vo hoang TRONG
Analyst at DFocus
hoangtrong2305@gmail.com
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ABOUT
I am an analyst at DFocus in the Republic of Korea, specializing in applying AI to business practices using Google Cloud Platform and SQL. Check my company's homepage to see my team's chatbot (a RAG solution for LLM).
Previously, I was a Master's and Ph.D. student at Chonnam National University, Republic of Korea, where my research focused on weed image classification in imbalanced datasets, ensemble learning, and optimization of convolutional neural network models.
My current research interests include object classification, model optimization, text retrieval methods, and language models.
Research experiences
June 2016 – September 2016: Intern at Global CyberSoft JSC., Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
September 2016 - March 2018: Member of IC&IP laboratory, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, VNUHCM - University of Science, Vietnam.
March 2018 - March 2020: Master student at IC&DSP laboratory, Department of ICT Convergence System Engineering, Chonnam National University, Republic of Korea. Thesis: Late fusion of multimodal deep neural networks for weeds classification.
March 2020 - February 2023: Ph. D. student at IC&DSP laboratory, Department of ICT Convergence System Engineering, Chonnam National University, Republic of Korea. Dissertation: Development of a Yielding Multi-Fold Training Strategy for convolutional neural network models on imbalanced weeds datasets.
Dissertation: Development of a Yielding Multi-Fold Training Strategy for convolutional neural network models on imbalanced weeds datasets
Working experiences
March 2022 - December 2022: AI researcher and developer at SY Company (에스와이컴퍼니), Gwangju, Republic of Korea. Working on Text-to-speech (TITIGO - 티티고); OCR for document (TITIGO - 티티고); ID card detection and OCR; ID card facial verification.
May 2023 - Present: Analyst at DFocus (디포커스), Gwangju, Republic of Korea. Working on RAG solutions for LLM; AI in business; doing something with Google Cloud Platform, Postgres, and Microsoft SQL.
Selected publications
For a complete and up-to-date list of publications, please visit my Google Scholar profile
Late Fusion of Weak Information for Incompleted Face Recognition Using Convolutional Neural Networks: A Novel Approach. International Journal on Electrical Engineering and Informatics. 2024; 16 (2), 162-179. [code][link][ppt]
This work introduces a facial recognition method that aggregates weak facial parts to handle incomplete information. Using 70 facial landmarks, faces are divided into 12 parts refined via superpixel segmentation. Weak classifiers trained on these parts are combined with late-fusion voting to create a robust recognition system.
Yielding Multi-Fold Training Strategy for Image Classification of Imbalanced Weeds. Applied Sciences. 2021; 11(8):3331. [code][link][ppt]
This article proposes a yielding multi-fold training (YMufT) strategy to train a DNN model on an imbalanced dataset. With the same training configurations and approximate training steps used in conventional training methods, YMufT helps the DNN model to converge faster, thus requiring less training time.
A Study on Applying the SRCNN Model and Bicubic Interpolation to Enhance Low-Resolution Weeds Images for Weeds Classification. Smart Media Journal 9.4 (2020): 17-25. [code][link][ppt]
We analyze the behavior of applying a classical super-resolution (SR) method such as bicubic interpolation, and a deep CNN model such as SRCNN to enhance low-resolution (LR) weeds images used for classification. We find that SRCNN is suitable for the image size is smaller than 80 × 80.
A Study on Weeds Retrieval based on Deep Neural Network Classification Model. Journal of Korean Institute of Information Technology 18.8 (2020): 19-30. [code][link][ppt]
In this paper, we study the ability of content-based image retrieval by extracting descriptors from a deep neural network (DNN) trained for classification purposes. The experiment shows that collecting features from DNN trained for weeds classification task can perform well on image retrieval.
Late fusion of multimodal deep neural networks for weeds classification. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, (2020) 175, 105506. [code][link][ppt]
In this study, we develop a novel classification approach via a voting method by using the late fusion of multimodal Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). The score vector used for voting is calculated by either using Bayesian conditional probability-based method or by determining priority weights.
Analyze weeds classification with visual explanation based on Convolutional Neural Networks. Smart Media Journal 8.3 (2019): 31-40. [code][link][ppt]
In this paper, we use Gradient-weighted Class Activation Mapping (Grad-CAM) to visualize and analyze how well a CNN model behaves on the CNU weeds dataset. Grad-CAM points out a CNN model can localize the object even though it is trained only for the classification problem.