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Welcome to my homepage! My name is Tam Nguyen. Currently I am an Associate Professor at Department of Computer Science, University of Dayton (UD). I am leading Vision and Mixed Reality Lab (VMR) in UD. Prior to that, I was a research scientist and principal investigator at ARTIC research centre in Singapore. I was also a lecturer in National University of Singapore. I am an IEEE Senior Member.
I received PhD degree in National University of Singapore (NUS) under the guidance of Prof. Shuicheng Yan in 2013. Prior to joining NUS, I obtained my B.S. degree from HCMUS in 2005, majoring in Computer Science and M. Eng degree from Chonnam National University, Korea in 2009, respectively. I graduated with first ranking in terms of GPA in both bachelor and master's study. I have finished my PhD in 2.5 years.
I have 15+ years of working experience in both research and industrial sectors. My research topics include computer vision, machine learning, multimedia content analysis, and mixed reality. I have authored and co-authored 145+ research papers with 3,500+ citations (from Google Scholar). My research is funded by National Science Foundation, NVIDIA, Lam Research, National, Singapore Ministry of Education, National Research Foundation Singapore, Vingroup Innovation Foundation, and University of Dayton Research Institute.
I am the recipient of numerous awards including Young Vietnamese of the year 2005, the 2nd prize winner of ICPR 2012 contest on action recognition, the best technical demonstration from ACM Multimedia 2012, the best student paper award at NUS-GSS 2013, Singapore Polytechnic R&D commendation award 2015, the third prize at CVPR 2017 and CVPR 2019 video object segmentation competition, the runner-up award of AI City Challenge 2022 (Track 2), and the best paper award of PSIVT 2023 conference.
To prospective students and collaborators
I am looking for self-motivated graduate/undergraduate students, and collaborators in the areas of computer vision, machine learning, multimedia computing, and mixed reality. If you are interested, please send me an email with your CV or drop by my office if you are on campus.
[November 3 2023 - PhD student positions]
Department of Computer Science, University of Dayton, is recruiting PhD students starting from Fall 2024. If you are interested, please send me an email with your CV or drop by my office if you are on campus. Our lab welcome the first PhD student coming in Fall 2020. You will be next!
News
One paper accepted to ACCV-LAVA Workshop (Oct 2024)
One paper accepted to Journal of Image and Vision Computing. (Oct 2024)
One paper accepted to KSE 2024. (Sep 2024)
Two papers accepted to ISVC 2024. (Sep 2024)
Three posters accepted to ISMAR 2024 (Aug 2024)
One paper accepted to Machine Vision and Applications (Aug 2024)
One paper accepted to MAPR 2024 conference - Round 2 (July 2024)
Cong received the travel grant to ISBI 2024. Congratulations! (Jun 2024)
One NSF REU Supplement is funded. Thank you, NSF! (Jun 2024)
One paper accepted to IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (May 2024) - Impact Factor = 8.4
One paper accepted to MAPR 2024 conference - Round 1 (May 2024)
Abhijeet, Diya, and Shruti received Graduate Student Summer Fellowship. Congratulations! (Apr 2024)
One paper accepted to IEEE MultiMedia (Apr 2024)
One paper accepted to Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications (Apr 2024)
James Jarvis and Shani Patel received Dean's Summer Fellowship. Congratulations! (Apr 2024)
Samah Baraheem, our PhD student, successfully defended her thesis. Congratulations, Dr. Baraheem! (Mar 2024)
Two extended abstracts accepted to CHI 2024 conference (Mar 2024)
Our proposal to ODHE was funded (Mar 2024)
Milestone: 3000+ citations according to Google Scholar (Feb 2024)
One paper accepted to ISBI 2024 conference (Feb 2024)
One paper accepted to CISS 2024 conference (Jan 2024)
One paper accepted to Journal of Information (Jan 2024)
One paper accepted to AAAI 2024 conference (Dec 2023)
We received the best paper award from PSIVT 2023 conference (Nov 2023)
One paper accepted to MMM 2024 conference (Nov 2023)
One paper accepted to BCD 2023 conference (Nov 2023)
One paper nominated for the best poster award at ISMAR 2023 conference (Oct 2023)
One paper accepted to SoICT 2023 conference (Oct 2023)
One paper accepted to Journal of Imaging (Oct 2023)
One article about APIs on The Conversation (Sep 2023)
Two papers accepted to PSIVT 2023 conference (Sep 2023)
One paper accepted to Machine Vision and Applications (Sep 2023)
One paper accepted to Multimedia Tools and Applications (Sep 2023)
One paper accepted to MAPR 2023 conference (Sep 2023)
Two posters accepted to ISMAR 2023. (Aug 2023)
One paper accepted to Journal of Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine (Aug 2023)
One paper accepted to Computers & Graphics (Jul 2023)
Our NSF I-Corps proposal was funded. Thank you, NSF! (Jun 2023)
One paper accepted to Computers & Graphics (Jun 2023)
One paper is accepted to Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing (Jun 2023)
One paper is accepted to IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (T-IP) (May 2023) - Impact Factor = 11.041
Samah and Vatsa received Graduate Student Summer Fellowship. Congratulations! (Apr 2023)
Jacob and Jaswant received Dean's Summer Fellowship. Congratulations! (Apr 2023)
Dr Nguyen gives a presentation about image synthesis research to Center for Cybersecurity & Data Intelligence, UD (Apr 2023)
One paper is accepted to Automation in Construction - IF = 10.517 (Apr 2023)
Dr. Nguyen gives a presentation about multi-vehicle multi-movement analysis to Federal Computer Vision group. (Mar 2023)
One paper is accepted to Artificial Intelligence Review - IF = 9.588 (Mar 2023)
One paper is accepted to Automation in Construction - IF = 10.517 (Mar 2023)
One paper is accepted to Multimedia Tools and Applications (Feb 2023)
Dr. Nguyen received UD/UDRI Fellowship (Feb 2023)
One paper is accepted to CISS 2023 conference (Jan 2023)
One paper is accepted to Automation in Construction - IF = 10.517 (Jan 2023)
Dr. Nguyen has his sabbatical approved - August to December 2023 (Jan 2023)
One paper is accepted to Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing (Dec 2022)
Dr. Nguyen and Bao Truong featured in an article about public speaking simulation. The article is here. (Nov 2022)
Two papers are presented at ISVC 2022 and three posters are presented at ISMAR 2022 (Oct 2022)
One paper is published to Journal of Information. (Sep 2022)
Two papers (oral presentation) are accepted to ISVC 2022. (Aug 2022)
Three papers (poster presentation) are accepted to ISMAR 2022. (Aug 2022)
Dr. Nguyen featured in The Dunbar Initiative at the University of Dayton. The video is here. (Aug 2022)
The article about no-code programming on The Conversation has been read more than 50,000 times. (Jul 2022)
Our joint work with HCMUS-VNUHCM and UIUC wins the runner-up at AI City Challenge - Track 2 organized at CVPR 2022. (Jun 2022)
One paper is accepted to IEEE Access. (Jun 2022)
One paper is accepted to ACM Computing Surveys - IF = 10.28. (May 2022)
One NSF REU Supplement is funded. The REU call is here. (Apr 2022)
One paper is accepted to AI City Challenge 2022. (Apr 2022)
Dr. Nguyen is elected to join the University Faculty Board. (Apr 2022)
Congratulations on Samah for Graduate Student Summer Fellowship. Our lab members, Dhaval, Jinnan, and Yousef received this fellowship in the past years. (Apr 2022)
15 Stander Symposium presentations from our group members this year (Apr 2022)
One paper is accepted to Journal of Signal, Image and Video Processing. (Mar 2022)
Congratulations on Jaswant, Bao, Conner, and Umang for Dean's Summer Fellowship. (Mar 2022)
One paper is accepted to Journal of Journal of Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering - IF = 11.775. (Feb 2022)
Dr. Nguyen is promoted to Associate Professor. (Feb 2022)
One paper is accepted to Journal of Image and Vision Computing. (Feb 2022)
One paper is accepted to Journal of Machine and Vision Applications. (Jan 2022)
One paper is accepted to IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (IF = 10.451). (Dec 2021)
One paper is accepted to IEEE Transactions on Image Processing - IF = 10.856. (Nov 2021)
One paper is accepted to Journal of Imaging. (Sep 2021)
One paper is accepted to CAIP 2021. (Jul 2021)
One paper accepted to MICCAI 2021 (Jun 2021)
One paper accepted to IEEE Access (Jun 2021)
Proud to receive the Ravi Pallerla Memorial Award for Young Professionals from IEEE Dayton Section (May 2021)
Milestone: 1600+ citations according to Google Scholar (May 2021)
One paper accepted to AI City Challenge 2021. (Apr 2021)
Proud to join Dunbar Initiative. The article is here. (Apr 2021)
Congratulations on Bao and Conner for Dean's Summer Fellowship (Apr 2021)
12 Stander Symposium presentations from our group members this year (Apr 2021)
Our funded Lam Research project featured on CAS newsroom (Mar 2021)
One paper accepted to IEEE Access (Feb 2021)
One paper accepted to Journal of Imaging (Jan 2021)
I serve as a Guest Editor of Special Issue "Advanced Artificial Intelligence in Mixed Reality Applications" on Journal of Electronics (SCIE, Impact Factor: 2.412). [https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/special_issues/AI_MR_Applications]. Please consider submitting your papers there (Jan 2021)
My latest interview with The Conversation. View here. (Dec 2020)
Our NSF funded project featured on CAS newsroom (Dec 2020)
Congratulations on Dhaval for his successful Master's thesis defense (Dec 2020)
Two papers accepted to AAAI 2021 - demo track (Dec 2020)
Milestone: 1400+ citations according to Google Scholar (Nov 2020)
One paper accepted to Journal of Virtual Reality (Oct 2020)
One LAM Research proposal is funded (Sep 2020)
One NSF proposal is funded. Thank you, NSF! (Aug 2020)
One paper is accepted to IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (T-IP) (Jul 2020) - Impact Factor = 9.34
One paper accepted to ACM MM 2020 - demo track (Jun 2020)
Congratulations on Samah for her PhD admission to UD Computer Science (May 2020)
A joint work with NII, Japan and HCMUS, Vietnam is ranked fourth at DAVIS Segmentation Challenge in CVPR 2020 (May 2020)
One paper accepted to IJCAI 2020 conference (Apr 2020)
One paper accepted to IEEE Access (Apr 2020)
Congratulations on Justen for his Dean's Summer Fellowship (Apr 2020)
Congratulations on Samah for her successful Master's thesis defense (Apr 2020)
One paper accepted to Electronics Journal (Mar 2020)
One paper accepted to ICMR 2020 conference (Mar 2020)
One paper accepted to Pattern Recognition Letters (Feb 2020)
One research grant awarded from University of Dayton Seed Grant (Jan 2020)
One paper accepted to RIVF 2020 conference (Jan 2020)
One paper accepted to Conference on Information Sciences and Systems 2020. See you in Princeton (Jan 2020)
Congratulations on Jinnan Yan for his successful Master's thesis defense (Dec 2019)
One paper accepted to Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies (Oct 2019)
One paper accepted to KSE 2019 (Aug 2019)
One paper accepted to ACM MM 2019 (Jul 2019)
One article about object detection is accepted to Multimedia Tools and Applications (Jun 2019)
Achievement: 1000+ citations according to Google Scholar (Jun 2019)
A joint work with University of Tokyo, Japan and HCMUS, Vietnam is ranked third at DAVIS Segmentation Challenge in CVPR 2019 (May 2019)
One paper is accepted to Journal of Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU) (Apr 2019). The project page is here.
One paper is accepted to IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (T-IP) (Apr 2019) - Impact Factor = 6.79.
One paper is accepted to International Journal of Multimedia Information Retrieval (IJMIR) (Apr 2019)
Our graduate student, Jinnan Yan, has been awarded for 2019 Graduate Student Summer Fellowship (Apr 2019)
One STEM Catalyst Grant proposal was funded (Apr 2019)
One paper is accepted to ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (Mar 2019)
One paper is accepted to Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation (Feb 2019)
One paper is accepted to IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (T-IP) (Jan 2019) - Impact Factor = 6.79.
Our "Dayton Flyers" team received the Jolly Jumpers Award from ACM ICPC regional competition (Dec 2018)
I am a guest editor of the special issue "Machine Learning Algorithms in Biometric Applications" of Applied Computational Intelligence and Soft Computing Journal. Please consider submitting your papers to this special issue. The call for paper is here. (Dec 2018)
I am a coach of UD students at ACM ICPC regional competition. Our "Dayton Flyers" team achieved rank 4 at the competition (Cincinnati site). (Nov 2018)
Achievement: 800+ citations according to Google Scholar (Jul 2018)
One paper accepted to SMC 2018 for oral presentation (Jun 2018)
A joint work with NII, Japan and HCMUS, Vietnam is ranked sixth (out of 41 team submissions) at DAVIS Segmentation Challenge in CVPR 2018 (May 2018)
Our lab featured on University of Dayton Blog (Apr 2018)
My mini grant featured on the ELIFF page (Mar 2018)
One research grant awarded from University of Dayton Seed Grant (Feb 2018)
Four papers presented in IMCOM 2018 (Jan 2018)
Four papers accepted to IMCOM 2018 (Oct 2017)
One paper about visual saliency is accepted to International Journal of Computer Vision (Aug 2017) - Impact Factor = 11.541.
Two papers under demo track are accepted to ACM Multimedia 2017 conference (Jul 2017)
A joint work with NII, Japan and HCMUS, Vietnam is ranked third (out of 22 team submissions) at DAVIS Segmentation Challenge in CVPR 2017 (Jun 2017)
My proposal to STEM Catalyst Grant was approved (May 2017)
I received a small grant for experiential teaching from UD (May 2017)
One paper about image resizing is accepted to ICIP 2017 (May 2017)
Our NVIDIA GPU grant proposal is approved (Apr 2017)
One paper about salient object detection is accepted to IJCAI 2017 (Apr 2017)
One paper about action recognition is accepted to Neurocomputing (Apr 2017)
Congratulate to Joshua Buck (my co-supervised student with Prof. Saverio Perugini), has won the ACM student research contest (SRC) (Mar 2017)
Dr. Nguyen served as a judge and organizer in the first University of Dayton Hackathon (Feb 2017)
One paper about extreme learning machine is accepted to Neurocomputing (Feb 2017)
Achievement: 500+ citations according to Google Scholar (Jan 2017)
Dr. Nguyen has been elevated to IEEE Senior Member (Nov 2016)
One paper about extreme learning machine is accepted to ELM 2016 (Sep 2016)
One paper about scene understanding is accepted to ICARCV 2016 (Aug 2016)
Dr. Nguyen joined University of Dayton as an Assistant Professor (Aug 2016)
One paper about augmented reality is accepted to ACM Multimedia 2016 (Jul 2016)
One article about saliency fusion is accepted to Multimedia Tools and Applications (May 2016)
Another project is funded by Singapore Ministry of Education. We are recruiting (Apr 2016)
One article about immersive media experiences is accepted to Multimedia Tools and Applications (Mar 2016)
One paper is accepted to AAAI FLAIRS 2016 (Jan 2016)
Contact
Email: vantam (at) gmail.com or tamnguyen (at) udayton.edu
External Profiles: [LinkedIn], [DBLP], [Google Scholar]