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Volkan Cevher |
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Experience
University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland Jan. 06 – Present Research Associate with Rama Chellappa • Brain-computer interface problems. Application of particle filters for decoding motor cortical signals to estimate hand velocities from MEG and EEG data • Taught Statistical and Neural Pattern Recognition class (ENEE 633) at UMD (Fall 07) • Associate-PI with Dr. Rama Chellappa on ARL-CTA project (FY07- $265K) • Associate-PI with Dr. James McClellan on ARL-CTA project • Co-PI with Dr. Randy Moses (OSU) on ARL-XCTA project: Decentralized ISR and Communications for Wireless Sensor Networks (FY06- $250K) • Multi modal, multi sensor fusion for detection, classification and tracking of humans and vehicles, human activity modeling and anomaly detection, terrain drop detection using hyperstreo
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia Jan. 05 – Dec. 05 Post-Doctoral Research Fellow with James H. McClellan • Distributed multi-sensor and multi-modal (radar, acoustic, and video) autonomous target tracking algorithms, border crossing problems, and constrained target tracking for ARL CTA • Advanced Sensors CTA field test participation: organized test runs and sensor placements, set up acoustic arrays, and on-site processed field acoustic data • Guest Lecturer: ECE6279 Spatial Array Processing, Spring 2005 • Localization of multiple subsurface targets using mobile sensors and the theory of optimal experiments • Supervision of graduate students. R. Velmurugan: particle filters and their low-power analog hardware implementations. M. Borkar: distributed sensor network problems. M. Alam: localization of subsurface targets using optimal maneuvers. Y.S. Lee: multi-modal videoconferencing
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia Aug. 00 – Dec. 04 Research Assistant with James H. McClellan • Advanced Sensors CTA (Microsensors Technical Area) sponsored by ARL • Monte-Carlo Markov chain methods, particle filters, and Bayesian estimation problems • Array signal processing problems such as target localization, array calibration and statistical models for passive arrays • General tracking problems using particle filters and extended Kalman filters with acoustic and image observations • Sensitivity analysis of estimators under random perturbations of the parameters • Applications of the fractional Fourier transform on Radar and Medical imaging problems • Active contours using the Mumford-Shah functional and level set methods
Schlumberger Doll Research, Ridgefield, Connecticut May 03 – Aug. 03 Intern with Smaine Zeroug and Sandip Bose • Application of the conditional density propagation algorithm (CONDENSATION) to the Flexural Wave Imaging problem • Monte-Carlo Markov chain initialization of the CONDENSATION algorithm
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia Aug. 99 – June 00 Teaching Assistant with James H. McClellan and Ronald W. Schafer • Teaching assistant for ECE2025 (DSP FIRST) class
Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey Oct. 98 – May 99 Research/Teaching Assistant with Orhan Arikan, Haldun Ozaktas, and Abdullah Atalar • Time-frequency distributions, fractional Fourier transform, and linear canonical transforms • Atomic Force Microscopy Project (a joint project with Stanford University): designed an instrumentation amplifier and photo-sensor arrays using .33mm device technology • Design and implementation of an EKG machine, its PC interface, and its waveform plotter software (group project for EE212 Microprocessors) • Teaching assistant for MATH250 (Linear Algebra) class
Koc-Unisys, Ankara, Turkey June 97/98 – Aug. 97/98 Intern with Irfan Keskin • Design and implementation of WANs and LANs and network support for a call center
Selected Publications
Journal: [1] V. Cevher, R. Velmurugan, and J. H. McClellan, “Acoustic multi target tracking using direction-of-arrival batches,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 55, no. 6, pp. 2810-2825, June 2007. [2] V. Cevher, A. Sankaranarayanan, J. H. McClellan, and R. Chellappa, “Target tracking using a joint acoustic video system,” IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 715-727, June 2007. [3] M. Alam, V. Cevher, and J. H. McClellan, G. D. Larson, and W. R. Scott Jr. “Optimal maneuvering of seismic sensors for localization of subsurface targets,” IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 45, no. 5, pp. 1247-1257, May 2007. [4] M. Borkar, V. Cevher, and J. H. McClellan, “Decentralized State Initialization with Delay Compensation for Multi-modal Sensor Networks,” to appear in Journal of VLSI Signal Processing Systems. invited paper [5] M. Borkar, V. Cevher, and J. H. McClellan, “Low computation and low latency algorithms for distributed sensor network initialization,” Signal, Image and Video Processing (Springer), vol. 1, no.2, pp 133-148, June 2007. [6] V. Cevher and J. H. McClellan, “Acoustic node calibration using moving sources,” IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, vol. 42, no. 2, pp 585-600, April 2006. [7] V. Cevher and J.H. McClellan, “General direction-of-arrival tracking with acoustic nodes,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 53, no. 1, pp. 1-12, January 2005.
