	Dr.-Ing. Hazım Kemal Ekenel
	ITU, Department of Computer Engineering, Turkey

Short Biography

Dr.-Ing. Ekenel is the head of young investigator group on “Facial Image Processing and Analysis” at the Computer Science Department in Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (TH), Germany.

He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical and Electronic engineering from Bogazici University in 2001 and 2003, respectively, and Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Karlsruhe (TH) in 2009.

His current research focuses on face processing and content-based image and video retrieval. He has been developing face recognition systems for smart environments, humanoid robots, and video analysis.

He had been the task leader for face recognition in the European Computers in the Human Interaction Loop (CHIL) project and he organized face recognition evaluations within the CLEAR 2006, 2007 international evaluation campaigns.

He has been responsible for face recognition in the German Humanoid Robots project. He is currently the task leader of face recognition in the French-German Quaero project.

He has received the EBF European Biometric Research Award in 2008 for his contributions to the field of face recognition.

His research on face recognition has been featured in the Quaero project and presented at the cover of the project’s homepage.

His research led more than 40 publications in international journals, conferences, and workshops.

In addition to the scientific work, many real-world systems have been developed based on his algorithm.

With these systems, he received the Best Demo Award at the IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition in 2008.

Besides his research activities on face analysis, he has been also leading the video retrieval systems development efforts for the NIST TRECVID 2007, 2008, and 2009 evaluations.

Employment

March 2009 – present	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Computer Science Department, Institute for Anthropomatics, Karlsruhe, Germany Group Leader*
June 2004 – Feb. 2009	University of Karlsruhe (TH), Computer Science Department, Institute for Anthropomatics, Karlsruhe, Germany Researcher -Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter-
Jan. 2003 – June 2004	Sabancı University, Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, İstanbul, Turkey Project Specialist
Oct. 2001 – Sept. 2002	Vistek Ltd., İstanbul, Turkey Research Engineer

* Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) is the result of the merger of the University of Karlsruhe and the Research Center, Karlsruhe.

Education

June 2004 – Feb. 2009	University of Karlsruhe (TH), Karlsruhe, Germany Ph.D. in Computer Science Thesis title: A Robust Face Recognition Algorithm for Real-World Applications Supervisors: Prof. A. Waibel and Prof. J. Kittler
Sep. 2001 – Sep. 2003	Boğaziçi University, İstanbul, Turkey M.Sc. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering Thesis title: Expression and Illumination Insensitive Independent Components and Wavelet Subbands for Face Recognition Supervisor: Prof. B. Sankur
Sep. 1997 – July 2001	Boğaziçi University, İstanbul, Turkey B.Sc. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Professional Activities

Co-organizer of the International Workshop on Benchmarking Facial Image Analysis Technologies, BeFIT 2011.
Program Committee Member, 13th International Conference on Computer Vision, ICCV 2011.
Program Committee Member, 14th International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns, CAIP 2011.
Demo Chair, IEEE Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference, 2011.
Program Committee Member, IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, FG 2011.
Technical Program Committee Member, Social Behavior Analysis Workshop, 2011.
Technical Program Committee Member, Track IV: Biometrics and Human Computer Interaction, International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 2010.
Technical Program Committee Member, First International Workshop on Human Behaviour Understanding, 2010.
Programme Committee Member, Workshop on Automated Information Extraction in Media Production, AIEMPRO 2010.
Programme Committee Member, Workshop on Automated Information Extraction in Media Production, AIEMPRO 2009.
Evaluation Task Organizer, International Evaluation Workshop on Classification of Events, Activities and Relationships, CLEAR 2007.
Technical Committee Member, IEEE Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference, 2007.
Evaluation Task Organizer, International Evaluation Workshop on Classification of Events, Activities and Relationships, CLEAR 2006.

Awards / Achievements

Received Young Investigator Group funding of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, 2010.
Received German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) grant within the Germany/Hong Kong Joint Research Scheme, 2010.
Recieved interACT grant to establish connections with interACT members Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Waseda University, Japan, 2009.
His research on face recognition has been featured in the Quaero project and presented at the cover of the homepage, 2009.
EBF European Biometric Research Award 2008.
Best Demo Award, IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition 2008.
Best performing face recognition systems in CHIL/CLEAR evaluations, 2004-2007.
Included in the success stories by EUREKA with the project “EUREKA Project E! 2007 PACK 2000 -Flexible Environment-Friendly Packaging System Using Advanced Vision Technology and Recyclable/Homogeneous Materials”, 2004.
Interpro Informatics Prize in the Research and Development category with the project “A Robust Object Recognition and Pose Estimation System for Robotic Applications” developed for Festo AG & Co. KG – Germany, 2002.
Interpro Informatics Prize in the International Success category with the project “EUREKA Project E! 1770 St. Joseph -2000 New Generation Woodworking Machinery/Distributed Control with Vision for Agile Furniture Factory in JIT Enterprise”, 2002.
Ranked 47th out of more than one million applicants in the nation-wide university entrance exam, 1997.

