Publications
Journals
- Dairazalia Sanchez-Cortes, Oya Aran, Marianne Schmid Mast, Daniel Gatica-Perez, A Nonverbal Behavior Approach to Identify Emergent Leaders in Small Groups, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol. 14, no.3-2, pp. 816-832, 2012
- Konstantinos Moustakas, Laila Dybkjaer, Oya Aran, Dimitrios Tzovaras and Niels Ole Bernsen, Using Modality Replacement to Facilitate Communication Between Blind and Hearing Impaired People, IEEE Multimedia , vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 26-37, 2011
- Oya Aran & Lale Akarun, A Multi-class Classification Strategy for Fisher Scores: Application to Signer Independent Sign Language Recognition, Pattern Recognition, vol. 43, no. 5, May 2010. (link)
- Oya Aran, Ismail Ari, Alexandre Benoit, Pavel Campr, Ana Huerta Carrillo, Francois-Xavier Fanard, Lale Akarun, Alice Caplier & Bulent Sankur, SignTutor: An Interactive System for Sign Language Tutoring, IEEE Multimedia, vol. 16, 2009. (link)
- Oya Aran, Thomas Burger, Alice Caplier & Lale Akarun, A Belief-Based Sequential Fusion Approach for Fusing Manual and Non-Manual Signs , Pattern Recognition, vol.42, no.5, 2009.
- Oya Aran, Olcay Taner Yildiz, Ethem Alpaydin, An Incremental Framework Based on Cross-Validation for Estimating the Architecture of a Multilayer Perceptron, International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, vol. 23, no. 2, 2009.
- Oya Aran, Ismail Ari, Pavel Campr, Erinc Dikici, Marek Hruz, Siddika Parlak, Lale Akarun & Murat Saraclar, Speech and Sliding Text Aided Sign Retrieval from Hearing Impaired Sign News Videos , Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces, vol.2, pp.117-131, Springer, 2008. (The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com: link)
- S. Argyropoulos, K. Moustakas, A. Karpov, O. Aran, D. Tzovaras, T. Tsakiris, G. Varni & B. Kwon, A Multimodal Framework for the Communication of the Disabled, Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces, vol.2, pp.105-116, Springer, 2008.
- Alice Caplier, Sebastien Stillittano, Oya Aran, Lale Akarun, Gerard Bailly, Denis Beautemps, Nouredine Aboutabit & Thomas Burger, Image and video for hearing impaired people, EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing, Special Issue on Image and Video Processing for Disability, 2007.
Book Chapters
- O. Aran & D. Gatica-Perez, Analysis of Group Conversations: Modeling Social Verticality, in Computer Analysis of Human Behavior, pp. 293-322, Salah, A. A. & Gevers, T.(ed.), Springer London, 2011.
- C. Keskin, O. Aran & L. Akarun, Hand Gesture Analysis, in Computer Analysis of Human Behavior, pp. 125-149, Salah, A. A. & Gevers, T.(ed.), Springer London , 2011.
- Oya Aran, Thomas Burger, Lale Akarun & Alice Caplier, Gestural Interfaces for Hearing-Impaired Communication, in Multimodal user interfaces: from signals to interaction, Dimitrios Tzovaras (Ed.) Springer, 2008. (The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com: link)
International Conferences and Workshops
- D. Sanchez-Cortes, O. Aran, D. Gatica-Perez, An audio visual corpus for emergent leader analysis, ICMI workshop on Multimodal Corpora for Machine Learning, Alicante, 2011.
- J.-I. Biel, O. Aran, D. Gatica-Perez, You Are Known by How You Vlog: Personality Impressions and Nonverbal Behavior in YouTube,
AAAI International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM), Washington DC, May 2011 .
- G. Chittaranjan, O. Aran, and D. Gatica-Perez, Exploiting Observers' Judgments for Nonverbal Group Interaction Analysis, IEEE Int. Conf. on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG), Santa Barbara, 2011.
- D. Sanchez-Cortes, O. Aran, M. Schmid-Mast, D. Gatica-Perez, Identifying Emergent Leadership in Small Groups using Nonverbal Communicative Cues,12th International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces and
7th Workshop on Machine Learning for Multimodal Interaction (ICMI-MLMI'10), Bejing, China, 2010.
- O. Aran, D. Gatica-Perez, Fusing Audio-Visual Nonverbal Cues to Detect Dominant People in Conversations,International Conference On Pattern Recognition (ICPR'10), Istanbul, Turkey, 2010.
- Oya Aran, Hayley Hung, Daniel Gatica-Perez, A Multimodal Corpus for Studying Dominance in Small Group Conversations, LREC workshop on Multimodal Corpora: Advances in Capturing, Coding and Analyzing Multimodality, Malta, May 2010, accepted.
- Ilker Yildirim, Oya Aran, Pinar Yolum, & Lale Akarun, Cooperative Sign Language Tutoring: A Multiagent Approach, 10th Annual International Workshop Engineering Societies in the Agents' World (ESAW'09), 2009. (Best paper award)
- Pinar Santemiz, Oya Aran, Murat Saraclar, Lale Akarun, Automatic Sign Segmentation from Continuous Signing via Multiple Sequence Alignment, the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV'09) - Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction, Kyoto, Japan, 2009.
