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    Label-Free Retraining for Improved Ground Plane Segmentation
    (Springer, 2022) Uzyıldırım, Furkan Eren; Özuysal, Mustafa
    Due to increased potential applications of unmanned aerial vehicles over urban areas, algorithms for the safe landing of these devices have become more critical. One way to ensure a safe landing is to locate the ground plane regions of images captured by the device camera that are free of obstacles by deep semantic segmentation networks. In this paper, we study the performance of semantic segmentation networks trained for this purpose at a particular altitude and location. We show that a variation in altitude and location significantly decreases network performance. We then propose an approach to retrain the network using only a new set of images and without marking the ground regions in this novel training set. Our experiments show that we can convert a network’s operating range from low to high altitudes and vice versa by label-free retraining.
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    Citation - WoS: 2
    Citation - Scopus: 2
    Improving Outdoor Plane Estimation Without Manual Supervision
    (Springer, 2022) Uzyıldırım, Furkan Eren; Özuysal, Mustafa
    Recently, great progress has been made in the automatic detection and segmentation of planar regions from monocular images of indoor scenes. This has been achieved thanks to the development of convolutional neural network architectures for the task and the availability of large amounts of training data usually obtained with the help of active depth sensors. Unfortunately, it is much harder to obtain large image sets outdoors partly due to limited range of active sensors. Therefore, there is a need to develop techniques that transfer features learned from the indoor dataset to segmentation of outdoor images. We propose such an approach that does not require manual annotations on the outdoor datasets. Instead, we exploit a network trained on indoor images and an automatically reconstructed point cloud to estimate the training ground truth on the outdoor images in an energy minimization framework. We show that the resulting ground truth estimate is good enough to improve the network weights. Moreover, the process can be repeated multiple times to further improve plane detection and segmentation accuracy on monocular images of outdoor scenes.
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    Citation - WoS: 55
    Citation - Scopus: 56
    Evaluation of an Artificial Intelligence System for Diagnosing Scaphoid Fracture on Direct Radiography
    (Springer Verlag, 2020) Özkaya, Emre; Topal, Fatih Esad; Bulut, Tuğrul; Gürsoy, Merve; Özuysal, Mustafa; Karakaya, Zeynep
    Purpose The aim of this study is to determine the diagnostic performance of artificial intelligence with the use of convolutional neural networks (CNN) for detecting scaphoid fractures on anteroposterior wrist radiographs. The performance of the deep learning algorithm was also compared with that of the emergency department (ED) physician and two orthopaedic specialists (less experienced and experienced in the hand surgery). Methods A total 390 patients with AP wrist radiographs were included in the study. The presence/absence of the fracture on radiographs was confirmed via CT. The diagnostic performance of the CNN, ED physician and two orthopaedic specialists (less experienced and experienced) as measured by AUC, sensitivity, specificity, F-Score and Youden index, to detect scaphoid fractures was evaluated and compared between the groups. Results The CNN had 76% sensitivity and 92% specificity, 0.840 AUC, 0.680 Youden index and 0.826Fscore values in identifying scaphoid fractures. The experienced orthopaedic specialist had the best diagnostic performance according to AUC. While CNN's performance was similar to a less experienced orthopaedic specialist, it was better than the ED physician. Conclusion The deep learning algorithm has the potential to be used for diagnosing scaphoid fractures on radiographs. Artificial intelligence can be useful for scaphoid fracture diagnosis particularly in the absence of an experienced orthopedist or hand surgeon.
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    Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Viability Analysis Directly From Cell Holograms Captured Using Lensless Holographic Microscopy
    (The Chemical and Biological Microsystems Society (CBMS), 2019) Delikoyun, Kerem; Çine, Ersin; Anıl İnevi, Müge; Özçivici, Engin; Özuysal, Mustafa; Tekin, Hüseyin Cumhur
    Cell viability analysis is one of the most widely used protocols in the fields of biomedical sciences. Traditional methods are prone to human error and require high-cost and bulky instrumentations. Lensless digital inline holographic microscopy (LDIHM) offers low-cost and high resolution imaging. However, recorded holograms should be digitally reconstructed to obtain real images, which requires intense computational work. We introduce a deep transfer learning-based cell viability classification method that directly processes the hologram without reconstruction. This new model is only trained once and viability of each cell can be predicted from its hologram. © 2019 CBMS-0001.
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    Curve Description by Histograms of Tangent Directions
    (Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2019) Köksal, Ali; Özuysal, Mustafa
    The authors propose a novel approach for the description of objects based on contours in their images using real-valued feature vectors. The approach is particularly suitable when objects of interest have high contrast and texture-free images or when the texture variations are high so textural cues are nuisance factors for classification. The proposed descriptor is suitable for nearest neighbour classification still popular in embedded vision applications when the power considerations outweigh the performance requirements. They describe object outlines purely based on the histograms of contour tangent directions mimicking many of the design heuristics of texture-based descriptors such as scale-invariant feature transform (SIFT). However, unlike SIFT and its variants, the proposed approach is directly designed to work with contour data and it is robust to variations inside and outside the object outline as well as the sampling of the contour itself. They show that relying on tangent direction estimation as opposed to gradient computation yields a more robust description and higher nearest neighbour classification rates in a variety of classification problems.
