Aybora Köksal

I recently received my Master's degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department of Middle East Technical University (METU), where I was co-advised by Prof. Dr. A. Aydin Alatan and Dr. Kutalmis Gokalp Ince, and I am affiliated with the Center for Image Analysis. I had received my two BSc degrees in the EEE and Mathematics departments of METU, with high honors.

I'm interested in computer vision, machine learning and image processing. Most of my research is about supervised learning, object detection and tracking. My Master's Thesis work focuses on moving object detection and semi-supervised automated annotation methods.

aybora at metu dot edu dot tr

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Education

MSc in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 2021
Middle East Technical University (METU) (GPA:3.71/4.00) Thesis

BSc in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 2017
Middle East Technical University (METU) (GPA:3.55/4.00)

Double Major in Mathematics, 2018
Middle East Technical University (METU) (GPA:3.06/4.00)

Research

Please check my Google Scholar page for my complete and up-to-date list of publications.

Improved Hard Example Mining Approach for Single Shot Object Detectors
Aybora Koksal, Onder Tuzcuoglu, Kutalmis Gokalp Ince, Yoldas Ataseven, A. Aydin Alatan
ICIP, 2022
arXiv / video / code

In this work, two existing hard example mining approaches (LRM and focal loss, FL) are adapted and combined in a state-of-the-art real-time object detector, YOLOv5.

Semi-Automatic Annotation For Visual Object Tracking
Kutalmis Gokalp Ince, Aybora Koksal, Arda Fazla, A. Aydin Alatan
ICCV Workshops, 2021
arXiv / code

We propose a semi-automatic bounding box annotation method for visual object tracking by utilizing temporal information with a tracking-by-detection approach.

Effect of Annotation Errors on Drone Detection with YOLOv3
Aybora Koksal, Kutalmis Gokalp Ince, A. Aydin Alatan
CVPR Workshops, 2020
arXiv / video / code

In this work, different types of annotation errors for object detection problem are simulated and the performance of a popular state-of-the-art object detector, YOLOv3, with erroneous annotations during training and testing stages is examined.

Teaching
Teaching Assistant, EE230, Probability and Random Variables, Spring 2021

Teaching Assistant, EE449, Computational Intelligence, Spring 2021

Teaching Assistant, EE430, Digital Signal Processing, Fall 2020

Teaching Assistant, EE499, Vector Space Methods in Signal Processing, Fall 2020

Teaching Assistant, EE583, Pattern Recognition, Fall 2020

Teaching Assistant, EE214, Electronic Circuits Laboratory, Spring 2020

Shoutout to Jon Barron for the template.