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Dr Oktay Karakus
- Available for postgraduate supervision
Teams and roles for Oktay Karakus
Overview
I am a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) working primarily on statistical computational imaging with applications to remote sensing and medical imaging. For more details please visit my personal or Google scholar pages.
Publication
2025
- Awais, C. M. et al., 2025. Feature-space oversampling for addressing class imbalance in SAR ship classification. Presented at: IGARSS 2025 Brisbane, Australia 03-08 August 2025. IGARSS 2025 - 2025 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium. IEEE. , pp.2010-2014. (10.1109/igarss55030.2025.11242334)
- Binlajdam, R. et al. 2025. Review on sustainable forestry with artificial intelligence. ACM Journal on Computing and Sustainable Societies 3 (4) 35. (10.1145/3759259)
- Guerra, A. , Lepre, M. and Karakus, O. 2025. Quantifying extreme opinions on Reddit amidst the 2023 Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Natural Language Processing Journal 11 100156. (10.1016/j.nlp.2025.100156)
- Hao, P. , Karakuş, O. and Achim, A. 2025. RKFNet: A novel neural network aided robust Kalman filter. Signal Processing 230 109856. (10.1016/j.sigpro.2024.109856)
- Kara, B. C. , Eyupoglu, C. and Karakus, O. 2025. (r, k, ε)-anonymization: Privacy-preserving data publishing algorithm based on multi-dimensional outlier detection, k-anonymity, and ε-differential privacy. IEEE Access 13 , pp.70422-70435. (10.1109/access.2025.3559410)
- Ma, W. , Karakus, O. and Rosin, P. L. 2025. DiverseNet: Decision diversified semi-supervised semantic segmentation networks for remote sensing imagery. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing 18 , pp.14258-14271. (10.1109/jstars.2025.3574229)
- Ma, W. , Karakuş, O. and Rosin, P. L. 2025. Patch-GAN transfer learning with reconstructive models for cloud removal. Presented at: 2025 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium Brisbane, Australia 3-8 August 2025. Proceedings of the International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium. IEEE. , pp.6275-6279. (10.1109/igarss55030.2025.11243736)
- Ma, Z. et al. 2025. The impact of training data on MRS metabolite quantification with deep learning. Presented at: ISMRM & ISMRT Annual Meeting & Exhibition 2025 Honolulu, Hawaii, USA 10-15 May 2025.
- Sajjadi Mohammadabadi, S. M. et al., 2025. A survey of large language models: evolution, architectures, adaptation, benchmarking, applications, challenges, and societal implications. Electronics 14 (18) 3580. (10.3390/electronics14183580)
- Thomas, A. et al., 2025. Correlating diurnal variations in peak athleticism with buccal gene expression in youth football players. International Journal of Performance Analysis in Sport (10.1080/24748668.2025.2530293)
- Yewle, A. D. , Mirzayeva, L. and Karakuş, O. 2025. Multi-modal data fusion and deep ensemble learning for accurate crop yield prediction. Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment 38 101613. (10.1016/j.rsase.2025.101613)
2024
- Balaji, S. and Karakus, O. 2024. Unsupervised structural damage assessment from space using the segment anything model (USDA-SAM): A case Study of the 2023 Turkiye earthquake. Presented at: International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium Athens, Greece 7-12 July 2024. IGARSS 2024 - 2024 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium. IEEE. , pp.585-589. (10.1109/IGARSS53475.2024.10640396)
- Cook, A. and Karakuş, O. 2024. LLM-Commentator: Novel fine-tuning strategies of large language models for automatic commentary generation using football event data. Knowledge-Based Systems 300 112219. (10.1016/j.knosys.2024.112219)
