Experience
· September 2007 -
Faculty member
Istanbul Technical University, Computer Engineering Department
Büyükdere Caddesi, Maslak, Istanbul
· September 2000 - September 2007
Faculty member
Işık University , Electronics Engineering Department
Kumbaba Mevkii, Sile,
Istanbul
· May 1998 – July 2000
Systems Architect
Toshiba America Electronic Components,Inc.
San Jose, California
· December 1996 - May 1998
Research Scientist
Toshiba America Consumer Products, Inc.
Princeton, New Jersey
Education
· Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, USA, December 1996
· M.S., Mathematics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, USA, May 1996
· M.S., Electrical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, USA, May 1993
· B.S., Electrical Engineering, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, July 1991
· High School Diploma, Istanbul American Robert College, Istanbul, Turkey, July 1987
· Ph.D.: “Advances in Variable Rate Vector Quantization,” thesis advisor Professor William A. Pearlman
· Master’s: “ Hierarchically Motion Compensated Image Sequence Coding with Tree Structured Vector Quantization,” thesis advisor Professor William A. Pearlman
SCI journal articles
Ulug Bayazit, Umut Konur, H.F. Ates, "3-D Mesh Geometry Compression With Set Partitioning In The Spectral Domain," submitted to IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology.
Ulug Bayazit, Ozgur Orcay, Umut Konur, Fikret S. Gurgen, "Predictive Vector Quantization of 3-D Mesh Geometry by Representation of Vertices in Local Coordinate Systems," Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, August 2007.
Ulug Bayazit, "Significance map pruning and other enhancements to SPIHT Image Coding Algorithm," EURASIP Signal Processing: Image Communication, vol. 18 pp. 769-785, October 2003.
Ulug Bayazit, "Classification based macroblock layer rate control for low delay transmission of H.263 video," Journal of Electronic Imaging, vol.12, pp. 499-510, July 2003.
Ulug Bayazıt, “Postprocessing of decoded color images by adaptive linear filtering,” EURASIP Signal Processing: Image Communication, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 91-101, February 2003.
Ulug Bayazıt and William A. Pearlman, “Variable length constrained storage tree-structured vector quantization,” IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 321-331, March 1999.
Ulug Bayazıt and William A. Pearlman, “Rate constrained block matching algorithm for video coding,” Journal of Electronic Imaging, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 145-154, January 1998.
International conference articles
· Ozgur Ozfidan, Ulug Bayazit, Hakan A. Cirpan, "Cluster Based Sensor Scheduling in a Target Tracking Application with Particle Filtering," 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics, June 4-7 2007.
· Ulug Bayazit, "Linear filtering of image subbands for low complexity postprocessing of decoded color images," Proc. of IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging '05, Image and Video Communications and Processing III, San Jose, California, January 2005.
· Ulug Bayazıt and William A. Pearlman, “Algorithmic Modifications to SPIHT”, Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, vol. 3, pp. 800-803, Thessaloniki, Greece, October 2001.
· Ulug Bayazıt, “Macroblock Data Classification and Nonlinear Bit Count Estimation for Low Delay H.263 Rate Control,” Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Kobe, Japan, October 1999.
· Ulug Bayazıt, Lenny Chen and Robert Rozploch, “A Novel Compression System for MPEG-2 decoders,” Proceedings International Conference on Consumer Electronics, Los Angeles, California, June 1998.
· Ulug Bayazıt and William A. Pearlman, “Rate Constrained Block Matching Algorithm,” Proceedings SPIE Conference on Visual Communications and Image Processing, San Jose, California, February 1997.
· Ulug Bayazıt and William A. Pearlman, “Variable Length Tree-Structured Subvector Quantization,” Proceedings SPIE Conference on Visual Communications and Image Processing, Orlando, Florida, March 1996.
· Ulug Bayazıt and William A. Pearlman, “Improving the Performance of Optimal Joint Decoding,” Proceedings International Conference on Image Processing, Washington D.C, October 1995.
· Ulug Bayazıt and William A. Pearlman, “Image Subband Coding Using an Information Theoretic Subband Splitting Criterion,” Proceedings SPIE Conference on Image Science and Technology, February 1995.
