Cong Phuoc Huynh (M.ICT., BSc. Hons.)

I am a PhD student at ANU, Australia. I am also a NICTA-endorsed student during my Master and PhD program.

Contacts

Phone (office): +61-2-6267-6288

Address: Level 1, NICTA Canberra Research Laboratory, 7 London Circuit, ACT 2601, Australia.

Ph.D. Research Project

Modelling surface reflectance is important to applications in computer vision and has attracted increasinginterests from the vision community for the past years. Specifically, accurate surface reflectancemodels are essential for shape and texture analysis, pattern recognition and material classification.
Despite the vast knowledge of reflectance models, little effort has been spent on recovering statisticallymeaningful patterns from reflectance models. This research makes use of reflectance models for thepurpose of pattern recognition on multi-layered surfaces, including human skin. This task is cast aslearning the reflectance model parameters and matching the learned statistics between surfaces. The potential application of this research includes (but is not limited to) the recovery of skin and plant leaf patterns for biometrics and health/enviromental applications.

Computer Vision
- Physics-based Computer Vision: Reflectance Modelling and Illumination, Colorimetry and Photogrammetry.
- Hyperspectral Imagery and Remote Sensing.
- Shape from X.
Pattern Recognition: Object and Face Detection and Recognition.
Machine Learning: Kernel Methods, Graphical Models.
Mathematics: Optimisation, Variational Methods, Multivariate Calculus, Differential Geometry, Linear Algebra, Analysis.
Physics: Optics and Sensor Design.

Biography (in brief)

I was born in the Imperial City of Hue, Vietnam. I went to one of the most renowned high schools in the country, the Quoc Hoc Hue High School. Subsequently, I did my first year of university at the Polytechnic University of Ho Chi Minh City. In 2002, I received a New Zealand Study Award to do a Bachelor Degree in Computer Science and Software Engineering at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch. I finished the Bachelor Degree with first Class Honours as a Senior Scholar at the University of Canterbury in 2006. In 2007, I moved to the Australian National University, in Canberra, the capital city of Australia, to commence my Ph.D. Degree in Computer Science. My doctoral thesis has been supervised by Dr. Antonio Robles-Kelly. The research work conducted so far in my doctoral study is strongly tied to the research theme of the Spectral Imaging and Source Mapping project of National ICT Australia (NICTA).

Publications

Cong Phuoc Huynh and Antonio Robles-Kelly. Simultaneous Photometric Invariance And Shape Recovery, International Conference on Computer Vision 2009 (ICCV 2009).
Cong Phuoc Huynh and Antonio Robles-Kelly. Optimal Solution of the Dichromatic Model for Multispectral Photometric Invariance, Joint IAPR International Workshops on Structural and Syntactic Pattern Recognition (SSPR) and Statistical Techniques in Pattern Recognition (SPR) 2008.
Cong Phuoc Huynh and Antonio Robles-Kelly. A NURBS-Based Spectral Reflectance Descriptor with Applications in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2008 (CVPR 2008).
C. P. Huynh and A. Robles-Kelly. Comparative Colorimetric Simulation and Evaluation of Digital Cameras Using Spectroscopy Data, DICTA 2007.
Huynh Cong Phuoc, Ray Hunt and Andrew McKenzie, NAT Traversal Techniques in Peer-to-Peer Networks, New Zealand Computer Science Research Student Conference 2008.
C. P. Huynh and R. Green. Monocular tracking of swimmers from a stationary viewpoint, IVCNZ 2006.
N.Churcher, S. Frater, C. P. Huynh, W. Irwin, Supporting OO Design Heuristics, Proceedings of the 2007 Australian Software Engineering Conference ASWEC 2007), 2007.

Patent Disclosures

Compact Representation Of A Reflectance Spectrum. Under review by IP Australia. Date of application: 20 June 2008. Assignee: NICTA

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