- Eyupoglu, C. and Karakuş, O. 2024. Novel CAD diagnosis method based on search, PCA, and AdaBoostM1 techniques. Journal of Clinical Medicine 13 (10) 2868. (10.3390/jcm13102868)
- Eyupoglu, S. et al., 2024. Investigation of dyeing characteristics of merino wool fiber dyed with sustainable natural dye extracted from Aesculus hippocastanum. Sustainability 16 (22) 10129. (10.3390/su162210129)
- Hao, P. , Karakus, O. and Achim, A. 2024. Robust Kalman filters based on the sub-Gaussian a-stable distribution. Signal Processing 224 109574. (10.1016/j.sigpro.2024.109574)
- Scholtes, A. and Karakuş, O. 2024. Bayes-xG: player and position correction on expected goals (xG) using Bayesian hierarchical approach. Frontiers in Sports and Active Living 6 1348983. (10.3389/fspor.2024.1348983)
- Yang, T. et al., 2024. Dubline: a deep unfolding network for B-line detection in lung ultrasound images. Presented at: IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) Athens, Greece 27-30 May 2024. 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI). IEEE. , pp.1-4. (10.1109/ISBI56570.2024.10635643)
2023
- Booth, H. , Ma, W. and Karakuş, O. 2023. High-precision density mapping of marine debris and floating plastics via satellite imagery. Scientific Reports 13 6822. (10.1038/s41598-023-33612-2)
- Duman, A. et al. 2023. RFS+: A clinically adaptable and computationally efficient strategy for enhanced brain tumor segmentation. Cancers 15 (23) 5620. (10.3390/cancers15235620)
- Guerra, A. and Karakuş, O. 2023. Sentiment analysis for measuring hope and fear from Reddit posts during the 2022 Russo-Ukrainian conflict. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence 6 1163577. (10.3389/frai.2023.1163577)
- Hao, P. , Karakus, O. and Achim, A. 2023. A hybrid particle-stochastic map filter. Signal Processing 207 108969. (10.1016/j.sigpro.2023.108969)
- Hewitt, J. H. and Karakus, O. 2023. A machine learning approach for player and position adjusted expected goals in football (soccer). Franklin Open 4 100034. (10.1016/j.fraope.2023.100034)
- Karakuş, O. 2023. On advances, challenges and potentials of remote sensing image analysis in marine debris and suspected plastics monitoring. Frontiers in Remote Sensing 4 1302384. (10.3389/frsen.2023.1302384)
- Rowley, A. and Karakus, O. 2023. Predicting air quality via multimodal AI and satellite imagery. Remote Sensing of Environment 293 113609. (10.1016/j.rse.2023.113609)
- Yang, T. et al., 2023. Current advances in computational lung ultrasound imaging: a review. IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control 70 (1), pp.2-15. (10.1109/TUFFC.2022.3221682)
2022
- Karakus, O. , Kuruoglu, E. E. and Achim, A. 2022. A generalized Gaussian extension to the Rician distribution for SAR image modeling. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 60 5205615. (10.1109/TGRS.2021.3069091)
- Karakus, O. et al. 2022. Cauchy-Rician model for backscattering in urban SAR images. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters 19 4504905. (10.1109/LGRS.2022.3146370)
- Ma, W. , Karakuş, O. and Rosin, P. L. 2022. AMM-FuseNet: attention-based multi-modal image fusion network for land cover mapping. Remote Sensing 14 (18) 4458. (10.3390/rs14184458)
- Rizaev, I. et al., 2022. Modeling and SAR imaging of the sea surface: A review of the state-of-the-art with simulations. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing 187 , pp.120-140. (10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2022.02.017)
2021
- Karakus, O. , Kuruoglu, E. and Achim, A. 2021. A modification of Rician distribution for SAR image modelling. Presented at: 13th European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar (EUSAR 2021) Virtual 29 March - 01 April 2021. EUSAR 2021; 13th European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar. Vol. 2021-M., pp.587-592.