Current Projects

April 2010 – present	“Facial Image Analysis and Processing”, funded by the “Concept for the Future” of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology within the framework of the German Excellence Initiative
Jan. 2010 – present	“Robust Face Detection Using Multiple Cues”, funded by German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
Jan 2009 – present	“Gesture Based Human Computer Interaction in Emergency Management Systems”, funded by German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
May 2008 – present	“Quaero”, funded by French State Agency for Innovation (OSEO)
June 2004 – present	“SFB 588 Humanoid Robots – Learning and Cooperating Multimodal Robots”, funded by German Research Foundation (DFG)

Previous Projects

June 2004 – Dec. 2007	“CHIL – Computers in the Human Interaction Loop”, funded by European Union under the Sixth Framework Programme, Integrated Project
Jan. 2003 – June 2004	"E! 2007 Pack 2000 Flexible Environment-Friendly Packaging System Using Advanced Vision Technology and Recyclable/Homogeneous Materials", funded by EUREKA
Jan. 2003 – March 2003	“A Robust Object Recognition and Pose Estimation System for Robotic Applications”, funded by Festo AG & Co. KG
Aug. 2002 – Sept. 2003	"Applications of Independent Component Analysis in Communications, Image Processing and Geophysic", funded by The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK)
Oct. 2001 – July 2002	“E! 1770 St. Joseph-2000 New Generation Woodworking Machinery/ Distributed Control With Vision For Agile Furniture Factory In Jit Enterprise”, funded by EUREKA

Offered Lectures
Semester	Title	Type	Time
SS 2011	Inhaltsbasierte Bild- und Videoanalyse (Content-Based Image and Video Retrieval)	Vorlesung (V)	11:30-13:00 50.34 Raum -101 11.04.2011 weitere... 11:30-13:00 50.34 Raum -101 20.06.2011 11:30-13:00 50.34 Raum -101 27.06.2011 11:30-13:00 50.34 Raum -101 30.05.2011 11:30-13:00 50.34 Raum -101 16.05.2011 11:30-13:00 50.34 Raum -101 11.07.2011 11:30-13:00 50.34 Raum -101 18.04.2011 11:30-13:00 50.34 Raum -101 23.05.2011 11:30-13:00 50.34 Raum -101 02.05.2011 11:30-13:00 50.34 Raum -101 06.06.2011 11:30-13:00 50.34 Raum -101 09.05.2011 11:30-13:00 50.34 Raum -101 04.07.2011
Wintersemester 2010/11	Seminar: Facial Image Processing and Analysis	Seminar	Thursdays from 11:30h to 13:00h
Sommersemester 2010	Inhaltsbasierte Bild- und Videoanalyse (Content-Based Image and Video Retrieval)	Vorlesung	Montag, 11:30-13:00 wöchentlich Raum -101 (-1. Stock) 50.34 Informatik, Kollegiengebäude am Fasanengarten
Sommersemester 2010	Seminar: Inhaltsbasierte Bild- und Videoanalyse	Seminar	Mittwoch, 15:45-17:15 wöchentlich
Sommersemester 2009	Inhaltsbasierte Bild- und Videoanalyse (Content-Based Image and Video Retrieval)	Vorlesung	Montag, 11:30-13:00 einmalig Raum 301 (3. Stock) 50.34 Informatik, Kollegiengebäude am Fasanengarten 06.07.2009 - 06.07.2009 Montag, 11:30-13:00 wöchentlich Raum -101 (-1. Stock) 50.34 Informatik, Kollegiengebäude am Fasanengarten
Sommersemester 2009	Inhaltsbasierte Bild- und Videoanalyse	Seminar	Mittwoch, 15:45-17:15 einmalig Raum 201 (2. Stock) 50.34 Informatik, Kollegiengebäude am Fasanengarten 22.07.2009 - 22.07.2009
Sommersemester 2008	Multimedia Analyse und Retrieval	Seminar	Mittwoch, 15:45-17:15 wöchentlich Raum 201 (2. Stock) 50.34 Informatik, Kollegiengebäude am Fasanengarten

Ongoing
Name	Function
Fischer, Mika	Research Assistant, PhD Student
Gao, Hua
Gehrig, Tobias	Research Assistant, PhD Student, Paramedic (Ersthelfer), ITB

Completed

Diploma Theses (M.S. Theses)
Graduand	Title	Date
Tomas Semela	Comparative Analysis of Content-based TV Genre Classification and Web Video Catergorization	2012/07
Dragos Constantin	Mobile Plant Classification	2012/07
Nikolas Hesse	Multi-View Facial Expression Classification	2011/03
Chengchao Qu	Non-Rigid Structure from Motion for Building 3D Face Model	2011/03
Lorant Szasz-Toth	Combination of Classifier Cascades and Training Sample Selection for Robust Face Detection	2009/01
Jordi Salvador Marcos	High-level Feature Extraction of Video Shots for Content-based Video Retrieval	2008/07
Hua Gao	Face Registration with Active Appearance Models for Local Appearance-based Face Recognition	2008/06
Mika Fischer	Automatic identification of persons in TV series	2008/05
Johannes Stallkamp	Video-based Face Recognition Using Local Appearance-based Models	2006/11
Daniella Kern	Utilizing Illumination Classification For Robust Face Recognition	2005/08

Study Theses (Graduation Theses)
Graduand	Title	Date
Kay Fleischmann	Analyse von Mikrogesichtsausdrücken	2012/12
Matthias Richter	Facial Expression Classification on Web Images	2012/01
Matthias Steiner	Facial Image-based Age Estimation	2010/09
Filip Dimitrov	Face Search Filtering	2010/02
Franziska Kraus	Fast Food Categorization Using Color Features and Local Descriptors	2009/12
Arne Schumann	High-level Feature Extraction from Videos	2009/09
Masoud Roschani	Evaluation of Local Descriptors on the Labeled Faces in the Wild Dataset	2009/07
Kevin Kilgour	Automatic Video Retrieval using Text Classification on the TRECVID 2007 Video Data Set	2008/06
Lorant Szasz-Toth	Open-set Face Recognition	2008/02
Hua Gao	Local Appearance-based 3D Face Recognition	2006/11
Stephan Könn	Gesichteridentifikation auf Bildsequenzen in Mensch-Roboter-Interaktion	2006/10

Current Visiting Students
Name	Function	Group

Previous Visiting Students
Name	Function	Group
Arar, Murat	Visiting M.S. Student	Boğaziçi University
Arı, İsmail	Visiting Ph.D. Student	Boğaziçi University
Güney, Fatma	Visiting M.S. Student	Boğaziçi University
Jiang, Feijun	Visiting Ph.D. Student	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Luo, Dan	Visiting Ph.D. Student	Waseda University

Book Chapter
Author	Title	Source
A. Pnevmatikakis, H.K. Ekenel, C. Barras, J. Hernando	Multimodal Person Identification	Book Chapter in 'Computers in the Human Interaction Loop', Human-Computer Interaction Series, Springer Verlag, London, 2009.