· Ulug Bayazıt and William A. Pearlman, “Hierarchical Image Sequence Coding with Tree-Structured Vector Quantization,” Proceedings SPIE Conference on Visual Communications and Image Processing, Boston, Massachusetts, November 1993.
National conference articles
Umut Konur, Ulug Bayazit, Fikret Gürgen and Özgür Orcay, “Spektral Yöntemler ve Küme Bölüntüleme Yaklaşımlarıyla 3B Nesne Bilgilerinin Sıkıştırılması,” SIU 2006, Turkish National Signal Processing and Communications Applications conference, Antalya, 2006.
Ugur Ayan, Ulug Bayazit and Fikret Gurgen, “Multipath querying of Turkish text databases with the best first search method,” TAINN 2004, Turkish Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks, İzmir, June 2004.
Ozgur Orcay, Umut Konur, Ulug Bayazıt and Fikret Gurgen, “Compression of 3-D Object Data with Vector Quantization Methods,” Turkish National Signal Processing and Communications Applications conference, Kusadasi, May 2004.
Ugur Ayan, Ulug Bayazıt and Fikret Gurgen, “Multipath querying of hierarchically tree-structured text databases,” Turkish National Signal Processing and Communications Applications conference, Kusadasi, May 2004.
Ulug Bayazit, “Linear Filtering for the enhancement of H.263 decoded color video,” Turkish National Signal Processing and Communications Applications conference, Koç University, Rumeli Feneri Kampusu, Istanbul, June 2003.
Serkan Kaya, Ulug Bayazıt and Fikret Gürgen, “Text document querying via hierarchical clustering of documents in vector spaces,” SIU Conference, Pamukkale, Denizli, June 2002.
Ulug Bayazit “Postprocessing of decoded color images with adaptive linear filtering,” SIU Conference, Pamukkale, Denizli, June 2002.
Refereeing for SCI journals
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
SPIE Journal of Electronic Imaging
Elsevier Journal of Visual Communication and
EURASIP Signal Processing: Image Communication
Theses supervision
M.S. Thesis Advisor: Ozgur Ozfidan, “Cluster Based Sensor Scheduling in a Target Tracking Application with Particle Filtering Method”, Işık University Electronics Engineering Department.
M.S. ThesisCo-advisor: Ozgur Orcay, “3-D Object Mesh Geometry Compression with Vector Quantization,” coadvisor with Prof. Fikret Gurgen as advisor, Bogazici University Systems and Control Program, 2004.
M.S. Thesis Co-advisor: Serkan Kaya, “Text document querying via hierarchical clustering of documents in vector spaces,” Bogazici University Systems Control Engineering graduate program, 2002.
Patents
· Ulug Bayazıt and Mikhail Tsinberg, “Method and System for Pixel Interpolation,” for Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Kawasaki, JP), US Patent # 6,094,232, June 25, 2000.
Awards/prizes
· IS&T – SPIE Conference on Visual Communications, best student paper award, February 1997.
· Allen B. Dumont graduate prize, Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering Department, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, May 1997.
Other academical activities
SPIE Visual Communications and Image Processing 2008 program committee member.
Isik University Engineering Faculty administration committee member 2001-2007.
SIU 2003 national conference technical committee member.
Scientific meeting organization
· SIU 2002 national conference technical committee chair and organization committee member..
Research interests
· Information theory and source coding with applications to image, video, graphics and text compression.
· Image and video processing
National and international conferences and meetings attended
·
2005
IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging conference
· 1995, 1997 and 2001 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing conference
· 1993, 1996, 1997 SPIE Visual Communications and Image Processing conference
· 2002 SIU national conference
· NCITS-L3, 1 ISO/IEC SC-29 WG-11 MPEG meetings
Professional memberships
· The International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE), member, November 1993- December 1997.
· The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), student member, Ocak 1991- December 1996.
· The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), member, December 1996 -
· National Committee for Information Technology Standards (NCITS-L3, US National Body of MPEG), January 1997 - June 1998.