Bulent Sankur

Bülent Sankur received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering at Robert College, Istanbul, and completed his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY, USA. He has been teaching at Boğaziçi University in the Department of Electric and Electronics Engineering. His research interests are in the areas of digital signal processing, image and video compression, biometry, cognition, and multimedia systems. He held visiting positions at University of Ottawa, Technical University of Delft, and Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, Paris. He was the Chairman of ICT96 (International Conference on Telecommunications) and of EUSIPCO05 (The European Conference on Signal Processing) as well as Technical Chairman of ICASSP00.

Biography Updated on 11 September 2006

Personal Home Page

http://www.busim.ee.boun.edu.tr/~sankur/

Articles in Scholarly Journals [Incomplete List]

  1. Natural language watermarking via morphosyntactic alterations
    Computer Speech & Language, vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 107–125, 2009
  2. Phase dependence mitigation for autocorrelation-based frequency estimation☆
    Digital Signal Processing, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 249–266, 2008
  3. Constraining the general linear model for sensible hemodynamic response function waveforms
    Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing, vol. 46, no. 8, pp. 779–787, 2008
  4. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B (Cybernetics), vol. 38, no. 1, pp. 155–173, 2008
  5. Density-Based 3D Shape Descriptors
    EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, vol. 2007, Article ID 32503, 16 pages, 2007
  6. Extraction of cognitive activity-related waveforms from functional near-infrared spectroscopy signals
    Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing, vol. 44, no. 11, pp. 945–958, 2006
  7. Detection of audio covert channels using statistical footprints of hidden messages?
    Digital Signal Processing, vol. 16, no. 4, pp. 389–401, 2006
  8. Hand biometrics
    Image and Vision Computing, vol. 24, no. 5, pp. 483–497, 2006
  9. Shape-Based Hand Recognition
    IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 15, no. 7, pp. 1803–1815, 2006
  10. Spatio–Temporal Transform Based Video Hashing
    IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol. 8, no. 6, pp. 1190–1208, 2006
  11. Image manipulation detection
    Journal of Electronic Imaging, vol. 15, no. 4, p. 041102, 2006
  12. Perceptual Audio Hashing Functions
    EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, vol. 2005, no. 12, pp. 1780–1793, 2005
  13. Image Steganalysis with Binary Similarity Measures
    EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, vol. 2005, no. 17, pp. 2749–2757, 2005
  14. Multiresolution face recognition
    Image and Vision Computing, vol. 23, no. 5, pp. 469–477, 2005
  15. Two-stage classification of respiratory sound patterns
    Computers in Biology and Medicine, vol. 35, no. 1, pp. 67–83, 2005
  16. Spectral Analysis of Event-Related Hemodynamic Responses in Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy
    Journal of Computational Neuroscience, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 67–83, 2005
  17. A Successively Refinable Lossless Image-Coding Algorithm
    IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 53, no. 3, pp. 445–452, 2005
  18. Improving the Payload of Watermarking Channels via LDPC Coding
    IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 90–92, 2004
  19. Generalized non-reducible descriptors
    Pattern Recognition, vol. 37, no. 9, pp. 1809–1815, 2004
  20. Feature selection in the independent component subspace for face recognition
    Pattern Recognition Letters, vol. 25, no. 12, pp. 1377–1388, 2004
  21. Performance Measures for Video Object Segmentation and Tracking
    IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 13, no. 7, pp. 937–951, 2004
  22. Survey over image thresholding techniques and quantitative performance evaluation
    Journal of Electronic Imaging, vol. 13, no. 1, p. 146, 2004
  23. Comparative evaluation of semifragile watermarking algorithms
    Journal of Electronic Imaging, vol. 13, no. 1, p. 209, 2004
  24. Video object tracking with feedback of performance measures
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 310–324, 2003
  25. Steganalysis using image quality metrics
    IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 221–229, 2003
  26. Subspace-based frequency estimation of sinusoidal signals in alpha-stable noise1
    Signal Processing, vol. 82, no. 12, pp. 1807–1827, 2002
  27. Image segmentation by relaxation using constraint satisfaction neural network
    Image and Vision Computing, vol. 20, no. 7, pp. 483–497, 2002
  28. Statistical evaluation of image quality measures
    Journal of Electronic Imaging, vol. 11, no. 2, p. 206, 2002
  29. A progressive Lossless/Near-Lossless image compression algorithm
    IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 9, no. 10, pp. 312–314, 2002
  30. Font clustering and cluster identification in document images
    Journal of Electronic Imaging, vol. 10, no. 2, p. 418, 2001
  31. Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 63–79, 2001
  32. Analyses of error correction strategies for typical communication channels in watermarking
    Signal Processing, vol. 81, no. 6, pp. 1239–1250, 2001
  33. Color image segmentation using histogram multithresholding and fusion
    Image and Vision Computing, vol. 19, no. 13, pp. 915–928, 2001
  34. A quadratic motion-based object-oriented video codec
    Signal Processing: Image Communication, vol. 15, no. 9, pp. 729–766, 2000
  35. Image segmentation based on multi-scan constraint satisfaction neural network*1
    Pattern Recognition Letters, vol. 20, no. 14, pp. 1553–1563, 1999
  36. Visual classification of medical data using MLP mapping
    Computers in Biology and Medicine, vol. 28, no. 3, pp. 275–287, 1998
  37. VQ-adaptive block transform coding of images
    IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 110–115, 1998
  38. Multidirectional and multiscale edge detection via M-band wavelet transform
    IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 5, no. 9, pp. 1370–1377, 1996
  39. Multiresolution biological transient extraction applied to respiratory crackles
    Computers in Biology and Medicine, vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 25–39, 1996
  40. Facial feature localization and adaptation of a generic face model for model-based coding
    Signal Processing: Image Communication, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 57–74, 1995
  41. Design and Performance Evaluation of Picture Archival and Communication Systems
    SIMULATION, vol. 64, no. 2, pp. 77–90, 1995
  42. Comparison of AR-based algorithms for respiratory sounds classification
    Computers in Biology and Medicine, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 67–76, 1994
  43. New efficient shuffled block transform design technique
    Electronics Letters, vol. 30, no. 11, p. 834, 1994
  44. Design of nonseparable 2-D linear phase filter banks via shuffling operations
    Electronics Letters, vol. 30, no. 11, p. 843, 1994
  45. Robust detection of tone signals by autoregressive frequency estimation
    Signal Processing, vol. 30, no. 3, pp. 271–277, 1993
  46. Two-layer coding for videotelephone
    Signal Processing: Image Communication, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 295–303, 1993
  47. Estimation of survivability of communication networks
    Electronics Letters, vol. 28, no. 19, p. 1790, 1992
  48. Properties of the maximum likelihood and pisarenko spectral estimates
    Signal Processing, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 401–413, 1985