Phung, Son Lam.

Overview

I received B. Eng. with first-class honours and Ph.D. in computer engineering, from Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia. I was awarded the University Medal in 2000 as the graduating student with the highest course average.

I have been a Chief Investigator for three ARC Discovery Projects, three Defence Innovation Network Pilot Projects, one Defence Innovation Network PhD Project, and one Qatar National Research Fund grant. I have co-supervised to successful completion 23 HDR students (15 PhD and 8 MPhil), and received Research Paper Awards at 5 international conferences (ICASSP-2016, DICTA-2014, EUVIP-2010, AVSS-2009, ANZIIS-2001).

I also received the Highly Commended Supervisor Award at the 2012 Canon Extreme Imaging Competition and the OCTAL Faculty Early Career teaching award in 2010.

At UOW, I am currently serving as Member of the UOW Thesis Examination Committee, Research Sub-cluster Representative for Electrical/Electronic Engineering (0906), Member of EIS Faculty Research Committee and SECTE School Research Committee.

I am also serving as Associate Editor of IEEE Access journal (impact factor: 3.750), and Section Editor (Sensing and Imaging Section) of Sensors journal (IF: 3.275).

Top Publications

Year	Title
2020	Compressive Radar Imaging of Stationary Indoor Targets with Low-Rank plus Jointly Sparse and Total Variation Regularizations Published in IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
2019	A Super Descriptor Tensor Decomposition for Dynamic Scene Recognition Published in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
2019	A scalable hierarchical gaussian process classifier Published in IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
2018	Multipolarization Through-wall Radar Imaging using Low-rank and Jointly-sparse Representations Published in IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
2017	A Sparse Bayesian Learning Approach for Through-Wall Radar Imaging of Stationary Targets Published in IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems
2017	Breast cancer diagnosis in DCE-MRI using mixture ensemble of convolutional neural networks Published in Pattern Recognition
2016	Pedestrian lane detection in unstructured scenes for assistive navigation Published in Computer Vision and Image Understanding
2014	Signal classification for ground penetrating radar using sparse kernel feature selection Published in IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
2013	Probabilistic fuzzy image fusion approach for radar through wall sensing Published in IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
2013	Sparse representation of GPR traces with application to signal classification Published in IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
2011	Automatic classification of ground-penetrating-radar signals for railway-ballast assessment Published in IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
2007	A pyramidal neural network for visual pattern recognition Published in IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems

Research Areas

Research Overview

My research is in the areas of image processing, pattern recognition, signal processing, machine learning and artificial intelligence. I focus on developing new algorithms and systems to solve strategic and practical problems in defence, security, healthcare, and industry.

I have published over 110 Scopus-listed papers in international journals and conferences. Several publications appear in high-impact journals, including IEEE Trans. Neural Networks and Learning Systems, IEEE. Trans. Image Processing, Pattern Recognition, IEEE. Trans. Signal Processing, IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Trans. Geoscience and Remote Sensing. My papers have received over 2040 Scopus citations (h-index: 20), and over 3590 Google Scholar citations (h-index: 26).

Among several research projects, I and my team are currently developing assistive navigation tools for vision-impaired people, sonar image processing algorithms for underwater mine detection, and through-wall radar imaging. I am mentoring a group of highly motivated, hard-working and capable research students.

I conduct research in the Centre for Signal and Information Processing (CSIP) at the Signals, Information and Communications Research Institute (SICOM). I have been a Conference Organizing Committee member for 3 international conferences, and a peer reviewer for numerous high-impact journals and conferences.

