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Visual Context Modelling

Prof. Dr. Aytül Erçil

Vistek ISRA Vision

Prof. Dr. Aytül Erçil

aercil@vistek-isravision.com

aytulercil@sabanciuniv.edu

VISTEKVISTEK ISRA VISION A.ŞISRA VISION A.Ş. . : : Bir Bir Girişimcilik ÖyküsüGirişimcilik Öyküsü

• 2 NATO projects• 1 FP4 project• 4 EUREKA projects• 2 NSF projects - USA• FESTO – Germany• NEDO – Japan• 2 FP6 projects• 3 FP7 projects

International ProjectsInternational ProjectsIndustry CollaborationsIndustry Collaborations

• ARÇELİK A.Ş.• Altınyıldız A.Ş.• Fiat A.Ş.• Ford A.Ş.• Renault A.Ş.• Şişecam A.Ş.• STFA Savronik• Cybelec S.A. – İsviçre• Dynamics Research Corp. – USA

AcademicianAcademician

National ProjectsNational Projects Prof. Dr. Aytül Erçilaercil@vistek-isravision.comaytulercil@sabanciuniv.edu

• Dynamics Research Corp. – USA• SCM Gruppe – Italy• Aetna Gruppe - Italy

• EU FP6, FP7 expert evaluator• Evaluator for TEYDEB, TTGV, Ministry of Industry projects

• Vistek Ltd. Founder(1997 – 2006)• Vistek A.Ş. Founder (2006 - 2013)

National ProjectsNational Projects

• TÜBİTAK (8 projects)• DPT (3 projects)• TTGV• TEYDEB (9 projects)

Funding AgenciesFunding Agencies SME ownerSME owner

Content

• Brief info about Vistek ISRA Vision

• Brief info about international projects involved in

• Vicomo project

• Tips for success and tips for proposal preparation

• Benefits and experience acquired• Benefits and experience acquired

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• 1997 Vistek Ltd. founded.

2003 Interpro International achievement award

Selected by EUREKA as a EUREKA Success story

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• EUREKA ST- Joseph 2000 project,

• EUREKA PACK 2000 project

• EUREKA MOD project

History

• Sept 2006 Vistek A.Ş. founded.

• Nov 2009 ISRA Vision AG became partner to

Vistek

• Jan 2006’da Inovent A.Ş. was founded.

Vistek ISRA Vision

Location :

Number of Employees :

R&D Investment:

ITU Arı Teknokent

26 (20 engineers)

20% of the income

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Focus areas: Industrial automation, social

applications of computer vision

March 2011 – Selected as an Endeavor entrepreneur

2010 – Technology award finalist, SME category

VIV: Awards

Eylül 2011 – Turkish nominee for ‘Veuve Clicquot high impact female entrepreneur of the year’ award

November 2011 – ‘European women innovators award’ nominee

April 2012 – First price in Machine and Accessories Production Technologies award

May 2013 – WIL International ‘Most innovative woman entrepreneur of the year award’ nominee

VIV: Awards

year award’ nominee

September 2013 – ‘Turkey’s woman entrepreneur’ award

November 2013 – ‘Crystal tree woman entrepreneur of the year’ award

Human vision systemHuman vision system

IşıkInformationInformation

Optic nerves

What is computer vision?

Computer vision systemComputer vision system

ImageIşık

InformationInformation

Machine Vision based Industrial Automation

Glass

Automotiv

Food Sorting

White goods

VIV Activities– 1/2

White goods

LPG

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Human centric (Social) Applications

VIV Activities– 2/2

Marketing and MultimediaHuman counting

Demographic Analysis (Gender / Age)Product appeal analysis

Touchless interfaces

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Touchless interfaces

E-health and Elderly CareFall detectionPhysical exercise analysisPatient bed monitoringWalking pattern analysis

VISMOSVISMOS: : AUTOMATED MOSAIC SETTING SYSTEMAUTOMATED MOSAIC SETTING SYSTEM

VIV: VISMOS

7 people worked for 21 days for the design100 people laid down the stones in 3 weeks

VISMOSVISMOS: OTOMATİK MOZAİK DİZGİ SİSTEMİ : OTOMATİK MOZAİK DİZGİ SİSTEMİ

VIV: VISMOS

Patented

VIV: TIS Tableware Inspection System

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VIV: OLIVESORT – Olive Sorting System

• NATO IEPG TA-13 PCTE+ project

• NATO RTP 6.2 - HISPARS project

• EU FP4 BRITE EURAM - AIMS “Automated Inspection and Maintenance of Steel Structures”

• EUREKA 1770 - ST. JOSEPH 2000 “A New generation wood working machinery and advanced distributed

system with vision technology for agile furniture factory and JIT enterprise”

• EUREKA 2007 - PACK 2000 “Flexible, Environment Friendly Packaging System Utilizing Advanced Vision

International Projects (BU & SU)

Technology and Recyclable, Homogeneous Materials”

• NSF 465 - BROWN UNIV “A New Implicit Polynomial Technology for Advanced Manufacturing ”

• EUREKA-2657 FACTORY M.O.D. project

• NSF project IIS-0205477 – 3D Form Models for the Representation, Manipulation, and Recovery of

Shape with Applications to Archaeology and Virtual Sculpting

• EU FP6 Marie Curie TOK: IRonDB: Image-based analysis, Indexing, and Retrieval of brain IrON Deposition in Basal ganglia

International Projects (SU)

of brain IrON Deposition in Basal ganglia

• FESTO (Germany) “ Robust Object Recognition and Pose Estimation” 2003 Interpro R&D award

• NEDO (Japan): International Research Coordination of Driving Behavior Signal Processing based on Large Scale Real World Database

• FP6-2004-ACC-SSA-2 SPICE: Signal, Image Processing and Pattern Recognition for Intelligent Automation CEnter center of excellence

International Projects (SU)

• AB – ITEA2 – VICOMO : Visual Context Modeling

VIV: International Projects

• EUREKA 3DSCAN: 3D Scanning of Transparent objects

• VIPSAFE: Automated Visual monitoring for Improving Patient SAFEty (2+2 programı)

AB FP6 JADE: Joining innovative Approaches for the integration and Development of

transnational knowledge clusters policies related to independent living of Elderly (Coordination and

support actions)

• AB-FP7-IP: DEM@CARE Dementia Ambient Care: Multi-Sensing Monitoring for Intelligent Remote

Management and Decision Support

Modeling 3D environments with multiple

cameras

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AB AB –– ITEA2 Project ITEA2 Project –– VICOMO (Visual Context Modeling)VICOMO (Visual Context Modeling)

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Modeling behaviours of people using

context information

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