Yiğit Ekin | Incoming PhD Student at Virginia Tech

About Me

I am an incoming PhD student in Computer Science at Virginia Tech under the supervison of Pinar Yanardag. Previously, I completed my MSc in Computer Science at Bilkent University, supervised by Aysegul Dundar. My research focuses on computer vision and machine learning, especially on generative models with an emphasis on diffusion models.

Research Interests

Diffusion Models: for both video and image generation, motion transfer, and editing
Computer Vision: image generation, image-to-image translation, object removal, inpainting
Generative Models: deep generative modeling for visual data

Publications

RoPECraft: Training-Free Motion Transfer with Trajectory-Guided RoPE Optimization on Diffusion Transformers

In Submission

Ahmet Berke Gökmen^*, Yiğit Ekin^*, Bahri Batuhan Bilecen^*, Aysegul Dundar

* denotes equal contribution

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CLIPAway: Harmonizing Focused Embeddings for Removing Objects via Diffusion Models

NeurIPS 2024

Yiğit Ekin, Ahmet Burak Yıldırım, Erdem Eren Çağlar, Aykut Erdem, Erkut Erdem, Ayşegül Dündar

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MixGAN: Dual Path StyleGAN Fusion for Diverse and Editable Inpainting

In Submission

Mustafa Utku Aydoğdu, Ahmet Burak Yıldırım, Yiğit Ekin, Ayşegül Dündar

Teaching

CS 224: Computer Organization (Spring 2024, 2025), Bilkent University
CS 484: Introduction to Computer Vision (Fall 2024), Bilkent University
CS 101: Algorithms and Programming I (Fall 2023), Bilkent University