0. External Site Links

You can access my Google Scholar profile using this link.
You can access my ORCID record using this link, and my DBLP author page using this link.
You can access my GitHub profile using this link, and my LinkedIn profile using this link.
You can email me using furkan.kirac at ozyegin.edu.tr, or kiracmus at boun.edu.tr.

1. Education

2. Academic Interests

Research Interests:

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    Machine Learning (Deep Learning)
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    Computer Vision

Teaching Interests:

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    Machine Learning (Deep Learning)
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    Computer Vision
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    Programming Languages and Software Engineering
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    Embedded Programming

Courses Assisted in Boğaziçi University:

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    CMPE537, Computer Vision, Fall 2009, assistant of Prof. Dr. Lale Akarun
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    CMPE150, Introduction to Computing, Spring 2012, assistant of Prof. Dr. Lale Akarun

Courses Taught in Özyeğin University:

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    CS321 - Programming Languages (Fall 2018 – Fall 2025, every fall term) [Course Repos]
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    CS409/509 - Advanced C++ Programming (Spring 2017 – Spring 2026, most spring terms) [Course Repos]
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    CS423/523 - Computer Vision (Fall 2014, Fall 2015, Fall 2016, Fall 2017)
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    CS466/566 - Introduction to Deep Learning (Spring 2016)
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    CS394 - Android Application Programming (Spring 2014, Spring 2015)
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    CS101 - Introduction to Computing (Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Fall 2014, Fall 2015)
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    CS102 - Object Oriented Programming (Fall 2012, Fall 2013, Spring 2014)
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    CS509-Vestel - Advanced C++ Programming (Spring 2018, Spring 2019)
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    CS523-Vestel - Computer Vision (Fall 2017)
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    CS577-Vestel - Android Application Programming (Spring 2014, Spring 2016)

3. Experience

4. Awards and Achievements

  • 2022
    Kaggle Award, ML Reproducibility Challenge 2022 — selected among the best 25 reports.
    Team: Mert Erkol, Barış Özcan, Osman Furkan Kınlı; adviser.
  • 2012
    3rd place in best demo award, SIU 2012, Muğla, Turkey.
  • 2012
    Best application paper award, SIU 2012, Muğla, Turkey.
  • 2008
    Programmed the first Computer Vision based Gas Filling Automation System.
    Used for automatic filling of gas tanks for a major Turkish energy company.
  • 2006
    Ported the tire design software INFMT/G from Fortran’77 VAX to today’s PCs.
    The code is actively being used for tire development in BRISA.
  • 2005
    2nd place in best paper award, SIU 2005, Kayseri, Turkey.
  • 2004
    Programmed the first Computer Vision based Filling Quality Control Automation System.
    Software is currently being used in BP Gas at Yarimca, Turkey.
  • 2003
    Programmed the first Turkish License Plate Recognition Software Platasis.
    Software is currently being used widely in Turkey.
  • 2001
    Programmed fluid mechanics airflow simulator AIRSIM for a major Turkish brand Arçelik.
    Simulator has been used in the research phase of “Orbital” series refrigerators.
  • 1995
    Represented Turkey in 1995 London International Youth Science Forum.
    Sponsored by British Council.
  • 1995
    2nd degree in National High School Students Computer Research Project Competition.
    Project was an Operating System built on DOS which used a Windows 95 like GUI. Windows 95 was not released yet.
  • 1995
    Silver medal in III. National Computer Science Olympiads, Marmara Territory.
  • 1995
    Bronze medal in III. National Computer Science Olympiads, Turkey.
  • 1994
    Gold medal in II. National Computer Science Olympiads, Marmara Territory.
  • 1994
    Bronze position in II. National Computer Science Olympiads, Turkey.

5. Skills

  • Spoken Languages
    Advanced English, intermediate German, native Turkish speaker.
  • Programming
    More than 30 years of C and C++ experience. Advanced knowledge of modern C++ (C++11 through C++23).
    Also proficient in Java, Python, CUDA, Rust, Assembly (680x0, 80x86), Perl, Fortran, JavaScript, …
  • Machine Learning
    PyTorch, TensorFlow, ONNX; deep learning for computer vision and computational photography.
  • Operating Systems
    Various flavors of Linux, macOS, Windows, Android, iOS, and AmigaOS.
  • Computer Graphics
    Blender, 3D Studio Max modelling, Ogre Game Development Framework.
  • Distributed Computing
    OpenMP, Intel TBB, OpenMPI, Sun Grid Engine.
  • Database Administration
    Informix, Oracle, PostgreSQL, FirebirdSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, Firebase, …

6. Academic Service

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    Reviewer, Elsevier Image and Vision Computing Journal
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    Reviewer, Elsevier Pattern Recognition Letters Journal
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    Reviewer, Elsevier Image Communications Journal
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    Reviewer, SIU 2012 Conference
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    Reviewer, Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics
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    Reviewer, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
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    Reviewer, Digital Signal Processing
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    Reviewer, IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics
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    Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
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    Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
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    Reviewer, IET Computer Vision
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    Reviewer, Image and Vision Computing
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    Reviewer, Signal Image and Video Processing

7. Book Chapters

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    Keskin, Cem, Furkan Kirac, Yunus Emre Kara, Lale Akarun, "Real-time Hand Pose Estimation Using Depth Sensors", Consumer Depth Cameras for Computer Vision: Research Topics and Applications, 2012.