- Karakus, O. , Rizaev, I. and Achim, A. 2021. A simulation study to evaluate the performance of the cauchy proximal operator in despeckling SAR images of the sea surface. Presented at: 2020 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) Waikoloa, HI, USA 26 September - 02 October 2020. IGARSS 2020 - 2020 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium. , pp.1568-1571. (10.1109/IGARSS39084.2020.9323696)
- Karakus, O. and Achim, A. 2021. On solving SAR imaging inverse problems using nonconvex regularization with a cauchy-based penalty. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 59 (7), pp.5828-5840. (10.1109/tgrs.2020.3011631)
- Ma, W. , Achim, A. and Karakus, O. 2021. Exploiting the dual-tree complex wavelet transform for ship wake detection in SAR imagery. Presented at: IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2021) Toronto, ON, Canada 6-11 June 2021. ICASSP 2021 - 2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP). IEEE(10.1109/ICASSP39728.2021.9414898)
- Mayo, P. et al., 2021. Representation learning via Cauchy Convolutional Sparse Coding. IEEE Access 9 , pp.100447-100459. (10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3096643)
2020
- Achim, A. and Karakus, O. 2020. Cauchy proximal splitting (CPS). Bristol: University of Bristol(10.5523/BRIS.15Y437LOA26CR2NX8GNN3L4HZI)
- Karakus, O. , Kuruoglu, E. E. and Achim, A. 2020. Modelling sea clutter in sar images using Laplace-Rician distribution. Presented at: 2020 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) Barcelona, Spain 04-08 May 2020. ICASSP 2020 - 2020 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP). Vol. 2020-M.IEEE. , pp.1454-1458. (10.1109/ICASSP40776.2020.9053289)
- Karakus, O. and Achim, A. 2020. AssenSAR wake detector. Bristol: University of Bristol(10.5523/BRIS.F2Q4T5PQLIX62SV5NTVQ51YJY)
- Karakus, O. and Achim, A. 2020. QuantLUS - CPS v1.0. Bristol: University of Bristol(10.5523/BRIS.Z47PFKWQIVFJ2D0QHYQ7V3U1I)
- Karakus, O. et al. 2020. Detection of line artifacts in lung ultrasound images of COVID-19 patients via nonconvex regularization. IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control 67 (11), pp.2218-2229. (10.1109/tuffc.2020.3016092)
- Karakus, O. et al. 2020. A non-convex regularization based line artefact quantification method in lung ultrasound imagery for pulmonary disease evaluation. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 148 (4), pp.2735-2735. (10.1121/1.5147598)
- Karakus, O. et al. 2020. Convergence guarantees for non-convex optimisation with Cauchy-based penalties. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing 68 , pp.6159-6170. (10.1109/TSP.2020.3032231)
- Yang, T. , Karakus, O. and Achim, A. 2020. Detection of ship wakes in sar imagery using cauchy regularisation. Presented at: 27th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2020) United Arab Emirates 25-28 October 2020. 2020 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP). IEEE. , pp.3473-3477. (10.1109/icip40778.2020.9190920)
2017
- Karakus, O. , Kuruglu, E. E. and Altinkaya, M. A. 2017. Bayesian Volterra system identification using reversible jump MCMC algorithm. Signal Processing 141 , pp.125-136. (10.1016/j.sigpro.2017.05.031)
- Karakus, O. , Kuruoglu, E. and Altinkaya, M. 2017. Nonlinear model selection for PARMA processes using RJMCMC. Presented at: EUSIPCO 2017: 25th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO) 28 August-2 September 2017. 2017 25th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO). IEEE. , pp.2056-2060. (10.23919/EUSIPCO.2017.8081571)
- Karakus, O. , Kuruoglu, E. E. and Altinkaya, M. A. 2017. One-day ahead wind speed/power prediction based on polynomial autoregressive model. IET Renewable Power Generation 11 (11), pp.1430-1439. (10.1049/iet-rpg.2016.0972)
- Karakus, O. , Kuruoğlu, E. E. and Altınkaya, M. A. 2017. One-day ahead wind speed/power prediction based on polynomial autoregressive model. IET Renewable Power Generation 11 (11), pp.1430-1439. (10.1049/iet-rpg.2016.0972)
2016
- Karakus, O. , Kuruoglu, E. E. and Altinkaya, M. A. 2016. Bayesian estimation of polynomial moving average models with unknown degree of nonlinearity. Presented at: 24th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO) Budapest, Hungary 29 Aug-2 Sept 2016. 24th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO). , pp.1543-1547. (10.1109/EUSIPCO.2016.7760507)
2015
- Karakus, O. , Kuruoglu, E. E. and Altinkaya, M. A. 2015. Long term wind speed prediction with polynomial autoregressive model. Presented at: 23nd Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU) Malatya, Turkey 16-19 May 2015. 23nd Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference. IEEE. , pp.645-648. (10.1109/SIU.2015.7129907)