Conference: [1] V. Cevher, R. Chellappa, and J. H. McClellan, “Gaussian approximations for energy-based detection and localization in sensor networks,” IEEE Statistical Signal Processing Workshop, Madison, WI, 26-29 August 2007. invited paper [2] R. Velmurugan, V. Cevher, and J. H. McClellan, “Implementation of batch-based particle filters for multi-sensor tracking,” IEEE CAMSAP 2007, U.S. Virgin Islands, 12-14 December 2007. invited paper [3] R. Velmurugan, S. Subramanian, V. Cevher, J. H. McClellan, and D. V. Anderson “Mixed-mode implementation of particle filters,” IEEE PACRIM 2007, Victoria, B.C., CA, 22-24 August 2007. [4] V. Cevher, R. Chellappa, and J. H. McClellan, “Joint acoustic-video fingerprinting of vehicles, part I,” ICASSP 2007, Honolulu, Hawaii, 16-20 April 2007. [5] V. Cevher, F. Guo, A. C. Sankaranarayanan, and R. Chellappa, “Joint acoustic-video fingerprinting of vehicles, part II,” ICASSP 2007, Honolulu, Hawaii, 16-20 April 2007. [6] V. Cevher, F. Shah, R. Velmurugan, and J. H. McClellan, “An acoustic multi-target tracking system using random sampling consensus,” 2007 IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, Montana, 3-10 March 2007. invited paper [7] M. Borkar, V. Cevher, and J. H. McClellan, “A Monte-Carlo approach for tracking mobile personnel,” 2007 IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, Montana, 3-10 March 2007. invited paper [8] L. Kaplan and V. Cevher, “Design considerations for heterogeneous network of bearings-only sensors using sensor management,” 2007 IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, Montana, 3-10 March 2007. [9] S. Ozgur, V. Cevher, D. B. Williams, and J. H. McClellan, “Convergence Analysis for Sequential Monte Carlo Receivers in Communications Applications,” IEEE DSP Workshop 2006, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, September 24-27, 2006. [10] V. Cevher, M. Borkar, and J. H. McClellan, “A joint radar-acoustic particle filter tracker with acoustic propagation delay compensation,” EUSIPCO 2006, Florence, Italy, 4-8 September 2006. invited paper [11] R. Velmurugan, S. Subramanian, V. Cevher, D. Abramson, K. M. Odame, J. D. Gray, H.-J. Lo, J. H. McClellan, and D. V. Anderson “On low-power analog implementations of particle filters for target tracking,” EUSIPCO 2006, Florence, Italy, 4-8 September 2006. invited paper [12] V. Cevher, R. Velmurugan, and J. H. McClellan, “A particle filter range tracker,” ICASSP 2006, Toulouse, France, 15-19 May 2006. [13] M. Alam, V. Cevher, and J. H. McClellan, “Optimal experiments with seismic sensors,” ICASSP 2006, Toulouse, France, 15-19 May 2006. [14] M. Borkar, V. Cevher, and J. H. McClellan, “A Monte-Carlo method for initializing distributed tracking algorithms,” ICASSP 2006, Toulouse, France, 15-19 May 2006. [15] V. Cevher, R. Velmurugan, and J. H. McClellan, “Multi target direction-of-arrival tracking using road priors,” 2006 IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, Montana, 4-11 March 2006. invited paper [16] V. Cevher and J. H. McClellan, “An acoustic multiple target tracker,” 2005 IEEE Statistical Signal Processing Conference, Bordeaux, France, 17-20 July 2005. [17] M. Borkar, V. Cevher, and J. H. McClellan, “Estimating target state distributions in a distributed sensor network using a Monte-Carlo approach,” 2005 IEEE Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing, Mystic, Connecticut, 28-30 September 2005. [18] G. Qian, V. Cevher, A. Sankaranarayanan, J. H. McClellan, and R. Chellappa, “Vehicle tracking using acoustic and video sensors,” in Army Science Conference 2004, Orlando, 29 November-2 December 2004. [19] V. Cevher and J. H. McClellan, “Proposal strategies for joint state-space tracking with particle filters,” ICASSP 2005, Philadelphia, PA, 18-23 March 2005. [20] V. Cevher and J. H. McClellan, “Acoustic node calibration using helicopter sounds and Monte Carlo Markov chain methods,” IEEE DSP Workshop, Taos Ski Valley, NM, 1-4 August 2004. [21] V. Cevher and J. H. McClellan, “Fast initialization of particle filters using a modified Metropolis-Hastings algorithm: Mode-Hungry approach,” ICASSP 2004, Montreal, CA, 17-21 May 2004. [22] V. Cevher and J. H. McClellan, “Tracking of multiple wideband targets using passive sensor arrays and particle filters,” IEEE DSP Workshop, Callaway Gardens, GA, 13-16 October 2002. [23] V. Cevher and J. H. McClellan, “2-D sensor perturbation analysis: equivalence to AWGN on array outputs,” SAM 2002 Workshop, WDC, 4-6 August 2002. [24] V. Cevher and J. H. McClellan, “Sensor array calibration via tracking with the extended Kalman filter,” ICASSP 2001, vol. 5, pp. 2817-2820, Salt Lake City, UT, May 2001. [25] R. M. Dansereau, W. Kinsner, and V. Cevher, “Wavelet packet best basis search using generalized Renyi entropy,” IEEE CCECE 2002, vol. 2, pp. 1005-1008.
