My daughter Sena Oten's Makerspace Club

My daughter Sena has raised money to start a Makerspace in her school. She purchased 3D printer Ultimaker 2 and successfully directed the club.

Remzi Oten Black and White Photo Competition

I have started a photo contest with an emphasis on black and white photography. You can find all the information and enter into the contest from the below page:

Remzi Oten Photo Contest

Contest ends on September 15th. Good luck to all of you!

Remzi Oten Publications

I have posted my publications to my WordPress blog. If I put tags to my publications it would be: Imaging, nonlinear signal processing, order statistics, video processing, Alzheimer's Disease, Neural Networks, and Intelligent Systems.You can find the list of publications here:

Remzi Oten's Publications

I have started using Google's Nik Collection to process some of my photos. Still experimenting. But so far so good. Especially, if you are just starting and do not want to spend much time in editing, you can use Nik Collection's  preset effects. Even though these are preset effects, it allows you to play with several settings to customize for your needs. Best of all it is FREE. You can start and give it a try before switching to more advanced tools such as Photoshop. Here is a processed photo with Google's Nik Collection:

By looking at the above pictures, one can argue whether it was better before processing or after processing. However, the point here is that you can achieve the below effect relatively easy with Google Nik collection.

Patents by Remzi Oten

My patents can be put in 3 categories. The patents can be found at: Remzi Oten's patents

1) Single CMOS sensor  improvement related patents:
2) Three sensor camera structure related patents
3) Phone case related patents

Here are some samples:

SINGLE CMOS SENSOR IMPROVEMENT

Method for reducing row noise with dark pixel data

Patent number: 7982784

Abstract: A method for reducing the row noise from complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) image sensor by using average values from sub-regions of the shielded pixels. The method operates on sensor with and without a Color Filter Array (CFA) before any interpolation is applied and estimates the local offset by subtracting out outliers and averaging the averages of sub-regions in the shielded pixels. The method also reducses the pixel-to-pixel noise while reducing the row noise.

Type: Grant

Filed: June 16, 2009

Date of Patent: July 19, 2011

Assignee: Crosstek Capital, LLC

Inventors: Remzi Oten, Jim 

THREE SENSOR CAMERA STRUCTURE

Digital camera with multiple pipeline signal processors

Patent number: 9313393

Abstract: A method includes sampling a first intensity of light with a first array of photo detectors of a digital camera. A second intensity of light is sampled with a second array of photo detectors of the digital camera. A first channel processor coupled to the first array of photo detectors generates a first image using first array data which is representative of the first intensity of light sampled by the first array of photo detectors. A second channel processor coupled to the second array of photo detectors generates a second image using second array data which is representative of the second intensity of light sampled by the second array of photo detectors. The first array of photo detectors, the second array of photo detectors, the first channel processor, and the second channel processor are integrated on or in a semiconductor substrate.

Type: Grant

Filed: February 4, 2014

Date of Patent: April 12, 2016

Assignee: CALLAHAN CELLULAR L.L.C.

Inventors: Richard Ian Olsen, Darryl L. Sato, Borden Moller, Olivera Vitomirov, Jeffrey A. Brady, Ferry Gunawan, Remzi Oten, Feng-Qing Sun, James Gates

PHONE CASE

PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE CASE WITH AN ADHESIVE PANEL

Publication number: 20150027911

Abstract: Case accessories for portable electronic devices are disclosed. In some embodiments, a case accessory may include a base configured to sit on a working surface, a support coupled to the base and configured to support a portable electronic device in an elevated position, and an adhesive panel coupled to the support and configured to secure the portable electronic device.

Type: Application

Filed: July 25, 2014

Publication date: January 29, 2015

Inventors: Omer Faruk Cakir, Bakir Silajdzic, Remzi Oten, Fevzi Oten

Speech to International Students

On August 28, 2013, I gave a speech to many brilliant young international students at Calums. Here is the coverage from their student newspaper:

A SPECIAL GUEST AT CALUMS - REMZI OTEN

A memorable event took place at the university when Dr. Remzi Öten, founder of the highly successful premium mobile accessory company SENA cases, presented a speech about his career and the basis for his company’s success. When Dr. Oten addressed the audience on August 28, 2013, there were no empty seats in the auditorium. Students had to stand or sit on tables. Over 100 students and faculty listened to this remarkable speech.

During the summer, the Student Service Associates (SSA) team had a goal to invite a guest speaker who had meaningful and motivating message. The event surpassed their expectations. The astonishing success of Dr. Oten and his company was profound to CALUMS’s students. In addition, his background as a former international student made him deeply interesting.

Dr. Oten earned his bachelor’s degree in Turkey and continued his education in the United States, earn- ing M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from the University of California, Irvine, in 1996 and 1999, respectively.

Before Dr, Oten started making history as an entrepreneur, he worked in senior research and consulting positions at several companies. He also worked as a researcher and engineer specializing in image and signal processing. Dr. Oten developed more than 150 novel algorithmsthat are still used in successful commercial products.

As the CEO and President of SENA cases since 2001, Dr. Oten led his company to revenues of more than $20 million and a premium partnership with Apple Computers, Inc. Dr. Oten has more than 10 patents and applications and 13 scholarly published journal and conference papers.

The speech of Dr. Öten was influential with important information about doing business in the United States and the necessary steps to get to the top. Dr. Öten pointed out that taking risks is part of doing business and that unsuccessful decisions shouldn ́t discourage one from continuing to follow their dreams.

Simultaneous object segmentation

Simultaneous object segmentation, multiple object tracking and alpha map generation

By Yucel Altunbasak, Remzi Oten, Rui J.P. de Figueiredo

This paper presents an object-based video modeling. Motion segmentation is performed at the initial frame to identify different coherently moving regions, called motion-objects. These regions are grouped to form objects. Each motion-object is fitted a content-based mesh, and tracked subsequently to the next frame via mesh motion estimation and compensation. The uncovered background region(s), which emerges when objects move, will be segmented so as to identify the new objects or occluded parts of already existing objects. The mesh model is modified to reflect the changes in object boundaries.