PROJECTS

Completed Projects

  • Tangible Intelligent Interfaces for Teaching Computational Thinking Skills, Scientific & Technological Research Council of Turkey, High Priority Areas R&D Program, (Principal Investigator, Koç University), 2019 – 2021, 1003S
  • Backchannel Feedback Modeling for Human-Computer Interaction ( E.Erzin, Y. Yemez, T.M. Sezgin). Funded by Scientific & Technological Research Council of Turkey, 2018-2020
  • JOKER
    European Commission ERA-NET Program, 2013-2017 The JOKER project will build and develop a generic intelligent user interface providing a multimodal dialogue system with social communication skills including humor, empathy, compassion, charm, and other informal socially-oriented behavior.
  • iMotion
    European Commission ERA-NET Program, 2013-2017 The IMOTION project will develop and evaluate innovative multi-modal user interfaces for interacting with augmented videos. Starting with an extension of existing query paradigms (keyword search in manual annotations), image search (query by example in key frames), IMOTION will consider novel sketch- and speech-based user interfaces.
  • ASC-Inclusion (Sponsored by the European Commission) 2011-2014.

The main goal of this project is to develop a computer software program that will assist children with Autism Spectrum Conditions (ASC) to understand and express emotions through facial expressions, tone-of-voice and body gestures.This software will assist them to understand and interact with other people, and as a result, will increase their inclusion in society. Academic partners include University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, Technische Universität München, Germany, Bar Ilan University, Israel, Koç University, Turkey, and Università degli Studi di Genova, Italy.

  • Intelligent Interfaces for eLearning
    Scientific & Technological Research Council of Turkey, 2013-2016.

The goal of this project is to build the pen-based interfaces for the classroom of the future, and it is funded under the National Priority Areas R&D Program of the Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK). The scope of the project is not public at the moment. Contact Dr. Sezgin for details.

  • Semi-supervised Intelligent Multimodal Content Translator for Smart TVs
    SANTEZ Programme, Ministry of Science, Industry, and Technology, Turkey 2012-2014

TVs are slowly morphing into powerful set-top computers with internet connections. As such, they slowly assume role of take over roles and functions that were traditionally associated with desktop computers. TV users, for example, can use their TV for browsing the internet. Unfortunately, the vast majority of the content in the internet has been designed for desktop viewing, hence they have to be adapted for viewing on a TV. In this Project, we aim to develop a semi-automatic content retargeting system, which is expected to work with minimal intervention of an expert.

  • Gesture-Based Interfaces
    Koç Sistem R&D Programme, 2011-2013
  • Pen-based Multimodal Intelligent User Interfaces
    Career Grant, Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, 2011-2014
  • Educational Sketch-Based Intelligent Interfaces
    Turk Telekom R&D Programme, 2010-2013
  • Interactive Intelligent Sketching Board
    KOLT Teaching Innovation Grant, 2010-2011
  • Deep Green: Commander’s Associate
    DARPA/BAE/SIFT (British Aerospace/Smart Information Flow Technologies), 2008-2009
  • Deep Green: Commander’s Associate
    DARPA/SAIC (Science Applications International Corporation), 2008-2009

Non-Sponsored Research Projects

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