Publications 

Journal

International Journal

1. Thanh D. X. Duong and Hung V. Nguyen, Some Extension of Sparse Principal component analysis, International Journal of Machine Learning and Computing, Vol.2, No.5, pp 701-705, 2012. (Scopus)

2. H.Nguyen, F.Chen, K.Kotani and B.Le, Fusion of Visible Images and Thermal Image Sequences for Automated Facial Emotion Estimation, Journal of Mobile Multimedia,  vol.3&4, pp.294–308, 2014. (Scopus Q2).

3. Tai Nguyen Khang Ngo, Nha Tran, Tai Lam, Tinh Nguyen, Hung Nguyen, Emotion Recognition Method based on Multimodal Fusion using Sequence Images and Audio, International Journal of Advanced Engineering, vol 5, 03/2022.

4. Tinh Nguyen, Tai Lam, Nha Tran, Khang Ngo, Tai Nguyen, Hung Nguyen, Person Re-Identification and Application to the Surveillance Videos, International Journal of Advanced Engineering, vol 5, 03/2022.

5. Minh Nguyen, Huy Lam, Tuan Le, Nha Tran, Tai Lam, Tinh Nguyen, Hung Nguyen, A Real-Time Application for Waste Detection and Classification, International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer and Communication Engineering, vol 11, 5/2022.   

6. H. Nguyen, N. Tran, H. D. Nguyen, L. Nguyen and K. Kotani, "KTFEv2: Multimodal Facial Emotion Database and its Analysis," in IEEE Access, vol. 11, pp. 17811-17822, 2023, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3246047. (SCIE IF 3.367) 

7. Hien D. Nguyen, Duc Truong, Sang Vu, Diem Nguyen, Hung Nguyen, Nha Thanh Tran,  "Knowledge Management for Information Querying System in Education via the Combination of Rela-Ops Model and Knowledge Graph", Journal of Cases on Information Technology, Volume 25, Issue 1, IGI Publisher (DOI: 10.4018/JCIT.324113), Scopus Q3, ESCI 

8. Nha Tran, Hung Nguyen*, Hien Luong, Minh Nguyen, Khiet Luong, Huy Tran, Recognition of Student Behavior through Actions in the Classroom,Volume 50, Issue 3, September 2023, IAENG International Journal of Computer Science. (Scopus Q3) *.corresponding author

9. Duc Truong , Hung Nguyen * , Nha P. Tran , Sang Vu , Hien D. Nguyen, Intelligent Problem Solver in Database Systems based on Ontology Integration through Text-to-SQL, Fusion: Practica and Applications (Scopus Q4) ISSN 2770-0070

10. Nguyen, H., Huynh, T., Tran, N. and Nguyen, T. (2024), "MyUEVision: an application generating image caption for assisting visually impaired people", Journal of Enabling Technologies, Vol. 18 No. 4, pp. 248-264. https://doi.org/10.1108/JET-03-2024-0024  (ISI, Scopus Q2, IF 1.0)

11. Hung Nguyen, Nha Tran,Y Tran, Dat Ly, Anh Tran, An Nguyen, Hau Vo, A Model for Song Recommendation Based on Facial Emotion Analysis and Musical Emotion, International Journal of Intelligent Engineering and Systems, Vol.17, No.4, 2024. Scopus Q3

12. Tran, N., Nguyen, H., Ly, D. et al. Advancing Violence Detection with Graph-Based Skeleton Motion Analysis. SN COMPUT. SCI. 6, 595 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42979-025-04118-7 (Scopus, Q2)

13. Phi Ta, Nha Tran, Hung Nguyen, Hien D. Nguyen, Detecting signs of depression on social media: A machine learning analysis and evaluation, Sustainable Futures,Volume 10, 2025, 100827, ISSN 2666-1888, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sftr.2025.100827. (ISI, Scopus Q2, IF 4.9)

14. Nha Tran, Phi Ta, Hung Nguyen, Hien D. Nguyen, Anh-Cuong Le, Hybrid contextual and sentiment-based machine learning model for identifying depression risk in social media, Expert Systems with Applications, Volume 291, 2025, 128505, ISSN 0957-4174, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2025.128505 (ISI, Scopus Q1, IF 7.5)

15. Nguyen, H., Tran, N., Nguyen, M. et al. Empowering classroom behavior recognition through hybrid spatial-temporal feature fusion. Appl Intell 55, 863 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10489-025-06638-4  (ISI, Scopus Q2, IF 3.5)

16. Nguyen, H., Tran, N., Nguyen, M. et al. Attention mechanisms for context-aware emotion recognition. CCF Trans. Pervasive Comp. Interact. 8, 253–269 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42486-025-00216-w

17. Nha Tran, Tri Le, Phi Ta, Hung Nguyen, Hien D. Nguyen, Contrastive context-aware emotion recognition: A multimodal framework for learning contextualized emotional representations, Neurocomputing, Volume 679, 2026, 133237, ISSN 0925-2312, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2026.133237.

