Alper Ozpinar

Istanbul Ticaret University · Department of Mechatronics Engineering

Various human activities emit greenhouse gasses (GHGs) that contribute to global climate change. These include the burning of fossil fuels for energy production, transportation, and industrial uses, and the clearing of forests to create farmland and pasture, all for urban and industrial development. As a result, temperatures around the world are ri...

Facial recognition research has achieved significant progress in recent years. State-of-the-art facial recognition models have already passed the level of human accuracy. In the meantime, facial recognition is already used in many fields, including making purchases, authenticating mobile applications, verifying identities in online shopping, and au...

One of the most important approaches to securing digital and physical access to protected systems is biometric identification. This approach can be combined with other identification methods such as passwords and various 2FA tools to improve the security level. Whatever the security policy and governance approach, none of these systems can provide...

Facial attribute analysis from facial images has always been a challenging task. Its practical use cases are very different. This paper mentioned how to build machine learning models with facial image data for age, gender, facial expression, and race/ethnicity prediction tasks. A fully coded open-source software framework was also developed and pub...

One of the most common problems faced by large enterprise companies is the loss of knowhow after employee’s job replacements and quits. Creating a well-organized, indexed, connected, user friendly and sustainable digital enterprise memory can solve this problem and creates a practical knowhow transfer to new recruited personnel. In this regard, one...

The sources of work accidents identified in the root cause analysis are dangerous behaviors and dangerous occurrences. Despite the studies, improvements, and arrangements made on this subject in recent years, the status of the matter has not been improved until today, and the rates of occurrences have almost remained the same. In the accident root...

Face recognition constitutes a relatively a popular area which has emerged from the rulers of the social media to top universities in the world. Those frontiers and rule makers recently designed deep learning based custom face recognition models. A modern face recognition pipeline consists of four common stages: detecting, alignment, representation...

Energy becoming more and more crucial and critical in the civilized populations and locates itself as one of the major requirements of living standards. Obtaining the energy from fossil fuels still is one of the common sources of energy production; however, there is a common understanding of increasing the potential use of renewables, carbon captur...

The timeless search for optimizing the demand and supply of any resource is one of the main issues for humanity nearly from the beginning of time. The relevant cost of adding an extra resource reacts by means of more energy requirement, more emissions, interaction with policies and market status makes is even more complicated. Optimization of deman...

ATMs are physical interaction points between financial institutions and real customers. Storing physical cash causes renouncing to get interested. On the other hand, customer satisfaction requires to store the necessary cash amount. This concern becomes even more critical for countries having high-interest rate and overnight interest rates are high...

Green transportation is an integral part of green environment concept. Next generation transportation systems are desired to achieve high performances with reduced fuel consumption and carbon emission. In this regard, vehicle maintenance status along with some other critical diagnostic data should steadily be checked and tracked. It is known that v...

The population of humanity has become more than seven billion. Daily used devices, machines, and equipment, are also increasing quicker than the human population. The number of mobile devices in use like phones, tablets and IoT devices already passed the two billion barrier and even more than one billion as vehicles are also on the roads. Combining...

In relation to young people green skills cover a broad range of topics and initiatives that are concrete and practically-oriented. When talking with young people about green skills teachers and trainers have to start from inflicting some habits of green lifestyle and then proceed to issues like green economy, green jobs and green entrepreneurship....

Throughout the history, electric vehicles and hybrid electric vehicles have come to spotlight of researchers but interest in these concepts decreased from time to time. With the desire to decrease fuel consumption and emissions, studies on hybrid electric vehicles have risen throughout the years. There are several studies which focus on driving per...

The population of humanity has become more than seven billion. Daily used devices, machines, and equipment, are also increasing quicker than the human population. The number of mobile devices in use like phones, tablets and IoT devices already passed the two billion barrier and even more than one billion as vehicles are also on the roads. Combining...

Online Banking Systems evolved and improved in recent years with the use of mobile and online technologies, performing money transfer transactions on these channels can be done without delay and human interaction, however commercial customers still tend to transfer money on bank branches due to several concerns. Bank Operation Centers serve to redu...

In today's world of competitive international economy sectors, service industry or service sector oriented businesses, the key point is to maximize the efficiency and sustainability of the business directly related with optimal planning of the workload and distributing them among the employees. Helpdesks and operation centers are one of the fastest...

