MURAT AYKUT

Karadeniz Technical University

Dept. of Computer Eng.

61080 Trabzon / TURKEY

murat_aykut@ktu.edu.tr

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Pattern Recognition, Data Mining, Computer Vision, Soft Computing, Biometrics

EDUCATION

PhD in Computer Engineering, July 2013 – KARADENIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY, Trabzon, TURKEY

Thesis title: A Comprehensive Study on Flexible Palmprint Verification System Design

MSc. in Computer Engineering, July 2007 – KARADENIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY, Trabzon, TURKEY

Thesis title: An Application and Development of Nonlinear Methods for Pattern Recognition

BSc in Computer Engineering, June 2005 – KARADENIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY, Trabzon, TURKEY

Thesis title: Human Identification Using Gait

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Asst. Prof. Dr., Department of Computer Engineering, Karadeniz Technical University, January 2014 –

MUDEK accreditation coordinator of Comp. Eng. Dept. (2014-2019).

Research Assistant, Department of Computer Engineering, Karadeniz Technical University, October 2007 – June 2013

Member of Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Lab. (2005-2018)

PUBLICATIONS

1. M. Aykut and S. M. Aktürk, “An Improvement on GrabCut with CLAHE For The Segmentation Of The Objects with Ambiguous Boundaries”, International Conference Image Analysis And Recognition (ICIAR ’18), Póvoa de Varzim, 27-29 June 2018, pp. 116-122.

2. M. Aykut and S. M. Aktürk, “Perception Based Improved GrabCut for Image Segmentation”, 7th International Conference on Advanced Technologies (ICAT ’18), Antalya, 28 April - 01 May 2018, pp. 1-4.

3. S. M. Aktürk and M. Aykut, “An Improvement on GrabCut Interactive Segmentation Method Based On Input Color Spaces”, IEEE 26th Signal Processing And Communications Applications Conference (SIU ‘18), İzmir, 02-05 May 2018, pp. 1-4.

4. Özsandikcioğlu Ü., Atasoy A., Kablan Y., Sevim Y., Aykut M., "Comparison of Dimension Reduction Algorithms on EEG Signals", Journal of Intelligent Systems with Applications, vol.1, pp.140-144, 2018.

5. Özsandikcioğlu Ü., Atasoy A., Kablan Y., Sevim Y., Aykut M., "EEG İşaretlerinde Boyut İndirgeme Algoritmalarının Karşılaştırılması", Akıllı Sistemlerde Yenilikler ve Uygulamalar, Antalya, 5-7 October 2017, pp.76-76.

6. Makul Ö., Aydoğdu M.C., Aykut M., Ekinci M., "Neighbourhood-Based Collaborative Filtering Approach Using K-means Clustering", International Conference on Image Processing, Production and Computer Science, London, 26-27 March 2016, pp.57-61.

7.  M. Aykut and M. Ekinci, “Developing a contactless palmprint authentication system by introducing a novel ROI extraction method”, Image and Vision Computing, vol. 40, 2015, pp.  65-74.

8. M. Ekinci and M. Aykut, “Kernel Fisher discriminant analysis of Gabor features for online palmprint verification”, Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, vol. 24 (2), 2016, pp. 355-369.

9. M. Aykut and M. Ekinci, “AAM-based palm segmentation in unrestricted backgrounds and various postures for palmprint recognition”, Pattern Recognition Letters, vol. 34 (9), 2013, pp. 955-962.

10. M. Aykut and M. Ekinci, “An Application of Gabor Based Kernel Fisher Discriminants To The Online Palmprint Verification System”, IEEE SIU’ 2011, Antalya, 20-22 April 2011 pp. 303-306,

11. M. Ekinci and M. Aykut, “Improved gait recognition by multiple-projections normalization”, Machine Vision and Applications, vol. 21 (2), 2010, pp. 143-161.

12. M. Aykut, E. Gedikli and M. Ekinci, “Online identity verification system based on palmprint”, IEEE SIU’ 2010, Diyarbakır, 22-24 April 2010, pp. 117-120.

13. M. Aykut and M. Ekinci, “Palmprint recognition with applying different kernel matrix sizes on Gabor wavelet features”, IEEE SIU’ 2009, Antalya, 9-11 April 2009, pp. 249-252

14. M. Ekinci and M. Aykut, “Palmprint recognition by applying wavelet-based kernel PCA”, Journal of Computer Science and Technology, vol. 23 (5), 2008, pp. 851-861.

