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Zeynep Sonat Baltacı

Hello👋🏻! I am a doctoral student in Imagine lab at ENPC, under the supervision of Mathieu Aubry. My work specializes in developing interpretable vision models for clustering and object discovery, with an application to digital humanities📜. Prior to my PhD, I received my M.Sc. degree from METU, with a focus on long-tailed image recognition under the supervision of Emre Akbaş and Sinan Kalkan.

           

News🗞️

  • 04/2024 our work "Historical Printed Ornaments: Dataset and Tasks" is accepted to ICDAR 2024🎉!
  • 03/2024 presented on-going research on historical prints at Computing the Page Workshop at Digital Humanities, Oxford.
  • 11/2023 presented our work "Computer Vision and Historical Scientific Illustrations" at IAMAHA 2023.
  • 05/2023 started my PhD in Imagine lab!

Publications📝

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Historical Printed Ornaments: Dataset and Tasks

S. K. Chaki*, Z. S. Baltacı*, E. Vincent, R. Emonet, F. Vial-Bonacci, C. Bahier-Porte, M. Aubry, T. Fournel

[webpage], [ArXiv], [GitHub], [Poster], ICDAR 2024

We propose a historical printed ornament dataset associated with three different tasks: clustering, element discovery and unsupervised change localization.

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Computer Vision and Historical Scientific Illustrations

F. Aouinti, Z. S. Baltacı, M. Aubry, A. Guilbaud, S. Lazaris

[webpage], [HAL], [GitHub], IAMAHA 2023

We present a semi-automatic interactive pipeline for scientific illustration extraction and introduce a new dataset of scientific illustrations.

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Generalized Mask-aware IoU for Anchor Assignment for Real-time Instance Segmentation

K. Öksüz, B. C. Çam, F. Kahraman, Z. S. Baltacı, S. Kalkan, E. Akbaş

[arXiv], ArXiv

We propose Generalized Mask-aware IoUas a new measure for positive-negative assignment of anchor boxes during training of instance segmentation methods.

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Class Uncertainty: A Measure to Mitigate Class Imbalance

Z. S. Baltacı, K. Öksüz, S. Kuzucu, K. Tezören, B. K. Konar, A. Özkan, E. Akbaş, S. Kalkan

[arXiv], Under Review

To measure class imbalance, we propose "Class Uncertainty" as the average predictive uncertainty of the training examples, and we show that this novel measure captures the differences across classes better than cardinality. We also curate SVCI-20 as a novel dataset in which the classes have equal number of training examples but they differ in terms of their hardness.

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Mask-aware IoU for Anchor Assignment in Real-time Instance Segmentation

K. Öksüz, B. C. Çam, F. Kahraman, Z. S. Baltacı, S. Kalkan, E. Akbaş

[arXiv], [GitHub], BMVC 2021

We propose Mask-aware IoU, an IoU variant for better anchor assignment to supervise instance segmentation methods.

Talks💬

  • 03/2024 Workshop, Computing the Page, Digital Humanities, Oxford, 2024, on "Interpretable Computer Vision Analysis of Historical Prints".
  • 11/2023 Conference, IAMAHA 2023, about "Computer Vision and Historical Scientific Illustrations".

Academic activities👩🏼‍🎓

  • Tutor, DHAI, PSL (March 2024)
  • Teaching assistant, DeepL, ENPC (Fall 2023, 2024)
  • Research intern, ImageLab, METU (Summer 2016)
  • Reviewer, ECCV24, CVPR25

Contact

📥 sonat[dot]baltaci[at]enpc[dot]fr

📍 B402, Coriolis Building, 6 Av. Blaise Pascal, Champs-sur-Marne, France