- Karakus, O. , Kuruoglu, E. E. and Altinkaya, M. A. 2015. Estimation of the nonlinearity degree for polynomial autoregressive processes with RJMCMC. Presented at: 2015 European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2015) 31 August-4 September 2015. 2015 23rd European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO). IEEE. , pp.958-962. (10.1109/eusipco.2015.7362524)
- Karakus, O. , Kuruoglu, E. E. and Altinkaya, M. A. 2015. Long term wind speed prediction with polynomial autoregressive model. Presented at: 23rd Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU 2015) 16-19 May 2015. 2015 23nd Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU). IEEE(10.1109/siu.2015.7129907)
2014
- Ozbek, N. , Ertan, G. and Karakus, O. 2014. Perceptual quality evaluation of asymmetric stereo video coding for efficient 3D rate scaling. Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences 2014 (22), pp.663-678. (10.3906/elk-1209-53)
2013
- Karakus, O. 2013. The performance comparison of European DTTV standards with LDPC-encoded-DVB-T standard under AWGN channel. Presented at: International Computer Symposium ICS 2012 12-14 December 2012. Published in: Chang, R. , Jain, L. C. and Peng, S. eds. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Applications - Volume 1: Proceedings of the International Computer Symposium ICS 2012 Held at Hualien, Taiwan, December 12–14, 2012. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies , pp.683-691. (10.1007/978-3-642-35452-6_69)
- Karakus, O. , Altinkaya, M. A. and Kilicaslan, K. 2013. The effect of convolutional encoder memory on the sphere decoding search radius in MIMO systems. Presented at: 21st Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU) 24-26 April 2013. 2013 21st Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU). IEEE(10.1109/siu.2013.6531238)
2012
- Karakus, O. and Ozen, S. 2012. European terrestrial digital television standards performance comparison under AWGN channel. Presented at: 20th Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU) Mugla, Turkey 18-20 April 2012. 20th Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference. IEEE. , pp.1-4. (10.1109/SIU.2012.6204570)
- Karakus, O. and Ozen, S. 2012. European Terrestrial Digital Television standards performance comparison under AWGN channel. Presented at: 20th Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU) 18-20 April 2012. 2012 20th Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU). IEEE(10.1109/siu.2012.6204570)
2011
- Ozbek, N. , Ertan, G. and Karakus, O. 2011. Interactive quality assessment for asymmetric coding of 3D video. Presented at: 2011 3DTV-Conference: The True Vision - Capture, Transmission and Display of 3D Video (3DTV-CON 2011) 16-18 May 2011. 2011 3DTV Conference: The True Vision - Capture, Transmission and Display of 3D Video (3DTV-CON). IEEE(10.1109/3DTV.2011.5877199)
Articles
- Binlajdam, R. et al. 2025. Review on sustainable forestry with artificial intelligence. ACM Journal on Computing and Sustainable Societies 3 (4) 35. (10.1145/3759259)
- Booth, H. , Ma, W. and Karakuş, O. 2023. High-precision density mapping of marine debris and floating plastics via satellite imagery. Scientific Reports 13 6822. (10.1038/s41598-023-33612-2)
- Cook, A. and Karakuş, O. 2024. LLM-Commentator: Novel fine-tuning strategies of large language models for automatic commentary generation using football event data. Knowledge-Based Systems 300 112219. (10.1016/j.knosys.2024.112219)
- Duman, A. et al. 2023. RFS+: A clinically adaptable and computationally efficient strategy for enhanced brain tumor segmentation. Cancers 15 (23) 5620. (10.3390/cancers15235620)
- Eyupoglu, C. and Karakuş, O. 2024. Novel CAD diagnosis method based on search, PCA, and AdaBoostM1 techniques. Journal of Clinical Medicine 13 (10) 2868. (10.3390/jcm13102868)
- Eyupoglu, S. et al., 2024. Investigation of dyeing characteristics of merino wool fiber dyed with sustainable natural dye extracted from Aesculus hippocastanum. Sustainability 16 (22) 10129. (10.3390/su162210129)
- Guerra, A. and Karakuş, O. 2023. Sentiment analysis for measuring hope and fear from Reddit posts during the 2022 Russo-Ukrainian conflict. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence 6 1163577. (10.3389/frai.2023.1163577)
- Guerra, A. , Lepre, M. and Karakus, O. 2025. Quantifying extreme opinions on Reddit amidst the 2023 Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Natural Language Processing Journal 11 100156. (10.1016/j.nlp.2025.100156)
- Hao, P. , Karakus, O. and Achim, A. 2023. A hybrid particle-stochastic map filter. Signal Processing 207 108969. (10.1016/j.sigpro.2023.108969)
