/MVA13_Sivri.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/MVA13_Sivri.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf<\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul><li>E. Sivri, S. Kalkan, &#8220;A Novel Shape Descriptor: Intersection Consistency Histograms &#8220;, IEEE 21st Conference on Signal Processing and Communication Applications, Girne, KKTC, 2013 (in Turkish). Available as\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/SIU2013_SivriKalkan.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/SIU2013_SivriKalkan.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf<\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul><li>M. A. Akkus, M. Aydinlilar, S. Kalkan, &#8220;Analysis of Junctions with Underlying Range Images&#8221;, IEEE 21st Conference on Signal Processing and Communication Applications, Girne, KKTC, 2013 (in Turkish). Available as\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/SIU2013_AkkusAydinlilarKalkan.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/SIU2013_AkkusAydinlilarKalkan.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf<\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul><li>M. A. Akkus, G. Topuz, B. Ozkan, S. Kalkan, &#8220;A Comprehensive Database for Border Ownership&#8221;, IEEE 21st Conference on Signal Processing and Communication Applications, Girne, KKTC, 2013 (in Turkish). Available as\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/SIU2013_AkkusEtAl.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/SIU2013_AkkusEtAl.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf<\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul><li>B. Ozkan, S. Kalkan, &#8220;Extraction of Border Ownership Information by Conditional Random Field Model&#8221;, IEEE 21st Conference on Signal Processing and Communication Applications, Girne, KKTC, 2013 (in Turkish). Available as\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/SIU2013_BugraKalkan.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/SIU2013_BugraKalkan.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf<\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul><li>S. Kalkan, O. Yuruten, E. Sahin, &#8220;Relating Affordances with Verbs, Nouns and Adjectives&#8221;, Special Session on Cognitive Robotics and Applications, IEEE 21st Conference on Signal Processing and Communication Applications, Girne, KKTC, 2013 (in Turkish). Available as\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/SIU2013_KalkanYurutenSahin.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/SIU2013_KalkanYurutenSahin.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf<\/a><\/li><\/ul><h2><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span class=\"mw-headline\">2012<\/span><\/span><\/h2><ul><li>Yuruten O., Uyanik K. F., Caliskan, Y., Bozcuoglu, A. K. Sahin E., Kalkan S., \u201cLearning Adjectives and Nouns from Affordances on the iCub Humanoid Robot\u201d. 12th Int. Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, Denmark, 2012. Available as:\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/sab_2012.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/sab_2012.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf<\/a>.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Uyanik K. F., Yuruten O., Kalkan S., Sahin E. \u201cTowards Context-aware Adjective Learning\u201d. ICRA 2012\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/thefutureofhri\/\" href=\"http:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/thefutureofhri\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Future of HRI Workshop<\/a>, MI, USA. Available as:\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/icra_hri_12.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/icra_hri_12.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf<\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul><li>J. Ralli, J. Diaz, E. Ros, S. Kalkan, N. Krueger, &#8220;Disparity Disambiguation by Fusion of Signal- and Symbolic-Level Information&#8221;,\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.springerlink.com\/content\/gt21p2871818g669\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.springerlink.com\/content\/gt21p2871818g669\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Machine Vision and Applications<\/a>, 23(1):65-77, 2012.<\/li><\/ul><h2><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span class=\"mw-headline\">2011<\/span><\/span><\/h2><ul><li>Bozcuoglu, A.K., Sahin, E., &#8220;Traversability on a simple humanoid: What did I just trip over?&#8221;, 11th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), pp. 701-706, 26-28 Oct. 2011.\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/stamp\/stamp.jsp?tp=&amp;arnumber=6100904&amp;isnumber=6100798\" href=\"http:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/stamp\/stamp.jsp?tp=&amp;arnumber=6100904&amp;isnumber=6100798\" rel=\"nofollow\">IEEE Xplore<\/a><\/li><\/ul><h2><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span class=\"mw-headline\">2010<\/span><\/span><\/h2><ul><li>E. Baseski, N. Pugeault, S. Kalkan, L. Bodenhagen, J. Piater and N. Kruger, &#8220;Using Multi-Modal 3D Contours and Their Relations for Vision and Robotics&#8221;,\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S1047320310000945\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S1047320310000945\" rel=\"nofollow\">Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation<\/a>, 21(8):850-864, 2010.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Ugur E., and Sahin, E. (2010)\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/adb.sagepub.com\/content\/18\/3-4\/258.short\" href=\"http:\/\/adb.sagepub.com\/content\/18\/3-4\/258.short\" rel=\"nofollow\">Traversability: A Case Study for Learning and Perceiving Affordances in Robots<\/a>. Adaptive Behavior journal. Available as:\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~erol\/publications\/pdf\/Ugur-AB-2010.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~erol\/publications\/pdf\/Ugur-AB-2010.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf<\/a>. 18 no. 3-4 258-284.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Celikkanat H., and Sahin, E. (2010)\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1007\/s00521-010-0355-y\" href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1007\/s00521-010-0355-y\" rel=\"nofollow\">Steering Self-organized Robot Flocks through Externally Guided Individuals.<\/a>\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.springer.com\/new+%26+forthcoming+titles+%28default%29\/journal\/521\" href=\"http:\/\/www.springer.com\/new+%26+forthcoming+titles+%28default%29\/journal\/521\" rel=\"nofollow\">Neural Computing and Applications<\/a>\u00a0journal. Volume 19, Number 6, 849-865. Available as:\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~erol\/publications\/pdf\/Celikkanat-NCA-2010.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~erol\/publications\/pdf\/Celikkanat-NCA-2010.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf<\/a>.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Gokce, F., and Sahin, E. (2010)\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1016\/j.tcs.2010.03.006\" href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1016\/j.tcs.2010.03.006\" rel=\"nofollow\">The pros and cons of flocking in the long-range &#8220;migration&#8221; of mobile robot swarms.<\/a>\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.elsevier.com\/wps\/find\/journaldescription.cws_home\/505625\/description#description\" href=\"http:\/\/www.elsevier.com\/wps\/find\/journaldescription.cws_home\/505625\/description#description\" rel=\"nofollow\">Theoretical Computer Science<\/a>\u00a0journal. Available as:\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~erol\/publications\/pdf\/Gokce-TCS-2010.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~erol\/publications\/pdf\/Gokce-TCS-2010.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf<\/a>.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Dag N., Atil I., Kalkan S. and Sahin E. (2010) Learning Affordances for Categorizing Objects and Their Properties\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.icpr2010.org\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.icpr2010.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">International Conference on Pattern Recognition<\/a>\u00a0Available as:\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/dag-icpr-2010.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/dag-icpr-2010.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf<\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Atil I., Dag N., Kalkan S. and Sahin E. (2010) Affordances and Emergence of Concepts\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.epigenetic-robotics.org\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.epigenetic-robotics.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">10th International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics<\/a>\u00a0Available as:\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/atil-epirob-2010.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/atil-epirob-2010.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf<\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Akgun B., Tunaoglu D. and Sahin E. (2010) Action Recognition through an Action Generation Mechanism.\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.epigenetic-robotics.org\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.epigenetic-robotics.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">10th International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics<\/a>\u00a0Available as:\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/akgun-epirob-2010.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/akgun-epirob-2010.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf<\/a><\/li><\/ul><h2><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span class=\"mw-headline\">2009<\/span><\/span><\/h2><ul><li>E. Ugur, E. Oztop, E. Sahin. Affordance learning from range data for multi-step planning. Proc. of Epirob&#8217;09. Earlier version also available as:\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/Ugur-Epirob-2009.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/Ugur-Epirob-2009.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf<\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul><li>E. Sahin, S.T. Erdogan (2009). Towards linking affordances with mirror\/canonical neurons. Presented at ISCIS Special Session on Cognitive Cybernetics and Brain Modeling. Earlier version also available as:\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/Sahin-ISCIS-2009-SS.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/Sahin-ISCIS-2009-SS.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf<\/a>.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>E. Ugur, E. Sahin, E. Oztop (2009). Predicting future object states using learned affordances. Presented at ISCIS Special Session on Cognitive Cybernetics and Brain Modeling. Earlier version also available as:\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/Ugur-ISCIS-2009-SS.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/Ugur-ISCIS-2009-SS.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf<\/a>.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>B. Akgun, N. Dag, T. Bilal, I. Atil, E. Sahin. (2009) Unsupervised Learning of Affordance Relations on a Humanoid Robot. Proc. of ISCIS&#8217;09. Earlier version also available as:\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/Akgun-ISCIS-2009.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/Akgun-ISCIS-2009.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf<\/a>.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>E. Ugur, E. Oztop, E. Sahin (2009). Learning Object Affordances for Planning. Presented at ICRA&#8217;09 Workshop on Sensorimotor Learning. Earlier version also available as:\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/Ugur-ICRA-2009-WS.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/Ugur-ICRA-2009-WS.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf<\/a>.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>E. Sahin, H. Celikkanat (2009). A Critical review of Flocking Models. Presented at ECAL&#8217;09 Workshop Agent connectivity: the role of cooperation in the regulation of the behavior of animals and robots. Available as:\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/Sahin-ECAL-2009-WS.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/Sahin-ECAL-2009-WS.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf<\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Gokce F. and Sahin, E. (2009).