Sabri 'Elras' Bolkar

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I am a machine learning applied scientist, engineer, and basketball player. I am interested in the complete lifecycle of learning-based systems from research to development, deployment, scaling, and continuous improvement. Large multi-modal deep networks are especially my favorite.

I studied computer vision at NTNU and completed my MSc thesis on unsupervised image segmentation at KU Leuven. Then I had a PhD adventure at TU Delft where I worked on fast registration algorithms for incomplete point cloud data.

Currently, I research deep networks and lead architecting the ML cloud infrastructure at one of the largest enterprise image editing companies, Bright River. You definitely saw my models in action on your favorite e-commerce website (;

I am also writing about deep learning at InfoQ, you can check my articles here.

Updates

July 23 - My EU AI Act summary reached 2nd in Hacker News, triggered interesting comments as well.

March 23 - Check Pos3D, our realistic on-model imagery service.

June 22 - We scaled our high resolution image editing ML API usage to millions per month.

July 21 - Our new ML image editing SaaS ModifAI is live!

February 21 - The project that I am leading the R&D efforts got NVIDIA Inception Grant and several cloud grants.

March 20 - Check my team's deep learning solutions as we bring automation to image editing.

April 19 - Lured to the industry from my PhD researcher position. I will be initializing the CV/ML group at B/R.

November 18 - My work on microscopy point cloud registration resulted in state-of-the-art speed with high quality!

July 18 - Defended my thesis succesfully! I will be starting a PhD positon at the TU Delft Quantitative Imaging Group.

September 16 - Started my MSc education, my specializations will be imaging, processing and machine learning.

May 15 - Received the best poster award for my brain-computer interface design at the DTU.

June 14 - Interned at Technical University of Denmark, I worked on brain-computer interfaces and EEG data analysis.

Projects | Publications

	Scaling Deep Networks Series InfoQ, 2021- Articles link
	Deep Any-resolution Virtual Try-on B/R, 2022- Product page link
	Benefits of Loosely Coupled Deep Learning Serving InfoQ, 2021 Article link
	High Resolution Alpha Masking of Objects B/R, 2020 Sample input image from link Another example result for link
	Fast Point Cloud Fusion of Incomplete SMLM Particles Sabri Bolkar TU Delft, 2019 [Pdf]
	Soft Segmentation of Viral Labeled Neurons Sabri Bolkar MSc Thesis, KU Leuven (Neuro-electronics Research Flanders) & Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 2018 [Pdf] [Code]
	Deep Smoke Removal from Minimally Invasive Surgery Videos Sabri Bolkar, Concong Wang, Faouzi Alaya Cheikh, Sule Yildirim IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2018 [Pdf] [Code]
	Bio-spectral Imaging Sabri Bolkar, Onur Ozcelik Research Report, METU EE, 2015 [Pdf]