8. Publications

International Journal Publications:

  • 1.
    Tavlı, Ahmet, Furkan Kıraç, "A Compact Unified Model for Stereo-Matching and Optical Flow Tasks", IEEE Access, 2025.
  • 2.
    Kınlı, Osman Furkan, Furkan Kıraç, "Feature distribution statistics as a loss objective for robust white balance correction", Machine Vision and Applications, 2025.
  • 3.
    Kınlı, Osman Furkan, Barış Özcan, Furkan Kıraç, "Advancing white balance correction through deep feature statistics and feature distribution matching", Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, 2025.
  • 4.
    Yılmaz, Doğa, Furkan Kıraç, "Illumination-guided inverse rendering benchmark: Learning real objects with few cameras", Computers & Graphics, 2023.
  • 5.
    Özcan, Barış, Osman Furkan Kınlı, Furkan Kıraç, "Generalization to unseen viewpoint images of objects via alleviated pose attentive capsule agreement", Neural Computing and Applications, 2023.
  • 6.
    Gocer, Ozgur, K. Göçer, Baris Ozcan, M. Bakoviç, Furkan Kirac, "Pedestrian tracking in outdoor spaces of a suburban university campus for the investigation of occupancy patterns", Sustainable Cities and Society (SCS), 2018.
  • 7.
    Gocer, Ozgur, K. Göçer, A. M. Başol, Furkan Kirac, A. Özbil, M. Bakovic, F. P. Siddiqui, Baris Ozcan, "Introduction of a spatio-temporal mapping based POE method for outdoor spaces: Suburban university campus as a case study", Building and Environment 145, 125-139, 2018.
  • 8.
    Kirac, Furkan, Baris Aktemur, Hasan Sözer, "VISOR: A fast image processing pipeline with scaling and translation invariance for test oracle automation of visual output systems", Journal of Systems and Software 136, 266-277, 2018.
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    Yilmaz, Buse, Baris Aktemur, M. J. Garzaran, S. Kamin, Furkan Kirac, "Autotuning Runtime Specialization for Sparse Matrix-Vector Multiplication", ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO), March 2015.
  • 10.
    Kirac, Furkan, Yunus Emre Kara, Lale Akarun, “Hierarchically Constrained 3D Hand Pose Estimation using Regression Forests from Single Frame Depth Data”, Pattern Recognition Letters - Special Issue on Depth Image Analysis, 2013.
  • 11.
    Bilge, Ümit, Mujde Kurtulan, Furkan Kirac, “A Tabu Search Algorithm for the Single Machine Total Weighted Tardiness Problem”, European Journal of Operational Research, 176 (3), 1423-1435, 2007.
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    Bilge, Ümit, Furkan Kirac, Mujde Kurtulan, Pelin Pekgün, “A Tabu Search Algorithm for Parallel Machine Total Tardiness Problem”, Computers and Operations Research, v.31 n.3, p.397-414, 2004. [Report PDF]

International Conference / Workshop Publications:

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    Kınlı, Osman Furkan, Barış Özcan, M. Furkan Kıraç, "Dawn: A robust tone mapping operator for multi-illuminant and low-light scenarios", SciTePress, 2025.
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    Ershov, Egor, Alexey Panshin, Oleg Karasev, Sergey Korchagin, Sergey Lev, Alexey Startsev, et al. (incl. Furkan Kıraç), "NTIRE 2024 Challenge on Night Photography Rendering", IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, 2024.
  • 3.
    Kınlı, Osman Furkan, Doğa Yılmaz, Barış Özcan, Furkan Kıraç, "Deterministic neural illumination mapping for efficient auto-white balance correction", IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops, 2023.
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    Shutova, Alina, Egor Ershov, Georgy Perevozchikov, Ivan Ermakov, Nikola Banić, Radu Timofte, et al. (incl. Furkan Kıraç), "NTIRE 2023 Challenge on Night Photography Rendering", IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, 2023.
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    Kınlı, Osman Furkan, Doğa Yılmaz, Barış Özcan, Furkan Kıraç, "Modeling the lighting in scenes as style for auto white-balance correction", IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2023.
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    Conde, Marcos V., Radu Timofte, Yibin Huang, Jingyang Peng, Chang Chen, Cheng Li, et al. (incl. Furkan Kıraç), "Reversed Image Signal Processing and RAW Reconstruction — AIM 2022 Challenge Report", European Conference on Computer Vision Workshops, 2022.
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    Kınlı, Osman Furkan, Barış Özcan, Furkan Kıraç, "Reversing image signal processors by reverse style transferring", European Conference on Computer Vision Workshops, 2022.
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    Kınlı, Osman Furkan, Sami Menteş, Barış Özcan, Furkan Kıraç, Radu Timofte, Yi Zuo, et al., "AIM 2022 Challenge on Instagram Filter Removal: Methods and Results", European Conference on Computer Vision Workshops, 2022.
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    Kınlı, Osman Furkan, Barış Özcan, Furkan Kıraç, "Patch-wise contrastive style learning for Instagram filter removal", IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, 2022.
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    Balatkan, Emre, Furkan Kıraç, "Improving regression performance on monocular 3D object detection using bin-mixing and sparse voxel data", International Conference on Computer Science and Engineering (UBMK), 2021.
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    Özcan, Barış, Osman Furkan Kınlı, Furkan Kıraç, "Quaternion Capsule Networks", International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), 2021.
  • 12.
    Kınlı, Osman Furkan, Barış Özcan, Furkan Kıraç, "Fashion Image Retrieval with Capsule Networks", IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops, 2019.
  • 13.
    Keskin, Cem, Furkan Kıraç, Yunus Emre Kara, Lale Akarun, "Real time hand pose estimation using depth sensors", In Consumer Depth Cameras for Computer Vision, pp. 119-137, Springer, London, 2013.
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    Keskin, Cem, Furkan Kıraç, Yunus Emre Kara, Lale Akarun, "Hand pose estimation and hand shape classification using multi-layered randomized decision forests", European Conference on Computer Vision, pp. 852-863, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012.
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    Keskin, Cem, Furkan Kirac, Yunus Emre Kara, Lale Akarun, "Randomized decision forests for static and dynamic hand shape classification", IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, pp. 31-36, 2012.
  • 16.
    Kındıroğlu, A. A., R. Yorgancı, Furkan Kirac, M. Aydın, M. Hruz, H. Köse, Lale Akarun, "Multimodal Sign Language Game Interface", In Proceedings of eNTERFACE, The Summer Workshop on Multimodal Interfaces, 2011.
  • 17.
    Keskin, Cem, İsmail Arı, Tolga Eren, Furkan Kıraç, Lukas Rybok, Hazım Ekenel, Rainer Stiefelhagen, Lale Akarun, "Vision Based Hand Puppet", 6th International Summer Workshop on Multimodal Interfaces, p. 40, 2010.
  • 18.
    Kirac, Furkan, Ü. Bilge, M. Kurtulan, "Genetic Algorithm Approach to Parallel Machine Total Tardiness Problem", In Proceedings of EUROINFORMS, İstanbul, 2003. [PPT]

Reproducibility Reports:

  • 1.
    Erkol, Mert, Osman Furkan Kınlı, Barış Özcan, Furkan Kıraç, "[Re] Exact Feature Distribution Matching for Arbitrary Style Transfer and Domain Generalization", ML Reproducibility Challenge 2022.
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    Yılmaz, Doğa, Osman Furkan Kınlı, Barış Özcan, Furkan Kıraç, "[Re] Lifting 2D StyleGAN for 3D-Aware Face Generation", ML Reproducibility Challenge 2021.
  • 3.
    Kıraç, Furkan, "[Re] Spatial-Adaptive Network for Single Image Denoising", ML Reproducibility Challenge, 2021.

National Conference Publications:

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    Kirac, Furkan, Yunus Emre Kara, Cem Keskin, Lale Akarun, "Depth Image Based 3D Hand Pose Estimation Framework", In Proceedings of SİU 2012.
  • 2.
    Keskin, Cem, Furkan Kıraç, Yunus Emre Kara, Lale Akarun, "3D Hand Pose Estimation and Classification Using Depth Sensors", In Proceedings of SİU 2012.
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    Kirac, Furkan, Lale Akarun, "Real-time Pose Tracking Based on a 3D Skeletal Model Using Multiple Cameras", In Proceedings of SİU 2011.
  • 4.
    Kirac, Furkan, Lale Akarun, "Human Hand Tracking in Image Sequence using Particle Filters", In Proceedings of SİU 2005. [PDF]

9. Projects

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    Project Lead (Yürütücü), TÜBİTAK 1007 - KGYS için akıllı destek yazılımları geliştirme projesi, 2016-2019
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    Consultant, Yapay Sinir Ağları Eğitimi (Neural Networks Consultancy), 2017
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    Consultant, TÜBİTAK 1501 - Set Üstü Cihaz (STB) Otomasyon Sistemi, 2016-2017
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    Project Lead, TÜBİTAK 1507 - Şok filtre bobinleri için yenilikçi üretim proseslerinin geliştirilmesi, 2015-2016
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    Researcher, TÜBİTAK 1001 - Zaman-Mekansal Haritalama, 2015-2017
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    Scholar, Vision Based Hand Puppet, Funded by UVA, 2010.
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    Scholar, Gesture Based Human Computer Interaction in Emergency Management Systems (GEMS), Funded by The Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK), 2009-2012.