Journal Papers
Author	Title	Source
M. Fischer, H.K. Ekenel, R. Stiefelhagen	Person Re-identification in TV Series Using Robust Face Recognition and User Feedback	Springer Multimedia Tools and Applications, 55(1), pp. 83-104, 2011.
H.K. Ekenel, J. Stallkamp, R. Stiefelhagen	A Video-based Door Monitoring System Using Local Appearance-based Face Models	Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Vol. 114, No. 5, pp. 596 – 608, May 2010.
K. Bernardin, H.K. Ekenel, R. Stiefelhagen	Multimodal identity tracking in a smart room.	Personal and Ubiquitous Computing 13(1): 25-31, 2009.
R. Stiefelhagen, H.K. Ekenel, C. Fügen, P. Gieselmann, H. Holzapfel, F. Kraft, K. Nickel, M. Voit, A. Waibel	Enabling Multimodal Human-Robot Interaction for the Karlsruhe Humanoid Robot	IEEE Transactions on Robotics, Special Issue on Human-Robot Interaction, Vol. 23, No. 5, October 2007.
H. K. Ekenel, H. Gao, R. Stiefelhagen	3-D Face Recognition using Local Appearance-Based Models	IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 630-635, September 2007.
R. Stiefelhagen, K. Bernardin, H.K. Ekenel, J. McDonough, K. Nickel, M. Voit, M. Wölfel	Audio-Visual Perception of a Lecturer in a Smart Seminar Room	Signal Processing, Vol. 86 (12), Dec. 2006.
H.K. Ekenel, B. Sankur	Multiresolution Face Recognition	Image and Vision Computing, Vol. 23, No.5, pp. 469-477, May 2005.
H.K. Ekenel, B. Sankur	Feature selection in the independent component subspace for face recognition	Pattern Recognition Letters, Vol. 25, No. 12, pp. 1377-1388, Sept. 2004.