- Pavel Campr, Marek Hruz, Alexey Karpov, Pinar Santemiz, Milos Zelezny, and Oya Aran, Input and output modalities used in a sign-language-enabled information kiosk, 13th International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM'09), pp.113-116, St.Petersburg,
Russia, 2009.
- Oya Aran & Lale Akarun, Multi-class Classification Strategies for Fisher Scores of Gesture and Sign Sequences, International Conference On Pattern Recognition (ICPR'08), 2008
- Oya Aran, Ismail Ari, Pavel Campr, Erinc Dikici, Marek Hruz, Deniz Kahramaner, Siddika Parlak, Lale Akarun & Murat Saraclar, Speech and Sliding Text Aided Sign Retrieval from Hearing Impaired Sign News Videos , eNTERFACE'07 The Summer Workshop on Multimodal Interfaces, Istanbul, Turkey, 2007
- Oya Aran, Thomas Burger, Alice Caplier & Lale Akarun, Sequential Belief Based Fusion of Manual and Non-manual Signs , The 7th International Workshop on Gesture in Human-Computer Interaction and Simulation (GW 2007), 2007
- Thomas Burger, Alexandra Urankar, Oya Aran, Lale Akarun & Alice Caplier, Cued Speech Hand Shape Recognition , 2nd International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP'07), Spain, 2007
- Cem Keskin, Koray Balci, Oya Aran, Bulent Sankur & Lale Akarun, A Multimodal 3D Healthcare Communication System , 3DTV Conference, 2007
- Oya Aran, Ismail Ari, Alexandre Benoit, Pavel Campr, Ana Huerta Carrillo, François-Xavier Fanard, Lale Akarun, Alice Caplier, Michele Rombaut & Bulent Sankur, Sign Language Tutoring Tool, eNTERFACE 2006, The Summer Workshop on Multimodal Interfaces, Dubrovnik, Croatia, , 23-33 2006
- Oya Aran & Lale Akarun, Recognizing Two Handed Gestures with Generative, Discriminative and Ensemble Methods via Fisher Kernels , Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Multimedia Content Representation, Classification and Security International Workshop, MRCS 2006, Istanbul, Turkey, September 11-13, 2006, Proceedings, , 4015 , 159-166 2006
- Thomas Burger, Oya Aran & Alice Caplier, Modeling hesitation and conflict: A belief-based approach for multi-class problems , International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA'06), Florida, 2006
- Mehmet Emre Sargin, Oya Aran, Alexey Karpov, Ferda Ofli, Yelena Yasinnik, Stephen Wilson, Engin Erzin, Yucel Yemez & A. Murat Tekalp, Gesture-Speech Correlation Analysis and Speech Driven Gesture Synthesis , IEEE International Conference on Multimedia, Expo (ICME'06), Toronto, 2006
- Oya Aran, Cem Keskin & Lale Akarun, Sign Language Tutoring Tool , European Signal Processing Conference, EUSIPCO'05, Antalya, Turkey, 2005
- Cem Keskin, Oya Aran & Lale Akarun, Real Time Gestural Interface For Generic Applications , European Signal Processing Conference, EUSIPCO'05, Antalya, Turkey, 2005
- Mehmet Emre Sargin, Ferda Ofli, Yelena Yasinnik, Oya Aran, Alexey Karpov, Stephen Wilson, Yucel Yemez, Engin Erzin & A. Murat Tekalp, Combined Gesture-Speech Analysis and Synthesis , Proceedings of eNTERFACE 2005, The Summer Workshop on Multimodal Interfaces, Faculte Polytechnique de Mons, Belgium, 2005
- Oya Aran & Ethem Alpaydin, An Incremental Neural Network Construction Algorithm for Training Multilayer Perceptrons , ICANN/ICONIP'03, 2003
National Conferences
- P. Santemiz, O. Aran, M. Saraclar, L. Akarun, Alignment Based Extraction of Isolated Signs from Sign Language Videos, IEEE 17th Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU'09), Antalya, Turkey, 2009.
- Oya Aran & Lale Akarun, A Particle Filter Based Algorithm for Robust Tracking of Hands and Face Under Occlusion, IEEE 16th Signal Processing and Communications Applications (SIU 2008), 2008
- Oya Aran & Lale Akarun, Sign Language Processing and Interactive Tools for Sign Language Education , IEEE 15th Signal Processing and Communications Applications (SIU 2007), 2007
- Oya Aran, Ismail Ari, Amac Guvensan, Hakan Haberdar, Zeyneb Kurt, Irem Turkmen, Asli Uyar & Lale Akarun, A Database of Non-Manual Signs in Turkish Sign Language , IEEE 15th Signal Processing and Communications Applications (SIU'07), 2007
- Oya Aran & Lale Akarun, Combination Strategies for 2D Features to Recognize 3D Gestures , IEEE 14th Signal Processing and Communications Applications (SIU 2006), 2006
- Oya Aran, Cem Keskin & Lale Akarun, Engelliler icin Bilgisayar Uygulamalari ve Isaret Dili Egitimi , GAP V. Muhendislik Kongresi Bildiriler Kitabi, 2006
Thesis
- Oya Aran, Vision Based Sign Language Recognition: Modeling and Recognizing Isolated Signs With Manual and Non-manual Components, PhD Thesis, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, 2008
- Oya Aran, Incremental Neural Network Construction Algorithms for Training Multilayer Perceptrons, MS Thesis, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, 2002
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