Under Review/Submitted: [1] V. Cevher, L. Kaplan, and R. Chellappa, “Acoustic sensor network design for position estimation” submitted to ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks. (JNL) [2] V. Cevher, R. Chellappa, and J. H. McClellan, “Vehicle speed estimation using acoustic wave patterns,” submitted to IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. (JNL)
Invited Talks
• Designs of Sensor Networks and Algorithms for Multi Modal Target Tracking and Classification · Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 7 June 2007. · UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 9 April 2007. · University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 19 March 2007. · U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD, 23 January 2007. • Target tracking using a joint acoustic-video system, NATO Symposium, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 9 October 2006. • On the Acoustic and Video Modalities, Virginia Tech, VA, 24 July 2006. • Sequential Monte-Carlo Markov Chain Methods for Visual Tracking using a Robust Online Appearance Model, McMaster University, CA, 9 August 2004.
Awards
• Center for Signal and Image Processing Outstanding Research Award (Fall 2004) at Georgia Institute of Technology • Bilkent University 1999 valedictorian • Awarded full scholarship (tuition and stipend) by Bilkent University (1994) and Georgia Institute of Technology (1999) • Ranked 40th in the national university entrance exam (Literature/Science/Math) in Turkey among all the entrants in 1994 (approximately a million students)
Teaching Interests
• My teaching mostly focuses on graduate level classes that are tied with my research: · Pattern Recognition and Neural Networks · Detection and Estimation Theory · Image Understanding · Graphical Models and Variational Inference · Statistical Signal Processing · Spatial Array Processing · Monte-Carlo Sampling Methods and Particle Filters · Advanced Signal Processing · Telecommunications
Funding
• Awarded $125K (ARL-CTA) for FY07. • Awarded $125K (ARL-XCTA) for FY06.
Technical Skills
Programming: Pascal, Delphi, Assembler, object oriented programming, C and C++ Engineering Software: MATLAB (expert), Spice, MathCAD, Maple, MAGIC Platforms: UNIX–Solaris, Linux, MS–DOS, WINDOWS
Activities
• Publicity Chair, IEEE Conference on Image Processing 2008, San Diego, CA • Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) • Secretary of the Turkish student organization (2002-2003) in Georgia Institute of Technology • Reviewer for · IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation · IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems · IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security · IEEE Signal Processing Letters · IEEE International Conference on Image Processing · European Signal Processing Conference · Springer Special Issue on Multi Sensor Object Detection and Tracking · ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras
References
Prof. James H. McClellan School of Elect. and Computer Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology 777 Atlantic Drive Atlanta, GA 30332-0250 Phone: 404-894 8325 Fax: 404-894 8363 E-mail: jim.mcclellan@ece.gatech.edu
Prof. Rama Chellappa Director, Center for Automation Research 4411 AV Williams Building #115 University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 Phone: 301-405 3656 Fax: 301-314 9115 E-mail: rama@cfar.umd.edu
Dr. Lance M. Kaplan ATTN:
AMSRD-ARL-SE-SE Dr. Aaron Lanterman School of Elect. and Computer Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology 777 Atlantic Drive Atlanta, GA 30332-0250 Phone: 404-385 2548 Fax: 404-894 8363 E-mail: lanterma@ece.gatech.edu
Prof. Monson H. Hayes III School of Elect. and Computer Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology 777 Atlantic Drive Atlanta, GA 30332-0250 Phone: 404-894 2958 Fax: 404-894 8363 E-mail: mhh3@ece.gatech.edu
Gail Palmer School of Elect. and Computer Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology 777 Atlantic Drive Atlanta, GA 30332-0250 Phone: 404-894 0630 Fax: 404-894 8363 E-mail: gail.palmer@ece.gatech.edu |