Van-Thinh Vu

I have left the ORION Research Team (INRIA Sophia-Antipolis) for working at Thales since July 2007.


 
Tel: (+61) 03 86 30 47 51
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Email: thinhvuvan73@yahoo.fr

I am Vietnamese. I come from Hanoi - the capital of Vietnam. However, I was born in Namdinh province – a famous region in my country.

Research Interests

Automatic Video Interpretation/Surveillance & Cognitive Vision: human behaviour representation, recognition and visualisation.
Temporal Constraint Satisfaction Problems: temporal constraint resolution techniques to recognise temporal scenarios applied in automatic video interpretation.
Knowledge Representation: temporal scenarios, human activities/behaviours easily usable by experts.
Simulation & Visualisation: simulation and visualisation of human activities/behaviours of application domains.
Image Processing: map raster processing.
OCR: Vietnamese characters recognition.
Algorithms: real-time algorithms, combinatorial reduction, optimisation of algorithms and algorithm complexity estimation.
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Projects

SERKET (11/2005 - 06/2007, in France): an European project for video surveillance.
SAFEE (11/2004 - 10/2005, in the UK): an European project for the security of civil flights.
ADVISOR (past, in France): an European project for for the surveillance of metro stations.
AVITRACK (past, in France): an European project for the monitoring of apron in airports.
CASSIOPEE (past, in France): a French project for bank agency surveillance.
SAMSIT (past, in France): a French project for inside train surveillance.
MAPSCAN (past, in Vietnam): a project of UNDP, United Nations for automatic map data entry.
PILOTVIEW (past, in Vietnam): a Vietnamese project for the simulation of pilot view used in military pilot training.
VnDOCR (past, in Vietnam): a Vietnamese project for the recognition of Vietnamese characters.

Employment History

11/2005 - 06/2007:  Researcher, ORION Research Team, INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, France.
11/2004 - 10/2005:  Researcher, the Department of Computer Science, The University of Reading, UK.
10/2001 - 10/2004:  Researcher, INRIA-Sophia Antipolis, France.
09/1994 - present:    Researcher, Institute of Information Technology (IOIT), Vietnam.

Publications

Journal Paper
  1. Van-Thinh VU, François BRÉMOND & Monique THONNAT. Human behaviour visualisation and simulation for automatic video understanding. Journal of WSCG, Volume 10, No.1-3, 2002, pp485-492 ISSN1213-6972 (http://wscg.zcu.cz/jwscg/index-jwscg.htm). Download. Demo.

Doctoral Thesis

  1. Van-Thinh VU. Temporal Scenarios for Automatic Video Interpretation. Université de Nice – Sophia Antipolis, France, 14/10/2004. More details.

International Conference Papers

  1. Khang BACH HUNG, Mai LUONG CHI, Van-Thinh VU, et al.. An examination of techniques for raster-to-vector process and its implementation – MAPSCAN software package. International Symposium "Advanced Manufacturing Processes, Systems and Technologies", Bradford, UK, 26-27/3/1996.
  2. Van-Thinh VU. A modification of unsupervised classification algorithms. International Conference on Information Technology on the 25th Anniversary of the Institute of Information Technology of Vietnam, Hanoi, Vietnam, 25-27/12/1996.
  3. Khang BACH HUNG, Mai LUONG CHI, Van-Thinh VU, et al.. MapScan for Windows – Software Package for Automatic Map Data Entry. 1997 Asia-Pacific Symposium on Information and Telecommunication Technologies (APSITT'97), Hanoi, Vietnam, 13-14/03/1997.
  4. Van-Thinh VU, François BRÉMOND & Monique THONNAT. Video surveillance: human behaviour representation and on-line recognition. The Sixth International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems (KES'2002), Podere d'Ombriano, Crema, Italy, 16-18/09/2002. Download.
  5. Van-Thinh VU, François BRÉMOND & Monique THONNAT. Temporal Constraints for Video Interpretation. Workshop : Modelling and Solving Problems with Constraints, the 15-th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI'2002), Lyon, France, 21-26/07/2002. Download.
  6. Van-Thinh VU, François BRÉMOND & Monique THONNAT. Automatic Video Interpretation: A Recognition Algorithm for Temporal Scenarios Based on Pre-compiled Scenario Models. The 3rd biannual International Conference on Vision System (ICVS'03), Graz, Austria, 1-3/04/2003. Download.
  7. Van-Thinh VU, François BRÉMOND & Monique THONNAT. Automatic Video Interpretation: A Novel Algorithm for Temporal Scenario Recognition. The Eighteenth biannual International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'03), Acapulco, Mexico, 9-15/08/2003. Download. Demo.
  8. Van-Thinh Vu, Francois Bremond, Gabriele Davini, Monique Thonnat, Quoc-Cuong Pham, Nicolas Allezard, Patrick Sayd, Jean-Luc Rouas, Sébastien Ambellouis & Amaury Flancquart. Audio-Video Event Recognition System for Public Transport Security. Imaging for Crime Detection and Prevention (ICDP 2006), London, UK, 13-14/06/2006. Download.

Research Report

  1. Francois BREMOND, Nicolas MAILLOT, Monique THONNAT & Van-Thinh VU. Ontologies For Video Events. Research report number 5189, INRIA, 04/2004. Download.

Master Thesis

  1. Van-Thinh VU. Visualisation de comportements humains pour l'interprétation automatique de séquences vidéos. INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, France, 08/2001. More details.

Journal Submissions

  1. Van-Thinh VU, François BRÉMOND & Monique THONNAT. Temporal Scenario Representation for Automatic Video Interpretation. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR).
  2. Van-Thinh VU, François BRÉMOND & Monique THONNAT. Audio-Video Event Recognition for Automated Scene Understanding. Journal of Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU).

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Educational Background

10/2001 – 10/2004: Ph.D. in Computer Science at INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, France.
10/1999 – 09/2001: M.Sc. in Computer Science, Institut de la Francophonie pour l'Informatique, Hanoi, Vietnam.
10/1990 – 06/1994: B.Sc. in Mathematics, Hanoi National Pedagogic University, Vietnam.