18. Khanh Ngo, Phi Ta, Nha Tran, Hien D. Nguyen, Hung Nguyen, Hierarchical multimodal cross-interactive learning for school violence detection, Applied Soft Computing, Volume 201, Part C, 2026, 115657, ISSN 1568-4946, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asoc.2026.115657.

19. Nhu Bui, Huy Nguyen, Khang Phan, Nhi Ngo, Anh Tran, Trung Nguyen, Hung Nguyen, Tri Doan, Hien D. Nguyen, Triet Le, Beyond detection: A survey on proactive disruption and defense strategies for deepfake face generation, Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Volume 271, 2026, 104867, ISSN 1077-3142, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cviu.2026.104867.

20. Nguyen, N., Nguyen, M., Doan, T. et al. VTA-DepressNet: a dual-level attention fusion for multimodal depression detection. CCF Trans. Pervasive Comp. Interact. (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42486-026-00239-x 

Domestic Journal

1. Nguyễn Phương Nam, Nguyễn Viết Hưng, “Tổng quan về ước lượng mức độ cảm xúc của người qua biểu cảm khuôn mặt và hướng tiếp cận dựa trên ảnh nhiệt”, 2019, Tạp chí Khoa học Công nghệ và Thực phẩm.

2. Vuong Le Minh Nguyen, Luong Cong Tam, Nguyen Viet Hung, Nguyen Do Thai Nguyen, Luong Tran Hy Hien, Luong Tran Ngoc Khiet, Phan Thi Trinh, Codebot – A Vietnamese Chatbot System For Answering C++ And Python Related Questions, HCMUE Journal 2021.

3. Trần Như Ý, Nguyễn Viết Hưng, Nguyễn Quốc Huy, Phạm Thế Bảo, Phân Đoạn Ảnh Và Ncuts – HCMUE Journal 2021 

4. Lê Hồng Thúy Vũ, Nguyễn Viết Hưng, Trịnh Huy Hoàng, ÁP DỤNG MÔ HÌNH HỌC SÂU NHẬN DẠNG MỨC ĐỘ HÀI LÒNG CỦA NGƯỜI HỌC 2022.

5. Nguyễn Đỗ Thái Nguyên, Vương Lê Minh Nguyên, Lương Công Tâm, Trần Quang Huy, Trần Thanh Nhã, Lương Trần Hy Hiến, Phan Thị Trinh, Nguyễn Viết Hưng, Algobot – một hệ thống chatbot hỗ trợ giải đáp các kiến thức cơ bản về cấu trúc dữ liệu và giải thuật, HCMUE Journal 2023

6. Nguyễn , V. H., Lê , T. N. T., Nguyễn , V. H., Nguyễn , Đ. L., Trần , P. N., & Nguyễn , Đ. H. (2024). INTEGRATING KNOWLEDGE BASED ON ONTOLOGY AND KNOWLEDGE GRAPH FOR CHATBOT IN EDUCATION QUERY. HCMUE Journal of Science, 21(5), 771. https://doi.org/10.54607/hcmue.js.21.5.4129(2024) 

7. Bui, A. D., Nguyen, Q. T., Tran, T. N., & Nguyen, V. H. (2025). AN IMPROVED MULTI-VISION CONTEXTUAL ATTENTION MODEL FOR VIETNAMESE VISUAL-BASED QUESTION ANSWERING. HCMUE Journal of Science, 22(2), 247-259. https://doi.org/10.54607/hcmue.js.22.2.4328(2025) 

8. Nguyen, V. H., Ta, C. P., Le, T. L., Ngo, Q. K., & Tran, T. N. (2025). C-VIDNET: AMODEL FOR SUPPORTING VIOLENCE DETECTION IN SCHOOLS. HCMUE Journal of Science, 22(5), 801-813. https://doi.org/10.54607/hcmue.js.22.5.4699(2025) 

9. Nguyen, V. H, FUSED-A: MÔ HÌNH ĐA LUỒNG DỰA TRÊN CƠ CHẾ CHÚ Ý ĐỂ PHÁT HIỆN SỚM BẠO LỰC HỌC ĐƯỜNG, HCMUE Journal of Science

