Asscociate Professor (Maître de Conférences, HDR) in Computer Science
Université Bretagne Sud, IUT de Vannes (UBS), and IRISA lab /OBELIX team
2025: Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR), Université Bretagne Sud
Since 2019: Associate Professor (Maître de Conférences, CNU27) at UBS/IRISA
2018: Visiting researcher at TU Berlin (Germany), University of Trento (Italy) and Imperial College London (UK)
2016--2019: Postdoctoral researcher at IRISA, UBS/Univ Rennes 1 (France)
2016: Ph.D., Telecom Bretagne (now IMT Atlantique), co-funded by the French Space Agency (CNES)
2013: Master Intern in the Dpt. Geomatics, Laval University (Canada)
2011--2013: MSc. and M.Eng, Telecom Bretagne (France)
2007--2011: B.Eng, PFIEV program, HCMC University of Techololoy (Vietnam)
Contact:
Offices: UBS-IRISA: C107, Bât. ENSIBS, Campus de Tohannic, rue Yves Mainguy - 56000 VANNES, FRANCE
IUT Vannes - Dpt INFO: B147, 8 rue Michel de Montaigne - 56000 VANNES, FRANCE
Phone: (+33) 297017298, (+33) 297626434 Email: minh-tan.pham[at]irisa.fr, minh-tan.pham[at]univ-ubs.fr
06/2025: I defend my HDR (Habilitation à diriger des recherches) on June 6th !
05/2025: One paper accepted at INTERSPEECH 2025 !
04/2025: Our paper "YOLO-G3CF: Gaussian Contrastive Cross-Channel Fusion for Multimodal Object Detection" has been accepted for publication in IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters (Q1, IF = 4).
04/2025: One paper accepted at the CVPR 1st Workshop on Foundation and Large Vision Models in Remote sensing (MORSE) !
03/2025: 2 papers accepted at IGARSS 2025 (held in Brisbane, Australia)
03/2025: We organise the 7th edition of the MACLEAN (Machine learning for earth observation) workshop in conjunction with the ECML/PKDD 2025. Deadline for submission: 14/06/2025. Website: https://sites.google.com/view/maclean25
02/2025: Our DeepForMaP proposal (HORIZON-EUROPE-MSCA-PF) has been accepted ! 🥳🥳🥳 Congratulations to Shivam and welcome you back to our team next year!
01/2025: I am now a member of the Executive Board of AFRIF (The French Association of Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision).
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12/2024: Paul Berg (co-supervised by myself) has defensed his PhD thesis "Contributions to representation learning in computer vision and remote sensing" on December 13, 2024.
11/2024: Our paper "FedShip: Federated Learning for Ship Detection from Multi-Source Satellite Images" has been accepted for publication in IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters (Q1, IF = 4).
11/2024: Our paper "A deep learning model for detecting and classifying multiple marine mammal species from passive acoustic data" has been accepted for publication in Ecological Informatics (Q1, IF=5.8).
11/2024: We offer 2 Master Internship topics on object detection and super-resolution applied to satellite maritime images, with a possibility to pursue a PhD within our team. Deadline for application: 15/12/2024. More info: https://www-obelix.irisa.fr/job-offers/
09/2024: Our paper "Variational Autoencoder with Gaussian Random Field prior: application to unsupervised animal detection in aerial images" has been accepted for publication in ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (Q1, IF=10.6).
07/2024: Two papers accepted to BMVC 2024 (acceptance rate 25.8%) with 1 oral and 1 poster! Congrats to Paul and Hoang-An !!!
05/2024: We are looking for a highly-motivated PhD student to work on the topic of "Object detection from few multispectral examples" (CIFRE contract IRISA/ATERMES) . Application deadline: 15/06/2024. Expected start: Sep/Oct. 2024. FYI: http://www-obelix.irisa.fr/files/2024/05/PhD_Cifre2024_IRISA_ATERMES.pdf (FILLED)
05/2024: 1 paper accepted to IEEE ICCE 2024 and 1 paper accepted to RFIAP 2024.
04/2024: Our paper "Multimodal Supervised Contrastive Learning in Remote Sensing Downstream Tasks" has been accepted to IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters (Q1, IF = 4.8).