The population of humanity has become more than seven billion. Daily used devices, machines, and equipment, are also increasing quicker than the human population. The number of mobile devices in use like phones, tablets and IoT devices already passed the two billion barrier and even more than one billion as vehicles are also on the roads. Combining...

Credit risk evaluation is the major concern of the banks and financial institutions since there is a huge competition between them to find the minimum risk and maximum amount of credits supplied. Comparing with the other services of the banks like credit cards, value added financial services, account management and money transfers, the majority of...

The timeless search for optimizing the demand and supply of any resource is one of the main issues for humanity nearly from the beginning of time. The relevant cost of adding an extra resource reacts by means of more energy requirement, more emissions, interaction with policies and market status makes is even more complicated. Optimization of deman...

Energy becoming more and more crucial and critical in the civilized populations and locates itself as one of the major requirements of living standards. Obtaining the energy from fossil fuels still is one of the common sources of energy production; however, there is a common understanding of increasing the potential use of renewables, carbon captur...

Dealing with short term and long term production planning and scheduling has already been solved with different optimization and artificial methods and approaches. Under normal manufacturing conditions supply and demand progress controlled and supported by decision support systems, ERP and MRP software packages aiming maximum utilization of resourc...

A bank operation center provides a revolutionary efficiency to reduce operational workload of branches. In this way, offering faster, more accurate and high quality service is aimed to increase service quality. Service quality is also based on predicting transactions counts before time to make employee planning properly. In this paper, transactions...

Optimization is one of the most important key factors in nowadays manufacturing processes. Since the new economic conditions forcing the competition in a multidimensional global paths, economically survival companies should improve their processes, adapt manufacturing tag times, lower their operation costs and increase the overall quality also focu...

Over the last decade, commerce has experienced several major revolutions in size, structure, and competition. The importance of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) has become more important within this market structure. Electronic Commerce, commonly known as electronic marketing or e-commerce that consists of the buying and selling of products or s...

Over the last decade, commerce has experienced several major revolutions in size, structure, and competition. The importance of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) has become more important within this market structure. Electronic Commerce, commonly known as electronic marketing or e-commerce that consists of the buying and selling of products or s...

Choosing the correct employee for the correct job has been a major issue for the last decades especially for the manufacturing processes which will affect the future performance of the companies. Since most of the assessment and qualification systems paper based and moreover concentrated on oral skills, most of the physical abilities and skills cou...

Turkey has one of the largest and fastest growing populations within the EU-27 Member States and Candidate Countries. This population growth comes with a rapid urbanization and high demand for electricity. However, Turkey's conventional energy resources are limited and this high energy demand has resulted in a high dependency on energy imports; pri...

To explore the opinions and the level of awareness of university students on renewable energy and environment issues in the fields of engineering and economics/business in Canada, Romania, and Turkey, surveys were conducted in several universities in these three countries. The survey results that are presented and discussed here indicate that while...

In this paper definition and technical details of E3P Enviromental Pollution Preventation Portal has been explained. The scope of the E3P Expert System is to develop an information management, sharing and controlling system, or simply an environmental pollution portal. The portal aims for collaboration, information sharing, record tracking, managem...

This study aims to investigate the robustness of some spatial interpolation methods (SIM) in the presence of noisy data. SIM are used in different contexts such as the identification of hot-spots in brown fields, Geo-graphical Information Systems (GIS), remote sensing and visualization/shape re-construction. In all contexts, the correct representat...

This article describes a new fuzzy areal site assessment approach in the detection of contaminated zones within a site which is under environmental investigation. Conventional techniques utilized in this field are mostly interpolation based. These methods interpolate the contaminant concentration values at unobserved locations using observed values...

This study aims to evaluate various well-known spatial interpolation methods used in identifying hot-spots during site investigations on brownfields. Before any reclamation is carried out zones within a site with contaminant levels above the threshold limits should be identified correctly with minimum reclamation costs. The latter implies that all...

Renewable Energy production is becoming more important day by day due to a rapid increase for reliable, sufficient, timely, and economic and environmentally energy production. Public awareness about environment has a great impact on choosing the renewable resources for the renewable based electricity production systems. The Commission on Environmen...

Latest innovations and improvements in the transpor tation such as air and vessel sector removes the borders and distances between pe ople and nations, improves the quality of social and economical relationships. However the d aily transportation or the traffic from home to office, and commercial transportation within wit h limits decreases the eff...