Hakan Karaoguz is a postdoctoral researcher at RPL (CVAP). He obtained his PhD degree from department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Boğaziçi University in 2015. During his PhD, he was a member of Intelligent Systems Laboratory (ISL) under supervision of Prof. Işıl Bozma. He received his MSc in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Boğaziçi University in 2009 and BS in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Koç University in 2007. His research interests include computer vision, robot vision, machine learning and mobile robotics.

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Work

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Postdoctoral Researcher

Oct. 2015 - Present

Royal Institute of Technology, KTH - EECS, RPL (CVAP)

Education

Ph.D.	2009 - 2015	Bogazici University - Electrical and Electronics Engineering
M.Sc.	2007 - 2009	Bogazici University - Electrical and Electronics Engineering
B.Sc.	2002 - 2007	Koç University - Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Ph.D. Thesis

"Autonomous Multi-Robot Topological Spatial Cognition", Boğaziçi University, 2015.
Supervisor: Prof. H. Işıl Bozma

Abstract: Currently, multi-robot systems can only be used in limited environments. In order to integrate robots to daily life of humans, the robots should be able to understand and reason about the surrounding environment. In this thesis, a topological spatial cognition model that enables robots to reason about the environment and the spatial relations using both the robot’s own knowledge and knowledge obtained from other robots is developed. In addition, the proposed methods are implemented and tested in real-time using outdoor robots.

M.Sc. Thesis

"Vision based control algorithms for a small size robot soccer team", Boğaziçi University, 2009.
Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Mehmet AKAR

Research Interests

• Computer Vision
• Robot Vision
• Machine Learning
• Mobile Robotics

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Theses Supervised

• ● Vision based indoor object detection for a drone, Linnea Grip, M.Sc. Thesis, KTH, 2017
• ● Autonomous Identification of Human Activity Regions, Lin Qi, M.Sc. Thesis, KTH, 2017

Project Experience

• ● European Community's Seventh Framework Programme, CENTAURO, Robust Mobility and Dexterous Manipulation in Disaster Response by Fullbody Telepresence in a Centaur-like Robot, (Nov 2017 - Present), Researcher.
• ● Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research, FACT, Factories of the Future, (Jun 2017 - Present), Researcher.
• ● European Community's Seventh Framework Programme, STRANDS, Spatio-Temporal Representation and Activities for Cognitive Control in Long-Term Scenarios, (Oct 2015 - Jun 2017), Postdoctoral Researcher.
• ● TÜBİTAK (Turkey Scientific and Technological Research Foundation), "111E285", Hybrid Mapping and Scene Perception by Comparison Methodology for Multi-Robots, (2012- Jan 2015), Researcher.
• ● TETAM (formerly TAM) (Telecommunications and Informatics Research Center), (2011- Jan 2015), Researcher.
• ● TÜBİTAK, "107E276", Decentralized Synchronization Algorithms in Wireless Sensor Networks, (2008-2009), Researcher.

International Journals

• ● Erkent O. , H. Karaoguz, and H. I. Bozma, “Hierarchically Self-Organizing Visual Place Memory”, (to appear) Advanced Robotics, 31(16), pp. 865-879, 2017
• ● Karaoguz H. and H.I. Bozma, "An Integrated Model of Autonomous Topological Spatial Cognition", Autonomous Robots, vol. 40, pp. 1379-1402, 2016
• ● Karaoguz H., O. Erkent and H.I. Bozma, "RGB-D based place representation in topological maps", Machine Vision and Applications, 25(8), pp 1913-1927, 2014

Selected Conference Papers

• ● Karaoguz H, N. Bore, J. Folkesson and P. Jensfelt , “Human-Centric Partitioning of the Environment”, Int. Symp Rob. Hum. Interact. Com. (RO-MAN), 2017
• ● Karaoguz H, J. Folkesson and P. Jensfelt "Evaluation of R-FCN Features for Object Segmentation", The First Swedish Symposium on Deep Learning, 2017
• ● Karaoguz H., H.I. Bozma, "Merging Appearance-Based Spatial Knowledge in Multirobot Systems", In Proc. Int. Conf. Rob. Sys. (IROS), 2016
• ● Karaoguz H., H.I. Bozma, "Topological Place Recognition Based on Long-Term Memory Retrieval", In Proc. Int. Conf. Adv. Robot. (ICAR), 2015 (Won Best Student Paper Award)
• ● Karaoguz H., H.I. Bozma, "Reliable Topological Place Detection in Bubble Space", In Proc. Int. Conf. Robot. Autom. (ICRA), pp 697-702, 2014