- Hao, P. , Karakuş, O. and Achim, A. 2025. RKFNet: A novel neural network aided robust Kalman filter. Signal Processing 230 109856. (10.1016/j.sigpro.2024.109856)
- Hao, P. , Karakus, O. and Achim, A. 2024. Robust Kalman filters based on the sub-Gaussian a-stable distribution. Signal Processing 224 109574. (10.1016/j.sigpro.2024.109574)
- Hewitt, J. H. and Karakus, O. 2023. A machine learning approach for player and position adjusted expected goals in football (soccer). Franklin Open 4 100034. (10.1016/j.fraope.2023.100034)
- Kara, B. C. , Eyupoglu, C. and Karakus, O. 2025. (r, k, ε)-anonymization: Privacy-preserving data publishing algorithm based on multi-dimensional outlier detection, k-anonymity, and ε-differential privacy. IEEE Access 13 , pp.70422-70435. (10.1109/access.2025.3559410)
- Karakus, O. , Kuruglu, E. E. and Altinkaya, M. A. 2017. Bayesian Volterra system identification using reversible jump MCMC algorithm. Signal Processing 141 , pp.125-136. (10.1016/j.sigpro.2017.05.031)
- Karakuş, O. 2023. On advances, challenges and potentials of remote sensing image analysis in marine debris and suspected plastics monitoring. Frontiers in Remote Sensing 4 1302384. (10.3389/frsen.2023.1302384)
- Karakus, O. and Achim, A. 2021. On solving SAR imaging inverse problems using nonconvex regularization with a cauchy-based penalty. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 59 (7), pp.5828-5840. (10.1109/tgrs.2020.3011631)
- Karakus, O. et al. 2020. Detection of line artifacts in lung ultrasound images of COVID-19 patients via nonconvex regularization. IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control 67 (11), pp.2218-2229. (10.1109/tuffc.2020.3016092)
- Karakus, O. et al. 2020. A non-convex regularization based line artefact quantification method in lung ultrasound imagery for pulmonary disease evaluation. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 148 (4), pp.2735-2735. (10.1121/1.5147598)
- Karakus, O. , Kuruoglu, E. E. and Achim, A. 2022. A generalized Gaussian extension to the Rician distribution for SAR image modeling. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 60 5205615. (10.1109/TGRS.2021.3069091)
- Karakus, O. et al. 2022. Cauchy-Rician model for backscattering in urban SAR images. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters 19 4504905. (10.1109/LGRS.2022.3146370)
- Karakus, O. , Kuruoglu, E. E. and Altinkaya, M. A. 2017. One-day ahead wind speed/power prediction based on polynomial autoregressive model. IET Renewable Power Generation 11 (11), pp.1430-1439. (10.1049/iet-rpg.2016.0972)
- Karakus, O. , Kuruoğlu, E. E. and Altınkaya, M. A. 2017. One-day ahead wind speed/power prediction based on polynomial autoregressive model. IET Renewable Power Generation 11 (11), pp.1430-1439. (10.1049/iet-rpg.2016.0972)
- Karakus, O. et al. 2020. Convergence guarantees for non-convex optimisation with Cauchy-based penalties. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing 68 , pp.6159-6170. (10.1109/TSP.2020.3032231)
- Ma, W. , Karakuş, O. and Rosin, P. L. 2022. AMM-FuseNet: attention-based multi-modal image fusion network for land cover mapping. Remote Sensing 14 (18) 4458. (10.3390/rs14184458)
- Ma, W. , Karakus, O. and Rosin, P. L. 2025. DiverseNet: Decision diversified semi-supervised semantic segmentation networks for remote sensing imagery. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing 18 , pp.14258-14271. (10.1109/jstars.2025.3574229)
- Mayo, P. et al., 2021. Representation learning via Cauchy Convolutional Sparse Coding. IEEE Access 9 , pp.100447-100459. (10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3096643)
- Ozbek, N. , Ertan, G. and Karakus, O. 2014. Perceptual quality evaluation of asymmetric stereo video coding for efficient 3D rate scaling. Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences 2014 (22), pp.663-678. (10.3906/elk-1209-53)
- Rizaev, I. et al., 2022. Modeling and SAR imaging of the sea surface: A review of the state-of-the-art with simulations. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing 187 , pp.120-140. (10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2022.02.017)
- Rowley, A. and Karakus, O. 2023. Predicting air quality via multimodal AI and satellite imagery. Remote Sensing of Environment 293 113609. (10.1016/j.rse.2023.113609)
- Sajjadi Mohammadabadi, S. M. et al., 2025. A survey of large language models: evolution, architectures, adaptation, benchmarking, applications, challenges, and societal implications. Electronics 14 (18) 3580. (10.3390/electronics14183580)