15. M. Ekinci and M. Aykut, “Gabor-based kernel PCA for palmprint recognition”, Electronics Letters, vol. 43 (20), 2007, pp. 1077-1079.

16. M. Ekinci and M. Aykut, “Human gait recognition based on kernel PCA using projections”, Journal of Computer Science and Technology, vol. 22 (6), 2007, pp. 867-876.

17. M. AYKUT & M. EKINCI, Kernel Principal Component Analysis Of Gabor Features For Palmprint Recognition, 3rd IAPR/IEEE International Conference On Advances In Biometrics (ICB ’09), 02 -05 June 2009, Alghero, pp. 685 - 694.

18. M. AYKUT & M. EKINCI, Palmprint Recognition Using Kernel Pca Of Gabor Features, The 23rd IEEE International Symposium On Computer And Information Sciences (ISCIS ’08), Istanbul, 27-29 October 2008, pp. 1-6.

19. M. EKINCI, M. AYKUT & E. GEDIKLI, Gait Recognition By Applying Multiple Projections And Kernel PCA, 5th International Conference On Machine Learning And Data Mining In Pattern Recognition (MLDM ’07), Leipzig, 18-20 July 2007, pp. 727-741.

20. M. EKINCI & M. AYKUT, Palmprint Recognition By Applying Wavelet Subband Representation And Kernel PCA, 5th International Conference On Machine Learning And Data Mining In Pattern Recognition (MLDM ’07), Leipzig, 18-20 July 2007, pp. 628-642.

21. M. EKINCI & M. AYKUT, A Novel Approach For Automatic Palmprint Recognition, The 20th Canadian Conference On Artificial Intelligence (CAI ’07), Montreal, 28-30 May 2007, pp. 122-133.

22. M. Aykut and M. Ekinci, “Palmprint Recognition Using Wavelet Based Kernel PCA”, IEEE SIU' 2007, Eskisehir, 11-13 June 2007, pp. 1-4.

23. M. Ekinci and M. Aykut, “Human Identification Using Gait”, IEEE SIU' 2006, Antalya, 17-19 April 2006, pp. 140-144.

Publication Summary:

- 8 published journal articles

- 8 papers in refereed international conferences and workshops (5 of them are in Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

- 7 papers in refereed national conferences

HONORS / AWARDS

Top scoring student in the department of Computer Engineering, KTU, 2005

PROJECTS

107E212, Development of Human Identification System Based on Palmprint Biometric, Sponsored by TUBITAK, 2008-2010, scholarship student.

ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES

Scientific Program Committee member for

- International Conference on Computer Science and Engineering (UBMK’20, UBMK’19, UBMK ’18)

- Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU’21, SIU’20, SIU’19, SIU’17, SIU’16, SIU’15, SIU’14)

Reviewer for

- IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI) (1)

- Neurocomputing (15)

- Electronics Letters (8)

- Signal, Image and Video Processing (2)

- Pattern Recognition Letters (4)

- Expert Systems with Applications (1)

- Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences (13)

Reviewer for project proposals submitted to and for projects that are being supported by TUBITAK (Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey) (21 projects).

CITATIONS

According to ISI Web of Science (ISI): 101 citation,   h-index: 7

According to Google Scholar (G): 259 citation,   h-index: 8,   i10-index:7

THESIS SUPERVISED

Orhan SİVAZ, Improvement studies on grabcut interactive segmentation method, Karadeniz Technical University, 2018, 126 pages.

Saffet Murat AKTURK, Authentication Studies Based on Swipe Biometrics on Touchscreens, Karadeniz Technical University, 2021, 76 pages.

TEACHING

Graduate Courses

- Knowledge Discovery in Large Data Sets (Fall2014, Fall 2015, Fall 2016, Fall 2017, Fall 2019, Fall 2020)

- Soft Computing (Spring 2018)

- Supervised Deep Learning Methods (Fall 2018-)

- Deep Learning for Computer Vision (Spring 2019-)

Undergraduate Courses

- Introduction to Computer Engineering (Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2020)

- Probability and Statistics (Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020)

- Data Mining (Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021)

- Machine Learning (Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017)

- Object Oriented Programming (Fall 2013, Fall 2014, Fall 2015, Fall 2016, Fall 2017)

- Engineering Design and Final Project (all semesters since 2014)

MEMBERSHIP

- TUBITAK ARBIS Researcher Information System

- NVIDIA Developer Program