03/2024: We organise the 6th edition of the MACLEAN (Machine learning for earth observation) workshop in conjunction with the ECML/PKDD 2024. More info : https://sites.google.com/view/maclean24 (submission : 15/6/2024)
03/2024: 5 papers accepted at IGARSS 2024 (with 2 orals and 3 posters) and 1 abstract accepted at EGU 2024 (oral).
02/2024: Our AXOLOTL project (HORIZON EUROPE) has been accepted ! 🥳🥳🥳 Consortium: CMMI Cyprus (main PI), UBS France and VLIZ Belgium. I am involved as Coordinator of UBS.
02/2024: New PhD offer within UBS-IRISA/CNES (National Centre for Space Studies) on "Towards Efficient foundation models for VHR satellite images. Application deadline: 15/03/2024. Expected start: Sep/Oct 2024. For more information: http://www-obelix.irisa.fr/files/2024/02/2024_PhD_IRISA_CNES_Temo.pdf (closed)
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11/2023: Our paper "Hyperbolic Prototypical Network for Few Shot Remote Sensing Scene Classification" has been accepted for publication in Pattern Recognition Letters (Q1, IF=5.1).
11/2023: New PhD offer (CIFRE contract IRISA/ATERMES) on "Object detection from few multispectral examples". Application deadline: 31/12/2023. Expected start: Spring 2024. For more information: http://www-obelix.irisa.fr/files/2023/11/PHD_Object-Detection-from-Few-Multispectral-Examples_2024.pdf (filled)
10/2023: We offer a Master Internship topic on "Federated learning and Multitask learning from multiple datasets". Deadline for application: 15/12/2023. More info: http://www-obelix.irisa.fr/files/2024/02/2023_M2_topic_MTL_FL.pdf (filled)
08/2023: Our paper "Data exploitation: multi-task learning of object detection and semantic segmentation on partially annotated data" has been accepted at BMVC 2023.
08/2023: Our paper "Self-training and multi-task learning for limited data: an evaluation study" has been accepted at ICCV Workshop on Representation Learning with Very Limited Images (LIMIT) (https://lsfsl.net/limit23/).
07/2023: Our paper "Burnt area extraction from high-resolution satellite images based on anomaly detection" has been accepted at ECML/PKDD Workshop on Machine Learning for Earth Observation (MACLEAN) (https://sites.google.com/view/maclean23).
06/2023: Our paper "Unsupervised anomaly detection using variational autoencoder with gaussian random field prior" has been accepted at ICIP 2023 !
05/2023: Manal Hamzaoui (co-supervised by myself) has defensed her PhD thesis "From Euclidean to Hyperbolic Spaces: Rethinking hierarchical classification of remote sensing scene images" on May 30, 2023.
04/2023: We organise the 5th edition of the MACLEAN (Machine learning for earth observation) workshop in conjunction with the ECML/PKDD 2023. The workshop is sponsored by ESA (The European Space Agency). More info : https://sites.google.com/view/maclean23 (submission : 12/6/2023)
04/2023: 6 papers accepted at IGARSS 2023 (with 3 orals and 3 posters) !
02/2023: We offer a new PhD topic (CIFRE contract IRISA/ATERMES) on "Object detection from few multispectral examples". Application deadline: 30/04/2023. For more information: http://www-obelix.irisa.fr/files/2023/02/PHD_IRISA_Atermes_2023.pdf (filled)
01/2023: Our paper "Spherical sliced-wasserstein" has been accepted at ICLR 2023 !
08/2022: Our paper "Self-Supervised Learning for Scene Classification in Remote Sensing: Current State of the Art and Perspectives" has been accepted for publication in Remote Sensing (IF=5.349).
07/2022: Our paper "Mutual Guidance meets Contrastive Learning: Vehicle detection in Remote Sensing Images" has been accepted for publication in Remote Sensing (Q1, IF=5.349).
06/2022: Our paper "A hierarchical prototypical network for few-shot remote sensing scene classification" has been awarded BEST PAPER (1st prize) 🥳🥳 🥳 in ICPRAI 2022 !!!
05/2022: Our paper "Learning digital terrain models from point clouds: ALS2DTM dataset and rasterization-based GAN" has been accepted for publication in IEEE JSTARS (Q1, IF=3.784)
04/2022: We organise the 4th edition of MACLEAN (Machine learning for earth observation) in conjunction with the ECML/PKDD 2022. More info : https://sites.google.com/view/maclean22 (submission : 23/6/2022)
03/2022: 1 ICPR + 1 ICPRAI + 1 RFIAPpaper accepted for oral presentation.
