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Ant Duru

Computer Vision Engineer
Ankara

Summary

Computer Vision Engineer with 3.5 years of hands-on experience and a solid background in classical computer vision. Currently pursuing a Master's at METU Informatics Institute, with a strong ambition to excel in the intersection of Computer Vision and Large Language Models (LLMs). Currently developing a pipeline to improve image classification models' training process by optimizing the augmentation policies through LLMs. Highly motivated to contribute to forward-thinking teams and push the boundaries of AI research and application.

Overview

4
4
years of professional experience
8
8
years of post-secondary education
4
4
Languages

Work History

Computer Vision Engineer

ArgosAI
Ankara, Ankara
06.2021 - Current
  • Developed AI models to detect and locate Foreign Object Debris (FOD) on airport runways and aprons.
  • Developed AI models to track turnaround events on airport aprons such as airplane docking.
  • Worked on quantifying the amount of motion blur in an image using no-reference image processing
    techniques.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to deploy and validate models in production, ensuring
    robust performance and scalability.
  • Utilized Captum library to interpret a deep CNN-based model that detects foreign object debris at
    international airports.

Education

Master of Science - Multimedia Informatics

Middle East Technical University
Ankara, Turkey
09.2022 - 06.2025

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Bilkent University
Ankara, Turkey
09.2017 - 06.2022

Skills

Computer Vision

Image Classification

Object Detection

Image Generation

Image Processing

Automated Data Augmentation

MLOps

Python

Pytorch

Data Science Libraries

Data Visualization

Julia, R, MATLAB

Publications

Ant Duru, Alptekin Temizel, "Augmentation Policy Generation for Image Classification Using Large Language Models", arXiv preprint, October 2024. https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.13453

Timeline

Master of Science - Multimedia Informatics

Middle East Technical University
09.2022 - 06.2025

Computer Vision Engineer

ArgosAI
06.2021 - Current

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Bilkent University
09.2017 - 06.2022
Ant DuruComputer Vision Engineer