Ethem ALPAYDIN

Professor in the
Department of Computer Engineering
Bogaziçi University.

Also affiliated with the Cognitive Science Program

Introduction to Machine Learning

The MIT Press, October 2004

ISBN-13: 978-0-262-01211-9

Maschinelles Lernen

German language edition, translated by Simone Linke

Oldenbourg Verlag, May 2008

ISBN-13: 978-3-486-58114-0

Publications, Türkçe, Courses, Short Biography, Details

Publications

O. Aran, O. T. Yildiz, E. Alpaydin (to appear) "An Incremental Framework Based on Cross-Validation for Estimating the Architecture of a Multilayer Perceptron," International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence.
M. Gonen, E. Alpaydin (2008) "Localized Multiple Kernel Learning," ICML'08 , Helsinki, Finland, July, 352-359.
M. Gonen, A. G. Tanugur, E. Alpaydin (2008) "Multiclass Posterior Probability Support Vector Machines," IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, 19(1), 130-139.
B. Gokberk, M. O. Irfanoglu, L. Akarun, E. Alpaydin (2007) "Learning the Best Subset of Local Features for Face Recognition," Pattern Recognition, 40(5), 1520-1532.
O. T. Yildiz, E. Alpaydin (2006) "Ordering and Finding the Best of K>2 Supervised Learning Algorithms," IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 28(3), 392-402.
C. Demir, E. Alpaydin (2005) "Cost-Conscious Classifier Ensembles," Pattern Recognition Letters, 26(14), 2206-2214.
O T Yildiz, E Alpaydin (2005) "Model Selection in Omnivariate Decision Trees," ECML'05, Porto Portugal, October 2005.
O. T. Yildiz, E. Alpaydin (2005) "Linear Discriminant Trees," International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, 19(3), 323-353.
A A Salah, E Alpaydin (2004) "Incremental Mixtures of Factor Analyzers," ICPR'04, Cambridge UK, August 2004.
B Gokberk, M O Irfanoglu, L Akarun, E Alpaydin (2003) "Selection of Location, Frequency, and Orientation Parameters of 2D Gabor Wavelets for Face Recognition," Summer School on Biometrics, Italy, June 2003.
O Aran, E Alpaydin (2003) "An Incremental Neural Network Construction Algorithm for Training Multilayer Perceptrons," ICANN'03, Istanbul, June 2003.
Z Barutcuoglu, E Alpaydin (2003) "A Comparison of Model Aggregation Methods for Regression,'' Springer LNCS Vol 2714, ICANN'03, Istanbul, June 2003.
A. Baraldi, E. Alpaydin (2002) "Constructive Feedforward ART Clustering Network - Part I," IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, 13(3), 645-661.
A. Baraldi, E. Alpaydin (2002) "Constructive Feedforward ART Clustering Network - Part II," IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, 13(3), 662-677.
A. A. Salah, E. Alpaydin, L. Akarun (2002) "A Selective Attention-Based Method for Visual Pattern Recognition with Application to Handwritten Digit Recognition and Face Recognition," IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 24(3), 420-425 (Fig 1 erroneous in pdf; get the correct Fig here).
O. T. Yildiz, E. Alpaydin (2001) "Omnivariate Decision Trees," IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, 12(6), 1539-1546.
F. Alimoglu, E. Alpaydin (2001) "Combining Multiple Representations for Pen-based Handwritten Digit Recognition," ELEKTRIK: Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, 9(1), 1-12.
F Koksal, E Alpaydin, G Dundar (2001) "Weight Quantization for Multilayer Perceptrons using Soft Weight Sharing," Springer Vol LNCS 2130, ICANN'01, Vienna, Austria, August 2001.
A A Salah, E Alpaydin, L Akarun (2001) "A Selective Attention Based Method for Visual Pattern Recognition," 23rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Edinburgh, Scotland, August 2001.
E Alpaydin (2001) "Assessing and Comparing Classification Algorithms," ISAS2001, Havana, Cuba, March 2001.
E Alpaydin, C Kaynak, F Alimoglu (2000) "Cascading Multiple Classifiers and Representations for Optical and Pen-Based Handwritten Digit Recognition," IWFHR, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 2000.
C Kaynak, E Alpaydin (2000) "MultiStage Cascading of Multiple Classifiers: One Man's Noise is Another Man's Data," ICML2K, Stanford Univ, USA, June 2000.
O T Yildiz, E Alpaydin (2000) "Linear Discriminant Trees," ICML2K, Stanford Univ, USA, June 2000.
E. Alpaydin (1999) "Combined 5x2cv F Test for Comparing Supervised Classification Learning Algorithms," Neural Computation, 11(8), 1885-1892.
I. Bayraktaroglu, A. S. Ogrenci, G. Dundar, S. Balkir, E. Alpaydin (1999) "ANNSyS: An Analog Neural Network Synthesis System," Neural Networks, 12(2), 325-338.
E. Alpaydin, Ed. (1999) Special Issue on Engineering of Intelligent Systems, Artificial Intelligence in Engineering, "Guest Editorial," 13(4).
E Alpaydin, E Mayoraz (1999) "Learning Error-Correcting Output Codes from Data," ICANN'99, Edinburgh, UK, September 1999.
E Mayoraz, E Alpaydin (1999) "Support Vector Machines for Multi-Class Classification," IWANN'99, Alicante, Spain, June 1999.
E Alpaydin, C Kaynak (1998) "Cascading Classifiers," Kybernetika, 34(4), 369-374.
E Alpaydin (1998) "Soft Vector Quantization and the EM Algorithm," Neural Networks, 11(3), 467-477.
E Alpaydin (1998) " Techniques for Combining Multiple Learners," Engineering of Intelligent Systems EIS'98, Teneriffe, Spain, February 1998.
E Alpaydin F Gurgen (1998) " Comparison of Statistical and Neural Classifiers and Their Applications to Optical Character Recognition and Speech Classification," Neural Network Systems Techniques and Applications vol 5, Image Processing and Pattern Recognition, C.T. Leondes (Ed.) Academic Press, 61-88.
E Alpaydin (1997) "Voting over Multiple Condensed Nearest Neighbors," Artificial Intelligence Review, 11, 115-132 (Special Issue on Lazy Learning).
F. Alimoglu, E. Alpaydin (1997) "Combining Multiple Representations and Classifiers for Pen-based Handwritten Digit Recognition," Fourth International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 97), Ulm, Germany, August 1997.
E Alpaydin, I K Altinel, N Aras (1996) "Parametric Distance Functions vs Nonparametric Neural Networks for Estimating Road Travel Distances," European Journal on Operational Research (Special Issue on Neural Networks), 93(2), 230-243.
E Alpaydin, M I Jordan (1996) "Local Linear Perceptrons for Classification," IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, 7(3), 788-792.
E Alpaydin (1996) " Selective Attention for Handwritten Digit Recognition," Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 8, D.S. Touretzky, M.C. Mozer, M.E. Hasselmo (Eds.) MIT Press, 771-777.
E Alpaydin, F Gurgen (1995) "Comparison of Kernel Estimators, Perceptrons, and Radial-Basis Functions for OCR and Speech Classification," Neural Computing and Applications, 3, 38-49.
F Gurgen, R Alpaydin, U Unluakin, E Alpaydin (1994) "Distributed and Local Neural Classifiers for Phoneme Recognition," Pattern Recognition Letters, 15, 1111-1118.
E Alpaydin, S Aratma, M Yagci (1994) "Recognition of Handwritten Digits using Neural Networks," ELEKTRIK: Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, 2, 20-31.
E Alpaydin (1994) "GAL: Networks that Grow when they Learn and Shrink when they Forget," International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence , 8, 391-414.

