Organizing Committees

Conference Chair
Aytul Ercil Sabanci University Turkey

Technical Co-Chairs
Kim Boyer Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute USA		Mujdat Cetin Sabanci University Turkey		Seong-Whan Lee Korea University Korea

Advisory Committee
Sergey Ablameyko National Academy of Sciences Belarus		Huseyin Abut San Diego State University USA		Jake Aggarwal University of Texas USA
Horst Bunke University of Bern Switzerland		Rama Chellappa University of Maryland USA		Igor B. Gurevich Russian Academy of Sciences Russia
Anil K. Jain Michigan State University USA		Takeo Kanade Carnegie Mellon University USA		Rangachar Kasturi University of South Florida USA
Josef Kittler University of Surrey UK		Brian Lovell University of Queensland Australia		Theo Pavlidis Stony Brook University USA
Pietro Perona California Institute of Technology USA		Fatih Porikli MERL USA		Alberto Sanfeliu Politechnical University of Catalonia Spain
Bulent Sankur Bogazici University Turkey		Bernhard Scholkopf Max Planck Institutes Germany		Mubarak Shah University of Central Florida USA
Tieniu Tan National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition China		Sergios Theodoridis University of Athens Greece

Plenary Speakers Committee
Anil K. Jain Michigan State University USA

Tutorials
Denis Laurendeau Laval University Canada		Arun Ross West Virginia University USA		Birsen Yazici Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute USA

Workshops
Selim Aksoy Bilkent University Turkey		Theo Gevers University of Amsterdam The Netherlands		Denis Laurendeau Laval University Canada
Bulent Sankur Bogazici University Turkey

Contest Organization
Selim Aksoy Bilkent University Turkey		Zehra Cataltepe Istanbul Technical University Turkey		Devrim Unay Bahcesehir University Turkey

Publicity
Enis Cetin Bilkent University Turkey		Pinar Duygulu Sahin Bilkent University Turkey

Asian Liaisons
Karthik Nandakumar Institute for Infocomm Research Singapore		Yunhong Wang Beihang University China

European Liaisons
Javier Ortega-Garcia Universidad Autonoma de Madrid Spain		Fabio Roli University of Cagliari Italy

American Liaisons
Deniz Erdogmus Northeastern University USA

Publications
Nafiz Arica Naval Academy Turkey		Cem Unsalan Yeditepe University Turkey

Local Arrangements
Aysin Baytan Ertuzun Bogazici University Turkey		Mustafa Unel Sabanci University Turkey

Finance
Gulbin Akgun Sabanci University Turkey		Hakan Erdogan Sabanci University Turkey

Sponsorship
Fatos Yarman Vural Middle East Technical University Turkey

Exhibits
Olcay Kursun Istanbul University Turkey