Conference Papers
Author	Title	Source
T. Gehrig, H.K. Ekenel	A Common Framework for Real-Time Emotion Recognition and Facial Action Unit Detection	IEEE Workshop on CVPR for Human Communicative Behavior Analysis, June 2011.
H.K.Ekenel, R. Stiefelhagen	A Generic Face Representation Approach for Local Appearance based Face Verification	In Proc. of CVPR IEEE Workshop on Face Recognition Grand Challenge Experiments, San Diego, CA, USA, June 2005.
H. Holzapfel, T. Schaaf, H.K. Ekenel, C. Shaa, A. Waibel	A Robot Learns to Know People - First Contacts of a Robot	In Proc. of 29^th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI2006), Bremen, Germany, June 2006.
E. Arisoy, M.L. Arslan, M.N. Demiralp, H.K. Ekenel, M. Kelepir, H.M. Meral, A.S. Ozsoy, O. Sayli, O. Turk, B. Yolcu	Acoustic Analysis of Turkish Sounds	In Proc. of 12^th International Conference on Turkish Linguistics (ICTL 2004), Izmir, Turkey, August 11-13, 2004.
K. Nickel, T. Gehrig, H.K. Ekenel, J. McDonough, R. Stiefelhagen	An Audio-visual Particle Filter for Speaker Tracking on the CLEAR’06 Evaluation Dataset	CLEAR Evaluation Workshop, LNCS, Vol. 4122, pp. 69-80, Southampton, UK, April 2006.
H.K. Ekenel, R. Stiefelhagen	An Un-awarely Collected Real World Face Database: The ISL-Door Face Database	In Proc. of International Conference on Computer Vision Systems, ICVS 2007, Bielefeld, Germany, March 2007.
H.K. Ekenel, R. Stiefelhagen	Analysis of Local Appearance-based Face Recognition: Effects of Feature Selection and Feature Normalization	In Proc. of CVPR Biometrics Workshop, New York, USA, June 2006.
D. Luo, H. Gao, H.K. Ekenel, J. Ohya	Appearance-based Human Gesture Recognition Using Multimodal Features for Human Computer Interaction	IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging, San Francisco, USA, January 2011.
K. Nickel, H.K. Ekenel, M. Voit, R. Stiefelhagen	Audio-Visual Perception of Humans for a Humanoid Robot	In Proc. of 2^nd Intl. Workshop on Human-Centered Robotics Systems, Munich, October 2006.
H.K. Ekenel, R. Stiefelhagen	Automatic Frequency Band Selection for Illumination Robust Face Recognition	In Proc. of Intl. Conf. on Pattern Recognition (ICPR’10), Istanbul, Turkey, August 2010.
H.K. Ekenel, R. Stiefelhagen	Block Selection in the Local Appearance-based Face Recognition Scheme	In Proc. of CVPR Biometrics Workshop, New York, USA, June 2006.
H. Gao, H. K. Ekenel, M. Fischer, R. Stiefelhagen	Boosting Pseudo Census Transform Features for Face Alignment	BMVC 2011, Dundee.
H.K. Ekenel, T. Semela, R. Stiefelhagen	Content-based Video Genre Classification Using Multiple Cues	In Proc. of 3rd Intl. Workshop on Automated Information Extraction in Media Production (AIEMPro’10), Florence, Italy, October 2010.
F. Jiang, B. Shi, M. Fischer, H.K. Ekenel	Effective Discretization of Gabor Features for Real-Time Face Detection	IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP’11), Brussels, Belgium, September 2011.
H.K. Ekenel, R. Stiefelhagen	Face Alignment by Minimizing the Closest Classification Distance	In Proc. of Intl. Conf. on Biometrics: Theory, Applications and Systems (BTAS’09), Washington DC, USA, September 2009.
H.K. Ekenel, J. Stallkamp, H. Gao, M. Fischer, R. Stiefelhagen	Face Recognition for Smart Interactions	In Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo, pp. 1007-1010, Beijing, China, July 2007.
H.K. Ekenel, M. Fischer, R. Stiefelhagen	Face Recognition in Smart Rooms	Machine Learning for Multimodal Interaction, LNCS, Vol. 4892, pp. 120-131, Brno, Czech Republic, June 2007.
T. Gehrig, H.K. Ekenel	Facial Action Unit Detection Using Kernel Partial Least Squares	1st IEEE Int'l Workshop on Benchmarking Facial Image Analysis Technologies (BeFIT 2011), Barcelona, Spain, November 2011.
D. Luo, H. Gao, H.K. Ekenel, J. Ohya	Facial Analysis Aided Human Gesture Recognition for Human Computer Interaction	IAPR Conference on Machine Vision Applications, Nara, Japan, June 2011.
M. Richter, T. Gehrig, H. K. Ekenel	Facial Expression Classification on Web Images	21st International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2012), Tsukuba, Japan, November 2012.
M. Wolfel, H.K. Ekenel	Feature Weighted Mahalanobis Distance: Improved Robustness for Gaussian Classifiers	In Proc. of 13^th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2005), Antalya, Turkey, September 2005.
H.K. Ekenel, R. Stiefelhagen	Generic versus Salient Region-based Partitioning for Local Appearance Face Recognition	Intl. Conf. on Biometrics (ICB’09), LNCS, Vol. 5558, pp. 367-375, Alghero, Italy, June 2009.
H.K. Ekenel, Q. Jin, M. Fischer, R. Stiefelhagen	ISL Person Identification Systems in CLEAR 2007	CLEAR Evaluation Workshop, LNCS, Vol. 4625, pp. 256-265, Baltimore, US, May 2007.
H.K. Ekenel, Q. Jin	ISL Person Identification Systems in the CLEAR Evaluations	CLEAR Evaluation Workshop, LNCS, Vol. 4122, pp. 249-257, Southampton, UK, April 2006.
H. Gao, H.K. Ekenel, R. Stiefelhagen	Identifying Important People in Broadcast News Videos	IAPR Conference on Machine Vision Applications, Nara, Japan, June 2011.
D. Kern, H.K. Ekenel, R. Stiefelhagen	Illumination Subspaces based Robust Face Recognition	IEEE Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference, Antalya, Turkey, April 2006.
S. Könn, H. Holzapfel, H.K. Ekenel, A. Waibel	Integrating Face-ID into an Interactive Person-ID Learning System	In Proc. of International Conference on Computer Vision Systems, ICVS 2007, Bielefeld, Germany, March 2007.
M. Fischer, H.K. Ekenel, R. Stiefelhagen	Interactive person re-identification in TV series	In Proc. of Intl. Workshop on Content-based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI’10), Grenoble, France, June 2010.
T. Gehrig, K. Nickel, H.K. Ekenel, U. Klee, J. McDonough	Kalman Filters for Audio-Video Source Localization	In Proc. of IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA 2005), New York, USA, October, 2005.
H.K. Ekenel, A. Schumann, H. Gao, R. Stiefelhagen	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) at TRECVID 2009	TRECVID Evaluation Workshop, Gaithersburg, MD, USA, November 2009.
H.K.Ekenel, R. Stiefelhagen	Local Appearance based Face Recognition Using Discrete Cosine Transform	In Proc. of 13^th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2005), Antalya, Turkey, September 2005.
H.K. Ekenel, M. Fischer, E. Tekeli, R. Stiefelhagen, A. Ercil	Local Binary Pattern Domain Local Appearance Face Recognition	IEEE Signal Processing, Communication and Applications Conference (SIU 2008), Didim, Turkey, April 2008.
H.K. Ekenel, R. Stiefelhagen	Local Wavelet Analysis for Face Recognition	IEEE Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference, Eskisehir, Turkey, June 2007.
M. Bäuml, K. Bernardin, M. Fischer, H.K. Ekenel, R. Stiefelhagen	Multi-Pose Face Recognition for Person Retrieval in Camera Networks	In Proc. of 7th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal-Based Surveillance (AVSS’10), Boston, USA, September 2010.
H.K. Ekenel, M. Fischer, Q. Jin, R. Stiefelhagen	Multi-modal Person Identification in a Smart Environment	In Proc. of CVPR Biometrics Workshop, Minneapolis, USA, June 2007.
H. Gao, H.K. Ekenel, M. Fischer, R. Stiefelhagen	Multi-resolution Local Appearance-based Face Verification	In Proc. of Intl. Conf. on Pattern Recognition (ICPR’10), Istanbul, Turkey, August 2010.
K. Kumatani, H.K. Ekenel, H. Gao, R. Stiefelhagen, A. Ercil	Multi-stream Gaussian Mixture Model based Facial Feature Localization	IEEE Signal Processing, Communication and Applications Conference (SIU 2008), Didim, Turkey, April 2008.
L. Rybok, M. Voit, H.K. Ekenel, R. Stiefelhagen	Multi-view Based Estimation of Human Upper-Body Orientation	In Proc. of Intl. Conf. on Pattern Recognition (ICPR’10), Istanbul, Turkey, August 2010.
N. Hesse, T. Gehrig, H. Gao, H. K. Ekenel	Multi-view Facial Expression Recognition using Local Appearance Features	21st International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2012), Tsukuba, Japan, November 2012.
K. Bernardin, H.K. Ekenel, R. Stiefelhagen	Multimodal Identity Tracking in a Smartroom	In Proc. of 3^rd IFIP Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications & Innovations (AIAI), Athens, Greece, June 2006.
H.K. Ekenel, S.Y. Bilgin, I. Eden, M. Kirisci, H. Erdogan, A. Ercil	Multimodal Person Verification from Video Sequences	Special Workshop in Maui (SWIM): Lectures by Masters in Speech Processing, Maui, Hawaii, January 12-14, 2004.
H. Erdogan, A. Ercil, H.K. Ekenel, S.Y. Bilgin, I. Eden, M. Kirisci	Multimodel Person Recognition for Vehicular Applications	6^th International Workshop on Multiple Classifier Systems (MCS 2005), LNCS, Vol. 3541, pp. 366–375, California, USA, June 2005.
H.K. Ekenel, L. Szasz-Toth, R. Stiefelhagen	Open-set face recognition-based Visitor Interface System	7^thIntl. Conf. on Computer Vision Systems, LNCS, Vol. 5815, pp. 43-52, Liege, Belgium, October 2009.
H. Gao, H.K. Ekenel, R. Stiefelhagen	Pose Normalization for Local Appearance-Based Face Recognition	Intl. Conf. on Biometrics (ICB’09), LNCS, Vol. 5558, pp. 32-41, Alghero, Italy, June 2009.
H. Gao, H.K. Ekenel, R. Stiefelhagen	Robust Open-Set Face Recognition for Small-Scale Convenience Applications	In Proc. of 32nd Annual Symposium of the German Association for Pattern Recognition (DAGM’10), Darmstadt, Germany, September 2010.
M. Danninger, G. Flaherty, K. Bernardin, H.K. Ekenel, T. Koehler, R. Malkin, R. Stiefelhagen, A. Waibel	The Connector - Facilitating Context-aware Communication	In Proc. of 7^th International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI 2005), Trento, Italy, October 2005.
R. Stiefelhagen, K. Bernardin, H.K. Ekenel, M. Voit	Tracking Identities and Attention in Smart Environments - Contributions and Progress in the CHIL Project	In Proc. of 8^th IEEE Int. Conference on Face and Gesture Recognition, Amsterdam, Netherlands, September 2008.
H.K. Ekenel, R. Stiefelhagen	Two-class Linear Discriminant Analysis for Face Recognition	IEEE Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference, Eskisehir, Turkey, June 2007.
H.K. Ekenel, M. Fischer, H. Gao, K. Kilgour, J.S. Marcos, R. Stiefelhagen	Universität Karlsruhe (TH) at TRECVID 2007	TRECVID Evaluation Workshop, Gaithersburg, MD, USA, November 2007.
H.K. Ekenel, H. Gao, R. Stiefelhagen	Universität Karlsruhe (TH) at TRECVID 2008	TRECVID Evaluation Workshop, Gaithersburg, MD, USA, November 2008.
J. Stallkamp, H.K. Ekenel, H. Erdogan, R. Stiefelhagen, A. Ercil	Video-Based Driver Identification Using Local Appearance Face Recognition	Workshop on DSP in Mobile and Vehicular Systems, Istanbul, Turkey, June 2007.
H.K. Ekenel, A. Pnevmatikakis	Video-Based Face Recognition Evaluation in the CHIL Project – Run 1	In Proc of 7^th International Conference Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG2006), Southampton, UK, April 2006.
J. Stallkamp, H.K. Ekenel, R. Stiefelhagen	Video-based Face Recognition on Real-World Data	In Proc. of International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV'07), pp. 1-8, Rio de Jenario, Brasil, October 2007.
H.K. Ekenel, R. Stiefelhagen	Why is Facial Occlusion a Challenging Problem?	Intl. Conf. on Biometrics (ICB’09), LNCS, Vol. 5558, pp. 299-308, Alghero, Italy, June 2009.

