Personal information Surname(s) / First name(s) Address(es) 2-2-2 Hikaridai Keihanna Science City Kyoto 619-0288 Japan JAPAN Telephone(s) +81 774 95 1588 Fax(es) +81 774 95 1408 Email(s) zeynep@atr.jp Nationality(-ies) Turkish Date of birth 19/04/1981 Gender Female Education and training Aug. 2005-Dec. 2009 Sep. 2003- Aug. 2005 Sep. 1999-June 2003 PhD in Electrical and Electronics Engineering Signal Processing and Computer Vision Bilkent University, Turkey Master of Science in Electrical and Electronics Engineering Signal Processing Bilkent University, Turkey Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Electronics Engineering Control Systems Boğaziçi University, Turkey Awards and honours Sep. 2003-Dec. 2009 Full Scholarship from Bilkent University Sep. 1999-Aug. 2000 Full Scholarship from Boğaziçi University 1999 Ranked 7 th in National University Entrance examinations among ca. 1.5 million 1999 Ranked 1 st in graduation from high school 1996 Ranked 8 th in High School entrance examinations among ca. 600.000 1996-1999 Ranked 1 st among the class in each of 6 semesters based on GPA in high school. Page 1 - Curriculum vitæ of
Work experience Jan 2010-Present Jan 2009-Apr 2009 Sep 2008-Dec 2008 Feb 2008-May 2008 Research scientist at Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratories, Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International, Japan. Detection and tracking of mobile entities based on range data. Visiting researcher at PNA4, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, The Netherlands. Resolution of focus of attention based on head pose estimation for naturally interacting robotic agents. Visiting researcher at Intelligent Systems Laboratory, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Integrated head pose estimation and eye localization. Visiting researcher at Intelligent Systems Laboratory, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Head tracking and pose estimation. Research experience Effects of interaction on group motion and attention resolution in unconstrained environments. Collaborators: Dr. Francesco Zanlungo, ATR IRC, Japan. Motion modelling for social pedestrian groups. Collaborators: Dr. Francesco Zanlungo, ATR IRC, Japan. Tracking and recognition of various mobile entities based on trajectory and range data. Collaborators: Dr. Tetsushi Ikeda, Dr. Takahiro Miyashita, ATR IRC, Japan. Joint attention modelling based on head pose and gaze direction estimation for embodied agents, PhD Thesis. Collaborators: Dr. Albert Ali Salah and Dr. Eric Pauwels, Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica, The Netherlands. Head pose estimation for drivers in uncontrolled settings. Collaborators: Dr. Albert Ali Salah and Dr. Eric Pauwels, Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica, The Netherlands. Eye center localization and head pose estimation using elliptic cylindrical head models. Advisor: Dr. Nicu Sebe, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Behavioural and physiological analysis of lab animals. Computer vision based classification of videos of mice under the influence of several psychotropic drugs. Advisor: Dr. Bülent Özgüler, Dr. Pınar Duygulu, Bilkent University, Turkey and Dr. Rüştü Onur and Dr. Yıldırım Sara, Hacettepe University, Turkey. Zero assigned filter banks and wavelets. Applications in speech and image watermarking, M.Sc. Thesis. Advisor: Dr. Bülent Özgüler, Bilkent University, Turkey. Time series prediction for financial data sets via neural networks, ARCH and GARCH, B.S. dissertation. Advisor: Dr. Kemal Cılız and Dr. Fikret Gürgen, Boğaziçi University, Turkey. Page 2 - Curriculum vitæ of
Teaching experience Supported by Bilkent University EEE 101 - Introduction to Electrical Engineering. Advisor: Dr. Levent Onural and Dr. Hitay Özbay MATH 225 - Linear Algebra and Differential Equations. Advisor: Dr. Bülent Özgüler and Dr. Erol Sezer EEE 342 - Feedback Control Systems. Advisor: Dr. Hitay Özbay, Dr. Bülent Özgüler and Dr. Ömer Morgül EEE 442/542 - Nonlinear Systems. Advisor: Dr. Ömer Morgül EEE 445/545 - Digital Control. Advisor: Dr. Erol Sezer Supported by Boğaziçi University EE 333 - Electronics I. Advisor: Dr. Oğuzhan Çiçekoğlu Publications Journal Articles Sakata, M., Yücel, Z., Shinozawa, K., Imai, M., Furutani, M., Matsuoka, R., An Inference Engine for Estimating Outside States of Clinical Test Items" Management Information Systems, ACM Transactions on, vol.4, no.3, pp.13, August 2013. Yücel, Z., Zanlungo, F., Ikeda, T., Miyashita, T., Hagita, N., Deciphering the Crowd: Modelling and Identification of Pedestrian Group Motion" Sensors, vol.13, no.1, pp.875-897, January 2013. Yücel, Z., Salah, A. A., Meriçli, Ç., Meriçli, T., Valenti, R., Gevers, T., Joint