2026 Turgay Celik: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	40	9170	8904	5	5	126	8581

Overview

Turgay Celik is affiliated with the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. Their primary research spans the fields of Computer Science and Engineering, with a total of 106 and 56 publications respectively. Within these broad areas, their work focuses on several key subfields including Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Media Technology, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, and Control and Systems Engineering.

The scientist's research topics cover a diverse range, including remote-sensing image classification, topic modeling, advanced image fusion techniques, advanced image and video retrieval techniques, advanced neural network applications, machine learning in healthcare, and financial distress and bankruptcy prediction.

Turgay Celik has contributed extensively to peer-reviewed literature, with notable recent papers such as:

Statistical and machine learning models in credit scoring: A systematic literature survey (2020, Applied Soft Computing)
Personalized Adaptive Learning Technologies Based on Machine Learning Techniques to Identify Learning Styles: A Systematic Literature Review (2023, IEEE Access)
Making Deep Learning-Based Predictions for Credit Scoring Explainable (2021, IEEE Access)
Multilingual Sentiment Analysis for Under-Resourced Languages: A Systematic Review of the Landscape (2022, IEEE Access)
A Comparative Analysis of GAN-Based Methods for SAR-to-Optical Image Translation (2022, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters)

Their most frequent coauthors include Heng-Chao Li with 18 joint publications, Nanqing Liu with 13, Armin Moghimi with 9, Ali Mohammadzadeh with 8, and Michael Tonderai Mapundu with 7 collaborative works.

Turgay Celik regularly publishes in several scientific venues. The leading journals and conference proceedings for their work include:

IEEE Access (11 publications)
IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters (8 publications)
arXiv (Cornell University) (8 publications)
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (5 publications)
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing (4 publications)

Best Publications

Unsupervised Change Detection in Satellite Images Using Principal Component Analysis and $k$ -Means Clustering

Turgay Celik

1033
Citations
Fire detection in video sequences using a generic color model

Turgay Çelik;Hasan Demirel

711
Citations
Contextual and Variational Contrast Enhancement

T. Celik;T. Tjahjadi

546
Citations
Fire detection using statistical color model in video sequences

Turgay Celik;Hasan Demirel;Huseyin Ozkaramanli;Mustafa Uyguroglu

459
Citations
Statistical and machine learning models in credit scoring: A systematic literature survey

Xolani Dastile;Turgay Celik;Moshe Potsane

328
Citations
Automatic Image Equalization and Contrast Enhancement Using Gaussian Mixture Modeling

Turgay Celik;Tardi Tjahjadi

316
Citations
Fast and Efficient Method for Fire Detection Using Image Processing

Turgay Celik

302
Citations
Fire and smoke detection without sensors: Image processing based approach

Turgay Celik;Huseyin Ozkaramanli;Hasan Demirel

288
Citations
Spatial entropy-based global and local image contrast enhancement.

Turgay Celik

236
Citations
Two-dimensional histogram equalization and contrast enhancement

Turgay Celik

229
Citations
Change Detection in Satellite Images Using a Genetic Algorithm Approach

Turgay Celik

225
Citations
Computer vision for wildfire research: An evolving image dataset for processing and analysis

Tom Toulouse;Lucile Rossi;Antoine Campana;Turgay Celik

190
Citations
Unsupervised Change Detection for Satellite Images Using Dual-Tree Complex Wavelet Transform

T. Celik;Kai-Kuang Ma

175
Citations
Multiscale Change Detection in Multitemporal Satellite Images

T. Celik

171
Citations
Multitemporal Image Change Detection Using Undecimated Discrete Wavelet Transform and Active Contours

Turgay Celik;Kai-Kuang Ma

154
Citations
Gabor Feature Based Unsupervised Change Detection of Multitemporal SAR Images Based on Two-Level Clustering

Heng-Chao Li;Turgay Celik;Nathan Longbotham;William J. Emery

147
Citations
Fire Pixel Classification using Fuzzy Logic and Statistical Color Model

T. Celik;H. Ozkaramanli;H. Demirel

133
Citations
Automatic fire pixel detection using image processing: a comparative analysis of rule-based and machine learning-based methods

Tom Toulouse;Lucile Rossi;Turgay Celik;Turgay Celik;Moulay Akhloufi

117
Citations
Fire Detection in Video Sequences Using Statistical Color Model

T. Celik;H. Demirel;H. Ozkaramanli;M. Uyguroglu

103
Citations
Multiscale texture classification using dual-tree complex wavelet transform

Turgay Celik;Tardi Tjahjadi

102
Citations
A Bayesian approach to unsupervised multiscale change detection in synthetic aperture radar images

Turgay Celik

100
Citations
Toward a Smart Cloud: A Review of Fault-Tolerance Methods in Cloud Systems

Mukosi Abraham Mukwevho;Turgay Celik

100
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Hasan Demirel Eastern Mediterranean University

Heng-Chao Li Southwest Jiaotong University

William J. Emery University of Colorado Boulder

Xavier Maldague Université Laval

Ahmet M. Kondoz Loughborough University

Gwanggil Jeon Incheon National University

Kun Fu University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

External Links

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