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Current Projects (A Partial List)

LEGOFIT: Adaptable technological solutions based on early design actions for the construction and renovation of Energy Positive Homes
  • Project Funding: EU Horizon Europe Project
  • Project Duration: 36 months (2023-2027)
  • Principal Investigator: Ipek Gursel Dino
UP2030: Urban Planning and design ready for 2030
  • Project Funding: EU Horizon Europe Project
  • Project Duration: 36 months (2023-2026)
  • Principal Investigator: Ipek Gursel Dino
KALFA: New Methods for Assembly Scenarios with Collaborative Robots
  • Project Funding: TUBITAK 1001
  • Project No: 120E269
  • Project Duration: 36 months (01.01.2021-01.01.2024)
  • Project Budget: 570,000 TL
  • Principal Investigator: Erol Sahin
Other projects
In collaboration with companies:
  • Machine/deep learning in general.
  • Object detection, segmentation and tracking (e.g., in autonomous driving).
  • Deep learning in medical applications.
  • Deep learning in security applications.
  • Deep learning in remote sensing.


Past Projects

TUBITAK 1001 Project, "Tool development for urban building energy modeling (UBEM) against climate change supported by machine learning and building simulations", No: 120M484. 15.03.2021-15.09.2023 Researcher
TUBITAK 1001 Project, "Addressing Class Imbalance in Visual Recognition Problems by Measuring Class Imbalance and Using Epistemic Uncertainty (DENGE)", No: 120E494. 01.03.2021-01.03.2023 Coordinator
United Kingdom Royal Academy of Engineering Project, "H3DR Camera: Smart embedded camera with multi-exposure & multi-view capability for autonomous vehicles s", No: TSP1345. 24.03.2020-24.08.2021 Researcher
TUBITAK 1001 Project, "Object Detection in Videos with Deep Neural Networks", No: 117E054. 01.04.2018 - 01.04.2021 Researcher
TUBITAK - British Council Project, "SISER: A Stakeholder-Oriented Intelligent System for Building Energy Retrofitting", No: 217M519. 01.06.2018 - 01.06.2020 Researcher
TUBITAK Project, "Multiuser Eyetracking Platform for Social Gaze", No: 116E570. 01.06.2017 - 01.06.2020 Researcher
TUBITAK Project, "CIRAK: Compliant robot manipulator support for montage workers in factories", No: 117E002. 01.06.2017 - 01.06.2020 Researcher
TUBITAK Project, "3D Scene Segmentation and Synthesis", No: 215E255. 01.04.2016 - 01.04.2019 Researcher
TUBITAK 1001 Project, "Context in Robots", No: 215E133. 01.04.2016-01.04.2018 Coordinator, METU
Ministry of Science Project on "Similar Logo Retrieval in Large Databases", No: 0029.STZ.2013-1 Nov 2013-April 2015 Coordinator, METU (in collaboration with Usta Yazilim)
TUBITAK 1001 Project, "Development of Hierarchical Concepts in Humanoid Robots", No: 111E287 May 2012-May 2015 Coordinator, METU
TUBITAK Career Project, "Acquiring Accurate Visual Information from Images Using Border Ownership", No: 111E155 April 2012-April 2015 Coordinator, METU
TUBITAK TEYDEB Project, "Developing a Wireless-Sensor Network with Embedded Data Fusion and Image Processing Capabilities", 1120255 January 2013-October 2014 Consultant (for Gate Elektronik)
TUBITAK TEYDEB Project, "A Portable Biometric Identification System", 7110393 January 2012-June 2013 Consultant (for SoSoft Information Technologies)
TUBITAK 4004 Project, "11. Matematik-Fen Yaz Kampi", 111B019 June 2011-October 2011 Coordinator, METU
European ROSSI Project, FP7-216125 March 2008-October 2011 Collaborator through KOVAN, METU
European Driving School Project (Drivsco), IST-FET-016276-2 January 2006 - 2009 Research participant through BCCN, Goettingen.
European Perception Action Complexes Project (PACO-plus), IST-FP6-IP-027657 January 2006 - 2011 Research participant through BCCN, Goettingen.
European Early Cognitive Vision Project (Ecovision), IST-2001-32114 Sept. 2003 - June 2005 Research participant through University of Stirling, Scotland.