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    Citation - WoS: 5
    Citation - Scopus: 8
    Lensless Digital In-Line Holographic Microscopy for Space Biotechnology Applications
    (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2019) Delikoyun, Kerem; Çine, Ersin; Anıl İnevi, Müge; Özuysal, Mustafa; Özçivici, Engin; Tekin, Hüseyin Cumhur
    Biomechanical changes at cellular level can dramatically affect living organisms in both aviation and space applications. Weightlessness induces morphological alteration of cells, which leads to tissue loss. Therefore, scientists have been studying the effect of weightlessness using cell culture based biological experiments using conventional microscopes. However, strict requirements regarding cost, weight and functionality limit the use of conventional microscopes in space environment. Lensless digital in-line holographic microscopy enables to use low-weight, low-cost and robust elements, such as a light emitting diode (LED), an aperture and an imaging sensor, instead of bulky, expensive and fragile optical elements, such as lenses, mirrors and filters. This technology offers a high field of view compared to conventional microscopes without affecting the resolution and it is also suitable for remote sensing applications with automated imaging capabilities. Here, we present a portable digital in-line holographic microscopy platform that allows to visualize cells and to analyze their viability in a microfluidic chip. The platform offers microscopic imaging with 1.55 mu m spatial resolution, 21.7 mm(2) field of view and image coloring capability. This platform could potentially play an important role in space biotechnology applications by enabling low-cost, high-resolution and portable monitoring of cells.
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    Citation - WoS: 5
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    Instance Detection by Keypoint Matching Beyond the Nearest Neighbor
    (Springer Verlag, 2016) Uzyıldırım, Furkan Eren; Özuysal, Mustafa
    The binary descriptors are the representation of choice for real-time keypoint matching. However, they suffer from reduced matching rates due to their discrete nature. We propose an approach that can augment their performance by searching in the top K near neighbor matches instead of just the single nearest neighbor one. To pick the correct match out of the K near neighbors, we exploit statistics of descriptor variations collected for each keypoint in an off-line training phase. This is a similar approach to those that learn a patch specific keypoint representation. Unlike these approaches, we only use a keypoint specific score to rank the list of K near neighbors. Since this list can be efficiently computed with approximate nearest neighbor algorithms, our approach scales well to large descriptor sets.
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    Citation - WoS: 8
    Citation - Scopus: 11
    Ca-Arbac: Privacy Preserving Using Context-Aware Role-Based Access Control on Android Permission System
    (Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2016) Abdella, Juhar Ahmed; Özuysal, Mustafa; Tomur, Emrah
    Existing mobile platforms are based on manual way of granting and revoking permissions to applications. Once the user grants a given permission to an application, the application can use it without limit, unless the user manually revokes the permission. This has become the reason for many privacy problems because of the fact that a permission that is harmless at some occasion may be very dangerous at another condition. One of the promising solutions for this problem is context-aware access control at permission level that allows dynamic granting and denying of permissions based on some predefined context. However, dealing with policy configuration at permission level becomes very complex for the user as the number of policies to configure will become very large. For instance, if there are A applications, P permissions, and C contexts, the user may have to deal with A × P × C number of policy configurations. Therefore, we propose a context-aware role-based access control model that can provide dynamic permission granting and revoking while keeping the number of policies as small as possible. Although our model can be used for all mobile platforms, we use Android platform to demonstrate our system. In our model, Android applications are assigned roles where roles contain a set of permissions and contexts are associated with permissions. Permissions are activated and deactivated for the containing role based on the associated contexts. Our approach is unique in that our system associates contexts with permissions as opposed to existing similar works that associate contexts with roles. As a proof of concept, we have developed a prototype application called context-aware Android role-based access control. We have also performed various tests using our application, and the result shows that our model is working as desired.
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    Citation - WoS: 299
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    Introduction To Machine Learning
    (Humana Press, 2014) Baştanlar, Yalın; Özuysal, Mustafa
    The machine learning field, which can be briefly defined as enabling computers make successful predictions using past experiences, has exhibited an impressive development recently with the help of the rapid increase in the storage capacity and processing power of computers. Together with many other disciplines, machine learning methods have been widely employed in bioinformatics. The difficulties and cost of biological analyses have led to the development of sophisticated machine learning approaches for this application area. In this chapter, we first review the fundamental concepts of machine learning such as feature assessment, unsupervised versus supervised learning and types of classification. Then, we point out the main issues of designing machine learning experiments and their performance evaluation. Finally, we introduce some supervised learning methods.