Sibel Tari, Professor (Email: stari[at]metu[dot]edu[dot]tr) Computer Engineering Department Middle East Technical Univ.			TEACHING (2003-2007) CENG 382 Dynamic Systems with Feedback CENG 483 Introduction to Computer Vision CENG 583 Computational Vision CENG 566 Image Processing (1998-2003) CENG 373 Operational Mathematics ES 303 Statistical Methods (at Dept. Eng. Science) ES 305 Numerical Methods ES 509 PDE's in Comp. Vision and Image Proc.

	PUBLICATIONS and RESEARH	PROJECTS	STUDENTS	DEVIN My Son
	PUBLICATIONS and RESEARCH
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	My research interest is in cognitive and computational aspects of computer vision and image processing, focusing on partial differential equations, variational methods and axis morphology.
	DEGREES
	BS in Computer Science Enginering, Hacettepe University, 1989 PhD in Computer Vision (Interdisciplinary Degree), Northeastern University, 1997 Advisor: Jayant Shah Docent Degree in Theoretical Foundations of Computer Science, 2000
	PROJECTS
	(2005-2008) Incorporation of Prior and Contextual Information into Computer Vision - TUBITAK Support link (temporarily unavailable) (2008-2010) Analysis of Visual Thinking and Design - TUBITAK Support (joint with Dr. M. Ozkar) link (temporarily unavailable)
	Older Projects (1994-2003)
	Connection Between Stochastic and Deterministic Methods for Diffusion Filtering (DAAD support - with Joachim Weickert) Unstructured Mesh Generation Using Local Symmetry Information (METU Research Fund) Fingerprint Analysis (TRW Support PI: Prof. P. Liang of Univ. California) Anatomic Morphometric Segmentation of Brain Images (NIH Support PI: Prof. D. Kennedy of Harvard Medical School) Part of Human Brain Project Theoretical Framework for Sensor Data Fusion (ARPA Support PI: Prof. M. Kokar of Northeastern University)
	SELECTED SEMINARS
	Symmetry Detection in Dense Images and Related Variational Problems Algorithmic Mathematics Group at TUM, Aug 2001, Local Symmetries in Arbitrary Dimensions (joint work with J. Shah) MIA Group, Saarland University, Aug 2003 Disconnected Skeletons and Articulation Priors for Generic Shape Recognition Brown University, Nov 2005 Contextual and Top-down Effects in Early Vision Human Vision Seminar, Informatics Institute, METU, March 2007
	STUDENTS
	Cagri Aslan, 2003-2005 Current Position : Microsoft Corp. Seattle, WA MS Thesis: DISCONNECTED SKELETON, May 2005 pdf thesis Emre Baseski, 2004-2006 Current Position: MMM Institute, Cognitive Vision Group link MS Thesis: CONTEXT SENSITIVE MATCHING OF SKELETAL TREES, June 2006 Aysun Sancar, 2005-2007 MS Thesis: EDGE PRESERVING SMOOTHING WITH DIRECTIONAL CONSISTENCY, May 2007 Sezen Erdem, 2005-2007 MS Thesis: MOTION ANALYSIS VIA AXIS BASED REPRESENTATION, Sep 2007 Ongoing Phd Students Aykut Erdem, 2004- Erkut Erdem, 2004- Hacer Yalim , 2007-
	MIND: Mathematical Imaging Non-linear Diffusion
	MIND Group is conducting research in Mathematical Imaging and Nonlinear Diffusion. MIND was initially formed under the Department of Engineering Sciences at Middle East Technical University. After Sibel Tari's move to the Department of Computer Engineering, MIND continued as a group of students conducting MS and PhD studies under her supervision. All members of the group are affiliated with the Image Processing and Pattern Recognition Laboratory. Mind Page is under construction. Pls visit later.