F. Betül Atalay Satoğlu

Associate Professor
Department of Computer Engineering

TOBB University of Economics and Technology
Söğütözü Avenue 43, Söğütözü,
Ankara, 06560 Turkey

office : 170
phone : +1 (312) 292 4082

fatalay@etu.edu.tr

Education

Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park , 2004

M.S., Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park , 1998

B.S., Computer Science, Bilkent University , Ankara, Turkey, 1996

Teaching (Spring 2017)

BIL 331/531: Analysis of Algorithms

Bil 535: Computational Geometry


Research

My research interests are in the areas of computational geometry and mesh generation. I have been working on quality-quaranteed meshing, in particular quad-meshing; various issues related to hierarchical simplicial meshes, including pointerless representations, efficient neighbor-finding; different subdivision techniques and quality guarantees associated with them and level-of-detail modeling. I have also worked on design and implementation of geometric data structures and algorithms with applications to computer graphics, in particular, efficient realistic rendering.



  • F. Betul Atalay, Sorelle A. Friedler, and Dianna Xu
    Convex Hull for Probabilistic Points
    In Proceedings of the 29th SIBGRAPI Conference on Graphics, Patterns and Images (SIBGRAPI’16), 2016, São José dos Campos, SP, Brazil.
    [PDF]

  • F. Betul Atalay, Sorelle A. Friedler, and Dianna Xu
    Probabilistic Kinetic Data Structures
    In Abstracts of 23rd Fall Workshop on Computational Geometry(FWCG 2013), New York City, NY, 2013. [PDF]



  • F. Betul Atalay, Suneeta Ramaswami, Dianna Xu
    Quadrilateral Meshes with Provable Angle Bounds,
    Engineering with Computers, 28(1), pages 31-56, 2012. [PDF]

  • Scott Hine, F. Betul Atalay, Dianna Xu, and Suneeta Ramaswami
    Quadrilateral Meshes with Bounded Minimum Angle,
    Proc. 25th ACM Symp. of Computational Geometry, 2009 (SoCG 2009), Arhus, Denmark. [PDF]

  • F. Betul Atalay, Suneeta Ramaswami and Dianna Xu,
    Quadrilateral Meshes with Bounded Minimum Angle,
    In Proc. of International Meshing Roundtable 2008 (IMR 2008), 73-91. Pittsburg, PA. [PDF]



  • F. Betul Atalay and David M. Mount,
    The Cost of Compatible Refinement of Simplex Decomposition Trees,
    Proc. International Meshing Roundtable 2006 (IMR 2006), 57-69. Birmingham, AL, 2006. [PDF]




  • F. Betul Atalay and David M. Mount,
    Pointerless Implementation of Hierarchical Simplicial Meshes and Efficient Neighbor Finding in Arbitrary Dimensions,
    International Journal of Computational Geometry and Applications (IJCGA), 17 (6), 595-631. December 2007. [PDF]

  • F. Betul Atalay and David M. Mount,
    Pointerless Implementation of Hierarchical Simplicial Meshes and Efficient Neighbor Finding in Arbitrary Dimensions,
    Proc. International Meshing Roundtable 2004 (IMR 2004), Williamsburg, VA, 2004. [PDF]



Ray-interpolant Tree (RI-tree) and Efficient Ray-tracing:
  • F. Betul Atalay and David M. Mount,
    Interpolation Over Light Fields with Applications in Computer Graphics,
    Proc. of ALENEX 2003, R. Ladner, Editor, SIAM, 2003, 56-68. F. Betul Atalay and David M. Mount,
    [PDF]
    [Full version]
    (Also in DIMACS Workshop on Computational Geometry)

  • F. Betul Atalay and David M. Mount,
    Ray Interpolants for Fast Ray-tracing reflections and refractions,
    Journal of WSCG , 10(3), 2002, 1-8. [PDF]



  • F. Betul Atalay and David M. Mount,
    Using Hierarchical Simplicial Meshes to Render Atmospheric Effects. [PDF]