Publications

2025

• Omidreza Safaei, Sinem Aslan, Sebastiano Vascon, Luca Palmieri, Marina Khoroshiltseva, Marcello Pelillo. "Solving Jigsaw Puzzles in the Wild: Human-Guided Reconstruction of Cultural Heritage Fragments." 2025 IEEE 35th International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP), Istanbul, Turkiye, 2025, pp. 1-6. [DOI]
• Gianluca Bison, Luca Palmieri, Sinem Aslan, Sebastiano Vascon, and Marcello Pelillo. "Automatizing 3D reconstruction pipelines for speeding-up cultural heritage digitization." Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2025, pp. 1-21.
• Ali Alagrami, Luca Palmieri, Sinem Aslan, Marcello Pelillo, and Sebastiano Vascon. "Reassembling broken objects using breaking curves." In International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), pp. 197-208. Springer, 2025. [Project]

2024

• Tsesmelis, T. et al., "Re-assembling the past: The RePAIR dataset and benchmark for real world 2D and 3D puzzle solving." Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 37, pp.30076-30105, 2024. [Project]
• Marina Khoroshiltseva, Luca Palmieri, Sinem Aslan, Sebastiano Vascon, and Marcello Pelillo. "Nash Meets Wertheimer: Using Good Continuation in Jigsaw Puzzles." In Proceedings of the Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV), pp. 3223-3238. 2024.

2023

• Sinem Aslan, and Luc Steels. "Aligning figurative paintings with their sources for semantic interpretation." International Journal of Interactive Multimedia and Artificial Intelligence, (2023). [DOI]
• Aref Enayati, Luca Palmieri, Sebastiano Vascon, Marcello Pelillo, and Sinem Aslan. "Semantic motif segmentation of archaeological fresco fragments." In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), pp. 1717-1725. 2023. [Project]
• Alice Othmani, Aznul Qalid Md Sabri, Sinem Aslan, Faten Chaieb, Hala Rameh, Romain Alfred, and Dayron Cohen. "EEG-based neural networks approaches for fatigue and drowsiness detection: A survey." Neurocomputing 557 (2023): 126709.
• Zennaro, F., Furlan, E., Canu, D., Alcazar, L.A., Rosati, G., Solidoro, C., Aslan, S. and Critto, A. "Venice lagoon chlorophyll-a evaluation under climate change conditions: A hybrid water quality machine learning and biogeochemical-based framework." Ecological Indicators, 157, p.111245, 2023.
• Federica Zennaro, Elisa Furlan, Donata Melaku Canu, Leslie Aveytua Alcazar, Ginevra Rosati, Sinem Aslan, Cosimo Solidoro, and Andrea Critto. "Evaluation of lagoon eutrophication potential under climate change conditions: A novel water quality machine learning and biogeochemical-based framework." In EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts, pp. EGU-8409. 2023.

2022

• Sinem Aslan, Giovanna Castellano, Vincenzo Digeno, Giuseppe Migailo, Raffaele Scaringi, and Gennaro Vessio. "Recognizing the emotions evoked by artworks through visual features and knowledge graph-embeddings." In International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing (ICIAP), pp. 129-140. Springer, 2022.
• Sinem Aslan, Federica Zennaro, Elisa Furlan, and Andrea Critto. "Recurrent neural networks for water quality assessment in complex coastal lagoon environments: A case study on the Venice Lagoon." Environmental Modelling & Software 154 (2022): 105403.

2021

• Sinem Aslan, and Luc Steels. "Identifying centres of interest in paintings using alignment and edge detection: Case studies on works by Luc Tuymans." In International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), pp. 589-603. Springer, 2021.
• Sebastiano Vascon, Sinem Aslan, Gianluca Bigaglia, Lorenzo Giudice, and Marcello Pelillo. "Transductive visual verb sense disambiguation." In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), pp. 3050-3059. 2021.
• A. Emre Kavur, N. Sinem Gezer, Mustafa Barış, Sinem Aslan, et al. "CHAOS challenge-combined (CT-MR) healthy abdominal organ segmentation." Medical Image Analysis 69 (2021): 101950.
• Sana Yasin, Syed Asad Hussain, Sinem Aslan, Imran Raza, Muhammad Muzammel, and Alice Othmani. "EEG based Major Depressive disorder and Bipolar disorder detection using Neural Networks: A review." Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine 202 (2021): 106007.
• Federica Zennaro, Elisa Furlan, Christian Simeoni, Silvia Torresan, Sinem Aslan, Andrea Critto, and Antonio Marcomini. "Exploring machine learning potential for climate change risk assessment." Earth-Science Reviews 220 (2021): 103752.