Publications in Turkish
Author	Title	Source
H.K. Ekenel, B. Sankur	ICA/PCA Feature Selection for Face Recognition	IEEE Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference, Istanbul, Turkey, June 2003.
H.K. Ekenel, B. Sankur	Face Recognition Using Multiresolution Analysis	IEEE Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference, Istanbul, Turkey, June 2003.
G. Akgun, H.K. Ekenel, A. Ercil	A Robust Object Recognition and Pose Estimation System	IEEE Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference, Istanbul, Turkey, June 2003.
H.K. Ekenel, H.M. Meral, A.S. Ozsoy	Emotion Analysis from the Intonation Patterns	IEEE Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference, Istanbul, Turkey, June 2003.
H.M. Meral, H.K. Ekenel, A.S. Ozsoy	Analysis of Emotion in Turkish	XVII. National Conference on Turkish Linguistics, Eskisehir, Turkey, May 2003.
H.K. Ekenel, M.L. Arslan, A.S. Ozsoy	Analysis and Modeling of Turkish Intonation	XVI. National Conference on Turkish Linguistics, Ankara, Turkey, May 2002.
H.K. Ekenel, M.L. Arslan, A.S. Ozsoy	Intonation Analysis for Turkish Text-to-Speech Synthesis	IEEE Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference, Pamukkale, Turkey, June 2002.