\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/portal.acm.org\/citation.cfm?id=1558013.1558021&amp;coll=&amp;dl=&amp;type=series&amp;idx=SERIES134&amp;part=series&amp;WantType=Proceedings&amp;title=AGENTS\" href=\"http:\/\/portal.acm.org\/citation.cfm?id=1558013.1558021&amp;coll=&amp;dl=&amp;type=series&amp;idx=SERIES134&amp;part=series&amp;WantType=Proceedings&amp;title=AGENTS\" rel=\"nofollow\">To flock or not to flock: Pros and cons of flocking in long-range &#8220;migration&#8221; of mobile robot swarms<\/a>. Proc. of The Eighth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS&#8217;09), pp. 65-72. Earlier version also available as:\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/Gokce-AAMAS-2009.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/Gokce-AAMAS-2009.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf<\/a>.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Bayindir L. and Sahin, E. (2009).\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1109\/SIS.2009.4937849\" href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1109\/SIS.2009.4937849\" rel=\"nofollow\">Modeling Self-Organized Aggregation in Swarm Robotic Systems<\/a>. Proc. of the IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium (SIS&#8217;09), pp. 88-95. Earlier version also available as:\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/Bayindir-SIS-2009.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/Bayindir-SIS-2009.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf<\/a>.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Celikkanat H., Turgut A.E., and Sahin, E. (2009). Control of a Mobile Robot via Informed Robots. Proc. of 9th International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS\u201908), pp. 215-225. Earlier version also available as:\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/Celikkanat-DARS-2008.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/Celikkanat-DARS-2008.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf<\/a>.<\/li><\/ul><h2><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span class=\"mw-headline\">2008<\/span><\/span><\/h2><ul><li>Turgut A.E., \u00c7elikkanat H., G\u00f6k\u00e7e F. and \u015eahin E. (2008) .Self-Organized Flocking with a Mobile Robot Swarm. Proc. of 7th Int. Conf. on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2008), Padgham, Parkes, M\u00fcller and Parsons (eds.), May, 12-16., 2008, Estoril, Portugal, pp. 39-46. Available in\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/kobot_aamas08.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/kobot_aamas08.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf<\/a>. Early version available as technical report\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/METU-CENG-TR-2008-01.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/METU-CENG-TR-2008-01.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">METU-CENG-TR-2008-01<\/a>\u00a0in pdf.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Turgut A.E., Huepe, C, Celikkanat H., Gokce, F. and Sahin, E. (2008) .\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1007\/978-3-540-87527-7\" href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1007\/978-3-540-87527-7\" rel=\"nofollow\">Modelling Phase Transition in Self-Organized Mobile Robot Flocks<\/a>. Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence (ANTS\u201908). LNCS vol 5217, pages 108-119. Earlier version also available as:\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/Turgut-ANTS-2008.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/Turgut-ANTS-2008.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf<\/a>.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Sahin, E. and Winfield A.F.T. (2008) .\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1007\/s11721-008-0020-6\" href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1007\/s11721-008-0020-6\" rel=\"nofollow\">Special Issue on Swarm Robotics<\/a>. Swarm Intelligence, vol 2, no: 2-3.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Turgut A.E., Celikkanat H., Gokce, F. and Sahin, E. (2008) .\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1007\/s11721-008-0016-2\" href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1007\/s11721-008-0016-2\" rel=\"nofollow\">Self-Organized Flocking in Mobile Robot Swarms<\/a>. Swarm Intelligence, vol 2, no:2-4, pp. 97-120. Earlier version also available as:\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/Turgut-J-SI-2008.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/Turgut-J-SI-2008.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf<\/a>.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>E. Rome, L. Paletta, E. Sahin, G. Dorffner, J. Hertzberg, R. Breithaupt, G. Fritz, J. Irran, F. Kintzler, C. Loerken, S. May, E. Ugur (2008) .\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1007\/978-3-540-77915-5_12\" href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1007\/978-3-540-77915-5_12\" rel=\"nofollow\">The MACS project: An approach to affordance-based robot control<\/a>, In: Towards Affordance-based Robot Control, Proceedings of Dagstuhl Seminar 06231, Springer-Verlag, LNAI 4760, E. Rome, J. Hertzberg, and G. Dorffner (eds.), pp. 173-210, February 2008.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Sahin E., Girgin S., Bayindir L. and Turgut A.E. (2008) . Swarm Robotics, in\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.springer.com\/computer\/artificial\/book\/978-3-540-74088-9\" href=\"http:\/\/www.springer.com\/computer\/artificial\/book\/978-3-540-74088-9\" rel=\"nofollow\">Swarm Intelligence &#8211; Introduction and Applications<\/a>\u00a0(editors: C. Blum and D. Merkle), Springer, pp. 87-100. Earlier version also available as:\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/\/pdf\/Sahin-Book-SI-2008.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/\/pdf\/Sahin-Book-SI-2008.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf<\/a>.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Turgut A.E., Celikkanat H., Gokce, F. and Sahin, E. (2008) .\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/portal.acm.org\/citation.cfm?id=1402383.1402394&amp;coll=ACM&amp;dl=ACM&amp;type=series&amp;idx=SERIES134&amp;part=series&amp;WantType=Journals&amp;title=Proceedings%20of%20the%207th%20international%20joint%20conference%20on%20Autonomous%20agents%20and%20multiagent%20systems%20-%20Volume%201\" href=\"http:\/\/portal.acm.org\/citation.cfm?id=1402383.1402394&amp;coll=ACM&amp;dl=ACM&amp;type=series&amp;idx=SERIES134&amp;part=series&amp;WantType=Journals&amp;title=Proceedings%20of%20the%207th%20international%20joint%20conference%20on%20Autonomous%20agents%20and%20multiagent%20systems%20-%20Volume%201\" rel=\"nofollow\">Self-Organized Flocking with a Mobile Robot Swarm<\/a>. In Proc. of the 7th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS&#8217;08), Padgham, Parkes, Muller and Parsons (eds.), pp. 39-46. Earlier version also available as:\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/Turgut-AAMAS-2008.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/Turgut-AAMAS-2008.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/ppt\/Turgut-AAMAS-2008.ppt\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/ppt\/Turgut-AAMAS-2008.ppt\" rel=\"nofollow\">ppt<\/a>.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Dogar M.R., Ugur E. Sahin, E. and Cakmak M. (2008) .\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1109\/ROBOT.2008.4543794\" href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1109\/ROBOT.2008.4543794\" rel=\"nofollow\">Using Learned Affordances for Robotic Behavior Development<\/a>. In Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA\u201908), pp. 3802-3807. Earlier version also available as:\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/Turgut-AAMAS-2008.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/Turgut-AAMAS-2008.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf<\/a>.<\/li><\/ul><h2><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span class=\"mw-headline\">2007<\/span><\/span><\/h2><ul><li>Turgut A.E., Gokce F., Celikkanat H., Bayindir L. and Sahin E. (2007) . Kobot: A mobile robot designed specifically for swarm robotics research. Technical report available as\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/METU-CENG-TR-2007-05.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/METU-CENG-TR-2007-05.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">METU-CENG-TR-2007-05<\/a>\u00a0in pdf.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Cakmak M., Dogar M.R., Ugur E. and Sahin E. (2007), Affordances as a Framework for Robot Control.International Workshop on Epigenetic Robotics (EpiRob) 2007.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Dogar M.R., Cakmak M., Ugur E. and Sahin E. (2007), From Primitive Behaviors to Goal-Directed Behavior Using Affordances.IEEE\/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2007. Available as technical report\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/METU-CENG-TR-2007-02.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/METU-CENG-TR-2007-02.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">METU-CENG-TR-2007-02<\/a>\u00a0in pdf. Also available as\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/eski\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=108&amp;Itemid=192\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/eski\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=108&amp;Itemid=192\" rel=\"nofollow\">web page<\/a>.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Turgut A.E., Gokce F., Celikkanat H., Bay\u0131nd\u0131r L., Sahin E. (2007), Kobot: S\u00fcr\u00fc robot \u00e7al\u0131\u015fmalar\u0131 i\u00e7in tasarlanm\u0131\u015f gezgin robot platformu, Otomatik Kontrol Ulusal Toplantisi TOK&#8217;07 (Turkish National Conference on Automatic Control), pages 259-264, 2007. Available as\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/kobot-tok07.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/kobot-tok07.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf<\/a>\u00a0(in Turkish).<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Ugur E., Dogar M.R., Cakmak M. and Sahin E. (2007), Curiosity-driven Learning of Traversability Affordance on a Mobile Robot. IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning 2007.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Sahin E., Cakmak M., Dogar M.R., Ugur E. and Ucoluk G. (2007) .To afford or not to afford: A new formalization of affordances towards affordance-based robot control. Adaptive Behavior, Vol. 15, No. 4, 447-472. Early version available as\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/METU-CENG-TR-2006-02.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/METU-CENG-TR-2006-02.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">METU-CENG-TR-2006-02<\/a>\u00a0in pdf. Also available as\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/html\/to_afford_or_not_to_afford.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/html\/to_afford_or_not_to_afford.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">web page<\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Ugur E., Dogar M.R., Cakmak M. and Sahin E. (2007) . The learning and use of traversability affordance using range images on a mobile robot, In Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 1721-1726. Early version available as\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/METU-CENG-TR-2006-03.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/METU-CENG-TR-2006-03.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">METU-CENG-TR-2006-03<\/a>\u00a0in pdf. Also available as\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/eski\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=107&amp;Itemid=187\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/eski\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=107&amp;Itemid=187\" rel=\"nofollow\">web page<\/a>.<\/li><\/ul><h2><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span class=\"mw-headline\">2006<\/span><\/span><\/h2><ul><li>Turgut A.E., Cakmak M., Sahin E. and Koku B. (2006) . Ogul-Robot Sistemleri icin Sinyallesme Sistemi Tasarimi (Design of a signaling system for swarm robotic systems), Otomatik Kontrol Ulusal Toplantisi TOK&#8217;06 (Turkish National Conference on Automatic Control), 2006. Available as\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/tok06b.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/tok06b.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf<\/a>\u00a0(in Turkish).<\/li><li>Celikkanat H., Turgut A.E., Sahin E. and Koku B. (2006) . Ogul-Robot Sistemleri icin Basit Bir G\u00f6r\u00fcnt\u00fcleme Sistemi Tasar\u0131m\u0131 (Design of a simple imaging system for swarm robotic systems), Otomatik Kontrol Ulusal Toplantisi TOK&#8217;06 (Turkish National Conference on Automatic Control), 2006. Available as\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/tok06a.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/tok06a.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf<\/a>\u00a0(in Turkish).