Research Interests
- Computer vision
- Video analysis
- Human action recognition
Publications
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G. Varol, A. A. Salah, "Efficient large-scale action recognition in videos using extreme learning machines," Expert Systems with Applications, Volume 42, Issue 21, 2015.
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G. Varol, A. A. Salah, "Extreme learning machine for large-scale action recognition," ECCV Workshop on Action Recognition with a Large Number of Classes, Zurich, September 2014. (3rd place in Thumos challenge) [pdf] [slides] [video of the talk]
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G. Varol, R. S. Kuzu, "Toward retail product recognition on grocery shelves," International Conference on Image, Vision and Computing, Paris, September 2014. (best presentation award) [pdf] [slides] gul.varol
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M. Koutsombogera, S. Al Moubayed, B. Bollepalli, A. Hussen-Abdelaziz, M. Johansson, J. D. Lopes, J. Novikova, C. Oertel, K. Stefanov, G. Varol, "The Tutorbot Corpus - A corpus for studying tutoring behavior in multiparty face-to-face spoken dialogue," International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), Reykjavik, May 2014. [pdf]
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G. Varol, R. S. Kuzu, Y. S. Akgül, "Rafta ürün diziliminin görüntü işleme ile tespiti (Product placement detection based on image processing)," 22nd IEEE Conference on Signal Processing and Communications Applications (SİU), Trabzon, April 2014. [pdf]
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S. Al Moubayed, J. Beskow, B. Bollepalli, J. Gustafson, A. Hussen-Abdelaziz, M. Johansson, M. Koutsombogera, J. D. Lopes, J. Novikova, C. Oertel, G. Skantze, K. Stefanov, G. Varol, "Human-robot collaborative tutoring using multiparty multimodal spoken dialogue," 9th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), Bielefeld, March 2014. [pdf]
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M. E. Buruş, R. S. Kuzu, S. Beyazıt, G. Varol, "Market raflarında dönüşüm ve ölçeklendirmeye dayanıklı nesne tanıma," Akademik Bilişim, Mersin, February 2014.
- S. Al Moubayed, J. Beskow, B. Bollepalli, A. Hussen-Abdelaziz, M. Johansson, M. Koutsombogera, J. D. Lopes, J. Novikova, C. Oertel, G. Skantze, K. Stefanov, G. Varol, "Tutoring robots-Multiparty multimodal social dialogue with an embodied tutor," Innovative and Creative Developments in Multimodal Interaction Systems. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer, 2014. Vol. 425, pp. 80-113. [pdf]
MS Thesis
- G. Varol, "Efficient action and event recognition in videos using extreme learning machines," Master's thesis, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, March 2015. [pdf]