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Article Novel Methods for Depth-Based Calibration of Multiple RGBD Cameras Using Four Mutually Equidistant Spheres(IEEE-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc, 2025) CalI, Esra Tuncer; Gumustekin, SevketThis article presents novel calibration methods specifically tailored for multiple depth cameras, utilizing solely depth images. Traditional approaches often rely on infrared (IR) images of checkerboards, which, while feasible, fail to exploit the measured depth values, leading to calibration inaccuracies and 3-D misregistration errors. To overcome this limitation, we designed a 3-D tetrahedron object comprising four spheres placed at each corner. By employing an ellipse-fitting technique, we accurately identified the sphere centers in the depth images. Using these centers, we utilized 3-D reprojection errors and measured depths within a bundle adjustment framework to jointly determine the calibration parameters for four depth cameras. Our proposed methods significantly reduce error values compared with those obtained using IR images of checkerboards. The versatility of our techniques ensures their applicability to various types of depth cameras, independent of their underlying technologies. Here, we demonstrate that by integrating depth information directly into the calibration process, we achieve remarkable improvements. Our first method reduces the average system reconstruction error by 78.98%, while our second method, which introduces a novel cost function tailored to the tetrahedron object, achieves an even more substantial reduction of 82.32%. These results underscore the superiority of our depth-integrated calibration approach, particularly in the context of 3-D reconstruction involving multiple depth cameras.Conference Object Serum Creatinine Detection in a Microfluidic Chip Using a Smartphone Camera(Chemical and Biological Microsystems Society, 2022) Karakuzu, B.; Tarim, E.A.; Tekin, H.C.We present a microfluidic chip platform to detect serum creatinine levels using the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) principle. In the platform, surface modified microfluidic channel sensitively captured target molecules from the serum sample, and then ELISA protocol was applied inside the channels. Afterward, the blue color formed as a result of the enzymatic reaction was measured via a smartphone camera. The proposed strategy allows the detection of creatinine rapidly in a minute amount of the serum samples without the need for expensive equipment. Thus, chronic kidney disease (CKD) could be monitored easily at point-of-care settings via the proposed creatinine detection strategy. © 2022 MicroTAS 2022 - 26th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences. All rights reserved.Conference Object Citation - WoS: 7Citation - Scopus: 6Semantic Pose Verification for Outdoor Visual Localization With Self-Supervised Contrastive Learning(IEEE, 2022) Guerrero, Jose J.; Orhan, Semih; Baştanlar, YalınAny city-scale visual localization system has to overcome long-term appearance changes, such as varying illumination conditions or seasonal changes between query and database images. Since semantic content is more robust to such changes, we exploit semantic information to improve visual localization. In our scenario, the database consists of gnomonic views generated from panoramic images (e.g. Google Street View) and query images are collected with a standard field-of-view camera at a different time. To improve localization, we check the semantic similarity between query and database images, which is not trivial since the position and viewpoint of the cameras do not exactly match. To learn similarity, we propose training a CNN in a self-supervised fashion with contrastive learning on a dataset of semantically segmented images. With experiments we showed that this semantic similarity estimation approach works better than measuring the similarity at pixel-level. Finally, we used the semantic similarity scores to verify the retrievals obtained by a state-of-the-art visual localization method and observed that contrastive learning-based pose verification increases top-1 recall value to 0.90 which corresponds to a 2% improvement.Article Citation - WoS: 43Citation - Scopus: 47Semantic Segmentation of Outdoor Panoramic Images(Springer, 2021) Orhan, Semih; Baştanlar, YalınOmnidirectional cameras are capable of providing 360. field-of-view in a single shot. This comprehensive view makes them preferable for many computer vision applications. An omnidirectional view is generally represented as a panoramic image with equirectangular projection, which suffers from distortions. Thus, standard camera approaches should be mathematically modified to be used effectively with panoramic images. In this work, we built a semantic segmentation CNN model that handles distortions in panoramic images using equirectangular convolutions. The proposed model, we call it UNet-equiconv, outperforms an equivalent CNN model with standard convolutions. To the best of our knowledge, ours is the first work on the semantic segmentation of real outdoor panoramic images. Experiment results reveal that using a distortion-aware CNN with equirectangular convolution increases the semantic segmentation performance (4% increase in mIoU). We also released a pixel-level annotated outdoor panoramic image dataset which can be used for various computer vision applications such as autonomous driving and visual localization. Source code of the project and the dataset were made available at the project page (https://github.com/semihorhan/semseg-outdoor-pano). © 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag London Ltd., part of Springer Nature.Article Citation - WoS: 2Citation - Scopus: 2Enhancing Stereo Matching Performance by Colour Normalisation and Specularity Removal(Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2011) Ozan, Şükrü; Gümüştekin, ŞevketA method to enhance the performance of stereo matching is presented. The position of the specular light reflection on an object surface varies due to the change in the position of the camera, light source, object or all combined. Additionally, there may be situations exhibiting a colour shift owing to a change in the light source chromaticity or camera white balance settings. These variations cause misleading results when stereo matching algorithms are applied. In this reported work, a single-image-based statistical method is used to normalise source images. This process effectively eliminates non-saturated specularities regardless of their positions on the object. The effect of specularity removal is tested on stereo image pairs. © 2011 The Institution of Engineering and Technology.