02/2022: Our paper "Watershed-based attribute profiles with semantic prior knowledge for remote sensing image analysis" has been accepted for publication in IEEE JSTARS (Q1, IF=3.784).
01/2022: Our paper "Weakly supervised detection of marine animals in high resolution aerial images" has been accepted for publication in Remote Sensing (Q1, IF=4.848).
08/2021: Postdoc call in unsupervised/weakly-supervised learning applied to the detection of marine mammals (please see https://www-obelix.irisa.fr/files/2021/07/2021_Postdoc_GoTSeMaC.pdf) (filled)
04/2021: We organise the 3rd edition of MACLEAN (Machine learning for earth observation) in conjunction with the ECML/PKDD 2021. More info : https://sites.google.com/view/maclean21/ (submission : 23/6/2021)
02/2021: One paper accepted to DGMM (IAPR Int. Conf. on Discrete Geometry and Mathematical Morphology)
12/2020: Our paper "Classification of remote sensing data with morphological attributes profiles: a decade of advances" has been accepted for publication in Geosciences and Remote Sensing Magazines (Q1, IF=13).
We propose 2 topics of Master Internship on Spring 2021. One about unsupervised/weakly-supervised object detection and one about graph-based representation learning. More information: https://www-obelix.irisa.fr/job-offers/ (filled)
09/2020: Our paper "Small Object Detection in Remote Sensing Images Based on Super-Resolution with Auxiliary Generative Adversarial Networks" has been accepted for publication in Remote Sensing (Q1, IF=4.509).
08/2020: Our paper "YOLO-fine: one-stage detector of small objects under various backgrounds in remote sensing images" has been accepted for publication in Remote Sensing (Q1, IF=4.509).
07/2020: We organize an online session on "Machine learning for times series" in the context of the 2nd Symposium of GDR MADICS. Check out the program at: https://project.inria.fr/maclean/maclean-symposium2020/
04/2020: 3 papers accepted at IGARSS 2020 (2 oral + 1 poster), 2 papers accepted at XXIVth ISPRS Congress 2020 and 1 paper accepted at RFIAP 2020 (oral)
04/2020: We organise the 2nd edition of MACLEAN (Machine learning for earth observation) in conjunction with the ECML/PKDD 2020. More info : https://sites.google.com/view/maclean2020/ (submission : 9/7/2020)
03/2020: Deadline of our special issue of "Feature-based methods for remote sensing image classification" in Remote Sensing (IF=4.118) has been extended to 31/12/2020. Link: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/remotesensing/special_issues/feature_based
01/2020: Our paper "VHR Airborne Polarimetric SAR image classification using convolutional neural networks" has been accepted at EUSAR 2020, Leipzig, Germany. (P/s: the conference has been postponed to March 2021)
12/2019: Our special issue in "Machine Learning for earth observation" has been announced in the Machine Learning journal. Dead line for submissions: 15/05/2020. Link: https://www.springer.com/journal/10994/updates/17467992
12/2019: Journée des Jeunes Chercheurs en MACLEAN est organisée à Paris le 2/12. Check out the program at: JC Maclean 2019
11/2019: Our paper "Semantic segmentation of LiDAR point clouds: Rasterization beyond Digital Elevation Models" has been accepted for publication in IEEE GRSL (Q1, IF=3.833).
09/2019: Check out the program of MACLEAN (Machine learning for Earth observation) workshop held at ECML/PKDD in Wurburg: https://mdl4eo.irstea.fr/maclean-machine-learning-for-earth-observation/
06/2019: Atelier MACLEAN (Apprentissage automatique et Observation de la Terre) aura lieu le 27/6 à Rennes, dans le cadre du 1er Symposium du Gdr Madics.
04/2019: We organise the workshop MACLEAN (Machine learning for earth observation) in conjunction with the ECML/PKDD 2019. Submission deadline: 17/06/2019. More info: https://mdl4eo.irstea.fr/maclean-machine-learning-for-earth-observation/
03/2019: Our special issue in "Feature-based methods for remote sensing image classification" has been announced in the Remote Sensing (IF=4.118). Deadline for submission: 31/03/2020. Link: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/remotesensing/special_issues/feature_based