Research Interests
Intelligent systems, fuzzy systems, machine learning, evolutionary computation, soft computing, multimedia databases
Education
Ph.D. in Computer Science, 2008 - ..
Middle East Technical University, Ankara
MS in Computer Science, 2004 - 2008
Middle East Technical University, Ankara
Thesis: "Object Extraction From Images/Videos Using a Genetic Algorithm Based Approach" [pdf]
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Adnan Yazıcı
BS in Computer Science, 2000 - 2004
Bilkent University, Ankara
Publications
Yakup Yildirim, Turgay Yilmaz, and Adnan Yazici. Ontology-supported object and event extraction with a genetic algorithms approach for object classification. In CIVR'07: Proceedings of the 6th ACM international conference on Image and video retrieval, pages 202-209, New York, NY, USA, 2007. ACM.
Murat Koyuncu, Turgay Yilmaz, Yakup Yildirim and Adnan Yazici. A Framework for Fuzzy Video Content Extraction, Storage and Retrieval In FUZZ-IEEE'10: Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems 2010, Barcelona, SPAIN, 2010.