% Publications of Aydin Ayanzadeh
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@misc{esparza2026modular,
  title = {Modular Deep Learning Mechanisms for Auditable Next-Day Wildfire Spread Prediction},
  author = {Esparza, Miguel and Ayanzadeh, Aydin and Mousavi, Ahmad and Mostafavi, Ali},
  year = {2026},
  eprint = {2609.17763},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  primaryClass = {cs.LG},
  doi = {10.48550/arXiv.2609.17763},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.17763}
}

@inproceedings{ayanzadeh2026characterizing,
  title = {Characterizing an On-Device Depth-Aware Multimodal Workload in Assistive Navigation for Blind and Low-Vision Users},
  author = {Ayanzadeh, Aydin and Oates, Tim},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization (IISWC)},
  year = {2026},
  address = {Boulder, CO, USA}
}

@inproceedings{ayanzadeh2026llm,
  title = {LLM-Guided Agentic Floor Plan Parsing for Accessible Indoor Navigation of Blind and Low-Vision People},
  author = {Ayanzadeh, Aydin and Oates, Tim},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops},
  year = {2026},
  eprint = {2604.23970},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  primaryClass = {cs.AI},
  doi = {10.48550/arXiv.2604.23970},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.23970}
}

@inproceedings{ayanzadeh2026wildfirevlm,
  title = {{WildfireVLM}: AI-Powered Analysis for Early Wildfire Detection Using Satellite Imagery},
  author = {Ayanzadeh, Aydin and Dixit, Prakhar and Kamal, Sadia and Halem, Milton},
  booktitle = {IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)},
  year = {2026},
  eprint = {2602.13305},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.13305},
  note = {Accepted}
}

@inproceedings{ayanzadeh2025floorplan2guide,
  title     = {Floorplan2Guide: LLM-Guided Floorplan Parsing for BLV Indoor Navigation},
  author    = {Ayanzadeh, Aydin and Oates, Tim},
  booktitle = {2025 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData)},
  pages     = {7477--7485},
  year      = {2025},
  doi       = {10.1109/BigData66926.2025.11401868}
}

@article{keser2023pursuhint,
  title = {{PURSUhInT}: In Search of Informative Hint Points Based on Layer Clustering for Knowledge Distillation},
  author = {Keser, Reyhan Kevser and Ayanzadeh, Aydin and Aghdam, Omid Abdollahi and Kilcioglu, Caglar and Toreyin, Behcet Ugur and Ure, Nazim Kemal},
  journal = {Expert Systems with Applications},
  volume = {213},
  pages = {119040},
  year = {2023},
  doi = {10.1016/j.eswa.2022.119040},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2022.119040},
  eprint = {2103.00053},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  primaryClass = {cs.LG}
}

@incollection{erdem2023automated,
  title = {Automated analysis of phase-contrast optical microscopy time-lapse images: application to wound healing and cell motility assays of breast cancer},
  author = {Erdem, Yusuf Sait and Ayanzadeh, Aydin and Mayal{\i}, Berkay and Bal{\i}k{\c{c}}i, Muhammed and Belli, {\"O}zge Nur and U{\c{c}}ar, Mahmut and Yal{\c{c}}{\i}n {\"O}zyusal, {\"O}zden and Pesen Okvur, Devrim and {\"O}nal, Sevgi and Morani, Kenan and Iheme, Leonardo Obinna and T{\"o}reyin, Beh{\c{c}}et U{\u{g}}ur and {\"U}nay, Devrim},
  booktitle = {Diagnostic Biomedical Signal and Image Processing Applications with Deep Learning Methods},
  editor = {Polat, Kemal and {\"O}zt{\"u}rk, Saban},
  publisher = {Elsevier / Academic Press},
  pages = {137--154},
  year = {2023},
  doi = {10.1016/B978-0-323-96129-5.00013-5},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-96129-5.00013-5}
}

@article{ayanzadeh2021improved,
  title = {Improved cell segmentation using deep learning in label-free optical microscopy images},
  author = {Ayanzadeh, Aydin and {\"O}zuysal, {\"O}zden Yal{\c{c}}in and Okvur, Devrim Pesen and {\"O}nal, Sevgi and T{\"o}reyin, Beh{\c{c}}et U{\u{g}}ur and {\"U}nay, Devrim},
  journal = {Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences},
  volume = {29},
  number = {8},
  pages = {2855--2868},
  year = {2021},
  doi = {10.3906/elk-2105-244}
}