Türkçe (In Turkish)

D Lessing (2008) "Kitap Açligi," ("A Hunger for Books,") 2007 Nobel Edebiyat Ödülü konusmasi çevirisi, EsikCini, Sayi 13, Ocak-Subat 2008.
E Alpaydin (2002) "Zeka Taklit Edilebilir Mi?" Hayalet Gemi, Sayi 65, Mart 2002.
E Alpaydin (2000) "Zeki Veri Madenciligi," Bilisim 2000 Egitim Semineri, (Sunus).

Courses (Fall 2008-2009)

Past Courses

Short Biography

Ethem ALPAYDIN received his BSc from the Department of Computer Engineering of Bogazici University in 1987 and the degree of Docteur es Sciences from Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in 1990. He did his postdoctoral work at the International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley in 1991 and afterwards was appointed as Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Engineering of Bogazici University. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 1996 and Professor in 2002 in the same department. As visiting researcher, he worked at the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences of MIT in 1994, the International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley in 1997 and IDIAP, Switzerland in 1998. He was awarded a Fulbright Senior scholarship in 1997 and received the Research Excellence Award from the Bogazici University Foundation in 1998, the Young Scientist Award from the Turkish Academy of Sciences in 2001 and the Scientific Encouragement Award from the Turkish Scientific and Technical Research Council in 2002. His book Introduction to Machine Learning was published by The MIT Press in October 2004 and its German edition was published by Oldenbourg Verlag in May 2008. Its Chinese and Turkish editions are in preparation. He is a senior member of the IEEE, an editorial board member of The Computer Journal (Oxford University Press) and an associate editor of Pattern Recognition (Elsevier).

Email: alpaydin AT boun.edu.tr
Phone: +90 (212) 359-6862
Fax: +90 (212) 287-2461
Postal address:
Ethem Alpaydin, Department of Computer Engineering, Bogazici University, TR-34342 Istanbul Turkey