PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Alper Yilmaz

Also known as A Yilmaz, A. Yilmaz, Alper Yılmaz

Alper Yilmaz is a researcher whose work links machine learning with medical imaging and photogrammetry. At UCF, he scheduled his PhD final examination for July 2004 and taught Advanced Computer Vision in spring 2005. At Ohio State, he and PhD student Shehan Perera developed lung-ultrasound technology that uses deep learning to identify COVID-19; his startup Ubihere worked to commercialize tracking and localization technology for hospital resources. He served as editor-in-chief of Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing from 2016 to 2024 and led ISPRS Technical Commission II from 2020 to 2026. ASPRS honored him with the Photogrammetric Fairchild Award in 2025, ISPRS recognized his service in 2026, and as of October 2026 he is a professor at Ohio State.

Works
201
Citations
9,294
h-index
28
Badges

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 18 October 2026.

Timeline

  1. 2004–2005

    UCF doctoral work and teaching

    UCF announces his PhD final examination for July 2004; he teaches Advanced Computer Vision in spring 2005.

  2. 2006–2024

    Editing photogrammetry and vision journals

    He serves as associate editor of Machine Vision and Applications from 2006 to 2011 and Computer Vision and Image Understanding from 2014 to 2016. He serves as editor-in-chief of Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing from 2016 to 2024.

  3. 2020

    AI diagnosis and hospital tracking

    In 2020, he and PhD student Shehan Perera develop technology that combines lung ultrasound with deep learning to identify COVID-19. His startup Ubihere works to commercialize tracking and localization technology designed to help hospitals locate resources such as ventilators.

  4. 2020–2026

    President of ISPRS Commission II

    He serves as interim and elected president of ISPRS Technical Commission II (Photogrammetry) from 2020 to 2026.

  5. 2025

    Photogrammetric Fairchild Award

    ASPRS recognizes him with the Photogrammetric Fairchild Award and an Outstanding Service Award in 2025.

  6. 2026

    An ISPRS service certificate

    ISPRS awards him a Certificate of Recognition for service to the international photogrammetry and remote-sensing community in 2026.

  7. As of October 2026

    Professor at Ohio State

    As of October 2026, he is a professor in Civil, Environmental and Geodetic Engineering at Ohio State, with a courtesy appointment in Computer Science and Engineering.

A language model matched the links in this timeline to people, organizations and papers (provisional, model-judged).

Career

  1. Since 2006Ohio State UniversityProfessor
  2. 2020–2026International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote SensingPresident
  3. 2005University of Central Florida
  4. UbihereFounder

Education

  1. 2004University of Central FloridaPhD

From the biography and OpenAlex affiliations (the years of papers that list the organization), so some years are approximate.

Most-cited works

  1. Object tracking2006 · ACM Computing Surveys · 4,800 citationsWith Mubarak Shah
  2. Contour-based object tracking with occlusion handling in video acquired using mobile cameras2004 · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 493 citationsWith Mubarak Shah
  3. View-Invariant Representation and Recognition of Actions2002 · International Journal of Computer Vision · 433 citationsWith Mubarak Shah
  4. UAVid: A semantic segmentation dataset for UAV imagery2020 · ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing · 429 citations
  5. Actions Sketch: A Novel Action Representation2005 · IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 427 citationsWith Mubarak Shah

From OpenAlex, as of 18 October 2026.

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Colleagues

People with dated positions at the same organization in the same years.

Sources and credits

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  1. News Archive vision.eecs.ucf.edu. Checked 18 October 2026.
  2. CAP6412 - Advanced Computer Vision cs.ucf.edu. Checked 18 October 2026.
  3. Yilmaz, Alper | Civil, Environmental and Geodetic Engineering ceg.osu.edu. Checked 18 October 2026.
  4. Ohio State engineers combine ultrasound and AI for faster COVID-19 detection ceg.osu.edu. Checked 18 October 2026.
  5. ISPRS Announcements isprs.org. Checked 18 October 2026.