Recent work

Talks & tutorials

Visual Computing Seminar — Realistic Graphics Lab (RLG), EPFL · October 2019

A Study of Colour Rendering in the In-Camera Imaging Pipeline

Seminar lecture covering end-to-end colour rendering in camera imaging pipelines — from raw sensor data to finished photographs.

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Tutorials — CS-413 Computational Photography · EPFL · January 2020

Publications

Conference & workshop papers
2026

AVIS: Adaptive Test-Time Scaling for Vision-Language Models

Jeddi A., Le M.N., Kazerouni A., Karaimer H.C., Nguyen H., Mohomed I., Brudno M., Levinshtein A., Derpanis K.G., Taati B., Grzeszczuk R.

2026

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2026

GEAR: Genetic AutoResearch for Agentic Code Evolution

Jeddi A., Le M.N., Karaimer H.C., Derpanis K.G., Taati B.

2026

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2025

PuzzleCraft: Exploration-Aware Curriculum Learning for Puzzle-Based RLVR in VLMs

Jeddi A., Karaimer H.C., Nguyen H., Wang Z., Zhao K., Rajabi J., Zhang R., Goyal R., Derpanis K.G., Taati B., Grzeszczuk R.

arXiv preprint, December 2025

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2025

Off the Planckian Locus: Using 2D Chromaticity to Improve In-Camera Color

Tedla S.K., Little J.E., Karaimer H.C., Brown M.S.

arXiv preprint, November 2025

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2025

Emulating Emulsion: A Compact Physically-Based Model for Film Colour

Jang H.J., Karaimer H.C., Brown M.S.

SIGGRAPH Posters ’25, August 2025

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2021

Joint Unsupervised Infrared-RGB Video Registration and Fusion

Marouf I.E., Barras L., Karaimer H.C., Süsstrunk S.

London Imaging Meeting (LIM) ’21, September 2021

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2020

A Correspondence-Free Color Chart Design for Color Calibration

Karaimer H.C., Nguyen H.M.R.

London Imaging Meeting (LIM) ’20, September 2020

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2019

Beyond raw-RGB and sRGB: Advocating Access to a Colorimetric Image State

Karaimer H.C., Brown M.S.

Color and Imaging Conference (CIC) ’19, October 2019

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2019

Color Temperature Tuning: Allowing Accurate Post-Capture White-Balance Editing

Afifi M., Punnappurath A., Abdelhamed A., Karaimer H.C., Abuolaim A., Brown M.S.

Color and Imaging Conference (CIC) ’19, October 2019

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2019

A Customized Camera Imaging Pipeline for Dermatological Imaging

Karaimer H.C., Khodadad I., Kazemzadeh F., Brown M.S.

ISIC Skin Image Analysis Workshop @ CVPR ’19, June 2019

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2018

Improving Color Reproduction Accuracy on Cameras

Karaimer H.C., Brown M.S.

IEEE CVPR ’18, June 2018

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2016

A Software Platform for Manipulating the Camera Imaging Pipeline

Karaimer H.C., Brown M.S.

European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) ’16, October 2016

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2015

Combining shape-based and gradient-based classifiers for vehicle classification

Karaimer H.C., Cinaroglu I., Bastanlar Y.

IEEE ITSC ’15, September 2015

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2015

Detection and Classification of Vehicles from Omnidirectional Videos using Temporal Average of Silhouettes

Karaimer H.C., Bastanlar Y.

VISAPP ’15, March 2015

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2013

The Visual Object Tracking VOT2013 challenge results

Kristan M., et al.

VOT Challenge Workshop @ ICCV ’13, December 2013

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Journal papers
2017

Detection and Classification of Vehicles from Omnidirectional Videos Using Multiple Silhouettes

Karaimer H.C., Baris I., Bastanlar Y.

Pattern Analysis and Applications, 20(3), August 2017

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Patents
2025

Method and Apparatus for Adjusting Video Brightness

Wu V.Y., Yu W.H., Karaimer H.C., Yan H.T.

U.S. Patent, September 2025

Patent

2022

Systems, methods and computer programs for colorimetric mapping

Brown M.S., Karaimer H.C.

U.S. Patent, May 2022

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Patent applications
2022

Real Time Machine Learning-Based Privacy Filter for Removing Reflective Features from Images and Video

Wu V.Y., Yu W.H., Karaimer H.C.

U.S. Patent Application, October 2022

Patent

2022

Systems and method of Processing of a Captured Image to Facilitate Post-Processing Modification

Brown M.S., Afifi M., Abdelhamed A., Karaimer H.C., Abuolaim A., Punnappurath A.

U.S. Patent Application, July 2022

Patent

National conference papers
2015

Classification of Vehicles Using Binary Foreground Images Averaged Over Time (in Turkish)

Karaimer H.C., Bastanlar Y.

IEEE SIU ’15, May 2015

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2014

Car Detection with Omnidirectional Cameras Using Haar-Like Features and Cascaded Boosting (in Turkish)

Karaimer H.C., Bastanlar Y.

IEEE SIU ’14, April 2014

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Theses
2019

A Study of Colour Rendering in the In-Camera Imaging Pipeline

Karaimer H.C.

PhD thesis, York University, August 2019

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2015

Shape Based Detection and Classification of Vehicles using Omnidirectional Videos

Karaimer H.C.

MSc thesis, Izmir Institute of Technology, June 2015

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Teaching