Available as Research Supervisor

Available for Collaborative Projects

Member Of

IEEE Senior Member 2014 -

Has Collaborator

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Year	Title
2020	A part-based spatial and temporal aggregation method for dynamic scene recognition Published In Neural Computing and Applications
2020	An unsupervised deep learning technique for susceptibility artifact correction in reversed phase-encoding EPI images Published In Magnetic Resonance Imaging
2020	Compressive Radar Imaging of Stationary Indoor Targets with Low-Rank plus Jointly Sparse and Total Variation Regularizations Published In IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
2020	Deep Gabor Neural Network for Automatic Detection of Mine-like Objects in Sonar Imagery Published In IEEE Access
2020	Susceptibility artifact correction for sub-millimeter fMRI using inverse phase encoding registration and T1 weighted regularization Published In Journal of Neuroscience Methods
2020	Unbalanced hybrid aoa/rssi localization for simplified wireless sensor networks Published In Sensors (Switzerland)
2019	A Super Descriptor Tensor Decomposition for Dynamic Scene Recognition Published In IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
2019	A scalable hierarchical gaussian process classifier Published In IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
2019	Dynamics of Inter-Molecular Interactions Between Single Aβ42 Oligomeric and Aggregate Species by High-Speed Atomic Force Microscopy Published In Journal of Molecular Biology
2019	Performance Evaluation of Non-GPS Based Localization Techniques under Shadowing Effects Published In Sensors
2019	Pooling-Based Feature Extraction and Coarse-to-fine Patch Matching for Optical Flow Estimation Published In Lecture Notes in Computer Science
2018	Efficient cost aggregation for feature-vector-based wide-baseline stereo matching Published In Eurasip Journal on Image and Video Processing
2018	Multipolarization Through-wall Radar Imaging using Low-rank and Jointly-sparse Representations Published In IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
2018	Stochastic variational hierarchical mixture of sparse Gaussian processes for regression Published In Machine Learning
2017	A Sparse Bayesian Learning Approach for Through-Wall Radar Imaging of Stationary Targets Published In IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems
2017	Breast cancer diagnosis in DCE-MRI using mixture ensemble of convolutional neural networks Published In Pattern Recognition
2016	High-speed adaptive wireless body area networks Published In Eurasip Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking
2016	Pedestrian lane detection in unstructured scenes for assistive navigation Published In Computer Vision and Image Understanding
2016	Visual descriptors for scene categorization: experimental evaluation Published In Artificial Intelligence Review: an international survey and tutorial journal
2015	Classification of micro-Doppler signatures of human motions using log-Gabor filters Published In IET Radar, Sonar and Navigation
2014	Object segmentation and classification using 3-D range camera Published In Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation
2014	Optimal adaptive wireless body area networks for high speed in Health Services Published In Biomedizinische Technik
2014	Signal classification for ground penetrating radar using sparse kernel feature selection Published In IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
2013	Probabilistic fuzzy image fusion approach for radar through wall sensing Published In IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
2013	Sparse representation of GPR traces with application to signal classification Published In IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
2013	Two-stage fuzzy fusion with applications to through-the-wall radar imaging Published In IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters
2013	Two-stage through-the-wall radar image formation using compressive sensing Published In Journal of Electronic Imaging
2011	Automatic classification of ground-penetrating-radar signals for railway-ballast assessment Published In IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
2011	Integrating the projective transform with particle filtering for visual tracking Published In Eurasip Journal on Image and Video Processing
2010	Adaptive hierarchical architecture for visual recognition Published In Applied Optics
2007	A new image feature for fast detection of people in images Published In International Journal of Information and Systems Sciences
2007	A pyramidal neural network for visual pattern recognition Published In IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
2007	Automatic image annotation for semantic image retrieval Published In Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Advances in Visual Information Systems

Chapter

Year	Title
2015	Lane detection in unstructured environments for autonomous navigation systems Published In Computer Vision -- ACCV 2014 Publisher United States
2009	A new approach to sparse image representation using MMV and K-SVD Published In Advanced concepts for intelligent vision systems : ACIVS 2009 Publisher Berlin, Germany
2009	Learning pattern classification tasks with imbalanced data sets Published In Pattern recognition

