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  • CMOS based optoelectronic catheter localization system for magnetic resonance imaging environment 
    Sarıoğlu, Baykal. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2013., 2013.)
    The use of minimally invasive medical techniques has greatly reduced risks to patients and has increased our understanding of how the body works. Detection of catheters is one of the most important tasks in these techniques. ...
  • Modeling and simulation of interaction between light sources and living biological tissues 
    Çitkaya, Ahmet Yasin. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2013., 2013.)
    The assessment of exposure level due to commonly used light sources needs specific attention in today's technology of lighting. The main reason behind this concern is that if exposure levels are not known, the biological ...
  • Place recognition with an attentive robot 
    Erkent, Özgür. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2013., 2013.)
    This thesis is concerned with robotic place recognition. From the robot’s perspective, the goal of place recognition is to determine its whereabouts - given its knowledge of places it has visited previously. This problem ...
  • Structured and sequential representations for human action recognition 
    Çeliktutan, Oya. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2013., 2013.)
    Human action recognition problem is one of the most challenging problems in the computer vision domain, and plays an emerging role in various elds of study. In this thesis, we investigate structured and sequential ...
  • Multivariate modeling and diagnostic classification of pulmonary sounds 
    Şen, İpek. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2013., 2013.)
    Computerized pulmonary sounds analysis has become prevalent in the recent decades as it provides means for quantitative and objective evaluation, contrary to the limited and subjective nature of stethoscope auscultation. ...
  • Multirobot communication and task coordination 
    Bayram, Haluk. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2013., 2013.)
    This thesis is concerned with multi-robot systems. Robots are increasingly being used in applications such as patrolling or exploration whose natures necessitate the consideration of multiple cooperating robots. The ...
  • Single-channel speech-music separation for robust ASR with mixture of NMF models 
    Demir, Cemil. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2014., 2014.)
    In this dissertation, we analyze the single-channel speech-music separation problem for automatic speech recognition (ASR). The motivation of the study is to increase the performance of the ASR systems by decreasing the ...
  • Convergence rate analysis and optimization of distributed consensus algorithms 
    Cihan, Onur. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2014., 2014.)
    The problem of achieving a common value in a distributed information sharing context, referred to as distributed consensus or agreement, is an important topic that has drawn significant research attention of late. Consensus ...
  • Design aspects of discrete time chaos based true random number generators 
    Çiçek, İhsan. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2014., 2014.)
    In this thesis, design aspects of discrete time chaos based cryptographic grade TRNGs are studied starting from chaotic map equations to in depth analyses of the generated entropy. Custom mathematical models of discrete ...
  • TYPE-4 fuzzy clustering for fuzzy modeling applications 
    Aras, Ayşe Çisel. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2014., 2014.)
    In this study, a novel approach is described to the design of an interval type- 2 fuzzy neural system (IT2 FNS). It differs from the classical IT2 FNS in its use of parameterized conjunctors. In the optimization of the IT2 ...
  • Realization and analysis of high performance physical unclonable functions based on ring oscillators 
    Kömürcü, Giray. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2014., 2014.)
    Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) are powerful techniques that are proposed recently to address security related problems. They have a wide range of applications including cryptographic key generation and storage, ...
  • Development of new learning algorithms for spiking neural networks 
    Öniz, Yeşim. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2014., 2014.)
    The main shortcomings with the gradient descent-based learning algorithms used for neural networks are that the convergence speed is relatively slow and the algorithm can be easily trapped into a local optimum. The studies ...
  • Ring oscillator based randon number generators 
    Güler, Ülkühan. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2014., 2014.)
    System-on-a-chip solutions require hardware based integrated circuit (IC) random number generator (RNG) for trustworthy transmission of information. Fully digital gate based IC RNGs became popular because of their uncomplicated ...
  • Asynchronous sigma-delta analog to digital converters 
    Kayaaltı, Balkır. (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2015., 2015.)
    Analog to digital conversion is the process of translating analog real world signals to their corresponding binary encoded form which digital devices need. Among the examples for analog signal sources storage devices like ...
  • Model based multiple audio sequence alignment 
    Başaran, Doğaç. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2015., 2015.)
    It is increasingly more common that an occasion is recorded by multiple individuals with the proliferation of recording devices such as smart phones. When properly aligned, these recordings may provide several audio and ...
  • Robust ultra-wideband tranceiver integrated circuit design 
    Batur, Okan Zafer. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2015., 2015.)
    Pulse-based wideband and UWB radios are well known for their use in radar technology. UWB has also been popular for its use on high data rate applications in recent years. UWB wireless sensor networks are known for their ...
  • Enhanced layout-aware circuit / ststem synthesis 
    Unutulmaz, Ahmet. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2015., 2015.)
    This thesis presents the layout description script (LDS) which is suitable to be used within a template synthesizing layout aware circuit synthesis loop. LDS is a hybrid programming language supporting both sequential and ...
  • Autonomus multi-robot topological spatial cognition 
    Karaoğuz, Hakan. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2015., 2015.)
    This thesis is concerned with topological spatial cognition in multi-robot systems. With topological reasoning, continuous space is discretized into a set of places that are spatially related. Thus, topological spatial ...
  • Modelling the population dynamics in a cell culture at two different scales 
    Habiboğlu, Mehmet Gökhan. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2015., 2015.)
    In this thesis the development of three novel models at two di erent scales are presented for population dynamics in cell cultures. Biological knowledge and empirical observations are used to design an agent-based discrete-time ...
  • Advanced techniques for the design of MIMO free space optical communication systems 
    Özbilgin, Tuğba. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2016., 2016.)
    Free space optical (FSO) communication is an effective alternative to radio frequency (RF) communication in terms of potential high data rates, cost efficiency and wide bandwidth on unregulated spectrum. However, FSO systems ...

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