- Scholtes, A. and Karakuş, O. 2024. Bayes-xG: player and position correction on expected goals (xG) using Bayesian hierarchical approach. Frontiers in Sports and Active Living 6 1348983. (10.3389/fspor.2024.1348983)
- Thomas, A. et al., 2025. Correlating diurnal variations in peak athleticism with buccal gene expression in youth football players. International Journal of Performance Analysis in Sport (10.1080/24748668.2025.2530293)
- Yang, T. et al., 2023. Current advances in computational lung ultrasound imaging: a review. IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control 70 (1), pp.2-15. (10.1109/TUFFC.2022.3221682)
- Yewle, A. D. , Mirzayeva, L. and Karakuş, O. 2025. Multi-modal data fusion and deep ensemble learning for accurate crop yield prediction. Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment 38 101613. (10.1016/j.rsase.2025.101613)
Conferences
- Awais, C. M. et al., 2025. Feature-space oversampling for addressing class imbalance in SAR ship classification. Presented at: IGARSS 2025 Brisbane, Australia 03-08 August 2025. IGARSS 2025 - 2025 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium. IEEE. , pp.2010-2014. (10.1109/igarss55030.2025.11242334)
- Balaji, S. and Karakus, O. 2024. Unsupervised structural damage assessment from space using the segment anything model (USDA-SAM): A case Study of the 2023 Turkiye earthquake. Presented at: International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium Athens, Greece 7-12 July 2024. IGARSS 2024 - 2024 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium. IEEE. , pp.585-589. (10.1109/IGARSS53475.2024.10640396)
- Karakus, O. , Kuruoglu, E. E. and Achim, A. 2020. Modelling sea clutter in sar images using Laplace-Rician distribution. Presented at: 2020 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) Barcelona, Spain 04-08 May 2020. ICASSP 2020 - 2020 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP). Vol. 2020-M.IEEE. , pp.1454-1458. (10.1109/ICASSP40776.2020.9053289)
- Karakus, O. , Kuruoglu, E. E. and Altinkaya, M. A. 2016. Bayesian estimation of polynomial moving average models with unknown degree of nonlinearity. Presented at: 24th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO) Budapest, Hungary 29 Aug-2 Sept 2016. 24th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO). , pp.1543-1547. (10.1109/EUSIPCO.2016.7760507)
- Karakus, O. , Kuruoglu, E. E. and Altinkaya, M. A. 2015. Long term wind speed prediction with polynomial autoregressive model. Presented at: 23nd Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU) Malatya, Turkey 16-19 May 2015. 23nd Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference. IEEE. , pp.645-648. (10.1109/SIU.2015.7129907)
- Karakus, O. , Kuruoglu, E. and Achim, A. 2021. A modification of Rician distribution for SAR image modelling. Presented at: 13th European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar (EUSAR 2021) Virtual 29 March - 01 April 2021. EUSAR 2021; 13th European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar. Vol. 2021-M., pp.587-592.
- Karakus, O. , Kuruoglu, E. and Altinkaya, M. 2017. Nonlinear model selection for PARMA processes using RJMCMC. Presented at: EUSIPCO 2017: 25th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO) 28 August-2 September 2017. 2017 25th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO). IEEE. , pp.2056-2060. (10.23919/EUSIPCO.2017.8081571)
- Karakus, O. and Ozen, S. 2012. European terrestrial digital television standards performance comparison under AWGN channel. Presented at: 20th Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU) Mugla, Turkey 18-20 April 2012. 20th Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference. IEEE. , pp.1-4. (10.1109/SIU.2012.6204570)
- Karakus, O. , Rizaev, I. and Achim, A. 2021. A simulation study to evaluate the performance of the cauchy proximal operator in despeckling SAR images of the sea surface. Presented at: 2020 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) Waikoloa, HI, USA 26 September - 02 October 2020. IGARSS 2020 - 2020 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium. , pp.1568-1571. (10.1109/IGARSS39084.2020.9323696)
- Karakus, O. 2013. The performance comparison of European DTTV standards with LDPC-encoded-DVB-T standard under AWGN channel. Presented at: International Computer Symposium ICS 2012 12-14 December 2012. Published in: Chang, R. , Jain, L. C. and Peng, S. eds. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Applications - Volume 1: Proceedings of the International Computer Symposium ICS 2012 Held at Hualien, Taiwan, December 12–14, 2012. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies , pp.683-691. (10.1007/978-3-642-35452-6_69)