Theses
Title	Type	Date	Tutor
A Robust Face Recognition Algorithm for Real-World Applications	PhD Thesis	2009/02	Prof. A. Waibel, Prof. J. Kittler
Expression and Illumination Insensitive Independent Components and Wavelet Subbands for Face Recognition	Master Thesis	2003	Prof. B. Sankur, Boğaziçi University

Book Chapter
Author	Title	Source
A. Pnevmatikakis, H.K. Ekenel, C. Barras, J. Hernando	Multimodal Person Identification	Book Chapter in 'Computers in the Human Interaction Loop', Human-Computer Interaction Series, Springer Verlag, London, 2009.

Journal Papers
Author	Title	Source
M. Fischer, H.K. Ekenel, R. Stiefelhagen	Person Re-identification in TV Series Using Robust Face Recognition and User Feedback	Springer Multimedia Tools and Applications, 55(1), pp. 83-104, 2011.
H.K. Ekenel, J. Stallkamp, R. Stiefelhagen	A Video-based Door Monitoring System Using Local Appearance-based Face Models	Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Vol. 114, No. 5, pp. 596 – 608, May 2010.
K. Bernardin, H.K. Ekenel, R. Stiefelhagen	Multimodal identity tracking in a smart room.	Personal and Ubiquitous Computing 13(1): 25-31, 2009.
R. Stiefelhagen, H.K. Ekenel, C. Fügen, P. Gieselmann, H. Holzapfel, F. Kraft, K. Nickel, M. Voit, A. Waibel	Enabling Multimodal Human-Robot Interaction for the Karlsruhe Humanoid Robot	IEEE Transactions on Robotics, Special Issue on Human-Robot Interaction, Vol. 23, No. 5, October 2007.
H. K. Ekenel, H. Gao, R. Stiefelhagen	3-D Face Recognition using Local Appearance-Based Models	IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 630-635, September 2007.
R. Stiefelhagen, K. Bernardin, H.K. Ekenel, J. McDonough, K. Nickel, M. Voit, M. Wölfel	Audio-Visual Perception of a Lecturer in a Smart Seminar Room	Signal Processing, Vol. 86 (12), Dec. 2006.
H.K. Ekenel, B. Sankur	Multiresolution Face Recognition	Image and Vision Computing, Vol. 23, No.5, pp. 469-477, May 2005.
H.K. Ekenel, B. Sankur	Feature selection in the independent component subspace for face recognition	Pattern Recognition Letters, Vol. 25, No. 12, pp. 1377-1388, Sept. 2004.