<\/li><li>Sahin E., Girgin S. and Ugur E. (2006) Area measurement of large closed regions with a mobile robot. Autonomous Robots, Vol: 21, No: 3, November 2006, pp. 255-266. Early version available as\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/METU-CENG-TR-2005-06.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/METU-CENG-TR-2005-06.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">METU-CENG-TR-2005-06<\/a>\u00a0in pdf.<\/li><\/ul><h2><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span class=\"mw-headline\">2005<\/span><\/span><\/h2><ul><li>Sahin E. and Spears W. (editors) (2005),\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.springer.com\/sgw\/cda\/frontpage\/0,11855,5-40109-22-39113233-0,00.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.springer.com\/sgw\/cda\/frontpage\/0,11855,5-40109-22-39113233-0,00.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Swarm Robotics: State-of-the-art Survey<\/a>, 3342, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Berlin Heidelberg, Springer-Verlag.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Sahin E. (2005), Swarm Robotics: From Sources of Inspiration to Domains of Application, In Swarm Robotics: State-of-the-art Survey, Sahin E. and Spears W., editors, 3342, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 10-20, Berlin Heidelberg, Springer-Verlag. Available as\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/METU-CENG-TR-2005-01.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/METU-CENG-TR-2005-01.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">METU-CENG-TR-2005-01<\/a>\u00a0in pdf.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>O. Soysal and E. Sahin (2005). Probabilistic Aggregation Strategies in Swarm Robotic Systems, Proc. of the IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium, 2005, Pasadena, California. Available as\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/METU-CENG-TR-2005-02.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/METU-CENG-TR-2005-02.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">METU-CENG-TR-2005-02<\/a>\u00a0in pdf.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>E. Bahceci and E. Sahin (2005). Evolving Aggregation Behaviors for Swarm Robotic Systems: A Systematic Case Study, Proc. of the IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium, 2005, Pasadena, California. Available as\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/METU-CENG-TR-2005-03.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/METU-CENG-TR-2005-03.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">METU-CENG-TR-2005-03<\/a>\u00a0in pdf.<\/li><\/ul><h2><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span class=\"mw-headline\">2004<\/span><\/span><\/h2><ul><li>Dorigo M., and Sahin E. (2004).\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.springerlink.com\/%28ds32gf55vwykc2zlcrooru45%29\/app\/home\/issue.asp?referrer=parent&amp;backto=journal,9,58;linkingpublicationresults,1:100243,1\" href=\"http:\/\/www.springerlink.com\/%28ds32gf55vwykc2zlcrooru45%29\/app\/home\/issue.asp?referrer=parent&amp;backto=journal,9,58;linkingpublicationresults,1:100243,1\" rel=\"nofollow\">Special Issue: Swarm Robotics<\/a>\u00a0Autonomous Robots. 2004, volume 17, pages 111-113.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Dorigo M., Trianni V., Sahin E., Gross R., Labella T., Baldassarre, Nolfi S., Deneubourg J.-L., Mondada F., Floreano D., and Gambardella L. (2004). Evolving Self-Organizing Behaviors for a Swarm-Bot, Autonomous Robots. volume 17, pages 223-245.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Girgin S., Sahin E. (2004) Blind area measurement with mobile robots. In F. Groen, N. Amato, A. Bonarini, E. Yoshida, B. Krose, editor, Proceedings of the 8th Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS-8), pages 37\u00c2&#8211;44. IOS Press. Amsterdam, the Netherlands. An extended version is published as Carnegie Mellon University, Robotics Institute, Technical Report,\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.ri.cmu.edu\/pubs\/pub_4533.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ri.cmu.edu\/pubs\/pub_4533.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">CMU-RI-TR-2003-42<\/a>. Available in\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/girgin-IAS-2004.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/girgin-IAS-2004.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf.<\/a><\/li><\/ul><h2><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span class=\"mw-headline\">2003<\/span><\/span><\/h2><ul><li>Trianni V., Gro\u00c3\u0178 R., Labella T.H., Sahin E., Dorigo M. (2003), Evolving Aggregation Behaviors in a Swarm of Robots, In W. Banzhaf, T. Christaller, P. Dittrich, J. T. Kim and J. Ziegler, editors, Advances in Artificial Life &#8211; Proceedings of the 7th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 2801, pages 865-874, 2003.\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.springer.de\/comp\/lncs\/index.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.springer.de\/comp\/lncs\/index.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Springer Verlag<\/a>, Heidelberg, Germany<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Bahceci E., Soysal O., Sahin E. (2003) A Review: Pattern Formation and Adaptation in Multi-Robot Systems. Technical Report\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.ri.cmu.edu\/pubs\/pub_4534.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ri.cmu.edu\/pubs\/pub_4534.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">CMU-RI-TR-03-43<\/a>. Carnegie Mellon Univ, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Soysal O., Bahceci E., and Sahin E. (2003) PES: A system for parallelized fitness evaluation of evolutionary methods. In A. Yazici and C. Sener, editors, Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences (ISCIS), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2869, pages 889-896, 2002.\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.springer.de\/comp\/lncs\/index.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.springer.de\/comp\/lncs\/index.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Springer-Verlag<\/a>, Heidelberg, Germany. Available in\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/soysal-ISCIS-PES-2003.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/soysal-ISCIS-PES-2003.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf.<\/a><\/li><\/ul><h2><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span class=\"mw-headline\">2002<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"mw-headline\">(<\/span><span class=\"mw-headline\">Before foundation of the lab<\/span><span class=\"mw-headline\">)<\/span><\/h2><ul><li>Trianni V., Labella Th.H., Gross R., Sahin E., Dorigo M. and Deneubourg J.-L.(2002). Modeling Pattern Formation in a Swarm of Self-Assembling Robots. IRIDIA-TR-2002-12.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Sahin, E. and N.R. Franks (2002). Measurement of Space: From Ants to Robots. Proceedings of WGW 2002: EPSRC\/BBSRC International Workshop Biologically-Inspired Robotics: The Legacy ofW. GreyWalter, pages 241-247, Bristol, UK, August 14-16. Available as IRIDIA-TR-2002-11 in\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/TR-2002-11.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/TR-2002-11.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf (380Kb)<\/a>\u00a0.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Sahin, E. and N.R. Franks (2002). Simulation of Nest Assessment Behavior by Ant Scouts. In M. Dorigo, G. Di Caro, and M. Sampels, editors, Proceedings of ANTS 2002: From Ants Colonies to Artificial Ants, 3rd International Workshop on Ants Algorithm, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2463: Ant Algorithms, pages 274-282, Berlin, Germany. Springer-Verlag. Available as IRIDIA-TR-2002-9 in\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/TR-2002-9.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/TR-2002-9.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf (335Kb)<\/a>\u00a0.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Sahin, E., Labella Th.H., Trianni V., Deneubourg J.-L., Rasse P, Floreano D., Gambardella L., Mondada F., Nolfi S., and Dorigo M. (2002). Swarm-bot: Pattern Formation in a Swarm of Self-Assembling Mobile Robots. In A. El Kamel, K. Mellouli, and P. Borne, editors, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Hammamet, Tunisia, October 6-9. Piscataway, NJ: IEEE Press. Available as IRIDIA-TR-2002-8 in pdf.<\/li><\/ul><h2><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span class=\"mw-headline\">2001<\/span><\/span><\/h2><ul><li>Sahin E. (2001). Visual Looming as an Object-Level Range Sensing Method for Mobile Robots. IRIDIA-TR-2001-20 in\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/TR-2001-20.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/TR-2001-20.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf (520Kb)<\/a>\u00a0.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Sahin E. (2001). Towards an on-line neural conditioning model for mobile robots , Bio-inspired Applications of Connectionism, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2085, 524-530, Springer. Available in\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/Sah01.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/Sah01.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf (661Kb)<\/a>\u00a0.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Sahin E. (2001). Book Review: The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence by Ray Kurzweil, Viking, 1999. 376 pp., ISBN: 0-670-88217-8 IEEE Intelligent Systems, May\/June 2001, 80-81. Available in\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/html\/kurzweil.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/html\/kurzweil.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">html<\/a>\u00a0.<\/li><\/ul><h2><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span class=\"mw-headline\">2000<\/span><\/span><\/h2><ul><li>Sahin E.(2000). Visual Object Localization for Mobile Robots. PhD thesis, Boston University.<\/li><\/ul><h2><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span class=\"mw-headline\">1999<\/span><\/span><\/h2><ul><li>Sahin E. and Gaudiano P. (1999). KITE: The Khepera Integrated Testing Environment, Proceedings of the First International Khepera Workshop, Paderborn, Germany, 199-208 Available in\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/ps\/SahGau99IKW.ps.gz\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/ps\/SahGau99IKW.ps.gz\" rel=\"nofollow\">gzip&#8217;ed postscript (661Kb)<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/html\/SahGau99IKW.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/html\/SahGau99IKW.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">HTML<\/a>\u00a0.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Sahin E. and Gaudiano P. (1999). A Visual Object Localization System for Mobile Robots, Poster presentation at the USA-Italy Conference on Applied Neural and Cognitive Systems, Boston, MA Available in\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/ps\/SahGau99USItaly.ps.gz\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/ps\/SahGau99USItaly.ps.gz\" rel=\"nofollow\">gzip&#8217;ed postscript (183Kb)<\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Sahin E. and Gaudiano P. (1999). Development of a Visual Object Localization Module for Mobile Robots, Proceedings of the Eurobot&#8217;99, Third European Workshop on Advanced Mobile Robots, 65-72, Zurich, Switzerland Available in\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/ps\/SahGauEurobot99.ps.gz\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/ps\/SahGauEurobot99.ps.gz\" rel=\"nofollow\">gzip&#8217;ed postscript (285Kb)<\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Gaudiano, P., Chang, C., Ecemis, I., Martens, S., Sahin, E., Streilein, W ., Wagner, R. (1999). Neurobotics Lab Research: Learning, Vision and Sonar Recognition with Mobile Robots, Neural Networks in Applications&#8217;99, Fourth International Workshop, Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg, Available in\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/ps\/GauEtAl99.ps.gz\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/ps\/GauEtAl99.ps.gz\" rel=\"nofollow\">gzip&#8217;ed postscript<\/a>\u00a0(219Kb).<\/li><\/ul><h2><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span class=\"mw-headline\">1998<\/span><\/span><\/h2><ul><li>Sahin E. and Gaudiano P. (1998). Mobile robot range sensing through visual looming. Proceedings of the ISIC\/CIRA\/ISAS &#8217;98, NIST, 370-375, Gaithersbug, MD Also appears as Boston University Technical Report, Available in CAS\/CNS-TR-98-010.\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/ps\/SahGau98CIRA.ps.gz\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/ps\/SahGau98CIRA.ps.gz\" rel=\"nofollow\">gzip&#8217;ed postscript (42Kb)<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/html\/SahGau98CIRA.