- Karakus, O. , Altinkaya, M. A. and Kilicaslan, K. 2013. The effect of convolutional encoder memory on the sphere decoding search radius in MIMO systems. Presented at: 21st Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU) 24-26 April 2013. 2013 21st Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU). IEEE(10.1109/siu.2013.6531238)
- Karakus, O. , Kuruoglu, E. E. and Altinkaya, M. A. 2015. Estimation of the nonlinearity degree for polynomial autoregressive processes with RJMCMC. Presented at: 2015 European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2015) 31 August-4 September 2015. 2015 23rd European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO). IEEE. , pp.958-962. (10.1109/eusipco.2015.7362524)
- Karakus, O. , Kuruoglu, E. E. and Altinkaya, M. A. 2015. Long term wind speed prediction with polynomial autoregressive model. Presented at: 23rd Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU 2015) 16-19 May 2015. 2015 23nd Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU). IEEE(10.1109/siu.2015.7129907)
- Karakus, O. and Ozen, S. 2012. European Terrestrial Digital Television standards performance comparison under AWGN channel. Presented at: 20th Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU) 18-20 April 2012. 2012 20th Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU). IEEE(10.1109/siu.2012.6204570)
- Ma, W. , Achim, A. and Karakus, O. 2021. Exploiting the dual-tree complex wavelet transform for ship wake detection in SAR imagery. Presented at: IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2021) Toronto, ON, Canada 6-11 June 2021. ICASSP 2021 - 2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP). IEEE(10.1109/ICASSP39728.2021.9414898)
- Ma, W. , Karakuş, O. and Rosin, P. L. 2025. Patch-GAN transfer learning with reconstructive models for cloud removal. Presented at: 2025 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium Brisbane, Australia 3-8 August 2025. Proceedings of the International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium. IEEE. , pp.6275-6279. (10.1109/igarss55030.2025.11243736)
- Ma, Z. et al. 2025. The impact of training data on MRS metabolite quantification with deep learning. Presented at: ISMRM & ISMRT Annual Meeting & Exhibition 2025 Honolulu, Hawaii, USA 10-15 May 2025.
- Ozbek, N. , Ertan, G. and Karakus, O. 2011. Interactive quality assessment for asymmetric coding of 3D video. Presented at: 2011 3DTV-Conference: The True Vision - Capture, Transmission and Display of 3D Video (3DTV-CON 2011) 16-18 May 2011. 2011 3DTV Conference: The True Vision - Capture, Transmission and Display of 3D Video (3DTV-CON). IEEE(10.1109/3DTV.2011.5877199)
- Yang, T. et al., 2024. Dubline: a deep unfolding network for B-line detection in lung ultrasound images. Presented at: IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) Athens, Greece 27-30 May 2024. 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI). IEEE. , pp.1-4. (10.1109/ISBI56570.2024.10635643)
- Yang, T. , Karakus, O. and Achim, A. 2020. Detection of ship wakes in sar imagery using cauchy regularisation. Presented at: 27th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2020) United Arab Emirates 25-28 October 2020. 2020 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP). IEEE. , pp.3473-3477. (10.1109/icip40778.2020.9190920)
Other
- Achim, A. and Karakus, O. 2020. Cauchy proximal splitting (CPS). Bristol: University of Bristol(10.5523/BRIS.15Y437LOA26CR2NX8GNN3L4HZI)
- Karakus, O. and Achim, A. 2020. AssenSAR wake detector. Bristol: University of Bristol(10.5523/BRIS.F2Q4T5PQLIX62SV5NTVQ51YJY)
- Karakus, O. and Achim, A. 2020. QuantLUS - CPS v1.0. Bristol: University of Bristol(10.5523/BRIS.Z47PFKWQIVFJ2D0QHYQ7V3U1I)
Research
My research area spans computer vision, engineering and applied statistics, and specifically is focused on Bayesian signal and image processing, statistical learning, inverse problems, object detection and tracking in images, convex/non-convex optimisation, Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods, and uncertainty quantification.
Even though coming from an electronics engineering background, up to date, I have conducted research on the statistical learning and inference approaches in detail and tried to apply my findings to various real-life measurements such as wind speed, earthquake acceleration, telecommunication system noise and channel modelling, as well as synthetically generated data sets.
I have also had the chance to work in the statistical computational imaging area during my time at the University of Bristol, which has equipped me with statistical image processing, remote sensing and probabilistic computational imaging algorithm development.
