CV
Objective
- Be kind.
- Make my parents proud.
- Conduct research on images.
- Become a successful computer scientist.
- Share my knowledge with anyone I can reach.
Education
2019 – 2025
Ph.D. in Computer Science, Özyeğin University
Thesis: “Modeling the Lighting as Style Factor via Neural Networks for White Balance Correction”
2018 – 2019
M.Sc. in Computer Science, Özyeğin University
Thesis: “Clothing Image Retrieval with Triplet Capsule Networks”
2012 – 2018
B.Sc. in Computer Science in Engineering, Özyeğin University
Experience
2025 – Present
Assistant Professor, Bahçeşehir University (Türkiye)
Department of Artificial Intelligence
2019 – Present
Co-Founder & AI Director, T-Fashion (Canada & Türkiye)
Fashion Trend Forecasting & Generative AI Design
2020 – 2024
Research Engineer (CV & DL), Fishency Innovation (Norway – Remote)
2018 – 2025
Research Assistant (CS & AI), Özyeğin University (Türkiye)
Department of Computer Science
2017 – 2018
Engineer (ML), eBay & GittiGidiyor (Türkiye)
R&D Team
06.2017 – 08.2017
Intern Engineer (BI & Data), Türk Telekom (Türkiye)
Awards & Honors
2026
1st, 3rd, 3rd, and 5th Places (across benchmarks): NTIRE 2026 Challenge on Low-light Image Enhancement
2026
1st Place: NTIRE 2026 Challenge on Photography Retouching Transfer
2026
3rd Place: NTIRE 2026 Challenge on Night Photography Rendering
2025
Finalist: NTIRE 2025 Challenge on Night Photography Rendering
2023
7th Place: NTIRE 2023 Challenge on Night Photography Rendering
2022
4th Place: NTIRE 2022 Challenge on Night Photography Rendering
2022
Nomination for Outstanding Reviewer: ML Reproducibility Challenge 2022
2022
Recipient: ML Reproducibility Challenge 2022
Selected Publications
- F. Kınlı. “Beyond Pixel Fidelity: Minimizing Perceptual Distortion and Color Bias in Night Photography Rendering.” ICIP 2026
- F. Kınlı, F. Kıraç. “Feature distribution statistics as a loss objective for robust white balance correction.” Machine Vision and Applications, 2025
- F. Kınlı, B. Özcan, F. Kıraç. “Advancing white balance correction through deep feature statistics and feature distribution matching.” J. Visual Communication and Image Representation, 2025
- F. Kınlı, B. Özcan, F. Kıraç. “Dawn: A Robust Tone Mapping Operator for Multi-Illuminant and Low-Light Scenarios.” VISAPP 2025Oral
- F. Kınlı, D. Yılmaz, B. Özcan, F. Kıraç. “Modeling the Lighting in Scenes as Style for Auto White-Balance Correction.” WACV 2023
- F. Kınlı, B. Özcan, F. Kıraç. “Patch-wise Contrastive Style Learning for Instagram Filter Removal.” CVPRW 2022 · NTIREOral
Academic Service
Journals (Reviewer)
- IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI)
- International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV)
- Elsevier Digital Signal Processing
- IET Image Processing
- IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica
- Imaging Science Journal
- Multimedia Systems
- Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence
Conferences (Reviewer)
- IEEE/CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR) ('26, '25, '24, '23)
- International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) ('25, '23)
- European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) ('26, '24, '22)
- The Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) ('26)
- IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) ('25, '24, '23)
- British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC) ('26)
- The 39th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) ('26, '25)
- International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR) ('24)
- 30th IEEE Conference on Signal Processing and Communications Applications
Workshops (Reviewer)
- New Trends in Image Restoration and Enhancement workshop and challenges on image and video processing at CVPR (NTIRE) ('24, '23, '22, '21)
- Advances in Image Manipulation workshop in conjunction with ECCV (AIM) ('24, '22, '20)
- Resource Efficient Deep Learning for Computer Vision workshop at ICCV (RCV) ('23)
- ML Reproducibility Challenge (2022 Edition, 2021 Edition)
Skills
- Python · C++ · Java
- PyTorch · Keras
- OpenCV · Kornia
- Cloud Services (GC, AWS, IBM Cloud)