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/html\/SahGau98CIRA.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">HTML<\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Sahin E., Gaudiano P. and Wagner R. (1998). A comparison of visual looming and sonar as mobile robot range sensors. Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Cognitive And Neural Systems . Boston, MA, May 1998. Available in\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/ps\/SahGauWag98MURI.ps.gz\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/ps\/SahGauWag98MURI.ps.gz\" rel=\"nofollow\">gzip&#8217;ed postscript (13Kb)<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/html\/SahGauWag98MURI.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/html\/SahGauWag98MURI.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">HTML<\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Sahin E. and Gaudiano P. (1998). Visual Looming as a range sensor for mobile robots. Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior , 114-119, Zurich, Switzerland. Also appears as Boston University Technical Report, CAS\/CNS-TR-98-007. Available in\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/ps\/SahGau98SAB.ps.gz\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/ps\/SahGau98SAB.ps.gz\" rel=\"nofollow\">gzip&#8217;ed postscript (173Kb)<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/html\/SahGau98SAB.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/html\/SahGau98SAB.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">HTML<\/a><\/li><\/ul><h2><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span class=\"mw-headline\">1997<\/span><\/span><\/h2><ul><li>Sahin E. and Gaudiano P. (1997). Real-time object localization from monocular camera motion. Proceedings of the International Conference on Vision, Recognition, Action: Neural Models of Mind and Machine. Boston, MA, May 1997. Available in\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/ps\/SahGau97MURI.ps.gz\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/ps\/SahGau97MURI.ps.gz\" rel=\"nofollow\">gzip&#8217;ed postscript (125Kb)<\/a>\u00a0and in\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/html\/SahGau97MURI.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/html\/SahGau97MURI.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">HTML<\/a><\/li><\/ul><h2><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span class=\"mw-headline\">1996<\/span><\/span><\/h2><ul><li>Guler, M. and Sahin E. (1996). Learning Higher-Order Correlations and Symmetries using a Periodic Activation Function. Fifth Turkish Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks Proceedings , Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, June 1996. Available in\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/ps\/cosine_activation.ps\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/ps\/cosine_activation.ps\" rel=\"nofollow\">postscript.<\/a>\u00a0Also reprinted at Elektrik , Vol. 4, Supplement, 21-27, 1996<\/li><\/ul><h2><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span class=\"mw-headline\">1994<\/span><\/span><\/h2><ul><li>Guler, M. and Sahin E. (1994). A Binary-Input Supervised Neural Unit that Forms Input Dependent Higher-Order Synaptic Correlations. Proceedings of World Congress on Neural Networks, III, 730-735. San Diego, USA, 1994. Available in\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/ps\/GulSah94WCNN.ps.gz\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/ps\/GulSah94WCNN.ps.gz\" rel=\"nofollow\">gzipped postscript (256K)<\/a>\u00a0and in\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/html\/GulSah94WCNN:wcnn.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/html\/GulSah94WCNN:wcnn.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">HTML<\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Guler, M. and Sahin E. (1994). A New Higher-Order Binary-Input Neural Unit: Learning and Generalizing Effectively via Using Minimal Number of Monomials, Third Turkish Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks Proceedings , 51-60. Middle East Technical University, Ankara, 1994. Available in\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/ps\/GulSah94TAINN.ps.gz\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/ps\/GulSah94TAINN.ps.gz\" rel=\"nofollow\">gzipped postscript (129K)<\/a>\u00a0and in\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/html\/GulSah94TAINN:pap.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/html\/GulSah94TAINN:pap.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">HTML<\/a>] Extended version of this work appears as a Master&#8217;s Thesis Middle East Technical University, Ankara, February 1994. 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(2010)\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1007\/s00521-010-0355-y\" href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1007\/s00521-010-0355-y\" rel=\"nofollow\">Steering Self-organized Robot Flocks through Externally Guided Individuals.<\/a>\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.springer.com\/new+%26+forthcoming+titles+%28default%29\/journal\/521\" href=\"http:\/\/www.springer.com\/new+%26+forthcoming+titles+%28default%29\/journal\/521\" rel=\"nofollow\">Neural Computing and Applications<\/a>\u00a0journal. Available as:\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~erol\/publications\/pdf\/Celikkanat-NCA-2010.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~erol\/publications\/pdf\/Celikkanat-NCA-2010.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf<\/a>.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Gokce, F., and Sahin, E. (2010)\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1016\/j.tcs.2010.03.006\" href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1016\/j.tcs.2010.03.006\" rel=\"nofollow\">The pros and cons of flocking in the long-range &#8220;migration&#8221; of mobile robot swarms.<\/a>\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.elsevier.com\/wps\/find\/journaldescription.cws_home\/505625\/description#description\" href=\"http:\/\/www.elsevier.com\/wps\/find\/journaldescription.cws_home\/505625\/description#description\" rel=\"nofollow\">Theoretical Computer Science<\/a>\u00a0journal. Available as:\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~erol\/publications\/pdf\/Gokce-TCS-2010.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~erol\/publications\/pdf\/Gokce-TCS-2010.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf<\/a>.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>E. Sahin, H. Celikkanat (2009). A Critical review of Flocking Models. Presented at ECAL&#8217;09 Workshop Agent connectivity: the role of cooperation in the regulation of the behavior of animals and robots. Available as:\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/Sahin-ECAL-2009-WS.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/Sahin-ECAL-2009-WS.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf<\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Gokce F. and Sahin, E. (2009).\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/portal.acm.org\/citation.cfm?id=1558013.1558021&amp;coll=&amp;dl=&amp;type=series&amp;idx=SERIES134&amp;part=series&amp;WantType=Proceedings&amp;title=AGENTS\" href=\"http:\/\/portal.acm.org\/citation.cfm?id=1558013.1558021&amp;coll=&amp;dl=&amp;type=series&amp;idx=SERIES134&amp;part=series&amp;WantType=Proceedings&amp;title=AGENTS\" rel=\"nofollow\">To flock or not to flock: Pros and cons of flocking in long-range &#8220;migration&#8221; of mobile robot swarms<\/a>. Proc. of The Eighth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS&#8217;09), pp. 65-72. Earlier version also available as:\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/Gokce-AAMAS-2009.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/Gokce-AAMAS-2009.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf<\/a>.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Bayindir L. and Sahin, E. (2009).\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1109\/SIS.2009.4937849\" href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1109\/SIS.2009.4937849\" rel=\"nofollow\">Modeling Self-Organized Aggregation in Swarm Robotic Systems<\/a>. Proc. of the IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium (SIS&#8217;09), pp. 88-95. Earlier version also available as:\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/Bayindir-SIS-2009.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/Bayindir-SIS-2009.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf<\/a>.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Celikkanat H., Turgut A.E., and Sahin, E. (2009) . [http\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1007\/978-3-642-00644-9_19 Control of a Mobile Robot via Informed Robots]. Proc. of 9th International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS\u201908), pp. 215-225. Earlier version also available as:\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/Celikkanat-DARS-2008.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/Celikkanat-DARS-2008.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf<\/a>.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Turgut A.E., \u00c7elikkanat H., G\u00f6k\u00e7e F. and \u015eahin E. (2008) .Self-Organized Flocking with a Mobile Robot Swarm. Proc. of 7th Int. Conf. on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2008), Padgham, Parkes, M\u00fcller and Parsons (eds.), May, 12-16., 2008, Estoril, Portugal, pp. 39-46. Available in\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/kobot_aamas08.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/kobot_aamas08.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf<\/a>. Early version available as technical report\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/METU-CENG-TR-2008-01.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/METU-CENG-TR-2008-01.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">METU-CENG-TR-2008-01<\/a>\u00a0in pdf.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Turgut A.E., Huepe, C, Celikkanat H., Gokce, F. and Sahin, E. (2008) .\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1007\/978-3-540-87527-7\" href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1007\/978-3-540-87527-7\" rel=\"nofollow\">Modelling Phase Transition in Self-Organized Mobile Robot Flocks<\/a>. Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence (ANTS\u201908). LNCS vol 5217, pages 108-119. Earlier version also available as:\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/Turgut-ANTS-2008.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/Turgut-ANTS-2008.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf<\/a>.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Sahin, E. and Winfield A.F.T. (2008) .\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1007\/s11721-008-0020-6\" href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1007\/s11721-008-0020-6\" rel=\"nofollow\">Special Issue on Swarm Robotics<\/a>. Swarm Intelligence, vol 2, no: 2-3.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Turgut A.E., Celikkanat H., Gokce, F. and Sahin, E. (2008) .\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1007\/s11721-008-0016-2\" href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1007\/s11721-008-0016-2\" rel=\"nofollow\">Self-Organized Flocking in Mobile Robot Swarms<\/a>. Swarm Intelligence, vol 2, no:2-4, pp. 97-120. Earlier version also available as:\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/Turgut-J-SI-2008.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/Turgut-J-SI-2008.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf<\/a>.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Turgut A.E., Gokce F., Celikkanat H., Bayindir L. and Sahin E. (2007) . Kobot: A mobile robot designed specifically for swarm robotics research. Technical report available as\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/METU-CENG-TR-2007-05.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/METU-CENG-TR-2007-05.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">METU-CENG-TR-2007-05<\/a>\u00a0in pdf.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Turgut A.E., Gokce F., Celikkanat H., Bay\u0131nd\u0131r L., Sahin E. (2007), Kobot: S\u00fcr\u00fc robot \u00e7al\u0131\u015fmalar\u0131 i\u00e7in tasarlanm\u0131\u015f gezgin robot platformu, Otomatik Kontrol Ulusal Toplantisi TOK&#8217;07 (Turkish National Conference on Automatic Control), pages 259-264, 2007. Available as\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/kobot-tok07.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/kobot-tok07.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf<\/a>\u00a0(in Turkish).