2021

[Jul'21] Our paper "Assessment of Parkinson's Disease Severity from Videos using Deep Architecture" has been accepted for IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics.

[Jun'21] Our paper "Multi-Label Sentiment Analysis on 100 Languages With Dynamic Weighting for Label Imbalance" has been accepted for IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems.

[May'21] We give a one-day (online) course on "Artificial Intelligence" for the relatives of veterans (organized by Bilkent University & Ministry of Family and Social Services) on 25 May 2022.

[May'21] My supervised Senior Design Project group Outletter has won the Innovation Award at Bilkent CSFair'21. Congratulations!

[Apr'21] I serve as an Area Chair for ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction 2021.

[Mar'21] Our paper "Multimodal Assessment of Apparent Personality Using Feature Attention and Error Consistency Constraint" has been accepted for Image and Vision Computing.

[Feb'21] I serve as a Guest Editor for the Special Issue on "Multimodal Approaches for Automated Assessment Monitoring, and Treatment of Psychopathology" in Frontiers in Computer Science, 2021-2022.

[Feb'21] We organize the 5th Bilkent Summer School on Artificial Intelligence for high school students, between 27-29 July.

2020

[Jun'20] My supervised Senior Design Project groups LikedIt and DRIvision have won the Innovation and Data Science awards, respectively, at Bilkent CSFair'20. Congratulations!

[Apr'20] We organize a Special Issue on "Behavior and Usability Analysis for Multimodal User Interfaces" in the Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces. Deadline for paper submission is 24 May 2020.

[Feb'20] Our paper "Facial Feedback for Reinforcement Learning: A Case Study and Offine Analysis Using the TAMER Framework" has been accepted for Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems.

[Feb'20] I give a seminar on "Modeling Hereditary and Behavioral Patterns of Facial Expressions" at the COGS & MMI Joint Departmental Seminar of Informatics Institute, METU, on 26 February 2020.

[Feb'20] We organize the 4th Bilkent Summer School on Artificial Intelligence for high school students, between 6-10 July.

[Jan'20] We give a one-day course on "Artificial Intelligence" at TED Ankara College on 10 January 2020.

2019

[Dec'19] We give a one-day course on "Artificial Intelligence" at Ankara Lycee of Science Profession on 25 December 2019.

[Oct'19] Our paper "Attended End-to-end Architecture for Age Estimation from Facial Expression Videos" has been accepted for IEEE Transactions on Image Processing.

[Oct'19] I give a tutorial entitled "Recent Developments in Deep Face Analysis" at the 9th International Conference on Image Processing Theory, Tools and Applications (IPTA 2019) on 6 November 2019.

[Sep'19] Our paper "Pose and Expression Robust Age Estimation via 3D Face Reconstruction from a Single Image" has been accepted for the International Workshop on Human Behavior Understanding (in ICCV Workshops), 2019.

[Aug'19] Our paper "Do Alzheimer's Patients Appear Younger than Their Age? A Study with Automatic Facial Age Estimation" has been accepted (oral presentation) for the International Conference on Image Processing Theory, Tools and Applications, 2019.

[Aug'19] I give a seminar on "Deep Models for Face Analysis" at the Vision Cohort of INZVA on 4 August 2019, and at the Data Science Summer School of Sabanci University on 7 September 2019.

[Jul'19] We organize the eNTERFACE Summer Workshop on Multimodal Interfaces at Bilkent University between 8 July-2 August 2019.

[Jul'19] We organize a Summer School on Artificial Intelligence at Bilkent University for high school students, between 22-26 July.

[May'19] My supervised Senior Design Project group WARP has won the Sibel Özelçi Best Senior Design Project Award at Bilkent CSFair'19. Congratulations!

[Mar'19] I give a seminar on "Modeling Hereditary and Behavioral Patterns of Facial Expressions" at the Spring Seminars of Informatics Institute, METU, on 3 April 2019, and at the AI & Machine Learning Meetup, TOBB ETU, on 8 April 2019.

[Mar'19] I give a seminar on "Computer Vision and Its Practial Applications" at the AI Meetup, organized by AI and Image Processing Community of Konya Technical University, on 20 March 2019.

[Jan'19] We organize a Marathon on Mobile Application Development at Bilkent Cyberpark on 23-24 February 2019.

2018

[Dec'18] I give a seminar on "Temporal Dynamics of Facial Behavior" at the Biomedical Engineering Department of Ankara University on 5 December 2018.

[Nov'18] Our paper "Augmentation of virtual agents in real crowd videos" has been for Signal Image and Video Processing.

[Sep'18] Our paper "Modeling and Synthesis of Kinship Patterns of Facial Expressions" has been accepted for Image and Vision Computing.

[Jul'18] We organize a Summer School on Artificial Intelligence at Bilkent University for high school students.

[May'18] My supervised Senior Design Project groups YouTalkWeSign, ProTechKID, and PROsentation have won the Best Project, Wide Impact, and Mobile awards, respectively, at Bilkent CSFair'18. Congratulations!

[May'18] I give a seminar on Automatic Analysis of Facial Expressions at Havelsan on 11 May 2018.

[Mar'18] Our paper "Automatic Estimation of Taste Liking through Facial Expression Dynamics" has been accepted for IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing.

[Jan'18] We organize a Google Hash Code hub at Bilkent University on March 1st, 2018.

[Jan'18] We organize the "Ambient Intelligence and Social Signal Processing" special session at IEEE Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference on May 2018.

2017

[Nov'17] I give a seminar on "Temporal Dynamics of Facial Behavior" at the Informatics Institute of Middle East Technical University on 15 November 2017.

[Aug'17] I give a lecture on "Face Analysis" at the Computer Vision and Robotics Summer School in Ankara, organized by Hacettepe University.

[Jul'17] My paper "Visual Transformation Aided Contrastive Learning for Video-based Kinship Verification" has been accepted for International Conference on Computer Vision, 2017.

[Jul'17] I give a lecture on "Face Analysis" at the Vision Understanding and Machine Intelligence Summer School (VISUM 2017) in Porto.

[Jun'17] I present my research on Automatic Assessment of Depression Severity at TU Delft Research Exhibition on 6-8 June 2017.

[May'17] I serve as a mentor at FG2017 Doctoral Consortium.

[Apr'17] Source code of the Hidden-Unit Logistic Model is now available online.

[Feb'17] Our paper "Dynamic Multimodal Measurement of Depression Severity Using Deep Autoencoding" has been accepted for IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics.

[Jan'17] Our paper "What will Your Future Child Look Like? Modeling and Synthesis of Hereditary Patterns of Facial Dynamics" has been accepted (oral presentation) for International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, 2017.

[Jan'17] Our paper "Multivariate Time-Series Classification Using the Hidden-Unit Logistic Model" has been accepted for IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems.