Bio

I received my Master of Engineering and PhD degrees from Telecom Bretagne, Brest, France in 2013 and 2016. I was intern at the Dpt. Geomatics, Laval University, Canada in 2013. From 2016 to 2019, I was post-doctoral fellow at IRISA laboratory, Université Bretagne Sud & Université Rennes 1, France. In 2018, I was invited researcher at TU Berlin (Germany), University of Trento (Italy) and Imperial College London (UK).

Since 2019, I am an Assistant/Associate Professor (Maître de Conférences) at Université Bretagne Sud, IUT de Vannes, France. I am also researcher at IRISA lab (OBELIX team). My research focuses on image processing and machine learning applied to remote sensing for earth observation data. 

Since 2019, I am co-chair of the MACLEAN (Machine learning for earth observation) workshop at ECML/PKDD (since 2019) and the MACLEAN action of GdR MADICS (2019-2022). I am Guest Editor of MDPI Remote Sensing and Springer Machine Learning, as well as a member of Editorial Board  of Digital Signal Processing, Elsevier.

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

Supervision:

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• Hoang-An Le (Postdoc, 2021 - )

• Paul Berg (PhD student, 2021 - )

• Shivam Pande (Postdoc, 2023 - )

• Maria Rodriguez (Msc student, 2024)

• Anh-Kiet Duong (Msc student, 2024)

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• Manal Hamzaoui (PhD student, 2019 - 2023, defensed, then ATER at ESIR Rennes)

• Hugo Gangloff (Postdoc, 2021 - 2022, then Research Engineer at INRAE)

• Deise Santana Maia (Postdoc, 2019 - 2021, then Assistant Professor at University of Lille )

• Quentin Hamard (Research Engineer, 10/2022 - 11/2023 employed by FEM )

• Oscar Narvaez Luces (Msc student, 2023, then Engineer in SERTIT/ICUBE )

• Tanya Singh (Msc student, 2022, then Engineer in Austria)

• Anthony Frion (Msc student, 2021, then PhD student at IMT Atlantique)

• Paul Berg (Msc student, 2021, then PhD student IRISA)

• Alexandre Chojnacki (Msc student, 2019, then Engineer DGA)

Main research projects:

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• AXOLOTL (2024-2027, Partner's Leader, funding HORIZON  EUROPE), 1.5 M€

• ROMMEO (2022-2024, Principal Investigator, funding Région Bretagne), 63k€

• ANR OTTOPIA (2021-2025)

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• OWFSOMM (2020-2023)

• SEMMACAPE (2019-2023)

• ANR MULTISCALE (2019-2023)

• ANR DEEPDETECT (2018-2020)

• R&T CNES CARS (2018-2019)

• DELORA (2016-2018)

News: 

• 04/2024: Our paper "Multimodal Supervised Contrastive Learning in Remote Sensing Downstream Tasks" has been accepted to IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters (GRSL) (IF = 4.8).

• 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 Partner Leader 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  (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 (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 (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 (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 (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 (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 (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 (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 (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