<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Turgut A.E., Cakmak M., Sahin E. and Koku B. (2006) . Ogul-Robot Sistemleri icin Sinyallesme Sistemi Tasarimi (Design of a signaling system for swarm robotic systems), Otomatik Kontrol Ulusal Toplantisi TOK&#8217;06 (Turkish National Conference on Automatic Control), 2006. Available as\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/tok06b.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/tok06b.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf<\/a>\u00a0(in Turkish).<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Celikkanat H., Turgut A.E., Sahin E. and Koku B. (2006) . Ogul-Robot Sistemleri icin Basit Bir G\u00f6r\u00fcnt\u00fcleme Sistemi Tasar\u0131m\u0131 (Design of a simple imaging system for swarm robotic systems), Otomatik Kontrol Ulusal Toplantisi TOK&#8217;06 (Turkish National Conference on Automatic Control), 2006. Available as\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/tok06a.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/tok06a.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf<\/a>\u00a0(in Turkish).<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Sahin E., Girgin S. and Ugur E. (2006) Area measurement of large closed regions with a mobile robot. Autonomous Robots, Vol: 21, No: 3, November 2006, pp. 255-266. Early version available as\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/METU-CENG-TR-2005-06.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/METU-CENG-TR-2005-06.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">METU-CENG-TR-2005-06<\/a>\u00a0in pdf.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Sahin E. and Spears W. (editors) (2005),\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.springer.com\/sgw\/cda\/frontpage\/0,11855,5-40109-22-39113233-0,00.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.springer.com\/sgw\/cda\/frontpage\/0,11855,5-40109-22-39113233-0,00.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Swarm Robotics: State-of-the-art Survey<\/a>, 3342, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Berlin Heidelberg, Springer-Verlag.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Sahin E. (2005), Swarm Robotics: From Sources of Inspiration to Domains of Application, In Swarm Robotics: State-of-the-art Survey, Sahin E. and Spears W., editors, 3342, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 10-20, Berlin Heidelberg, Springer-Verlag. Available as\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/METU-CENG-TR-2005-01.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/METU-CENG-TR-2005-01.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">METU-CENG-TR-2005-01<\/a>\u00a0in pdf.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>O. Soysal and E. Sahin (2005). Probabilistic Aggregation Strategies in Swarm Robotic Systems, Proc. of the IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium, 2005, Pasadena, California. Available as\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/METU-CENG-TR-2005-02.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/METU-CENG-TR-2005-02.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">METU-CENG-TR-2005-02<\/a>\u00a0in pdf.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>E. Bahceci and E. Sahin (2005). Evolving Aggregation Behaviors for Swarm Robotic Systems: A Systematic Case Study, Proc. of the IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium, 2005, Pasadena, California. Available as\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/METU-CENG-TR-2005-03.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/METU-CENG-TR-2005-03.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">METU-CENG-TR-2005-03<\/a>\u00a0in pdf.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Dorigo M., and Sahin E. (2004).\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.springerlink.com\/%28ds32gf55vwykc2zlcrooru45%29\/app\/home\/issue.asp?referrer=parent&amp;backto=journal,9,58;linkingpublicationresults,1:100243,1\" href=\"http:\/\/www.springerlink.com\/%28ds32gf55vwykc2zlcrooru45%29\/app\/home\/issue.asp?referrer=parent&amp;backto=journal,9,58;linkingpublicationresults,1:100243,1\" rel=\"nofollow\">Special Issue: Swarm Robotics<\/a>\u00a0Autonomous Robots. 2004, volume 17, pages 111-113.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Dorigo M., Trianni V., Sahin E., Gross R., Labella T., Baldassarre, Nolfi S., Deneubourg J.-L., Mondada F., Floreano D., and Gambardella L. (2004). Evolving Self-Organizing Behaviors for a Swarm-Bot, Autonomous Robots. volume 17, pages 223-245.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Girgin S., Sahin E. (2004) Blind area measurement with mobile robots. In F. Groen, N. Amato, A. Bonarini, E. Yoshida, B. Krose, editor, Proceedings of the 8th Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS-8), pages 37\u00c2&#8211;44. IOS Press. Amsterdam, the Netherlands. An extended version is published as Carnegie Mellon University, Robotics Institute, Technical Report,\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.ri.cmu.edu\/pubs\/pub_4533.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ri.cmu.edu\/pubs\/pub_4533.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">CMU-RI-TR-2003-42<\/a>. Available in\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/girgin-IAS-2004.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/girgin-IAS-2004.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf.<\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Trianni V., Gro\u00c3\u0178 R., Labella T.H., Sahin E., Dorigo M. (2003), Evolving Aggregation Behaviors in a Swarm of Robots, In W. Banzhaf, T. Christaller, P. Dittrich, J. T. Kim and J. Ziegler, editors, Advances in Artificial Life &#8211; Proceedings of the 7th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 2801, pages 865-874, 2003.\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.springer.de\/comp\/lncs\/index.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.springer.de\/comp\/lncs\/index.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Springer Verlag<\/a>, Heidelberg, Germany<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Bahceci E., Soysal O., Sahin E. (2003) A Review: Pattern Formation and Adaptation in Multi-Robot Systems. Technical Report\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.ri.cmu.edu\/pubs\/pub_4534.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ri.cmu.edu\/pubs\/pub_4534.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">CMU-RI-TR-03-43<\/a>. Carnegie Mellon Univ, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Soysal O., Bahceci E., and Sahin E. (2003) PES: A system for parallelized fitness evaluation of evolutionary methods. In A. Yazici and C. Sener, editors, Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences (ISCIS), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2869, pages 889-896, 2002.\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.springer.de\/comp\/lncs\/index.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.springer.de\/comp\/lncs\/index.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Springer-Verlag<\/a>, Heidelberg, Germany. Available in\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/soysal-ISCIS-PES-2003.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/soysal-ISCIS-PES-2003.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf.<\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Trianni V., Labella Th.H., Gross R., Sahin E., Dorigo M. and Deneubourg J.-L.(2002). Modeling Pattern Formation in a Swarm of Self-Assembling Robots. IRIDIA-TR-2002-12.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Sahin, E. and N.R. Franks (2002). Measurement of Space: From Ants to Robots. Proceedings of WGW 2002: EPSRC\/BBSRC International Workshop Biologically-Inspired Robotics: The Legacy ofW. GreyWalter, pages 241-247, Bristol, UK, August 14-16. Available as IRIDIA-TR-2002-11 in\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/TR-2002-11.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/TR-2002-11.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf (380Kb)<\/a>\u00a0.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Sahin, E. and N.R. Franks (2002). Simulation of Nest Assessment Behavior by Ant Scouts. In M. Dorigo, G. Di Caro, and M. Sampels, editors, Proceedings of ANTS 2002: From Ants Colonies to Artificial Ants, 3rd International Workshop on Ants Algorithm, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2463: Ant Algorithms, pages 274-282, Berlin, Germany. Springer-Verlag. Available as IRIDIA-TR-2002-9 in\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/TR-2002-9.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/TR-2002-9.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf (335Kb)<\/a>\u00a0.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Sahin, E., Labella Th.H., Trianni V., Deneubourg J.-L., Rasse P, Floreano D., Gambardella L., Mondada F., Nolfi S., and Dorigo M. (2002). Swarm-bot: Pattern Formation in a Swarm of Self-Assembling Mobile Robots. In A. El Kamel, K. Mellouli, and P. Borne, editors, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Hammamet, Tunisia, October 6-9. Piscataway, NJ: IEEE Press. Available as IRIDIA-TR-2002-8 in pdf.<\/li><\/ul><p>\u00a0<\/p><h2><span class=\"mw-headline\">Cognitive Robotics<\/span><\/h2><ul><li>I. Bozcan, S. Kalkan, &#8220;COSMO: Contextualized Scene Modeling with Boltzmann Machines&#8221;, Robotics and Autonomous Systems journal, submitted, 2018.\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1807.00511\" href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1807.00511\" rel=\"nofollow\">Arxiv<\/a><a class=\"external text\" title=\"https:\/\/github.com\/bozcani\/COSMO\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/bozcani\/COSMO\" rel=\"nofollow\">WWW<\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul><li>F. I. Dogan, I. Bozcan, M. Celik, S. Kalkan, &#8220;CINet: A Learning Based Approach to Incremental Context Modeling in Robots&#8221;, IEEE\/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), accepted, 2018.\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1710.04981\" href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1710.04981\" rel=\"nofollow\">Arxiv<\/a><a class=\"external text\" title=\"https:\/\/github.com\/cancam\/LRP\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/cancam\/LRP\" rel=\"nofollow\">WWW<\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul><li>I. Bozcan, S. Kalkan, &#8220;What is (missing or wrong) in the scene? A Hybrid Deep Boltzmann Machine For Contextualized Scene Modeling&#8221;, International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2018.\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1710.05664\" href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1710.05664\" rel=\"nofollow\">Arxiv<\/a><a class=\"external text\" title=\"https:\/\/bozcani.github.io\/A%20Hybrid%20Deep%20Boltzmann%20Machine%20for%20Contextual%20Scene%20Modeling.html\" href=\"https:\/\/bozcani.github.io\/A%20Hybrid%20Deep%20Boltzmann%20Machine%20for%20Contextual%20Scene%20Modeling.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">WWW<\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul><li>I. Dogan, S. Kalkan, &#8220;A Deep Incremental Boltzmann Machine for Modeling Context in Robots&#8221;, International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2018.\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1710.04975\" href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1710.04975\" rel=\"nofollow\">Arxiv<\/a><a class=\"external text\" title=\"https:\/\/irmakdogan.github.io\/irmak\/A%20Deep%20Incremental%20Boltzmann%20Machine%20for%20Modeling%20Context%20in%20Robots.html\" href=\"https:\/\/irmakdogan.github.io\/irmak\/A%20Deep%20Incremental%20Boltzmann%20Machine%20for%20Modeling%20Context%20in%20Robots.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">WWW<\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul><li>U. A. Aydin, S. Kalkan, C. Acarturk, &#8220;Dynamic Gaze Analysis&#8221;, International Artificial Intelligence and Data Processing Symposium, 2017 (in Turkish).\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/ArslanKalkanAcarturk-IDAP2017.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/ArslanKalkanAcarturk-IDAP2017.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">PDF<\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul><li>U. A. Aydin, S. Kalkan, C. Acarturk, &#8220;A Gaze-Centered Multimodal Approach to Human-Human Social Interaction&#8221;, 3rd IEEE International Conference on Cybernetics Workshop on Cognition in Mixed Realities, Exeter, UK, 2017. (PDF)<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>F. I. Dogan, S. Kalkan, &#8220;Hierarchical Context Modeling Using Incremental Deep Boltzmann Machines&#8221;, Technical Report No: METU-CENG-TR-2017-01, Dept. of Computer Engineering, Middle East Technical University, 2017.\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/DoganKalkan-METU-CENG-TR-2017-01.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/DoganKalkan-METU-CENG-TR-2017-01.