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Conference Object Design and Implementation of an Expressive Talking Mobile Robot: Toztorus(Ieee, 2018) Tozan, Ozalp; Tora, Hakan; Uslu, Baran; Unal, Bulcnt; Ceylan, EceThis paper is about a brand new robot and all its development stages from the design to the show time. As an undergraduate research project (the LAP program at Atilim University), the robot TozTorUs is the outcome of the dense efforts of a team. With the sensors equipped, it navigates autonomously in the environment in which it is located by avoiding the obstacles. It can understand your questions and answer them using Google's speech technologies. Although it is not a humanoid robot, with eyes and mouth simulator LED displays, it is as friendly as a human. We can also control TozTorUs using a mobile phone. Apart from these, it is able to adjust its height with respect to the visitor's, thus allowing it to make an eye contact with the person. Although TozTorUs is designed for welcoming, it may also be employed for consulting, security and elderly assistance.Conference Object Higher Order Statistical Analysis of Turkish Phones(Ieee, 2014) Tora, Hakan; Uslu, BaranIn this study, histograms of Turkish phones were examined using higher order cumulants. As is known, phones constituting a language, are composed of letters as vowels and consonants. These letters can also be grouped as voiced and unvoiced phones. It is observed that unvoiced letters show a Gaussian-like distribution and result in small values of skewness and kurtosis. On the other hand, vowels and voiced consonants lead to a non-Gaussian distribution. Voiced and unvoiced phones are related with their skewness and kurtosis values. It is empirically shown that higher order cumulants are likely to be a feature in describing Turkish phones.Article Citation - WoS: 7Citation - Scopus: 10Comparison of Three Different Learning Methods of Multilayer Perceptron Neural Network for Wind Speed Forecasting(Gazi Univ, 2021) Bulut, Mehmet; Tora, Hakan; Buaisha, Dr.magdiIn the world, electric power is the highest need for high prosperity and comfortable living standards. The security of energy supply is an essential concept in national energy management. Therefore, ensuring the security of electricity supply requires accurate estimates of electricity demand. The share of electricity generation from renewables is significantly growing in the world. This kind of energy types are dependent on weather conditions as the wind and solar energies. There are two vital requirements to locate and measure specific systems to utilize wind power: modelling and forecasting of the wind velocity. To this end, using only 4 years of measured meteorological data, the present research attempts to estimate the related speed of wind within the Libyan Mediterranean coast with the help of ANN (artificial neural networking) with three different learning algorithms, which are Levenberg-Marquardt, Bayesian Regularization and Scaled Conjugate Gradient. Conclusions reached in this study show that wind speed can be estimated within acceptable limits using a limited set of meteorological data. In the results obtained, it was seen that the SCG algorithm gave better results in tests in this study with less data.Conference Object Naturalness Analysis of the Speech Synthesized by a Tts Card(Ieee, 2016) Tora, Hakan; Uslu, BaranIt is known that the performance of a developed text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis system is assessed by subjective tests. These assessments are usually based on the intelligibility and naturalness of the synthesized speech. In this study, an investigation on relating these subjective test results, thus the naturalness of the synthesized speech, to which acoustic features is accomplished. Consequently the features which will increase the performance while synthesizing the speech are determined. Our work is focused especially on the pitch frequency and energy parameters.Conference Object Citation - WoS: 1THE USE OF CUMULANTS FOR VOICED-UNVOICED SEGMENTS IDENTIFICATION IN SPEECH SIGNALS(Ieee, 2014) Uslu, Baran; Tora, HakanIn this study, voiced-unvoiced classification performance of Turkish sounds using skewness and kurtosis is examined. The analyses show that higher order cumulants can be employed as a feature in voiced-unvoiced classification that is vital in speech processing applications. Furthermore, it has been shown that cumulants are also useful for identifying voiced and unvoiced segments in noisy speech signals.Master Thesis Avuç İçi Tanımlaması(2018) Jebrıel, Belal Alı Mesbah; Tora, HakanBu tez, standart bir veritabanı ve bir temizleyici aracılığıyla avuç izi tanımlanmasının uygunluğunu araştırmaktadır. Bu çalışma, sol el ve sağ el görüntüleri içeren veritabanları CASIA ve IIT için iki öznitelik kümesi kullanmaktadır. Yerel ikili örüntü (YİÖ) ve yönlü gradyan histogram (YGH) öznitelikleri, MATLAB tarafından görüntülerden elde edilmiştir. Eğitim ve test setleri bu özelliklerden oluşturuldu. Çok katmanlı katmanlı bir sinir ağı ve lineer ve kuadratik kernel kullanan destek vektör makineleri (DVM), seçilen veritabanlarında eğitilmiş ve test edilmiştir. Seçilen özellikler deneysel olarak birbirleriyle karşılaştırılmıştır. Her iki sınıflandırıcı için YGH'de daha iyi sonuçlar elde