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most citedSlicing Aided Hyper Inference and Fine-tuning for Small Object Detection

566 citations · 839 across the 37 of their papers we have counts for

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41 papers

cs.CV2026

Robust Logical Anomaly Detection under Capture Shifts via Synthetic Anomalies

Ufuk Efe, Alptekin Temizel

Detectors of logical anomalies, such as missing, extra or wrongly combined parts, usually score a test image by its distance from normal (good) images. They achieve near-perfect im…

eess.IV2026

Colorectal Cancer Segmentation with Adaptive Augmentation and Multi-Resolution Ensemble Models

Ümit Mert Çağlar, Alptekin Temizel

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the second most deadly and third most common cancer, and the leading cause of death among gastrointestinal cancers. Early diagnosis is crucial for the tr…

eess.IV2026

Benchmarking the Alignment of Data-Quality Metrics, Human Judgment and Land-Cover Segmentation Performance for Earth Observation

Ümit Mert Çağlar, Alptekin Temizel

Volume and quality of datasets are crucial for deep learning model training, yet they are often constrained by availability and data acquisition costs. Synthetic data augmentation…

cs.CV2026

BELDE: Building a Large-scale Earth-observation Land-cover Dataset for Europe

Ümit Mert Çağlar, Alptekin Temizel

Earth observation imagery plays a critical role in environmental monitoring, urban planning, disaster assessment, and climate analysis. While multi-spectral sensors are increasingl…

eess.IV2026

LALE: Lightweight-Transformer Architecture for Land-Cover Estimation

Ümit Mert Çağlar, Alptekin Temizel

Semantic segmentation of remote sensing imagery requires models that capture both global context and local detail under tight computational budgets. Prior work typically optimizes…

cs.CV2026

SenBen: Sensitive Scene Graphs for Explainable Content Moderation

Fatih Cagatay Akyon, Alptekin Temizel

Content moderation systems classify images as safe or unsafe but lack spatial grounding and interpretability: they cannot explain what sensitive behavior was detected, who is invol…

cs.CV2026

Disentangled Anatomy-Disease Diffusion (DADD) for Controllable Ulcerative Colitis Progression Synthesis

Umut Dundar, Alptekin Temizel

Synthesizing longitudinal medical images at controllable disease stages while preserving patient-specific anatomy is hindered by the entanglement of pathological textures and struc…

cs.CV2026

Grounding Synthetic Data Generation With Vision and Language Models

Ümit Mert Çağlar, Alptekin Temizel

Deep learning models benefit from increasing data diversity and volume, motivating synthetic data augmentation to improve existing datasets. However, existing evaluation metrics fo…

cs.CV2026

TopoMaskV3: 3D Mask Head with Dense Offset and Height Predictions for Road Topology Understanding

Muhammet Esat Kalfaoglu, Halil Ibrahim Ozturk, Ozsel Kilinc +1

Mask-based paradigms for road topology understanding, such as TopoMaskV2, offer a complementary alternative to query-based methods by generating centerlines via a dense rasterized…

cs.CV2026

DuSCN-FusionNet: An Interpretable Dual-Channel Structural Covariance Fusion Framework for ADHD Classification Using Structural MRI

Qurat Ul Ain, Alptekin Temizel, Soyiba Jawed

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a highly prevalent neurodevelopmental condition; however, its neurobiological diagnosis remains challenging due to the lack of re…

cs.LG2026

D-GATNet: Interpretable Temporal Graph Attention Learning for ADHD Identification Using Dynamic Functional Connectivity

Qurat Ul Ain, Alptekin Temizel, Soyiba Jawed

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a prevalent neurodevelopmental disorder whose neuroimaging-based diagnosis remains challenging due to complex time-varying disrup…

cs.CV2026

Local-Global Prompt Learning via Sparse Optimal Transport

Deniz Kizaroğlu, Ülku Tuncer Küçüktas, Emre Çakmakyurdu +1

Few-shot adaptation of vision-language models (VLMs) like CLIP typically relies on learning textual prompts matched to global image embeddings. Recent works extend this paradigm by…

cs.CV2025

Colorectal Cancer Tumor Grade Segmentation in Digital Histopathology Images: From Giga to Mini Challenge

