Levent Karacan

Gaziantep University. Department of Computer Engineering

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Department of Computer Engineering

Gaziantep University

Gaziantep, Türkiye

I am currently affiliated with Department of Computer Engineering at Gaziantep University, Gaziantep, Türkiye as an assistant professor. Prior to joining here, I was a faculty member of Department of Computer Engineering at Iskenderun Technical University for 3 years (2020 - 2023). I obtained my Ph.D.(2019) and M.Sc.(2013) degrees from the Department of Computer Engineering at Hacettepe University, under the supervision of Aykut Erdem and Erkut Erdem. During my Ph.D., I had the opportunity to visit the Amsterdam Machine Learning Lab, University of Amsterdam (UvA), Netherlands to work with Zeynep Akata from October 2018 to January 2019.

My primary research interests are centered around image and video processing, with a focus on leveraging deep learning, particularly through deep generative models. I am highly enthusiastic about exploring innovative approaches to address a broad spectrum of challenges within the domains of computer vision and computer graphics such as camera localization, video stabilization, object goal navigation, etc. I am open to collaborations aimed at tackling the diverse challenges in these exciting fields and contributing to advancements.

news

Jul 31, 2025 Personel News! I have officially been awarded the academic title of Associate Professor by the Interuniversity Council of Türkiye (ÜAK).
Jul 01, 2025 Exciting News! Our paper on Specular Highlight Removal has been accepted for presentation at ICCV 2025, one of the premier conferences in computer vision. We look forward to sharing our work with the community!
Jul 01, 2025 Our paper on full-frame video stabilization is published in Computational Visual Medial (SCI-E Q1):Full-Frame Video Stabilization via Spatiotemporal Transformers.
Dec 02, 2024 Our paper on extremely low-light burst image enhancement has been published in Journal of Real-Time Image Processing (SCI-E (Q2)): Illuminate the Night: Lightweight Fusion and Enhancement Model for Extreme Low-Light Burst Images .
Oct 02, 2024 Our paper on extremely low-light burst image enhancement is accepted for publication in Journal of Real-time Image Processing (SCI-E Q2): “Illuminate the Night: Lightweight Fusion and Enhancement Model for Extreme Low-Light Burst Images”. To appear

selected publications

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    Full-frame video stabilization via spatiotemporal transformers
    Levent Karacan, and Mehmet Sarıgül
    Computational Visual Media, 2025
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    Illuminate the night: lightweight fusion and enhancement model for extreme low-light burst images
    Hasan Avşar, Mehmet Sarıgül, and Levent Karacan
    Journal of Real-Time Image Processing, 2024
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    Multi-image transformer for multi-focus image fusion
    Levent Karacan
    Signal Processing: Image Communication, 2023
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    Region contrastive camera localization
    Mehmet Sarıgül, and Levent Karacan
    Pattern Recognition Letters, 2023
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    Trainable Self-Guided Filter for Multi-Focus Image Fusion
    Levent Karacan
    IEEE Access, 2023
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    Disentangling Content and Motion for Text-Based Neural Video Manipulation
    Levent Karacan, Tolga Kerimoğlu, İsmail Ata İnan , and 3 more authors
    In British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC) , 2022
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    Manipulating attributes of natural scenes via hallucination
    Levent Karacan, Zeynep Akata, Aykut Erdem , and 1 more author
    ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), 2019
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    Image synthesis in multi-contrast MRI with conditional generative adversarial networks
    Salman UH Dar, Mahmut Yurt, Levent Karacan , and 3 more authors
    IEEE transactions on medical imaging, 2019
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    Alpha matting with kl-divergence-based sparse sampling
    Levent Karacan, Aykut Erdem, and Erkut Erdem
    IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 2017
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    Image matting with KL-divergence based sparse sampling
    Levent Karacan, Aykut Erdem, and Erkut Erdem
    In Proceedings of the IEEE international conference on computer vision , 2015
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    Structure-preserving image smoothing via region covariances
    Levent Karacan, Erkut Erdem, and Aykut Erdem
    ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), 2013