Orhan Apaydın

About Me

Currently, I am a doctoral student in Geophysical Engineering at Istanbul Technical University. My research interests include subsurface imaging, deep learning applications in geophysics, and archaeogeophysics.

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Works

• Fieldwork: İşseven, T., Kayın, S., Aydın, N.G., Apaydın, O., (August 25 – September 5, 2025) Kalehisar Ören Yeri Archaeogeophysical Investigation, Çorum, Türkiye.
• Fieldwork: İşseven, T., Kayın, S., Aydın, N.G., Apaydın, O., (August 15 - August 24, 2025) Hacımusalar Höyük Archaeogeophysical Investigation, Antalya, Türkiye.
• Fieldwork: Apaydın, O., Kayın, S., Kaplanvural, İ., (July 31 – August 5, 2025) Türkmen Karahöyük Archaeogeophysical Investigation, Konya, Türkiye.
• Fieldwork: Caner İmren, Beril Karadöller, Nedim Gökhan Aydın, Derya Keleş, Berkan Özkan, Orhan Apaydın, Başak Işık, Enes Sönmez, JEF 346 Measurements in Geophysics Course – Fieldwork, Urla, İzmir (June 25 - July 2, 2025).
• Conference: Karapınar, D., Mahmutoğlu, Y., & Apaydın, O. (2025, May). Detachments induced by thermal cycling at grain boundaries of fine grained marble. Paper presented at the 4th International Graduate Research Symposium (IGRS25), Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Türkiye.
• Article: Kayın, S., Aydın, N. G., Apaydın, O., & İşseven, T. (2025). Integrated Geophysical Survey (GPR, ERT and Magnetometry) at the Kalehisar Archaeological Site in Central Anatolia. Archaeological Prospection.
  DOI: 10.1002/arp.70000
• Research: Erasmus+ KA131 Staff Training Mobility, Department of Cultural Heritage: Archaeology and History of Art, Cinema and Music, University of Padua, (7-11 April, 2025).

• 🎓 PhD: Geophysical Engineering, ITU (ongoing)
• Article: Apaydın, O., & İşseven, T. (2024). Detection of objects with diverse geometric shapes in GPR images using deep-learning methods. Open Geosciences, 16(1), 20220685.
  DOI: 10.1515/geo-2022-0685
• Conference: Yıldırım, C. A., Apaydın, O., Paker, S., & Erer, I. (2024, May). Radar ile Betonarme İçi Yapıların Görüntülenmesi Imaging of Reinforced Concrete Structures Using Radar. In 2024 32nd Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU) (pp. 1-4). IEEE.
  DOI: 10.1109/SIU61531.2024.10600964
• Conference: Apaydın, O., & İşseven, T. (2024, April). Detection and classification of near-surface buried objects in GPR images with deep learning-based Faster R-CNN and YOLOv5 methods. In EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts (p. 382).
  DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu24-382
• Conference: Apaydın, O., & İşseven, T. (2024). Detection and classification of buried objects in GPR images using the deep learning-based Faster R-CNN method. 9th Earth Electricity Workshop.
• Project: Özyıldırım, Ö., et al. (01.01.2024 – 01.02.2025), TÜBİTAK 2568– “A Comprehensive Geophysical Study on the Lithospheric Dynamics of Multi-Plate Interactions and Their Relations with the 2023 Kahramanmaraş Turkey Earthquakes”, No: 123N617, (Research scholar).
• Project: Kayın, S., et al. (2024-ongoing). Archaeogeophysical Investigation of Kalehisar Archaeological Site, Çorum, Alaca. GÜ-BAP, Rapid Support Project. 24.B0126.02.01 (Researcher).
• Fieldwork: Caner İmren, et al.: 2023-2024 Spring Semester, JEF 346 Measurements in Geophysics Course – Fieldwork, Kısırkaya, Istanbul (June 24-30, 2024).
• Fieldwork: Kayın, S., İşseven, T., Aydın, N.G., Apaydın, O., Altuntaş, O., (2024) Archaeogeophysical Investigation of Kalehisar Archaeological Site, Çorum, Turkey.
• Fieldwork: MT field study in Kahramanmaraş and Gaziantep within the scope of the TÜBİRAK-CAS project No. 2568, titled "A Comprehensive Geophysical Study on the Lithospheric Dynamics of Multi-Plate Interactions and Their Relations with the 2023 Kahramanmaraş-Türkiye Earthquakes", (2024).

• 🎓 PhD: Geophysical Engineering, ITU (Start)
• 🎓 MSc: Geophysical Engineering, ITU

• Article: Apaydın, O., et al. (2022). Extracting tomographic images of interior structures of cylindrical objects and trees using Ground Penetrating Radar method. Results in Engineering, 14, 100410.
  DOI: 10.1016/j.rineng.2022.100410
• Conference: Kumlu, D., et al. (2022, December). Fast Background Subtraction for Through Obstacle Imaging Using a Low Cost, Portable Measurement System. In 2022 IEEE Conference on Antenna Measurements and Applications (CAMA) (pp. 1-5). IEEE.
  DOI: 10.1109/CAMA56352.2022.10002648
• Conference: Apaydın, O., et al. (2022). The effect of radar trace number on tomographic images of cylindrical objects obtained by using GPR. 25th Electromagnetic Induction Workshop.

• Project: TÜBİTAK 1001 – Title: “Effective On-Site Clutter Removal and Target Detection with a Low-Cost, Mobile Ground Penetrating Radar System”, No: 120E234, (15.03.2021 – 14.09.2023), (Research scholar).
• Award: SEG 5th Virtual Student Conference- 3rd Best Presentation (2021).

• 🎓 BSc: Geophysical Engineering, ITU