10. TĂNG CƯỜNG NHẬN DIỆN CẢM XÚC THÔNG QUA TÍCH HỢP ĐẶC TRƯNG NGỮ CẢNH ĐA PHƯƠNG THỨC, HCMUE Journal of Science

11. ECL-tEEG: A HYBRID DEEP LEARNING MODEL FOR ESTIMATING LEARNERS’ EMOTIONS FROM EEG SIGNALS, HCMUE Journal of Science

12. PMI-NET: POSE-GUIDED MULTIMODAL ATTENTION FOR VIOLENCE DETECTION, HCMUE Journal of Science

13. VISE-NET: A HYBRID DEEP LEARNING ARCHITECTURE FOR STUDENT BEHAVIOR RECOGNITION IN CLASSROOMS, HCMUE Journal of Science

14. S2M-RPOD: A Two-Stage Framework for Open-Set Retail Product Detection, VJSTE

International Conference

1. H.Nguyen,  Facial Feature Extraction Based on Wavelet Transform, Artificial Intelligence and Computational Intelligence 2009, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. (Springer)

2. Thanh D. X. Duong and Hung V. Nguyen, Some Extension of Sparse Principal component analysis, 3rd International Conference on Machine Learning and Computing, Singapore 2011.

3.  H.Nguyen, K.Kotani, F.Chen, and B.Le, A Thermal Facial Emotion Database and Its Analysis, The 6th Pacific-Rim Symposium, PSIVT 2013. (Rank B) (Springer)

4.  H.Nguyen, K.Kotani, F.Chen, and B.Le, Estimation of Human Emotions Using Thermal Facial Information, Fifth International Conference on Graphic and Image Processing 2013. (SPIE)

5. H.Nguyen, F.Chen, K.Kotani and B.Le, Human Emotion Estimation using Wavelet Transform and t-ROIs for Fusion of Visible Images and Thermal Image Sequences, The 14th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications (ICCSA 2014). (Best Paper Award - Rank C). (Springer)

6. L.Nguyen, Y.Kohda, K.Umemoto, and H.Nguyen, Value Creation in Auditing Service: A Framework for Analysis, The Third Asia Conference on Information Systems 2014.

7. Ng.Pham, A.Truong, H.Nguyen, K.Kotani, and B.Le, A Survey about View-invariant Human Action Recognition, 2017 56th Annual Conference of the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers of Japan (SICE), Kanazawa, 2017, pp. 699-704. (IEEE)

8. Ng.Pham,  H.Nguyen, K.Kotani, and B.Le,  A Comprehensive Survey on Human Activity Prediction, The 17 International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications, July, 2017, Trieste, Italy. (Rank C) (Springer)

9. Nguyen, K.Tran and H.Nguyen, Towards Thermal Region of Interest for Human Emotion Estimation, 2018 10th International Conference on Knowledge and Systems Engineering (KSE 2018). (IEEE)

10. K. Tran, D. Nguyen, H. Nguyen, Toward Deep and Handcraft Features for Detecting Violent Behaviors, the 2019 6th NAFOSTED Conference on Information and Computer Science (NICS2019). 

11. N. Nguyen, T. Nguyen, K. Nguyen, T. Luong, D. Nguyen, N. Vuong, K. Tran, N. Tran, L. Nguyen, P. Siritanawan, K. Kotani, H. Nguyen, A Spontaneous Visible and Thermal Facial Expression of Human Emotion Database , the 2019 6th NAFOSTED Conference on Information and Computer Science (NICS2019). 

12. N. Tran, K. Tran, D. Nguyen, H. Nguyen, A Method to Combine Thermal and Visible images for Human Emotions Detection,  the 4th International Conference on Advanced Engineering and ICT-Convergence 2020 (Best Paper Award - ICAEIC-2020). 

13. Minh Nguyen, Loan Nguyen Hoang To, Hung Nguyen, A Model for Detecting Accounting Frauds by using Machine Learning, Proceedings of the 55th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 55) Rank A. 

14. Nguyen, T.M., Nguyen, H.D., Nguyen, H., Pham, XH., Tran, D.A. (2024). Multifaceted ECG Feature Extraction for AFIB Detection: Using Traditional Machine Learning Techniques. In: Nguyen, N.T., et al. Intelligent Information and Database Systems. ACIIDS 2024. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 14795. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-4982-9_9

15. Minh Tri Doan, Minh Phuong Dam, Tram T. Doan, Hung Nguyen, Binh T. Nguyen, Sentiment Classification in Mobile Gaming Reviews: Customized Transformer Models with Emojis Retained, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, Volume 389: New Trends in Intelligent Software Methodologies, Tools and Techniques, Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on New Trends in Intelligent Software Methodologies, Tools and Techniques (SoMeT_24),  2024.