@misc{nallbani2021representation,
  title = {Representation learning using graph autoencoders with residual connections},
  author = {Nallbani, Indrit and Ayanzadeh, Aydin and Keser, Reyhan Kevser and {\c{C}}al{\i}k, Nurullah and T{\"o}reyin, Beh{\c{c}}et U{\u{g}}ur},
  year = {2021},
  eprint = {2105.00695},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  primaryClass = {cs.LG},
  doi = {10.48550/arXiv.2105.00695},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.00695}
}

@inproceedings{ayanzadeh2020deep,
  title = {Deep Learning based Segmentation Pipeline for Label-Free Phase-Contrast Microscopy Images},
  author = {Ayanzadeh, Aydin and {\"O}zuysal, {\"O}zden Yal{\c{c}}in and Okvur, Devrim Pesen and {\"O}nal, Sevgi and T{\"o}reyin, Beh{\c{c}}et U{\u{g}}ur and {\"U}nay, Devrim},
  booktitle = {2020 28th Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU)},
  pages = {1--4},
  year = {2020},
  organization = {IEEE},
  doi = {10.1109/SIU49456.2020.9302304}
}

@inproceedings{keser2020graph,
  title = {Graph Embedding For Link Prediction Using Residual Variational Graph Autoencoders},
  author = {Keser, Reyhan Kevser and Nallbani, Indrit and {\c{C}}al{\i}k, Nurullah and Ayanzadeh, Aydin and T{\"o}reyin, Beh{\c{c}}et U{\u{g}}ur},
  booktitle = {2020 28th Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU)},
  pages = {1--4},
  year = {2020},
  organization = {IEEE},
  doi = {10.1109/SIU49456.2020.9302271}
}

@misc{ayanzadeh2019scaling,
  title = {A New Class of Scaling Matrices for Scaled Trust Region Algorithms},
  author = {Ayanzadeh, Aydin and Yazdanian, Shokoufeh and Shahamatnia, Ehsan},
  year = {2019},
  eprint = {1904.09209},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  primaryClass = {math.OC},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.09209}
}

@inproceedings{ayanzadeh2019cell,
  title = {Cell Segmentation of 2D Phase-Contrast Microscopy Images with Deep Learning Method},
  author = {Ayanzadeh, Aydin and Ya{\u{g}}ar, H{\"u}seyin Onur and {\"O}zuysal, {\"O}zden Yal{\c{c}}in and Okvur, Devrim Pesen and T{\"o}reyin, Beh{\c{c}}et U{\u{g}}ur and {\"U}nay, Devrim and {\"O}nal, Sevgi},
  booktitle = {2019 Medical Technologies Congress (TIPTEKNO)},
  pages = {1--4},
  year = {2019},
  organization = {IEEE},
  doi = {10.1109/TIPTEKNO.2019.8894978}
}

@inproceedings{binici2019automated,
  title = {Automated Segmentation of Cells in Phase Contrast Optical Microscopy Time Series Images},
  author = {Binici, R{\i}fk{\i} Can and {\c{S}}ahin, Umut and Ayanzadeh, Aydin and T{\"o}reyin, Beh{\c{c}}et U{\u{g}}ur and {\"O}nal, Sevgi and Okvur, Devrim Pesen and {\"O}zuysal, {\"O}zden Yal{\c{c}}{\i}n and {\"U}nay, Devrim},
  booktitle = {2019 Medical Technologies Congress (TIPTEKNO)},
  pages = {1--4},
  year = {2019},
  organization = {IEEE},
  doi = {10.1109/TIPTEKNO.2019.8895080}
}

@article{ayanzadeh2018modified,
  title = {Modified Deep Neural Networks for Dog Breeds Identification},
  author = {Ayanzadeh, Aydin and Vahidnia, Sahand},
  journal = {Preprints},
  year = {2018},
  doi = {10.20944/preprints201812.0232.v1},
  url = {https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/201812.0232/v1}
}

@inproceedings{ayanzadeh2015modified,
  title = {A modified ant colony based approach to digital image edge detection},
  author = {Ayanzadeh, Aydin and Pourghaemi, Hossein and Seyfari, Yousef},
  booktitle = {2015 2nd International Conference on Knowledge-Based Engineering and Innovation (KBEI)},
  pages = {504--509},
  year = {2015},
  organization = {IEEE},
  doi = {10.1109/KBEI.2015.7436096}
}

@misc{irandoust2017gaussian,
  title = {Gaussian Three-Dimensional kernel SVM for Edge Detection Applications},
  author = {Irandoust-Pakchin, Safar and Ayanzadeh, Aydin and Beikzadeh, Siamak},
  year = {2017},
  eprint = {1710.01260},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  primaryClass = {cs.CV},
  doi = {10.48550/arXiv.1710.01260},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.01260},
  note = {Originally presented at the International Conference on New Research Findings in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Tehran, 2015}
}