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">PDF<\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul><li>I. Bozcan, S. Kalkan, &#8220;Combining Different Knowledge-bases into a Single Partially-grounded Robotic Knowledge-base&#8221;, Technical Report No: METU-CENG-TR-2017-02, Dept. of Computer Engineering, Middle East Technical University, 2017.\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/BozcanKalkan-METU-CENG-TR-2017-02.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/BozcanKalkan-METU-CENG-TR-2017-02.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">PDF<\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul><li>M. Celik, S. Kalkan, &#8220;An Approach to Modeling Context Using Semantic Maps&#8221;, Technical Report No: METU-CENG-TR-2017-03, Dept. of Computer Engineering, Middle East Technical University, 2017.\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/CelikKalkan-METU-CENG-TR-2017-03.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/CelikKalkan-METU-CENG-TR-2017-03.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">PDF<\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul><li>H. Celikkanat, G. Orhan, N. Pugeault, F. Guerin, E. Sahin, S. Kalkan, &#8220;Learning Context on a Humanoid Robot using Incremental Latent Dirichlet Allocation&#8221;, IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, 8(1):42-59, 2016.\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/METU-CENG-TR-2015-01.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/METU-CENG-TR-2015-01.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">Technical Report<\/a><a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/xpl\/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=7239534\" href=\"http:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/xpl\/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=7239534\" rel=\"nofollow\">Publisher&#8217;s Website<\/a>.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>F. I. Dogan, S. Kalkan, &#8220;The hierarchical nature of context&#8221;, Turkiye Robotbilim Konferansi (ToRK), Istanbul Gedik University Publications, ISBN: 9786058557215, pp. 48-51, 2-3 November, 2016 (in Turkish)\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/DoganKalkan-TORK2016.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/DoganKalkan-TORK2016.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">PDF<\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul><li>M. Celik, S. Kalkan, &#8220;Contexts and concepts in robots: Too far, too close&#8221;, Turkiye Robotbilim Konferansi (ToRK), Istanbul Gedik University Publications, ISBN: 9786058557215, pp. 52-55, 2-3 November, 2016 (in Turkish)\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/CelikKalkan-TORK2016.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/CelikKalkan-TORK2016.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">PDF<\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul><li>H. Celikkanat, G. Orhan, S. Kalkan, &#8220;A Probabilistic Concept Web in a Humanoid Robot&#8221;, IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development (TAMD), (7)2:92-106, 2015.\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/2015-TAMD-Celikkanat-Concept.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/2015-TAMD-Celikkanat-Concept.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">Preprint<\/a><a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1109\/TAMD.2015.2418678\" href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1109\/TAMD.2015.2418678\" rel=\"nofollow\">Publisher&#8217;s Website<\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul><li>H. Celikkanat, E. Sahin, S. Kalkan, &#8220;Integrating Spatial Concepts into a Probabilistic Concept Web&#8221;, 17th International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR), IEEE, Istanbul, 2015.\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/Celikkanat_ICAR2015.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/Celikkanat_ICAR2015.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf<\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul><li>I. Atil, S. Kalkan, &#8220;Towards an Embodied Developing Vision System&#8221;, Kuenstliche Intelligenz (German Journal of Artificial Intelligence), Invited for a special issue on &#8220;Bio-inspired Vision Systems&#8221;, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, (in press), 2015.\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/AtilKalkan_KI2015.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/AtilKalkan_KI2015.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">Preprint<\/a><a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1007\/s13218-015-0351-6\" href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1007\/s13218-015-0351-6\" rel=\"nofollow\">Publisher&#8217;s Website<\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul><li>H. Celikkanat, G. Orhan, N. Pugeault, F. Guerin, E. Sahin and S. Kalkan, &#8220;Insansi Robotlarda Baglamin Ogrenilmesi&#8221;, 1nci Turkiye Otonom Robotlar Konferansi (TORK), ODTU, 6-7 Kasim 2014.\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/Hande_TORK2014.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/Hande_TORK2014.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf (in Turkish)<\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul><li>F. Gokce, S. Olgunsoylu, G. Ucoluk, E. Sahin and S. Kalkan, &#8220;Goruntu Isleme ile Mikro Insansiz Hava Araclarinin Algilanmasi&#8221;, 1nci Turkiye Otonom Robotlar Konferansi (TORK), ODTU, 6-7 Kasim 2014.\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/Fatih_TORK2014.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/Fatih_TORK2014.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf (in Turkish)<\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul><li>H. Celikkanat, G. Orhan, N. Pugeault, F. Guerin, E. Sahin and S. Kalkan, &#8220;Learning and Using Context on a Humanoid Robot Using Latent Dirichlet Allocation&#8221;, Int. Conference on Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL-Epirob), 2014.\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/Celikkanat_EPIROB2014.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/Celikkanat_EPIROB2014.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf<\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul><li>H. Celikkanat, S. Kalkan, &#8220;Using Slowness Principle for Feature Selection: Relevant Feature Analysis&#8221;, 22nd IEEE Conference on Signal Processing and Applications (Special Session on Cognitive Robotics and Applications), Trabzon, Turkey, 2014.\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/Celikkanat_SIU2014.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/Celikkanat_SIU2014.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf<\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul><li>S. Kalkan, N. Dag, O. Yuruten, A. M. Borghi, E. Sahin, &#8220;Verb Concepts from Affordances&#8221;, Interaction Studies Journal, 15(1):1-37, 2014.\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/IS2013-preprint.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/IS2013-preprint.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">Preprint<\/a><a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.jbe-platform.com\/content\/journals\/10.1075\/is.15.1.01kal\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jbe-platform.com\/content\/journals\/10.1075\/is.15.1.01kal\" rel=\"nofollow\">Publisher&#8217;s webpage<\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul><li>O. Yuruten, E. Sahin, S. Kalkan, &#8220;The Learning of Adjectives and Nouns from Affordance and Appearance Features&#8221;, Adaptive Behavior, 21(6):437-451, 2013.\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/AB2013-preprint.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/AB2013-preprint.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">Preprint<\/a><a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/adb.sagepub.com\/content\/early\/2013\/08\/21\/1059712313497976.abstract\" href=\"http:\/\/adb.sagepub.com\/content\/early\/2013\/08\/21\/1059712313497976.abstract\" rel=\"nofollow\">Publisher<\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul><li>H. Celikkanat, E. Sahin, S. Kalkan, &#8220;Recurrent Slow Feature Analysis for Developing Object Permanence in Robots&#8221;, IROS Workshop on Neuroscience and Robotics, Tokyo, Japan, November, 2013.\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/Celikkanat_IROS2013.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/Celikkanat_IROS2013.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf<\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Uyanik K.F., Caliskan Y., Bozcuoglu A.K., Yuruten O., Kalkan S. and Sahin, E., &#8220;Learning Social Affordances and Using Them for Planning&#8221;, 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 2013.\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/Kadir-Social-affordances.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/Kadir-Social-affordances.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf<\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul><li>G. Orhan, S. Olgunsoylu, E. Sahin, S. Kalkan, &#8220;Co-learning nouns and adjectives&#8221;, IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and on Epigenetic Robotics, Osaka, Japan, 2013.\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/OrhanEtAl-EPIROB2013.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/OrhanEtAl-EPIROB2013.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf<\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul><li>S. Kalkan, O. Yuruten, E. Sahin, &#8220;Relating Affordances with Verbs, Nouns and Adjectives&#8221;, Special Session on Cognitive Robotics and Applications, IEEE 21st Conference on Signal Processing and Communication Applications, Girne, KKTC, 2013 (in Turkish). Available as\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/SIU2013_KalkanYurutenSahin.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/SIU2013_KalkanYurutenSahin.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf<\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Yuruten O., Uyanik K. F., Caliskan, Y., Bozcuoglu, A. K. Sahin E., Kalkan S., \u201cLearning Adjectives and Nouns from Affordances on the iCub Humanoid Robot\u201d. 12th Int. Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, Denmark, 2012. Available as:\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/sab_2012.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/sab_2012.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf<\/a>.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Uyanik K. F., Yuruten O., Kalkan S., Sahin E. \u201cTowards Context-aware Adjective Learning\u201d. ICRA 2012\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/thefutureofhri\/\" href=\"http:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/thefutureofhri\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Future of HRI Workshop<\/a>, MI, USA. Available as:\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/icra_hri_12.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/icra_hri_12.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf<\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Bozcuoglu, A.K., Sahin, E., &#8220;Traversability on a simple humanoid: What did I just trip over?&#8221;, 11th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), pp. 701-706, 26-28 Oct. 2011.\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/stamp\/stamp.jsp?tp=&amp;arnumber=6100904&amp;isnumber=6100798\" href=\"http:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/stamp\/stamp.jsp?tp=&amp;arnumber=6100904&amp;isnumber=6100798\" rel=\"nofollow\">IEEE Xplore<\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Atil I., Dag N., Kalkan S. and Sahin E. (2010) Affordances and Emergence of Concepts\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.epigenetic-robotics.org\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.epigenetic-robotics.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">10th International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics<\/a>\u00a0Available as:\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/atil-epirob-2010.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/atil-epirob-2010.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf<\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Akgun B., Tunaoglu D. and Sahin E. (2010) Action Recognition through an Action Generation Mechanism.\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.epigenetic-robotics.org\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.epigenetic-robotics.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">10th International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics<\/a>\u00a0Available as:\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/akgun-epirob-2010.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/akgun-epirob-2010.