Teaching
I am the module lead for modules of:
- CMT309 - Computational Data Science
- CMT314 - Data Science Foundations
- CMT315 - Statistical Programming
Biography
I am a Lecturer (analogous to Assistant Professor) in the School of Computer Science and Informatics at Cardiff University. I received my B.Sc. degree in electronics engineering (with Honours) from Istanbul Kültür University, Turkey in 2009. Then, I received my M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electronics and communication engineering from the İzmir Institute of Technology (IZTECH), Turkey, in 2012 and 2018, respectively. I have been awarded the 2020 IEEE Turkey Ph.D. Thesis Award.
Before joining Cardiff University, between 2018 and 2021, I was with the Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering at the University of Bristol as a Postdoctoral Research Associate.
I have co-authored over 40 scientific publications and am a member of IEEE and IEEE Signal Processing Society.
Honours and awards
- 2020 PhD Thesis Award / the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Turkey Section
- 2017 International PhD Fellow / The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK)/Turkey
- 2012 – 2017 PhD Scholar / The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK)/Turkey
- 2012 Graduate Scholar / Turkcell Academy, Technology Leaders/Turkey
- 2009 – 2011 MSc Scholar / The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK)/Turkey
- 2009 Top student of the Department of Electronics Engineering / 3.80/4.00 GPA / Istanbul Kultur University / Turkey
- 2007 – 2009 High Honour Student / Istanbul Kultur University / Turkey
Professional memberships
- 2018 – Member, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- 2018 – Member, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) "Signal Processing Society"
Academic positions
- 2018 - 2021: Research Associate in Image Processing, University of Bristol
- 2012 - 2018: Research Assistant - Izmir Institute of Technology (IZTECH), Turkey
- 2017 – 2017 Visiting Scholar - Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione (ISTI)/The Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR)/Pisa, Italy
- 2009 - 2012: Research Assistant - Yasar University, Turkey.
Committees and reviewing
- 2021 – Editorial Board, Digital Signal Processing: A Review Journal/Elsevier
- 2020 – Reviewer, Applied Ocean Research/Elsevier
- 2020 – Reviewer, Transactions on Signal Processing/IEEE
- 2020 – Reviewer, Transactions on Computational Imaging / IEEE
- 2020 – Reviewer, Remote Sensing of Environment / Elsevier
- 2019 – Reviewer, Neural Processing Letters /Springer
- 2019 – Reviewer, Remote Sensing / MDPI
- 2019 – Reviewer, Sensors / MDPI
- 2018 – Reviewer, Transactions on Image Processing/IEEE
- 2018 – Reviewer, Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing/IEEE
- 2018 – Reviewer, Transactions on Control Systems Technology /IEEE
- 2018 – Reviewer, Transactions on Sustainable Energy / IEEE
- 2017 – Reviewer, Digital Signal Processing: A Review Journal/Elsevier
- 2017 – Reviewer, Transactions on Power Systems/IEEE
Supervisions
I am interested in supervising PhD students in the areas of:
- Remote Sensing Computational Imaging for Environmental Problems
- Statistical Computational Imaging
- Sport Analytics
- Bayesian Deep Learning
- Uncertainty Quantification for Images
- Irreversible Bayesian Sampling
If you are interested in working with me for your postgrad degree (MSc or PhD) you can directly connect with me via [email protected]
I am also accepting PhD students for application via the China Scholarship Council Ph.D. Scholarships.
Current Supervision
Ph.D. Co-Supervision
- Pengcheng Hao (UoB - 50%) - Target tracking in synthetic aperture radar video sequences - 11/2018 - ...
- Tianqi Yang (UoB - 30%) - Machine Learning for Lung Ultrasound Imagery Applications - 10/2020 - ...
- Wanli Ma (Cardiff - 80%) - Remote Sensing Image Fusion for Environmental Applications (ReSIF) - 10/2021 - ...
- Zien Ma (Cardiff - 40%) - Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy - 10/2021 - ...
- Jianqiao Weng (Cardiff - 40%) - Anomaly Detection - 10/2022 - ...
- Benjamin Wiriyapong (Cardiff - 60%) - Variational Bayes - 01/2023 - ...
- Samuel Everest (Cardiff - 51%) - Explainable AI - 07/2023
Current supervision
Benjamin Wiriyapong
Contact Details
Research themes
Specialisms
- Satellite remote sensing
- Machine learning
- Environmental assessment and monitoring
- Data science
- sport analytics