Attention by Gaze Interpolation and Saliency " Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on, vol.43, no.3, pp.829-842, June 2013. Yücel, Z., Özgüler, B., Watermarking via Zero Assigned Filter Banks" Signal Processing, Volume 90, Issue 2, pp.467-479, February 2010. Yücel, Z., Duygulu, P., Sara, Y., Onur, R., Esen, E., Özgüler, B., Automated Discrimination of Psychotropic Drugs in Mice via Computer Vision Based Analysis" Journal of Neuroscience Methods, Volume 180, Issue 2, pp. 234-242, June 2009. Patents Yücel, Z., Ikeda, T., Miyashita, T., Hagita, N., Tracking and Identification of Mobile Entities Based on Trajectory and Shape Information" Patent Application No. 2011-204031. Refereed Conference Publications Yücel, Z., Miyashita, T., Hagita, N., Modelling and Identification of Group Motion via Compound Evaluation of Positional and Directional Cues" Page 3 - Curriculum vitæ of
International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPR 2012. Yücel, Z., Zanlungo F., Ikeda, T., Miyashita, T., Hagita, N., Modelling Indicators of Coherent Motion" IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2012. Yücel, Z., Ikeda, T., Miyashita, T., Hagita, N., Identification of Mobile Entities Based on Trajectory and Shape Information" IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2011. Yücel, Z., Salah, A. A., Meriçli, Ç., Meriçli, T., Derivation of Gaze Direction from Head Pose Estimates" The 18 th IEEE Signal Processing and Communication Applications Conference, SIU 2010. Yücel, Z., Salah, A. A., Meriçli, Ç., Meriçli, T., Joint Visual Attention Modelling for Naturally Interacting Robotic Agents" IEEE 24 th International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences, ISCIS 2009. Yücel, Z., Salah, A. A., Resolution of Focus of Attention Using Gaze Direction Estimation and Saliency computation" International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, ACII 2009. Yücel, Z., Salah, A. A., Head Pose and Neural Network Based Gaze Direction Estimation for Joint Attention Modelling in Embodied Agents" The Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2009. Yücel, Z., Valenti, R., Sebe N., Cylindrical Model Based Head Pose Estimation for Drivers", (in Turkish) The 17 th IEEE Signal Processing and Communication Applications Conference, SIU 2009. Valenti, R., Yücel, Z., Gevers, T., Robustifying Eye Center Localization by Head Pose Cues" IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2009. Yücel, Z., Özgüler, B., Detection of Epileptic Indicators on Clinical Subbands of EEG" The 16 th European Signal Processing Conference, EUSIPCO 2008. Yücel, Z., Özgüler, B., Detection of Epilepsy Seizures and Epileptic Indicators in EEG Signals", (in Turkish) The 16 th IEEE Signal Processing and Communication Applications Conference, SIU 2008. Yücel, Z., Esen, E., Duygulu, P., Sara, Y., Onur, R., Özg üler, B., Computer vision based classification of videos of mice under the influence of several psychotropic drugs", (in Turkish) 19 th National Congress of Pharmacology. Esen, E., Yücel, Z., Sara, Y., Duygulu, P., Onur, R., Farelerde Lokomotor Aktivite Değisimine Neden Olan İlaçların Bir Bilgisayar Yazılımı ile Ayırt Edilmesi", (in Turkish) 19 th National Congress of Pharmacology. Yücel, Z., Özgüler, B., Color and Grey Level Image Watermarking via Zero Assigned Filter Banks" The 14 th IEEE Signal Processing and Communication Applications Conference, SIU 2006. Yücel, Z., Özgüler, B., An Image Watermarking Algorithm via Zero Assigned Filter Banks" The 5 th IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology, ISSPIT 2005. Yücel, Z., Özgüler, B., An Audio Watermarking Algorithm via Zero Assigned Filter Banks" The 13 th European Signal Processing Conference, EUSIPCO 2005. Page 4 - Curriculum vitæ of
Theses Yücel, Z., Computer Vision Based Behaviour Analysis" PhD Thesis - Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, 2009. Yücel, Z., Watermarking via Zero Assigned Filter Banks" MS Thesis - Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, 2005. Computer skills Mother tongue(s) C++, OpenCV, Java MATLAB, Scilab Latex Turkish Self-assessment Understanding Speaking Writing European level (*) Listening Reading Spoken interaction Spoken production English C2 Proficient C2 Proficient C1 Proficient C1 Proficient C1 Proficient German Artistic skills and competences B1 Independent B2 Independent A2 Basic A2 Basic A2 Basic B1 Independent B2 Independent B2 Independent B2 Independent Japanese A1 Basic Italian A2 Basic A2 Basic A2 Basic A2 Basic A2 Basic (*) Common European Framework of Reference (CEF) level Oil painting, photography, jogging. References Available upon request. Page 5 - Curriculum vitæ of