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Semih Dinc

Email:
Address: Multimedia Lab in Room S305
300 Technology Hall University of Alabama at Huntsville
Huntsville AL USA 35899

I am a graduate teaching assistant at Computer Science Department, University of Alabama in Huntsville since 2013. My research areas are computer vision, image processing, pattern recognition. My current study is generating 3D models of real objects using MS Kinect camera system.

Education

University of Alabama in Huntsville

Ph.D. Computer Science [2013-Now]
GPA - / 4

University of Alabama in Huntsville

M.Sc. Computer Science [2012-2013]
GPA 3.50 / 4

Yildiz Technical University

M.Sc. Control and Automation Engineering [2007-2012]
GPA 3.67 / 4

Dokuz Eylul University

B.Sc. Computer Science [2004-2009]
GPA 2.56 / 4

Experience

Graduate Teaching Assistant

[2013-Now] University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA
  • CS309 Switching Theory
  • CS413 Introduction to Digital Computer Design

Graduate Research Assistant

[2012-2013] University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA

Visiting Researcher

[02/2011-05/2011] Biomedical Engineering, University of North Carolina, NC, USA

Project Researcher

[2011-2012] Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul, TURKEY
  • Project Researcher, Design and Implementation of Performance Monitoring System (PERIDSIS)

Graduate Research Assistant

[2009-2011] Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul, TURKEY

Achievements

2004 First Rank at the university exam in Dilovasi, Kocaeli, TURKEY

1999 - 2009 Yasar Holding Company "Succesful Student" Scholarship, TURKEY

Research Areas
  • Computer Vision
    • Robotics, 3D Model Reconstruction, Target Detection and Tracking
  • Pattern Recognition
  • Machine Learning
  • Image Processing
Computer Skills

Programming Languages

  • MATLAB
  • C#
  • JAVA
  • C/C++
Certificates
  • GRE CBT General, 1090 (Quantitive:780/800 Verbal:310/800) [07/2011]
  • TOEFL IBT Score, 82 (R:20 L:22 S:19 W:21), [05/2011]
  • Dokuz Eylul University English certificate [2004]
Hobbies
  • 3D Modelling
  • Origami
  • Basketball
References

Assoc. Prof. Ramazan S. Aygun (Ph.D. Advisor)
Department of Computer Science, University of Alabama Huntsville, AL, USA
+1(256) 824-6455
raygun@cs.uah.edu

Assoc. Prof. Abdullah Bal (M.Sc. Advisor)
Department of Electronic & Communication Engineering, Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul, TURKEY
+90(212)383-2455
bal@yildiz.edu.tr

Assoc. Prof. Oleg Favorov (Visitor Advisor)
Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
+1(919)966-5768
favorov@bme.unc.edu

Publications

Thesis

[M. Sc.] Semih Dinc, "Hyperspectral Target Recognition Using Multiclass Kernel Fukunaga-Koontz Transform" , Yildiz Technical University, Institute of Science, Istanbul, TURKEY, August 2011

[B. Sc.] Semih Dinc, "Ontology Based Multimedia Annotation & Retrieval Tool" , Dokuz Eylul University, Department of Computer Science, Izmir, TURKEY, July 2009

Journal Articles

[1] Semih Dinc, Farbod Fahimi, Ramazan S. Aygun, "Vision Based 3D Euclidean Pose Error Computation without 3D Object Localization for Trajectory Tracking" , Autonomous Robots, (Submitted)

[2] Semih Dinc, Abdullah Bal, "Hyperspectral Image Classification using Kernel Fukunaga-Koontz Transform" , Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Vol. 2013, 7 pages, 2013

Conferences

[1] Semih Dinc, Madhav Sigdel, Imren Dinc, Madhu S. Sigdel, Farbod Fahimi, Ramazan S. Aygun, "Depth-Color Image Registration for 3D Surface Texture Construction using Kinect Camera System" , IEEE SoutheastCon 2014, March 2014, (Accepted)

[2] Imren Dinc, Madhav Sigdel, Semih Dinc, Madhu S. Sigdel, Marc L. Pusey, Ramazan S. Aygun, "Evaluation of Normalization and PCA on the Performance of Classifiers for Protein Crystallization Images" , IEEE SoutheastCon 2014, March 2014

[3] Madhu S. Sigdel, Madhav Sigdel, Semih Dinc, Imren Dinc, Marc L. Pusey, Ramazan S. Aygun, "Autofocusing for Microscopic Images using Harris Corner Response Measure" , IEEE SoutheastCon 2014, March 2014

[4] Madhav Sigdel, Imren Dinc, Madhu S. Sigdel, Semih Dinc, Marc L. Pusey, Ramazan S. Aygun, "Evaluation of Semi-supervised Learning for Classification of Protein Crystallization Imagery" , IEEE SoutheastCon 2014, March 2014

[5] Semih Dinc, Farbod Fahimi, Ramazan S. Aygun, "Vision-Based Trajectory Tracking Approach for Mobile Platforms in 3D World Using 2D Image Space" ,IMECE 2013, San Diego, CA, USA, November 2013

[6] Semih Dinc, Ramazan S. Aygun, "Evaluation of Hyperspectral Image Classification using Random Forest and Fukunaga-Koontz Transform" ,MLDM 2013, New York, NJ, USA, July 2013

[7] Hamidullah Binol, Semih Dinc, Abdullah Bal, "Classification on Hyperspectral Images using Enhanced Covariance Descriptors" ,20th National Conference on Signal Processing and Communications Applications , Mugla, TURKEY, April 2012

[8] Semih Dinc, Abdullah Bal, "A statistical approach for multi-class target detection" ,20th National Conference on Signal Processing and Communications Applications , Complex Adaptive Systems Chicago, Illinois, USA, November 2011

[9] Semih Dinc, Ugur Ayan, Abdullah Bal, "Gene Classification using Appropriate Feature Selection Method and Fukunaga-Koontz Transform Kernel" ,6th National Conference On Electrical And Electronics Engineering Bursa, TURKEY, December 2010

[10] Semih Dinc, Abdullah Bal, "Detection of Product Surface Defects by Learnable Transform Filters" ,18th National Conference on Signal Processing and Communications Applications, Diyarbakir, TURKEY, April 2010