Publications

@Article{s24185993, AUTHOR = {Rakhimzhanova, Tomiris and Kuzdeuov, Askat and Varol, Huseyin Atakan}, TITLE = {AnyFace++: Deep Multi-Task, Multi-Domain Learning for Efficient Face AI}, JOURNAL = {Sensors}, VOLUME = {24}, YEAR = {2024}, NUMBER = {18}, ARTICLE-NUMBER = {5993}, URL = {https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/24/18/5993}, PubMedID = {39338738}, ISSN = {1424-8220}, ABSTRACT = {Accurate face detection and subsequent localization of facial landmarks are mandatory steps in many computer vision applications, such as emotion recognition, age estimation, and gender identification. Thanks to advancements in deep learning, numerous facial applications have been developed for human faces. However, most have to employ multiple models to accomplish several tasks simultaneously. As a result, they require more memory usage and increased inference time. Also, less attention is paid to other domains, such as animals and cartoon characters. To address these challenges, we propose an input-agnostic face model, AnyFace++, to perform multiple face-related tasks concurrently. The tasks are face detection and prediction of facial landmarks for human, animal, and cartoon faces, including age estimation, gender classification, and emotion recognition for human faces. We trained the model using deep multi-task, multi-domain learning with a heterogeneous cost function. The experimental results demonstrate that AnyFace++ generates outcomes comparable to cutting-edge models designed for specific domains.}, DOI = {10.3390/s24185993} }

@INPROCEEDINGS{10601292, author={Kuzdeuov, Askat and Nurgaliyev, Shakhizat and Turmakhan, Diana and Laiyk, Nurkhan and Varol, Huseyin Atakan}, booktitle={2023 3rd International Conference on Robotics, Automation and Artificial Intelligence (RAAI)}, title={Speech Command Recognition: Text-to-Speech and Speech Corpus Scraping Are All You Need}, year={2023}, volume={}, number={}, pages={286-291}, keywords={Accuracy;Speech coding;Virtual assistants;Speech recognition;Data collection;Benchmark testing;Data models;Speech commands recognition;text-to-speech;Kazakh Speech Corpus;voice commands;data-centric AI}, doi={10.1109/RAAI59955.2023.10601292}}

@INPROCEEDINGS{10601208, author={Akhmetov, Tolegen and Moger, Gourav and Tursynbek, Iliyas and Atakan Varol, Huseyin}, booktitle={2023 3rd International Conference on Robotics, Automation and Artificial Intelligence (RAAI)}, title={Thermal Perception Using Augmented Reality for Industrial Safety}, year={2023}, volume={}, number={}, pages={91-96}, keywords={Wireless communication;Industries;Visualization;Three-dimensional displays;Thermal factors;Service robots;Cameras;augmented reality;thermal camera;industrial safety;computer vision}, doi={10.1109/RAAI59955.2023.10601208}}

@INPROCEEDINGS{10312708, author={Orel, Daniil and Varol, Huseyin Atakan}, booktitle={IECON 2023- 49th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society}, title={Noise-Robust Automatic Speech Recognition for Industrial and Urban Environments}, year={2023}, volume={}, number={}, pages={1-6}, doi={10.1109/IECON51785.2023.10312708}}

@ARTICLE{10374245, author={Abdrakhmanova, Madina and Unaspekov, Timur and Varol, Huseyin Atakan}, journal={IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science}, title={Multimodal Person Verification With Generative Thermal Data Augmentation}, year={2023}, volume={}, number={}, pages={1-1}, doi={10.1109/TBIOM.2023.3346938}}

@ARTICLE{10343164, author={Shakerimov, Aidar and Alizadeh, Tohid and Varol, Huseyin Atakan}, journal={IEEE Access}, title={Efficient Sim-to-Real Transfer in Reinforcement Learning Through Domain Randomization and Domain Adaptation}, year={2023}, volume={11}, number={}, pages={136809-136824}, doi={10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3339568}}

@INPROCEEDINGS{10311869, author={Balgabekova, Zarema and Alaran, Muslim and Varol, Huseyin Atakan}, booktitle={IECON 2023- 49th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society}, title={A Data-Centric Approach for Object Recognition in Hemispherical Camera Images}, year={2023}, volume={}, number={}, pages={1-6}, doi={10.1109/IECON51785.2023.10311869}}

@ARTICLE{10246330, author={Makhataeva, Zhanat and Akhmetov, Tolegen and Varol, Huseyin Atakan}, journal={IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems}, title={Augmented-Reality-Based Human Memory Enhancement Using Artificial Intelligence}, year={2023}, volume={}, number={}, pages={1-13}, doi={10.1109/THMS.2023.3307397}}

@inproceedings {yeshpanov23_interspeech, author={Rustem Yeshpanov and Saida Mussakhojayeva and Yerbolat Khassanov}, title={{Multilingual Text-to-Speech Synthesis for Turkic Languages Using Transliteration}}, year=2023, booktitle={Proc. INTERSPEECH 2023}, pages={5521--5525}, doi={10.21437/Interspeech.2023-249} }

@EMBC 2023, author={Batyr Arystanbekov, Askat Kuzdeuov, Shakhizat Nurgaliyev, and Huseyin Atakan Varol}, booktitle={2023 Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC)}, title={Image Captioning for Visually Impaired and Blind: A Recipe for Lower-Resourced Languages}, year={2023}, volume={}, number={}, pages={}, doi={10.36227/techrxiv.22133894.v2}

@INPROCEEDINGS{10066768, author={Orel, Daniil and Yeshpanov, Rustem and Varol, Huseyin Atakan}, booktitle={2023 IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Smart Computing (BigComp)}, title={Speech Recognition for Turkic Languages Using Cross-Lingual Transfer Learning from Kazakh}, year={2023}, volume={}, number={}, pages={174-182}, doi={10.1109/BigComp57234.2023.00037}}