Barış Topal
Machine Learning Researcher at Pixery
Istanbul, Türkiye Turkey
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Top SchoolBarış Topal is a machine learning researcher with eight years of experience focused on generative vision models and multimodal architectures, currently developing conditional quality enhancement and super-resolution systems for images and video at Pixery in Istanbul. He holds an M.Sc. from Koç University where his research produced near‑SOTA detectors for drawings, comics and cartoons using self‑supervised teacher‑student networks and style transfer to leverage unlabeled data. His background spans applied ML projects from driver monitoring systems (face, gaze, drowsiness) to real‑time 3D pose‑based activity recognition and multimodal emotion recognition for comics, where transformer-based pipelines yielded competitive challenge results. Barış combines hands‑on engineering with research rigor—publishing code like SSuperGAN and emotion‑recognition repositories—bridging academic prototypes and production constraints. He is equally comfortable designing novel architectures and optimizing cross‑compiled, embedded ML pipelines, reflecting a practical bent for shipping models in constrained environments. Known for extracting value from limited annotations, he excels at adapting large‑scale vision methods to stylistically diverse domains.
7 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science and Engineering at Sabanci UniversityHigh School Mathematics and Natural Sciences, High School Mathematics and Natural Sciences at Istanbul Erkek LisesiMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Koç UniversityExchange Student Computer Science and Engineering, Exchange Student Computer Science and Engineering at National University of Singapore
English, German, Turkish
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Github Skills (95)
calculator10
video-processing9
openmmlab9
object-detection9
computer-vision9
toolbox9
benchmark9
pipeline-framework9
face-generation9
vision-transformer9
pitch9
streaming9
faster-rcnn9
pytorch9
inference9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
barisbatuhan/DASS_Detector
Mar 2022 - Nov 2022
Contributions:14 commits, 6 pushes in 8 months
barisbatuhan/Activity-Recognizer
Jun 2020 - Feb 2021
Contributions:19 commits, 1 push in 7 months
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