Conference Papers
Author	Title	Source
T. Gehrig, H.K. Ekenel	A Common Framework for Real-Time Emotion Recognition and Facial Action Unit Detection	IEEE Workshop on CVPR for Human Communicative Behavior Analysis, June 2011.
H.K.Ekenel, R. Stiefelhagen	A Generic Face Representation Approach for Local Appearance based Face Verification	In Proc. of CVPR IEEE Workshop on Face Recognition Grand Challenge Experiments, San Diego, CA, USA, June 2005.
H. Holzapfel, T. Schaaf, H.K. Ekenel, C. Shaa, A. Waibel	A Robot Learns to Know People - First Contacts of a Robot	In Proc. of 29^th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI2006), Bremen, Germany, June 2006.
E. Arisoy, M.L. Arslan, M.N. Demiralp, H.K. Ekenel, M. Kelepir, H.M. Meral, A.S. Ozsoy, O. Sayli, O. Turk, B. Yolcu	Acoustic Analysis of Turkish Sounds	In Proc. of 12^th International Conference on Turkish Linguistics (ICTL 2004), Izmir, Turkey, August 11-13, 2004.
K. Nickel, T. Gehrig, H.K. Ekenel, J. McDonough, R. Stiefelhagen	An Audio-visual Particle Filter for Speaker Tracking on the CLEAR’06 Evaluation Dataset	CLEAR Evaluation Workshop, LNCS, Vol. 4122, pp. 69-80, Southampton, UK, April 2006.
H.K. Ekenel, R. Stiefelhagen	An Un-awarely Collected Real World Face Database: The ISL-Door Face Database	In Proc. of International Conference on Computer Vision Systems, ICVS 2007, Bielefeld, Germany, March 2007.
H.K. Ekenel, R. Stiefelhagen	Analysis of Local Appearance-based Face Recognition: Effects of Feature Selection and Feature Normalization	In Proc. of CVPR Biometrics Workshop, New York, USA, June 2006.
D. Luo, H. Gao, H.K. Ekenel, J. Ohya	Appearance-based Human Gesture Recognition Using Multimodal Features for Human Computer Interaction	IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging, San Francisco, USA, January 2011.
K. Nickel, H.K. Ekenel, M. Voit, R. Stiefelhagen	Audio-Visual Perception of Humans for a Humanoid Robot	In Proc. of 2^nd Intl. Workshop on Human-Centered Robotics Systems, Munich, October 2006.
H.K. Ekenel, R. Stiefelhagen	Automatic Frequency Band Selection for Illumination Robust Face Recognition	In Proc. of Intl. Conf. on Pattern Recognition (ICPR’10), Istanbul, Turkey, August 2010.
H.K. Ekenel, R. Stiefelhagen	Block Selection in the Local Appearance-based Face Recognition Scheme	In Proc. of CVPR Biometrics Workshop, New York, USA, June 2006.
H. Gao, H. K. Ekenel, M. Fischer, R. Stiefelhagen	Boosting Pseudo Census Transform Features for Face Alignment	BMVC 2011, Dundee.
H.K. Ekenel, T. Semela, R. Stiefelhagen	Content-based Video Genre Classification Using Multiple Cues	In Proc. of 3rd Intl. Workshop on Automated Information Extraction in Media Production (AIEMPro’10), Florence, Italy, October 2010.
F. Jiang, B. Shi, M. Fischer, H.K. Ekenel	Effective Discretization of Gabor Features for Real-Time Face Detection	IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP’11), Brussels, Belgium, September 2011.
H.K. Ekenel, R. Stiefelhagen	Face Alignment by Minimizing the Closest Classification Distance	In Proc. of Intl. Conf. on Biometrics: Theory, Applications and Systems (BTAS’09), Washington DC, USA, September 2009.
H.K. Ekenel, J. Stallkamp, H. Gao, M. Fischer, R. Stiefelhagen	Face Recognition for Smart Interactions	In Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo, pp. 1007-1010, Beijing, China, July 2007.
H.K. Ekenel, M. Fischer, R. Stiefelhagen	Face Recognition in Smart Rooms	Machine Learning for Multimodal Interaction, LNCS, Vol. 4892, pp. 120-131, Brno, Czech Republic, June 2007.
T. Gehrig, H.K. Ekenel	Facial Action Unit Detection Using Kernel Partial Least Squares	1st IEEE Int'l Workshop on Benchmarking Facial Image Analysis Technologies (BeFIT 2011), Barcelona, Spain, November 2011.
D. Luo, H. Gao, H.K. Ekenel, J. Ohya	Facial Analysis Aided Human Gesture Recognition for Human Computer Interaction	IAPR Conference on Machine Vision Applications, Nara, Japan, June 2011.
M. Richter, T. Gehrig, H. K. Ekenel	Facial Expression Classification on Web Images	21st International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2012), Tsukuba, Japan, November 2012.
M. Wolfel, H.K. Ekenel	Feature Weighted Mahalanobis Distance: Improved Robustness for Gaussian Classifiers	In Proc. of 13^th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2005), Antalya, Turkey, September 2005.
H.K. Ekenel, R. Stiefelhagen	Generic versus Salient Region-based Partitioning for Local Appearance Face Recognition	Intl. Conf. on Biometrics (ICB’09), LNCS, Vol. 5558, pp. 367-375, Alghero, Italy, June 2009.
H.K. Ekenel, Q. Jin, M. Fischer, R. Stiefelhagen	ISL Person Identification Systems in CLEAR 2007	CLEAR Evaluation Workshop, LNCS, Vol. 4625, pp. 256-265, Baltimore, US, May 2007.
H.K. Ekenel, Q. Jin	ISL Person Identification Systems in the CLEAR Evaluations	CLEAR Evaluation Workshop, LNCS, Vol. 4122, pp. 249-257, Southampton, UK, April 2006.
H. Gao, H.K. Ekenel, R. Stiefelhagen	Identifying Important People in Broadcast News Videos	IAPR Conference on Machine Vision Applications, Nara, Japan, June 2011.
D. Kern, H.K. Ekenel, R. Stiefelhagen	Illumination Subspaces based Robust Face Recognition	IEEE Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference, Antalya, Turkey, April 2006.
S. Könn, H. Holzapfel, H.K. Ekenel, A. Waibel	Integrating Face-ID into an Interactive Person-ID Learning System	In Proc. of International Conference on Computer Vision Systems, ICVS 2007, Bielefeld, Germany, March 2007.
M. Fischer, H.K. Ekenel, R. Stiefelhagen	Interactive person re-identification in TV series	In Proc. of Intl. Workshop on Content-based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI’10), Grenoble, France, June 2010.
T. Gehrig, K. Nickel, H.K. Ekenel, U. Klee, J. McDonough	Kalman Filters for Audio-Video Source Localization	In Proc. of IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA 2005), New York, USA, October, 2005.
H.K. Ekenel, A. Schumann, H. Gao, R. Stiefelhagen	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) at TRECVID 2009	TRECVID Evaluation Workshop, Gaithersburg, MD, USA, November 2009.
H.K.Ekenel, R. Stiefelhagen	Local Appearance based Face Recognition Using Discrete Cosine Transform	In Proc. of 13^th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2005), Antalya, Turkey, September 2005.
H.K. Ekenel, M. Fischer, E. Tekeli, R. Stiefelhagen, A. Ercil	Local Binary Pattern Domain Local Appearance Face Recognition	IEEE Signal Processing, Communication and Applications Conference (SIU 2008), Didim, Turkey, April 2008.
H.K. Ekenel, R. Stiefelhagen	Local Wavelet Analysis for Face Recognition	IEEE Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference, Eskisehir, Turkey, June 2007.
M. Bäuml, K. Bernardin, M. Fischer, H.K. Ekenel, R. Stiefelhagen	Multi-Pose Face Recognition for Person Retrieval in Camera Networks	In Proc. of 7th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal-Based Surveillance (AVSS’10), Boston, USA, September 2010.
H.K. Ekenel, M. Fischer, Q. Jin, R. Stiefelhagen	Multi-modal Person Identification in a Smart Environment	In Proc. of CVPR Biometrics Workshop, Minneapolis, USA, June 2007.
H. Gao, H.K. Ekenel, M. Fischer, R. Stiefelhagen	Multi-resolution Local Appearance-based Face Verification	In Proc. of Intl. Conf. on Pattern Recognition (ICPR’10), Istanbul, Turkey, August 2010.
K. Kumatani, H.K. Ekenel, H. Gao, R. Stiefelhagen, A. Ercil	Multi-stream Gaussian Mixture Model based Facial Feature Localization	IEEE Signal Processing, Communication and Applications Conference (SIU 2008), Didim, Turkey, April 2008.
L. Rybok, M. Voit, H.K. Ekenel, R. Stiefelhagen	Multi-view Based Estimation of Human Upper-Body Orientation	In Proc. of Intl. Conf. on Pattern Recognition (ICPR’10), Istanbul, Turkey, August 2010.
N. Hesse, T. Gehrig, H. Gao, H. K. Ekenel	Multi-view Facial Expression Recognition using Local Appearance Features	21st International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2012), Tsukuba, Japan, November 2012.
K. Bernardin, H.K. Ekenel, R. Stiefelhagen	Multimodal Identity Tracking in a Smartroom	In Proc. of 3^rd IFIP Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications & Innovations (AIAI), Athens, Greece, June 2006.
H.K. Ekenel, S.Y. Bilgin, I. Eden, M. Kirisci, H. Erdogan, A. Ercil	Multimodal Person Verification from Video Sequences	Special Workshop in Maui (SWIM): Lectures by Masters in Speech Processing, Maui, Hawaii, January 12-14, 2004.
H. Erdogan, A. Ercil, H.K. Ekenel, S.Y. Bilgin, I. Eden, M. Kirisci	Multimodel Person Recognition for Vehicular Applications	6^th International Workshop on Multiple Classifier Systems (MCS 2005), LNCS, Vol. 3541, pp. 366–375, California, USA, June 2005.
H.K. Ekenel, L. Szasz-Toth, R. Stiefelhagen	Open-set face recognition-based Visitor Interface System	7^thIntl. Conf. on Computer Vision Systems, LNCS, Vol. 5815, pp. 43-52, Liege, Belgium, October 2009.
H. Gao, H.K. Ekenel, R. Stiefelhagen	Pose Normalization for Local Appearance-Based Face Recognition	Intl. Conf. on Biometrics (ICB’09), LNCS, Vol. 5558, pp. 32-41, Alghero, Italy, June 2009.
H. Gao, H.K. Ekenel, R. Stiefelhagen	Robust Open-Set Face Recognition for Small-Scale Convenience Applications	In Proc. of 32nd Annual Symposium of the German Association for Pattern Recognition (DAGM’10), Darmstadt, Germany, September 2010.
M. Danninger, G. Flaherty, K. Bernardin, H.K. Ekenel, T. Koehler, R. Malkin, R. Stiefelhagen, A. Waibel	The Connector - Facilitating Context-aware Communication	In Proc. of 7^th International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI 2005), Trento, Italy, October 2005.
R. Stiefelhagen, K. Bernardin, H.K. Ekenel, M. Voit	Tracking Identities and Attention in Smart Environments - Contributions and Progress in the CHIL Project	In Proc. of 8^th IEEE Int. Conference on Face and Gesture Recognition, Amsterdam, Netherlands, September 2008.
H.K. Ekenel, R. Stiefelhagen	Two-class Linear Discriminant Analysis for Face Recognition	IEEE Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference, Eskisehir, Turkey, June 2007.
H.K. Ekenel, M. Fischer, H. Gao, K. Kilgour, J.S. Marcos, R. Stiefelhagen	Universität Karlsruhe (TH) at TRECVID 2007	TRECVID Evaluation Workshop, Gaithersburg, MD, USA, November 2007.
H.K. Ekenel, H. Gao, R. Stiefelhagen	Universität Karlsruhe (TH) at TRECVID 2008	TRECVID Evaluation Workshop, Gaithersburg, MD, USA, November 2008.
J. Stallkamp, H.K. Ekenel, H. Erdogan, R. Stiefelhagen, A. Ercil	Video-Based Driver Identification Using Local Appearance Face Recognition	Workshop on DSP in Mobile and Vehicular Systems, Istanbul, Turkey, June 2007.
H.K. Ekenel, A. Pnevmatikakis	Video-Based Face Recognition Evaluation in the CHIL Project – Run 1	In Proc of 7^th International Conference Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG2006), Southampton, UK, April 2006.
J. Stallkamp, H.K. Ekenel, R. Stiefelhagen	Video-based Face Recognition on Real-World Data	In Proc. of International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV'07), pp. 1-8, Rio de Jenario, Brasil, October 2007.
H.K. Ekenel, R. Stiefelhagen	Why is Facial Occlusion a Challenging Problem?	Intl. Conf. on Biometrics (ICB’09), LNCS, Vol. 5558, pp. 299-308, Alghero, Italy, June 2009.