edilmiştir. Ayrıca, sınıflandırıcıların performansı da değerlendirilmiştir. Sinir ağın, her iki veri setinin YİÖ öznitelikleri için SVM'den daha iyi sonuçlar verdiği gözlenmiştir. Ancak, YGH özellikleri için birbirlerine göre çok fazla avantajları yoktur. Anahtar Kelimeler: Avuç izi tanımlama, yerel ikili örüntü (YİÖ), yönlü gradyan histogramı (YGH), sinir ağları, destek vektör makinesi (DVM).Conference Object Segmentation of Isolated Words Into Voiced-Unvoiced Sound Components by Kurtosis;(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2015) Uslu,B.; Tora, Hakan; Tora,H.; Tora, Hakan; Airframe and Powerplant Maintenance; Airframe and Powerplant MaintenanceThis study presents a new approach to the segmentation of isolated words into their voiced/ unvoiced parts. It is well known that voiced/ unvoiced discrimination has an important role in speech synthesis and coding applications. The offered method makes this discrimination using the kurtosis values of the words. The performance of the proposed approach was tested on Turkish digit recordings from zero to nine. It has been observed that this approach segments the parts successfully in not only clean speech but also in noisy speech. © 2015 IEEE.Doctoral Thesis Coğrafi Bilgi Sistemi (cbs) Modellemesi Kullanılarak Karasu Kıyı Alanı için Deniz Seviyesi Yükselmesinin (dsy) Etki Değerlendirmesi(2018) Elıawa, Ali Ibrahım Alı; Tora, Hakan; Genç, Aslı NumanoğluKüresel ısınmaya bağlı olarak Deniz Seviyesi Yükselmesi (DSY), kıyı bölgeleri için önemli bir konu haline gelmektedir. Bu tez çalışmasında, Türkiye'de Karasu etrafındaki kıyı bölgelerinin zaafiyetini (kırılganlık) değerlendirmek için kapsamlı bir analiz yapılmıştır. Deniz seviyesindeki 1 m, 2m, ve 3 m 'lik deniz seviyesi yükselmesi senaryo tahminlerine dayanarak, su taşkını seviyeleri Sayısal Yükseklik Modeli (SYD) kullanılarak görselleştirilmiştir. Sekiz taraflı kural algoritması, yüksek çözünürlüklü bir SYD verisi kullanılarak Coğrafi Bilgi Sistemi (CBS) aracılığıyla uygulanmıştır. SYD verileri, Türkiye Ulusal Arazi Etüdü tarafından yayınlanan 11 adet 1: 5000 ölçekli topografik haritalar kullanılarak üretilmiştir. CBS tabanlı su baskını haritalarının sonuçları sırasıyla 1 m, 2m, ve 3 m 'lik deniz seviyesi yükselme senaryoları için toplam arazinin % 1.43'ünün veya 0.79 km2'sinin, % 6.16'sının veya 3.4 km2'sinin ve % 30.08'inin veya 16.6 km2'sinin su altında kaldığını göstermektedir. Risk haritaları, 1 m'lik senorya için su birikintileri ve plaj alanlarının 3 m'lik senaryo için ise kentsel alanlar, su kütleleri ve plaj alanlarının daha yüksek risk taşıdığını göstermektedir. Zaafiyet (kırlganlık) verilileri ile birleştirilmiş afet haritasından, Karasu bölgesinin batı ve doğusundaki nehir ağzı bölgelerinin orta dereceli bir zaafiyeti (kırlganlık) olduğu, kıyı bölgelerinin iç kesiminin zayıflığının ise düşük olduğu görülmektedir. Bu sonuçlar, arazi kullanım politikalarını ve planlamasını geliştirme yönünde karar vericilere Karasu bölgesi için temel değerlendirme verileri sağlamaktadır.Conference Object Segmentation of Isolated Words Into Voiced-Unvoiced Sound Components by Kurtosis(Ieee, 2015) Uslu, Baran; Tora, HakanThis study presents a new approach to the segmentation of isolated words into their voiced/unvoiced parts. It is well known that voiced/unvoiced discrimination has an important role in speech synthesis and coding applications. The offered method makes this discrimination using the kurtosis values of the words. The performance of the proposed approach was tested on Turkish digit recordings from zero to nine. It has been observed that this approach segments the parts successfully in not only clean speech but also in noisy speech.Article Citation - WoS: 2Citation - Scopus: 2Risk Assessment of Sea Level Rise for Karasu Coastal Area, Turkey(Mdpi, 2023) Eliawa, Ali; Genc, Asli Numanoglu; Tora, Hakan; Maras, Hadi HakanSea Level Rise (SLR) due to global warming is becoming a more pressing issue for coastal zones. This paper presents an overall analysis to assess the risk of a low-lying coastal area in Karasu, Turkey. For SLR scenarios of 1 m, 2 m, and 3 m by 2100, inundation levels were visualized using Digital Elevation Model (DEM). The eight-side rule is applied as an algorithm through Geographic Information System (GIS) using ArcMap software with high-resolution DEM data generated by eleven 1:5000 scale topographic maps. The outcomes of GIS-based inundation maps indicated 1.40%, 6.02%, and 29.27% of the total land area by 1 m, 2 m, and 3 m SLR scenarios, respectively. Risk maps have shown that water bodies, low-lying urban areas, arable land, and beach areas have a higher risk at 1 m. In a 2 m scenario, along with the risk of the 1 m scenario, forests become at risk as well. For the 3 m scenario, almost all the territorial features of the Karasu coast are found to be inundated. The effect of SLR scenarios based on population and Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is also analyzed. It is found that the 2 and 3 m scenarios lead to a much higher risk compared to the 1 m scenario. The combined hazard-vulnerability data shows that estuarine areas on the west and east of the Karasu region have a medium vulnerability. These results provide primary assessment data for the Karasu region for the decision-makers to enhance land use policies and coastal management plans.