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf<\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Dag N., Atil I., Kalkan S. and Sahin E. (2010) Learning Affordances for Categorizing Objects and Their Properties\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.icpr2010.org\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.icpr2010.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">International Conference on Pattern Recognition<\/a>\u00a0Available as:\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/dag-icpr-2010.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/dag-icpr-2010.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf<\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Ugur E., and Sahin, E. (in press) Traversability: A Case Study for Learning and Perceiving Affordances in Robots.\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/adb.sagepub.com\/\" href=\"http:\/\/adb.sagepub.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Adaptive Behavior journal<\/a>. Available as:\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~erol\/publications\/pdf\/Ugur-AB-2010.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~erol\/publications\/pdf\/Ugur-AB-2010.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf<\/a>.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>E. Ugur, E. Oztop, E. Sahin (accepted). Affordance learning from range data for multi-step planning. Proc. of Epirob&#8217;09.Earlier version also available as:\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/Ugur-Epirob-2009.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/Ugur-Epirob-2009.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf<\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul><li>E. Sahin, S.T. Erdogan (2009). Towards linking affordances with mirror\/canonical neurons. Presented at ISCIS Special Session on Cognitive Cybernetics and Brain Modeling. Earlier version also available as:\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/Sahin-ISCIS-2009-SS.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/Sahin-ISCIS-2009-SS.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf<\/a>.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>E. Ugur, E. Sahin, E. Oztop (2009). Predicting future object states using learned affordances. Presented at ISCIS Special Session on Cognitive Cybernetics and Brain Modeling. Earlier version also available as:\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/Ugur-ISCIS-2009-SS.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/Ugur-ISCIS-2009-SS.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf<\/a>.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>B. Akgun, N. Dag, T. Bilal, I. Atil, E. Sahin. (2009) Unsupervised Learning of Affordance Relations on a Humanoid Robot. Proc. of ISCIS&#8217;09. Earlier version also available as:\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/Akgun-ISCIS-2009.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/Akgun-ISCIS-2009.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf<\/a>.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>E. Ugur, E. Oztop, E. Sahin (2009). Learning Object Affordances for Planning. Presented at ICRA&#8217;09 Workshop on Sensorimotor Learning. Earlier version also available as:\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/Ugur-ICRA-2009-WS.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/Ugur-ICRA-2009-WS.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf<\/a>.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>E. Rome, L. Paletta, E. Sahin, G. Dorffner, J. Hertzberg, R. Breithaupt, G. Fritz, J. Irran, F. Kintzler, C. Loerken, S. May, E. Ugur (2008) .\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1007\/978-3-540-77915-5_12\" href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1007\/978-3-540-77915-5_12\" rel=\"nofollow\">The MACS project: An approach to affordance-based robot control<\/a>, In: Towards Affordance-based Robot Control, Proceedings of Dagstuhl Seminar 06231, Springer-Verlag, LNAI 4760, E. Rome, J. Hertzberg, and G. Dorffner (eds.), pp. 173-210, February 2008.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Sahin E., Girgin S., Bayindir L. and Turgut A.E. (2008) . Swarm Robotics, in\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.springer.com\/computer\/artificial\/book\/978-3-540-74088-9\" href=\"http:\/\/www.springer.com\/computer\/artificial\/book\/978-3-540-74088-9\" rel=\"nofollow\">Swarm Intelligence &#8211; Introduction and Applications<\/a>\u00a0(editors: C. Blum and D. Merkle), Springer, pp. 87-100. Earlier version also available as:\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/\/pdf\/Sahin-Book-SI-2008.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/\/pdf\/Sahin-Book-SI-2008.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf<\/a>.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Turgut A.E., Celikkanat H., Gokce, F. and Sahin, E. (2008) .\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/portal.acm.org\/citation.cfm?id=1402383.1402394&amp;coll=ACM&amp;dl=ACM&amp;type=series&amp;idx=SERIES134&amp;part=series&amp;WantType=Journals&amp;title=Proceedings%20of%20the%207th%20international%20joint%20conference%20on%20Autonomous%20agents%20and%20multiagent%20systems%20-%20Volume%201\" href=\"http:\/\/portal.acm.org\/citation.cfm?id=1402383.1402394&amp;coll=ACM&amp;dl=ACM&amp;type=series&amp;idx=SERIES134&amp;part=series&amp;WantType=Journals&amp;title=Proceedings%20of%20the%207th%20international%20joint%20conference%20on%20Autonomous%20agents%20and%20multiagent%20systems%20-%20Volume%201\" rel=\"nofollow\">Self-Organized Flocking with a Mobile Robot Swarm<\/a>. In Proc. of the 7th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS&#8217;08), Padgham, Parkes, Muller and Parsons (eds.), pp. 39-46. Earlier version also available as:\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/Turgut-AAMAS-2008.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/Turgut-AAMAS-2008.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/ppt\/Turgut-AAMAS-2008.ppt\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/ppt\/Turgut-AAMAS-2008.ppt\" rel=\"nofollow\">ppt<\/a>.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Dogar M.R., Ugur E. Sahin, E. and Cakmak M. (2008) .\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1109\/ROBOT.2008.4543794\" href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1109\/ROBOT.2008.4543794\" rel=\"nofollow\">Using Learned Affordances for Robotic Behavior Development<\/a>. In Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA\u201908), pp. 3802-3807. Earlier version also available as:\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/Turgut-AAMAS-2008.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/Turgut-AAMAS-2008.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf<\/a>.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Dogar M.R., Ugur E. Sahin, E. and Cakmak M. (2008) .\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1109\/ROBOT.2008.4543794\" href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1109\/ROBOT.2008.4543794\" rel=\"nofollow\">Using Learned Affordances for Robotic Behavior Development<\/a>. In Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA\u201908), pp. 3802-3807. Earlier version also available as:\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/Turgut-AAMAS-2008.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/Turgut-AAMAS-2008.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf<\/a>.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Cakmak M., Dogar M.R., Ugur E. and Sahin E. (2007), Affordances as a Framework for Robot Control.International Workshop on Epigenetic Robotics (EpiRob) 2007.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Dogar M.R., Cakmak M., Ugur E. and Sahin E. (2007), From Primitive Behaviors to Goal-Directed Behavior Using Affordances.IEEE\/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2007. Available as technical report\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/METU-CENG-TR-2007-02.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/METU-CENG-TR-2007-02.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">METU-CENG-TR-2007-02<\/a>\u00a0in pdf. Also available as\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/eski\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=108&amp;Itemid=192\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/eski\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=108&amp;Itemid=192\" rel=\"nofollow\">web page<\/a>.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Ugur E., Dogar M.R., Cakmak M. and Sahin E. (2007), Curiosity-driven Learning of Traversability Affordance on a Mobile Robot. IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning 2007.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Sahin E., Cakmak M., Dogar M.R., Ugur E. and Ucoluk G. (2007) .To afford or not to afford: A new formalization of affordances towards affordance-based robot control. Accepted to Adaptive Behavior. Early version available as\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/METU-CENG-TR-2006-02.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/METU-CENG-TR-2006-02.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">METU-CENG-TR-2006-02<\/a>\u00a0in pdf.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Ugur E., Dogar M.R., Cakmak M. and Sahin E. (2007) . The learning and use of traversability affordance using range images on a mobile robot, In Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 1721-1726. Early version available as\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/METU-CENG-TR-2006-03.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/METU-CENG-TR-2006-03.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">METU-CENG-TR-2006-03<\/a>\u00a0in pdf. 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A Visual Object Localization System for Mobile Robots, Poster presentation at the USA-Italy Conference on Applied Neural and Cognitive Systems, Boston, MA Available in\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/ps\/SahGau99USItaly.ps.gz\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/ps\/SahGau99USItaly.ps.gz\" rel=\"nofollow\">gzip&#8217;ed postscript (183Kb)<\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Sahin E. and Gaudiano P. (1999). Development of a Visual Object Localization Module for Mobile Robots, Proceedings of the Eurobot&#8217;99, Third European Workshop on Advanced Mobile Robots, 65-72, Zurich, Switzerland Available in\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/ps\/SahGauEurobot99.ps.gz\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/ps\/SahGauEurobot99.ps.gz\" rel=\"nofollow\">gzip&#8217;ed postscript (285Kb)<\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Gaudiano, P., Chang, C., Ecemis, I., Martens, S., Sahin, E., Streilein, W ., Wagner, R. (1999). Neurobotics Lab Research: Learning, Vision and Sonar Recognition with Mobile Robots, Neural Networks in Applications&#8217;99, Fourth International Workshop, Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg, Available in\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/ps\/GauEtAl99.ps.gz\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/ps\/GauEtAl99.ps.gz\" rel=\"nofollow\">gzip&#8217;ed postscript<\/a>\u00a0(219Kb).<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Sahin E. and Gaudiano P. (1998). Mobile robot range sensing through visual looming. Proceedings of the ISIC\/CIRA\/ISAS &#8217;98, NIST, 370-375, Gaithersbug, MD Also appears as Boston University Technical Report, Available in CAS\/CNS-TR-98-010.\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/ps\/SahGau98CIRA.ps.gz\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/ps\/SahGau98CIRA.ps.gz\" rel=\"nofollow\">gzip&#8217;ed postscript (42Kb)<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/html\/SahGau98CIRA.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/html\/SahGau98CIRA.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">HTML<\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Sahin E., Gaudiano P. and Wagner R. (1998). A comparison of visual looming and sonar as mobile robot range sensors. Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Cognitive And Neural Systems . Boston, MA, May 1998. 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Available in\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/ps\/cosine_activation.ps\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/ps\/cosine_activation.ps\" rel=\"nofollow\">postscript.<\/a>\u00a0Also reprinted at Elektrik , Vol. 4, Supplement, 21-27, 1996<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Guler, M. and Sahin E. (1994). A Binary-Input Supervised Neural Unit that Forms Input Dependent Higher-Order Synaptic Correlations. Proceedings of World Congress on Neural Networks, III, 730-735. San Diego, USA, 1994. Available in\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/ps\/GulSah94WCNN.ps.gz\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/ps\/GulSah94WCNN.ps.gz\" rel=\"nofollow\">gzipped postscript (256K)<\/a>\u00a0and in\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/html\/GulSah94WCNN:wcnn.