From research to field application
At Kolacı, a technology does not count as a product until it has been measured in the field. This page describes the work that has reached the field so far, together with its measurement methods and limitations.
Scope of the field programme
756 ha · 96 application areas
Total stated in company field records for sunflower, maize and soybean applications; control-group sowing under Çukurova University supervision
8 crop production categories
Sunflower, grain maize, silage maize, soybean, wheat, cotton, peanut and sugar beet (company field records)
5 institutions
Çukurova University (supervision, DNA analysis), Seyhan Chamber of Agriculture (observation letters 2013–2014), the Eastern Mediterranean and Trakya Agricultural Research Institutes and the Sugar Institute (2014 trial fields)
2006–2008
Installation in Adana merging advertising panels with the City Security Management System (the founding team's company Y-Vizyon Ltd.)
Case 1 — XSense field programme, Çukurova, 2013–2014
- Need
- Drought, imported inputs and falling yields.
- When
- 2013–2014; farmers' fields affiliated with the Adana Seyhan Chamber of Agriculture.
- Role
- Kolacı: technology developer and implementer. Çukurova University: supervision and DNA analysis. Chamber of Agriculture: observation and reporting.
- Measure
- Control-group yield comparison (kg/da); single-plant measurements; ISSR DNA marker analysis.
- Result
- Crop-level results on the XSense page; +10% to +41% in the Chamber report, inconclusive in wheat. No genetic difference in DNA analysis.
- Limits
- The results in the Chamber report belong to the 2014 season and the fields stated; company records cover two seasons (2013, 2014) but do not give the distribution of area totals by season. Single-plant measurements are not averages; results are not a guarantee for new applications.
- Source
- Chamber report 14 Nov 2014; ÇÜ DNA reports 1 Nov 2013; company field document.
Case 2 — Adana city-security and smart megalight installation, 2006–2008
For the advertiser: vehicle and pedestrian counts, make breakdown and the derived audience profile could be seen in real time during a campaign. For public authorities: colour, speed and violation data (speed, red light, emergency lane, lane violation) were relayed to the centre automatically; for example, a vehicle passing at 85 km/h on a 60 km/h road could be identified by its plate and reported with a violation photo. Fixed megalights had an automatic poster-tensioning system.
- Need
- Advertising media that could not be measured, and city-security/traffic-enforcement needs that required separate infrastructures.
- When
- Contract 22 Dec 2006; final acceptance 18 Dec 2007; Adana.
- Role
- Y-Vizyon Ltd. (the same founding team's company): production, installation and operation of the electronic systems; contract with the main contractor (Kamera Reklam A.Ş. – News Outdoor A.Ş.); within the Adana Metropolitan Municipality street-furniture tender.
- Measure
- Daily/weekly/monthly vehicle and pedestrian counts, make distribution; live viewing from municipal units. Example: week of 4–10 Sep 2008, 18,850 vehicles, 1,959 pedestrians (management-panel record).
- Result
- According to the main contractor's letter of 2 Jun 2008, the work reached final acceptance on 18 Dec 2007; how the system met specification clauses 5, 6 and 40–54 is set out clause by clause in Y-Vizyon's technical report. Audience measurement for advertisers and plate/speed/violation data for public authorities were served from one infrastructure.
- Limits
- The documents belong to the 2006–2008 period; the work-completion is in the name of Y-Vizyon Ltd. The results are specific to that installation and its specification.
- Source
- Y-Vizyon technical compliance report; main contractor letter 2 Jun 2008; 2008 management-panel screenshot.
Case 3 — Measurable outdoor media, Kavaklıdere, Ankara, 2002–2006
- Need
- The audience of outdoor advertising could not be measured.
- When
- 2002–2006; wall of the Kavaklıdere Tennis Club, Ankara.
- Role
- Founding team, under the XLight brand: panel system and measurement software.
- Measure
- Vehicle and pedestrian counts; make breakdown. Company document states 371,960 vehicles and 517,300 pedestrians per week (date not stated).
- Result
- A measurable medium for advertisers; the counting technology became the basis of the Adana installation.
- Limits
- Historical work (2002–2006); the traffic figures and measurement method in the brochure are not published as current performance because they have not been verified; the brands in the photographs are the campaigns of the period.
- Source
- XLight presentation file; Haber7, 8 Mar 2006.
Archive — Turning images into information
Two examples from the image-processing laboratory studies our founding team carried out in the XLight period. The idea was simple: a camera only produces images; what counts, recognises and distinguishes is software. These studies show the method behind the vehicle and pedestrian counting in the Ankara (2002–2006) and Adana (2006–2007) installations. No detection boxes or results have been added to the images afterwards; they are shown at the resolution of the source file.
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Background estimation and motion detection (road scene)
- Presentation date
- 2009 (metadata of presentation images)
- Period of work
- Not documented; "laboratory study" in the presentation
- Completion
- Not documented
- XLight–Kolacı relationship
- Founding team, under the XLight brand
Moving-object segmentation and multi-tracking (pitch scene)
- Presentation date
- 2009 (image metadata of the same presentation)
- Period of work
- Not documented
- Completion
- Not documented
- XLight–Kolacı relationship
- Same
Vehicle counting and make-model recognition (application)
- Presentation date
- —
- Period of work
- 2002–2006 Ankara; 2006–2007 Adana
- Completion
- Adana: final acceptance 18 Dec 2007
- XLight–Kolacı relationship
- Founding team: XLight brand / Y-Vizyon Ltd.