Publications in Turkish
Author	Title	Source
H.K. Ekenel, B. Sankur	ICA/PCA Feature Selection for Face Recognition	IEEE Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference, Istanbul, Turkey, June 2003.
H.K. Ekenel, B. Sankur	Face Recognition Using Multiresolution Analysis	IEEE Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference, Istanbul, Turkey, June 2003.
G. Akgun, H.K. Ekenel, A. Ercil	A Robust Object Recognition and Pose Estimation System	IEEE Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference, Istanbul, Turkey, June 2003.
H.K. Ekenel, H.M. Meral, A.S. Ozsoy	Emotion Analysis from the Intonation Patterns	IEEE Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference, Istanbul, Turkey, June 2003.
H.M. Meral, H.K. Ekenel, A.S. Ozsoy	Analysis of Emotion in Turkish	XVII. National Conference on Turkish Linguistics, Eskisehir, Turkey, May 2003.
H.K. Ekenel, M.L. Arslan, A.S. Ozsoy	Analysis and Modeling of Turkish Intonation	XVI. National Conference on Turkish Linguistics, Ankara, Turkey, May 2002.
H.K. Ekenel, M.L. Arslan, A.S. Ozsoy	Intonation Analysis for Turkish Text-to-Speech Synthesis	IEEE Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference, Pamukkale, Turkey, June 2002.

Theses
Title	Type	Date	Tutor
A Robust Face Recognition Algorithm for Real-World Applications	PhD Thesis	2009/02	Prof. A. Waibel, Prof. J. Kittler
Expression and Illumination Insensitive Independent Components and Wavelet Subbands for Face Recognition	Master Thesis	2003	Prof. B. Sankur, Boğaziçi University

Dr.-Ing. Hazım Kemal Ekenel