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/html\/GulSah94WCNN:wcnn.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">HTML<\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Guler, M. and Sahin E. (1994). A New Higher-Order Binary-Input Neural Unit: Learning and Generalizing Effectively via Using Minimal Number of Monomials, Third Turkish Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks Proceedings , 51-60. Middle East Technical University, Ankara, 1994. Available in\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/ps\/GulSah94TAINN.ps.gz\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/ps\/GulSah94TAINN.ps.gz\" rel=\"nofollow\">gzipped postscript (129K)<\/a>\u00a0and in\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/html\/GulSah94TAINN:pap.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/html\/GulSah94TAINN:pap.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">HTML<\/a>] Extended version of this work appears as a Master&#8217;s Thesis Middle East Technical University, Ankara, February 1994. 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Kalkan, &#8220;Localization Recall Precision (LRP): A New Performance Metric for Object Detection&#8221;, European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), accepted, 2018.\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1807.01696\" href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1807.01696\" rel=\"nofollow\">Arxiv<\/a><a class=\"external text\" title=\"https:\/\/github.com\/cancam\/LRP\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/cancam\/LRP\" rel=\"nofollow\">WWW<\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul><li>O. Tursun, C. Aker, S. Kalkan, &#8220;A Large-scale Dataset and Benchmark for Similar Trademark Retrieval&#8221;, major revision.\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1701.05766\" href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1701.05766\" rel=\"nofollow\">Arxiv<\/a><a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/LogoDataset\/\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/LogoDataset\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">METU Trademark Retrieval Dataset<\/a>.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>C. Aker, S. Kalkan, &#8220;Using Deep Networks for Drone Detection&#8221;, International Workshop on Small-Drone Surveillance, Detection and Counteraction Techniques organised within AVSS, 2017.\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1706.05726\" href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1706.05726\" rel=\"nofollow\">Arxiv<\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Coluccia et al., &#8220;Drone-vs-Bird detection challenge at IEEE AVSS2017&#8221;, International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS), 2017.\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1109\/AVSS.2017.8078464\" href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1109\/AVSS.2017.8078464\" rel=\"nofollow\">Publisher&#8217;s site<\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul><li>C. Aker, O. Tursun, S. Kalkan, &#8220;Analyzing Deep Features for Trademark Retrieval&#8221;, 25th Conference on Signal Processing and Applications (SIU), Turkey, 2017 (in Turkish).\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/AkerTursunKalkan_SIU2017.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/AkerTursunKalkan_SIU2017.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">PDF<\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul><li>M. Yaman, S. Kalkan, &#8220;Performance Evaluation of similarity measures for dense multimodal stereo vision&#8221;, J. Electron. Imaging 25(3), 033013, 2016.\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/Yaman2016_JEI.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/Yaman2016_JEI.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">Preprint<\/a><a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/electronicimaging.spiedigitallibrary.org\/article.aspx?articleid=2528400\" href=\"http:\/\/electronicimaging.spiedigitallibrary.org\/article.aspx?articleid=2528400\" rel=\"nofollow\">Publisher&#8217;s Website<\/a>.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>O. Oztimur, M. A. Akkus, S. Kalkan, &#8220;An MRF Framework for Co-Solving Image Segmentation and Border Ownership&#8221;, IEEE 23rd Conference on Signal Processing and Communication Applications, Malatya, Turkey, 2015 (in Turkish).\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/BO_Segmentation_v2.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/BO_Segmentation_v2.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf<\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul><li>W. Tuerxun, S. Kalkan, &#8220;A Challenging Big Dataset for Benchmarking Trademark Retrieval&#8221;, 14th IAPR Conference on Machine Vision and Applications, Tokyo, 2015.\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/MVA15_0154_MS.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/MVA15_0154_MS.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf<\/a><a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/LogoDataset\/\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/LogoDataset\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">METU Trademark Dataset<\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul><li>I. Atil, S. Kalkan, &#8220;Towards an Embodied Developing Vision System&#8221;, Kuenstliche Intelligenz (German Journal of Artificial Intelligence), Invited for a special issue on &#8220;Bio-inspired Vision Systems&#8221;, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, (in press), 2015.\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/AtilKalkan_KI2015.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/AtilKalkan_KI2015.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">Preprint<\/a><a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1007\/s13218-015-0351-6\" href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1007\/s13218-015-0351-6\" rel=\"nofollow\">Publisher&#8217;s Website<\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul><li>M. Yaman, S. Kalkan, &#8220;An Iterative Adaptive Multi-modal Stereo-vision Method using Mutual Information&#8221;, Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, 26(0):115-131, 2015.\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/MYaman-JVCI2014.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/MYaman-JVCI2014.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">Preprint<\/a><a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jvcir.2014.11.010\" href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jvcir.2014.11.010\" rel=\"nofollow\">Publisher&#8217;s Website<\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul><li>F. Gokce, S. Olgunsoylu, G. Ucoluk, E. Sahin and S. Kalkan, &#8220;Goruntu Isleme ile Mikro Insansiz Hava Araclarinin Algilanmasi&#8221;, 1nci Turkiye Otonom Robotlar Konferansi (TORK), ODTU, 6-7 Kasim 2014.\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/Fatih_TORK2014.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/Fatih_TORK2014.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf (in Turkish)<\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul><li>F. Yousefi, E. Sivri, O. Kaya, S. Suloglu, S. Kalkan, &#8220;Analysis of Widely-used Descriptors for Finger-vein Recognition&#8221;, Int. Conf. on Computer Vision Theory and Applications, 2014.\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/Fariba-Visapp2014.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/Fariba-Visapp2014.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf<\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul><li>N. Krueger, P. Janssen, S. Kalkan, M. Lappe, A. Leonardis, J. Piater, A. J. Rodriguez-Sanchez, L. Wiskott, &#8220;Deep Hierarchies in the Primate Visual Cortex: What Can We Learn For Computer Vision?&#8221;, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), 35(8):1847-1871, August 2013.\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/Kruger-2013-TPAMI.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/Kruger-2013-TPAMI.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">Preprint<\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul><li>E. Sivri, S. Kalkan, &#8220;A Novel Shape Descriptor: Intersection Consistency Histograms &#8220;, IEEE 21st Conference on Signal Processing and Communication Applications, Girne, KKTC, 2013 (in Turkish). Available as\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/SIU2013_SivriKalkan.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/SIU2013_SivriKalkan.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf<\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul><li>M. A. Akkus, M. Aydinlilar, S. Kalkan, &#8220;Analysis of Junctions with Underlying Range Images&#8221;, IEEE 21st Conference on Signal Processing and Communication Applications, Girne, KKTC, 2013 (in Turkish). Available as\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/SIU2013_AkkusAydinlilarKalkan.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/SIU2013_AkkusAydinlilarKalkan.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf<\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul><li>M. A. Akkus, G. Topuz, B. Ozkan, S. Kalkan, &#8220;A Comprehensive Database for Border Ownership&#8221;, IEEE 21st Conference on Signal Processing and Communication Applications, Girne, KKTC, 2013 (in Turkish). Available as\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/SIU2013_AkkusEtAl.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/SIU2013_AkkusEtAl.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf<\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul><li>B. Ozkan, S. Kalkan, &#8220;Extraction of Border Ownership Information by Conditional Random Field Model&#8221;, IEEE 21st Conference on Signal Processing and Communication Applications, Girne, KKTC, 2013 (in Turkish). Available as\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/SIU2013_BugraKalkan.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/SIU2013_BugraKalkan.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf<\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Yaman M., Kalkan S., &#8220;Multimodal Stereo Vision Using Mutual Information with Adaptive Windowing&#8221;, 13th IAPR Conference on Machine Vision and Applications, Kyoto, Japan, 2013. Available as:\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/MVA13_Yaman.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/MVA13_Yaman.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf<\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Sivri E., Kalkan S., &#8220;Global Binary Patterns: A Novel Shape Descriptor&#8221;, 13th IAPR Conference on Machine Vision and Applications, Kyoto, Japan, 2013. Available as:\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/MVA13_Sivri.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/~sinan\/publications\/MVA13_Sivri.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf<\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul><li>J. Ralli, J. Diaz, E. Ros, S. Kalkan, N. Krueger, &#8220;Disparity Disambiguation by Fusion of Signal- and Symbolic-Level Information&#8221;,\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.springerlink.com\/content\/gt21p2871818g669\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.springerlink.com\/content\/gt21p2871818g669\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Machine Vision and Applications<\/a>, 23(1):65-77, 2012.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>E. Baseski, N. Pugeault, S. Kalkan, L. Bodenhagen, J. Piater and N. Kruger, &#8220;Using Multi-Modal 3D Contours and Their Relations for Vision and Robotics&#8221;,\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S1047320310000945\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S1047320310000945\" rel=\"nofollow\">Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation<\/a>, 21(8):850-864, 2010.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Atil I., Dag N., Kalkan S. and Sahin E. (2010) Affordances and Emergence of Concepts\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.epigenetic-robotics.org\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.epigenetic-robotics.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">10th International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics<\/a>\u00a0Available as:\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/atil-epirob-2010.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr\/pub\/pdf\/atil-epirob-2010.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf<\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Dag N., Atil I., Kalkan S. and Sahin E. 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