The original slide can be opened separately as an archive item (XLight "High Security Products" presentation, slide 8).
Background estimation and motion detection — source video
The laboratory recording from which the comparison pair above was taken; web copy of the original .mpg linked to the presentation (file date 2005). No marks were added to the footage afterwards.
Archive videos — Image-processing and AI studies
The image-analysis software we developed for border surveillance, detection of removed objects (Theft Module) and unattended-package alarms was sold, together with its source code, to a multinational camera manufacturer and delivered as embedded systems for integration into cameras. The manufacturer's name and brand cannot be disclosed under the terms of the contract. The videos in this section are archive demonstration recordings of the work; they are not real operational footage, and no marks were added to the images afterwards.
According to our company's technical description, the team worked in this period on border surveillance with its own artificial-neural-network approach and on recognising the scene a moving (PTZ) camera re-aims at. The recordings are demonstrations of this work; the details of the method cannot be read from the recordings.
Border surveillance — recording 1
Detection of moving targets in night/thermal terrain footage; left window source ("Orig"), right window processed. Duration 1:21. Date of work not documented.
Border surveillance — recording 2
Same set-up, longer recording (4:24): the scene is re-evaluated as the camera angle changes. Company statement: scene recognition by a re-aiming camera was a subject of work in this period.
Object removal — recording 1
When an object is removed from an office scene, the vacated area is flagged. Duration 0:26. There is no person identification; the system only flags the change in the scene.
Object removal — recording 2
The position of an object taken from a shelf is flagged, second scene. Duration 0:30.
Unattended object
A bag left in the scene and separated from its owner is flagged after a set time. Duration 0:31. This is the reverse of object removal: an added object is tracked.
Border surveillance 1–2
- Type of recording
- Archive demonstration recording
- Date of work
- Not documented (XLight period)
- Project stage
- Software sold with its source code to a multinational camera manufacturer; delivered as embedded systems (company statement)
- Period and team
- XLight brand, founding team
Object removal (Theft Module) 1–2
- Type of recording
- Archive demonstration recording (XL watermark)
- Date of work
- Not documented (XLight period)
- Project stage
- Sold and delivered as embedded systems (company statement)
- Period and team
- Same
Unattended-package alarm
- Type of recording
- Archive demonstration recording (XL watermark)
- Date of work
- Not documented (XLight period)
- Project stage
- Sold and delivered as embedded systems (company statement)
- Period and team
- Same
In the press and in publications
Three records: the academic paper (SUMMITS'24), the Adana clipping (Hürriyet according to company information) and the Haber7 article (8 March 2006). Citations and source limits are on the Publications page.
"Someone is watching Adana"
News of the day: five cameras each at the bus terminal, vegetable market, officers' club, governorate, Kasım Gülek, ASKİ and İller Bankası junctions; 24-hour monitoring; signalling intervention from the control room and driver information via electronic panels.
Academic publication · SUMMITS'24 · 2024
An academic reference to vehicle and pedestrian counting
A paper in the proceedings of the SUMMITS'24 International Intelligent Transportation Systems Summit discusses the "Vehicle and Pedestrian Parallel Counting System" attributed to İbrahim Kolacı.
"An invention named vehicle and pedestrian parallel counting system was made by İbrahim Kolacı." (translated from the Turkish original)
Akif Akbulut and Ufuk Kırbaş · Paper pp. 49–62 · Reference: printed p. 55 / PDF p. 64 · 2024 is the event year
Press archive · Hürriyet
"Someone is watching Adana"
An archive article on the Adana project: camera monitoring of junctions, intervention in traffic signalling and driver information via electronic panels. The newspaper name is based on company information; the publication date is not visible on the clipping.
Press · Haber7 · 8 March 2006
"Peygamber sevgisi panolara yansıdı" (Love of the Prophet reflected on the panels)
A Haber7 article dated 8 March 2006 reports on the panel work prepared with English-language messages in Ankara and on İbrahim Kolacı's approach. Prepared in the aftermath of the cartoons concerning the Prophet Muhammad, the work is an example of its period in which sensitivity of faith was expressed in public space through visual communication.
The article identifies İbrahim Kolacı as the owner of XLight Media · Photographs: XLight project page
Institutions we have worked with
The relationship with each institution below is as stated; an institution's name does not imply support, certification, commercial partnership or product approval.
Adana Metropolitan Municipality
Project owner (2006–2008 installation, via main contractor)
Çukurova University (Faculty of Agriculture, Technopark)
Field supervision and DNA analysis (2013–2014); Technopark campus during the XSense development period
Trakya Agricultural Research Institute (Edirne)
Trial field: oil-sunflower dose trial (2014); institute report 26 Sep 2014
Eastern Mediterranean Agricultural Research Institute (Adana)
Trial field: grain and silage maize dose trial (2014); institute report 19 Nov 2014
Sugar Institute of Türkiye Sugar Factories (Ankara)
Trial field: sugar-beet dose trial (2014); yield and quality measurements as raw tables
Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, General Directorate of Plant Production
Regulatory opinion (2015)
Hacettepe University Beytepe Campus — Technopark Incubation Centre
Centre where Kolacı companies operated as part of their completed R&D work
METU Technopark
Centre where Kolacı companies operated as part of their completed R&D work
Adana Seyhan Chamber of Agriculture
Observation and reporting; farmers' fields
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