Signal Processing Electrical

CEVAH R I LA

***. y l mahallesi ****. sokak ANDE sitesi A-Blok 17/40 ankaya/Ankara

Mobile Phone: +90-505-*******, Office Phone: +90 312-***-****-121

E-mail: abpnn0@r.postjobfree.com

Web Page: www.cevahircigla.com

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Date of Birth: 04/18/1982

Place of Birth: Edirne-Turkey

Gender: Male

OBJECTIVE

To obtain a position as a researcher within a prosperous company in science and technology

where I can utilize my background knowledge in image, signal processing/computer vision

and acquire valuable experience in a research environment.

EDUCATION

PhD, Middle East Technical University (METU), Turkey expected June 2012

Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Signal Processing, CGPA: 3.91/4.00

MSc, Middle East Technical University (METU), Turkey 08/2007

Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Signal Processing, CGPA: 3.93/4.00

BS, Middle East Technical University (METU), Turkey 06/2005

Major: Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering CGPA 3.88/4.00

Rank: 6 th over 281 Students

Minor: Department of Mathematics 06/2005

CGPA: 2.94/4.00

SKILLS

Field of Interest: Computer vision, 2D/3D image and video processing, biomedical

imaging, speech processing, pattern recognition, control theory, display technologies.

Computing Languages: MATLAB, C, C++, CUDA GPU programming.

Languages: English - fluent

Spanish - intermediate

WORK EXPERIENCE

05/2008 - current

As a design architect and research fellow in VESTEK which is a Research and

Development company providing solutions for consumer electronics.

1. Designed real-time stereo disparity estimation algorithm for 3D TVs,

implemented in CUDA and supported FPGA implementation

2. Designed color calibration algorithm in stereo videos for 3D TVs

implemented in CUDA and supported FPGA implementation

3. Designed local contrast enhancement tool for LCD TVs implemented in

CUDA and supported FPGA implementation

4. Designed algorithms for:

Depth compensated noise reduction

Depth data up-sampling and disparity range detection in stereo video

Local dimming for LED displays

Saliency (attention) map extraction

Efficient On Screen Display (OSD) placement in stereo video

Virtual view rendering in stereo/multi-view video

3D Frame Rate Up Conversion

06/2005 - 05/2008

As a researcher in Multimedia Research Group at METU/EEE Department in 3DTV

Network of Excellence European 6th Frame Project

1. Stereo and multi-view depth extraction by dynamic programming.

2. Image Segmentation algorithm by region-based graph-cuts.

3. Watermark extraction from light field rendered images.

4. Segment-based stereo and multi-view dense depth map estimation.

5. Video object segmentation from multi-view data.

6. Organizing Committee of 3DTV Conference, 2008

Summer Intern: Bilten Telecommunications group

Ankara, Turkey, 2003 summer (for 30 days).

1. Programmed a microprocessor (Texas Instrument C5416) in C and assembly

for data transmission.

Summer Intern: Bilten signal processing and remote sensing group

Ankara, Turkey, 2004 summer (for 30 days).

1. Worked on speech recognition and implemented number recognition

algorithm in MATLAB.

PUBLICATIONS

Master Thesis

Dense Depth Map Estimation for Object Segmentation in Multi-view Video, July

2007 can be downloaded from http://www.eee.metu.edu.tr/~cevahir/publications.html

Patents

Alper Koz, Cevahir la and A.Ayd n Alatan;"Watermark Detection Method for Free-

view Television" Europe Patent Application 06809509.0, 2006

Cevahir la; Saliency Based Video Contrast Enhancement Method, Europe Patent

Application 2218 - 10189560.5, 2010

Cevahir la and Can ayc ; Black and White Stretch Algorithm for Dynamic

Range Extension, Europe Patent Application 11156605.5, 2010

Cevahir la; Depth Compensated Noise Reduction in Multi-view Video, Europe

Patent Application 2218 - 10189764.3, 2010

Emrah Ta l and Cevahir la; A Method for Local Dimming Boost Up using Salient

Features, Turkey Patent 1241 - 10196045.8, 2010

Cevahir la; Disparity Range Detection for Stereo and Multi-view Video, Turkey

Patent 2010/ G289618, 2010

Cevahir la; Depth Data Up-Sampling via Adaptive Support Window, Turkey

Patent 2010/ G289621, 2010

Cevahir la and A.Ayd n Alatan; Information Permeability Based Disparity

Estimation in Stereo-Video Turkey Patent 2010/ G289620

Cevahir la "Stereo Video Color Calibration Method and Device for 3D TV

Systems " Turkey Patent 1241 - 10196045.8, 2010

Cevahir la "Depth Map Post Processing for Un-textured Surfaces" Europe Patent

Application 11189515.7 and Turkey Patent Application R201107846, 2011

Cevahir la, A.Ayd n Alatan, Eren Som a and Murat Say nta "Hardware Friendly

Stereo Matching" Pending 2011

Cevahir la, "Text Aware Post Processing for Virtual View Synthesis" Pending

2011

Cevahir la, "Edge Aware Attention Detection in Video" Pending 2011

Journal Papers

Cevahir la and A.Ayd n Alatan, Information Permeability for Stereo Matching

under review IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 2011.