16. Hung Nguyen, Thao T.N. Le, Hau Nguyen, Long D. Nguyen, Dung Dinh, Vuong T. Pham, Hien D. Nguyen, Design a Knowledge Chatbot System in Education Based on Ontology Approach, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, Volume 389: New Trends in Intelligent Software Methodologies, Tools and Techniques, Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on New Trends in Intelligent Software Methodologies, Tools and Techniques (SoMeT_24), 2024.

17. Tran, N., Nguyen, H., Ly, D., Nguyen, H.D. (2024). Violence Detection Using Skeleton Data with Graph Convolutional Networks. In: Thai-Nghe, N., Do, TN., Benferhat, S. (eds) Intelligent Systems and Data Science. ISDS 2024. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 2191. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-9616-8_7

18. Dung V. Dang, Hau Nguyen, Thao T.N. Le, Hung Do, Hung Nguyen, Hung Ngo and Hien D. Nguyen, Knowledge Graph-based Legal Query System with LLM and Retrieval Augmented Generation, ACIIDS 2025 

19. Tran, N., Nguyen, H., Ly, D., Nguyen, H.Q., Tran, A., Nguyen, H.D. (2026). Student Engagement Estimation in Classroom Videos Using Video Swin Transformer. In: Thai-Nghe, N., Do, TN., Benferhat, S. (eds) Intelligent Systems and Data Science. ISDS 2025. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 2714. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-95-3358-9_5 

20. H. Q. Nguyen, D. Ly, N. Tran, T. Le, H. Nguyen and H. D. Nguyen, "Group Learning Integrating Behaviors and Emotions Recognition to Assess Student Engagement in Classroom Context," 2025 17th International Conference on Knowledge and System Engineering (KSE), Da Lat, Vietnam, 2025, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/KSE68178.2025.11309476. 

21. N. Tran, D. Ly, P. Ta, H. Nguyen and H. D. Nguyen, "Ordinal-Aware Multimodal Engagement Recognition for Collaborative Learning," 2026 IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), Tucson, AZ, USA, 2026, pp. 2424-2433, doi: 10.1109/WACV61042.2026.00239.

22. Hoang Nguyen,Du Nguyen, Tinh Nguyen, Khanh Ngo, Nha Tran, Hung Nguyen & Hien D. Nguyen (2027). Semantic Adaptive Graph Convolutional Network for Efficient Body-Part Skeleton Action Recognition. In: Fujita, H., Selamat, A., Ghazali, M., Ali, M. (eds) Advances and Trends in Artificial Intelligence. Theory and Applications. IEA/AIE 2026. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 16614. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-92-2885-0_20 

23. Quoc-Trung Nguyen, Chau Vu, Dung A. Tran, Dung Dinh, Hung Nguyen, and Hien D. Nguyen. 2026. Multi-view Based Neuro-symbolic Approach for Facial Action Unit Recognition. In Advances and Trends in Artificial Intelligence. Theory and Applications: 39th International Conference on Industrial, Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems, IEA/AIE 2026, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, July 6–8, 2026, Proceedings, Part II. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, 266–278. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-92-2891-1_21

24. The paper “UE-E2V: A Dataset Toward Early Violence Recognition in School Environments” written by Nha Tran, Khanh Ngo, Diem Duong, Nhan Phung, Phi Ta, Hung Nguyen, Tai Huynh, Vinh Le, Vuong T. Pham, and Hien D. Nguyen have been accepted for IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2026), Shenyang, China, Nov. 2026. Rank A* 

25. Nha Tran, Minh Nguyen, Vi Huynh, Dung Dang, Hung Nguyen, Tai Huynh, and Hien Nguyen, "Context-Anchored Transformer with Masked Feature Modeling for Group Emotion Recognition", Workshop on World Models and Autonomous Intelligence for Data Mining (WMAI 2026), held in conjunction with ICDM 2026 

26. The paper “Neuro-Symbolic Framework for Verified Legal Inference of RAG-based AI from Law Document Analyzing” written by Dung V. Dang, Vuong T. Pham, Hung Nguyen, Nomi Baruah, Surajit Dutta, Debashish Gogoi, and Hien D. Nguyen have been accepted for The ICDAR 2026 Workshop on Documents Analysis of Low-resource Languages (ICDAR@DALL 2026), Vienna, Austria, Sept 2026 

Domestic Conference

1. H.Nguyen, K.Kotani, F.Chen, and B.Le, Estimation of Human Emotion Using Regions of Interest in Facial Thermal Image, PCSJ/IMPS 2013 年映像メディア処理シンポジウム.