Alper Bahcekapili, Duygu Arslan, Umut Ozdemir +16

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most diagnosed cancer and the second leading cause of cancer-related death worldwide. Accurate histopathological grading of CRC is essential fo…

cs.CV2025★ 25 cited

Class Distance Weighted Cross Entropy Loss for Classification of Disease Severity

Gorkem Polat, Ümit Mert Çağlar, Alptekin Temizel

Assessing disease severity with ordinal classes, where each class reflects increasing severity levels, benefits from loss functions designed for this ordinal structure. Traditional…

cs.CV2024

TopoBDA: Towards Bezier Deformable Attention for Road Topology Understanding

Muhammet Esat Kalfaoglu, Halil Ibrahim Ozturk, Ozsel Kilinc +1

Understanding road topology is crucial for autonomous driving. This paper introduces TopoBDA (Topology with Bezier Deformable Attention), a novel approach that enhances road topolo…

cs.CV2024

Adaptive Augmentation Policy Optimization with LLM Feedback

Ant Duru, Alptekin Temizel

Data augmentation is a critical component of deep learning pipelines, enhancing model generalization by increasing dataset diversity. Traditional augmentation strategies rely on ma…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

TopoMaskV2: Enhanced Instance-Mask-Based Formulation for the Road Topology Problem

M. Esat Kalfaoglu, Halil Ibrahim Ozturk, Ozsel Kilinc +1

Recently, the centerline has become a popular representation of lanes due to its advantages in solving the road topology problem. To enhance centerline prediction, we have develope…

cs.CV2023

State-of-the-Art in Nudity Classification: A Comparative Analysis

Fatih Cagatay Akyon, Alptekin Temizel

This paper presents a comparative analysis of existing nudity classification techniques for classifying images based on the presence of nudity, with a focus on their application in…

eess.IV2023

Ulcerative Colitis Mayo Endoscopic Scoring Classification with Active Learning and Generative Data Augmentation

Ümit Mert Çağlar, Alperen İnci, Oğuz Hanoğlu +2

Endoscopic imaging is commonly used to diagnose Ulcerative Colitis (UC) and classify its severity. It has been shown that deep learning based methods are effective in automated ana…

cs.CV2023★ 6 cited

Adversarial Image Generation by Spatial Transformation in Perceptual Colorspaces

Ayberk Aydin, Alptekin Temizel

Deep neural networks are known to be vulnerable to adversarial perturbations. The amount of these perturbations are generally quantified using metrics, such as , a…

cs.CV2023

TopoMask: Instance-Mask-Based Formulation for the Road Topology Problem via Transformer-Based Architecture

M. Esat Kalfaoglu, Halil Ibrahim Ozturk, Ozsel Kilinc +1

Driving scene understanding task involves detecting static elements such as lanes, traffic signs, and traffic lights, and their relationships with each other. To facilitate the dev…

cs.CV2022★ 4 cited

Deep Architectures for Content Moderation and Movie Content Rating

Fatih Cagatay Akyon, Alptekin Temizel

Rating a video based on its content is an important step for classifying video age categories. Movie content rating and TV show rating are the two most common rating systems establ…

cs.CV2022

Sequence Models for Drone vs Bird Classification

Fatih Cagatay Akyon, Erdem Akagunduz, Sinan Onur Altinuc +1

Drone detection has become an essential task in object detection as drone costs have decreased and drone technology has improved. It is, however, difficult to detect distant drones…

cs.LG2022

Evaluation and Analysis of Different Aggregation and Hyperparameter Selection Methods for Federated Brain Tumor Segmentation

Ece Isik-Polat, Gorkem Polat, Altan Kocyigit +1

Availability of large, diverse, and multi-national datasets is crucial for the development of effective and clinically applicable AI systems in the medical imaging domain. However,…