Cevahir la, Emrah Ta l and A.Ayd n Alatan, Efficient Over Segmentation with

Geodesic Prior under preparation.

Alper Koz, Cevahir la and A.Ayd n Alatan, Free-view Watermarking for Free-view

Television IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, June, 2010.

Conference Papers

2012

Cevahir la and A.Ayd n Alatan An Efficient Hole Filling for Depth Image based

Rendering submitted to International Conference on Image Processing, 2012.

Cevahir la and A.Ayd n Alatan Multi-view Edge Preserving Disparity Map

Estimation submitted to International Conference on Image Processing, 2012.

Cevahir la and A.Ayd n Alatan 3B TV i in Ger ek Zamanl Stereo E leme

Algoritmas submitted to Sinyal Isleme ve Uygulamalar Konferans, 2012.

Cevahir la and A.Ayd n Alatan oklu G r nt i in Simetrik Olmayan Derinlik

Kestirimi submitted to Sinyal Isleme ve Uygulamalar Konferans, 2012.

Cevahir la, Emrah Ta l and A.Ayd n Alatan G r nt B l tleme i in Etkin S per

Piksel kar m submitted to Sinyal Isleme ve Uygulamalar Konferans, 2012.

Cevahir la and A.Ayd n Alatan Edge-Aware Stereo Matching in SPIE 3D Image

Processing and Applications, January 2012.

2011

Cevahir la and A.Ayd n Alatan Efficient Edge-Preserving Stereo Matching in

ICCV Workshop on Live Dense Reconstruction from Moving Cameras, 2011.

2010

Cevahir la and A.Ayd n Alatan Efficient Graph Based Image Segmentation via

Speeded-Up Turbo Pixels in IEEE International Conference on Image Processing 2010.

2009

Cevahir la and A.Ayd n Alatan Multiple Depth Map Estimation from Multi-view

Video in International Conference on Immersive Telecommunications 2009.

Cevahir la and A.Ayd n Alatan Temporally Consistent Depth Map Estimation via

Belief Propagation in 3D TV Conference 2009.

2008

Cevahir la and A.Ayd n Alatan Region-Based Image Segmentation via Graph

Cuts in IEEE International Conference on Image Processing 2008.

Cevahir la and A.Ayd n Alatan Region-Based Object Segmentation in Multi-view

Video in IEEE International Conference on Image Processing 2008.

Alper Koz, Cevahir la and A.Ayd n Alatan Watermarking For Image-Based

Rendering via Homography-Based Virtual Camera Location Estimation in IEEE

International Conference on Image Processing 2008.

Cevahir la and A.Ayd n Alatan Depth Assisted Object Segmentation in Multi-view

Video in 3D TV Conference 2008.

Cevahir la and A.Ayd n Alatan B lge Tabanli D zgeli Kesik G r nt B l tleme

(in Turkish) in SIU 2008 (2nd best paper), Turkey.

2007

Cevahir la, Xenophon Zabulis and A.Ayd n Alatan Region-Based Dense Depth

Extraction From Multi-view Video in International Conference on Image Processing

(ICIP) 2007,Texas/USA

Cevahir la, Xenophon Zabulis and A.Ayd n Alatan Segment-Based Stereo-

Matching via Plane and Angle Sweeping in 3DTV Conference (3DTVCon), 2007

Greece

Alper Koz, Cevahir la and A.Ayd n Alatan Watermarking for Light Field

Rendering in European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), 2007 Poland

2006

Alper Koz, Cevahir la and A.Ayd n Alatan Free-view Watermarking for Free-View

Television in International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) 2006, Atlanta/USA

HOBIES

Folk Dance, tracking, volunteer teaching, learning new languages, history, fishing and

swimming

ACADEMIC AWARDS

Second best paper award in SIU 2008

PhD Scholarship from Boston University, USA, 2008

PhD Scholarship from Johns Hopkins University, USA, 2008

PhD Scholarship from McGill University, Canada, 2008

Bronze medal in T B TAK (The Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey)

Primary Education Mathematics Olympiads, 1997

Placed on METU s High Honor Roll for eight semesters in undergraduate and four

semesters in graduate education.

B lent Kerim Altay Award in 2001-2002 semester 1 and in 2003-2004 in semester 2

o B lent Kerim Altay Award: Given to students having a CPA of 4.00/4.00

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