2020

• Sinem Aslan, Gianluigi Ciocca, Davide Mazzini, and Raimondo Schettini. "Benchmarking algorithms for food localization and semantic segmentation." International Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics 11, no. 12 (2020): 2827-2847.
• Sinem Aslan, Sebastiano Vascon, and Marcello Pelillo. "Two sides of the same coin: Improved ancient coin classification using Graph Transduction Games." Pattern Recognition Letters 131 (2020): 158-165.

2019

• Sinem Aslan, and Marcello Pelillo. "Weakly supervised semantic segmentation using constrained dominant sets." In International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing (ICIAP), pp. 425-436. Springer, 2019.
• Sebastiano Vascon, Sinem Aslan, Alessandro Torcinovich, Twan van Laarhoven, Elena Marchiori, and Marcello Pelillo. "Unsupervised domain adaptation using graph transduction games." In 2019 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), pp. 1-8. IEEE, 2019.

2018

• Ayşen Değerli, Sinem Aslan, Mehmet Yamac, Bulent Sankur, and Moncef Gabbouj. "Compressively sensed image recognition." In 2018 7th European Workshop on Visual Information Processing (EUVIP), pp. 1-6. IEEE, 2018.
• Sinem Aslan, Sebastiano Vascon, and Marcello Pelillo. "Ancient coin classification using graph transduction games." In 2018 Metrology for Archaeology and Cultural Heritage (MetroArchaeo), pp. 127-131. IEEE, 2018.
• Sinem Aslan, Gianluigi Ciocca, and Raimondo Schettini. "Semantic food segmentation for automatic dietary monitoring." In 2018 IEEE 8th International Conference on Consumer Electronics-Berlin (ICCE-Berlin), pp. 1-6. IEEE, 2018.

2017

• Sinem Aslan, Ceyhun B. Akgül, Bülent Sankur, E. Turhan Tunalı. "Exploring visual dictionaries: A model-driven perspective." Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, vol. 49, pp.315-331, 2017. [DOI]
• Sinem Aslan, Gianluigi Ciocca, Raimondo Schettini. "On Comparing Color Spaces for Food Segmentation." New Trends in Image Analysis and Processing – 19th Int. Conf. on Image Analysis and Processing (ICIAP). Springer, 2017. [DOI] [Slides] [Poster]

2016

• Sinem Aslan, Mehmet Yamaç, Bülent Sankur. "A DCT-based multiscale binary descriptor robust to complex brightness changes." 24th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Budapest, Hungary, 2016. [DOI]
• Sinem Aslan, Ceyhun B. Akgül, Bülent Sankur, E. Turhan Tunalı. "A novel study on developing a model-driven visual dictionary." 24th IEEE Signal Processing and Communication Application Conference (SIU), 2016. [DOI]
• Sinem Aslan. "Semantic Interest Point Detection." Ph.D. thesis, Ege University, International Computer Institute, 2016.

2015

• Sinem Aslan, Ceyhun B. Akgül, Bülent Sankur, E. Turhan Tunalı. "SymPaD: Symbolic Patch Descriptor." 10th Int. Conf. on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP), Berlin, Germany, 2015. [DOI]

2014

• Sinem Aslan, Ceyhun B. Akgül, Bülent Sankur. "Symbolic feature detection for image understanding." Proc. SPIE 9024, Image Processing: Machine Vision Applications VII, 2014. [DOI]

2013

• Sinem Aslan, and E. Turhan Tunalı. "Joint compressive video coding and analysis With Hidden Markov model based weighted reconstruction." In 2013 21st Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU), IEEE, 2013.

2012

• Sinem Aslan, and E. Turhan Tunalı. "A comparative study of compressed sensing video encoding GOP patterns for stereo distributed video coding." In 2012 20th Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU), IEEE, 2012.
• Bahar Karaoglan, Sinem Aslan, and Erdem Karayer. "The Zipfian distributions on term x document matrix." International Conference on Analysis and Applied Mathematics (ICAAM), 2012.

2008

• Sinem Aslan, Yigit Uzer, Orhan Isik, Melih Altun, and Muhammed Cinsdikici. "A simple and improvable method for face region extraction." In 2008 23rd International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences, IEEE, 2008.

2007

• Sinem Aslan. "A Comparative Study of Feature Metrics for Classification of Human Passport Photos." M.Sc. thesis, Ege University, International Computer Institute, 2007.
• Sinem Aslan, Turhan Tunali, and Muhammed Cinsdikici. "A Comparative Study of Feature Metrics For Classification Of Human Passport Photos." In 2007 IEEE 15th Signal Processing and Communications Applications, IEEE, 2007.