Conference Paper

Year	Title
2020	A variational Bayesian approach for multichannel through-wall radar imaging with low-rank and sparse priors Published In ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings
2019	A study on moving image noise removal using 3D and time-domain total variation regularization method Published In International Workshop on Advanced Image Technology 2019, IWAIT 2019
2019	Improvement of authenticity inspection accuracy using logo region detection Published In International Workshop on Advanced Image Technology 2019, IWAIT 2019
2019	Improvement of face image super-resolution by high-precision skin color detection Published In International Forum on Medical Imaging in Asia 2019
2019	Radar Stationary and Moving Indoor Target Localization with Low-rank and Sparse Regularizations Published In ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings
2019	Super-resolution image reconstruction utilizing high-precision skin color for face images Published In IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics - Berlin, ICCE-Berlin
2018	A Matrix Completion Approach for Wall-Clutter Mitigation in Compressive Radar Imaging of Indoor Targets Published In IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) : Proceedings
2018	Anatomy-Guided Inverse-Gradient Susceptibility Artifact Correction Method for High-Resolution FMRI Published In IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP): Proceedings
2018	Human Brain Tissue Segmentation in fMRI using Deep Long-Term Recurrent Convolutional Network Published In 2018 International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications, DICTA 2018
2018	Human Gait Recognition with Micro-Doppler Radar and Deep Autoencoder Published In 24th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2018)
2018	Human Motion Classification with Micro-Doppler Radar and Bayesian-Optimized Convolutional Neural Networks Published In IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP): Proceedings
2018	Scalable Hierarchical Mixture of Gaussian Processes for Pattern Classification Published In IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP): Proceedings
2017	A low-rank and jointly-sparse approach for multipolarization through-wall radar imaging Published In IEEE Radar Conference, RadarConf 2017
2017	An efficient local method for stereo matching using daisy features Published In IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2017
2017	Enhanced pixel-wise voting for image vanishing point detection in road scenes Published In 2017 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing
2017	Human interaction recognition using low-rank matrix approximation and super descriptor tensor decomposition Published In 2017 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing
2017	Wall Clutter Mitigation for Radar Imaging of Indoor Targets: A Matrix Completion Approach Published In 21st Asia Pacific Symposium On Intelligent And Evolutionary Systems (IES 2017)
2016	Efficient vanishing point estimation for unstructured road scenes Published In International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA)
2016	Indoor scene reconstruction for through-the-wall radar imaging using low-rank and sparsity constraints Published In 2016 IEEE Radar Conference (RadarConf)
2016	Radar imaging of stationary indoor targets using joint low-rank and sparsity constraints Published In 2016 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
2016	Variational inference for infinite mixtures of sparse Gaussian processes through KL-correction Published In 2016 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
2015	Depth image super resolution using internal and e ternal information Published In Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2015 IEEE International Conference on
2015	Invariant image recognition under projective deformations: an image normalization approach Published In 2015 Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP)
2015	Multi-view TWRI scene reconstruction using a joint Bayesian sparse approximation model Published In Conference on Compressive Sensing IV
2015	Multi-view indoor scene reconstruction from compressed through-wall radar measurements using a joint Bayesian sparse representation Published In Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2015 IEEE International Conference on
2015	Video classification based on spatial gradient and optical flow descriptors Published In Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA), 2015 International Conference on
2015	Violent scene detection using a super descriptor tensor decomposition Published In Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA), 2015 International Conference on
2014	Affine-invariant scene categorization Published In IEEE International Conference on Image Processing
2014	Crowd behavior recognition using dense trajectories Published In Digital lmage Computing: Techniques and Applications (DlCTA), 2014 International Conference on
2014	Enhanced wall clutter mitigation for compressed through-the-wall radar imaging using joint Bayesian sparse signal recovery Published In IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2014)
2014	Pedestrian lane detection in unstructured environments for assistive navigation Published In 2014 International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications, DICTA 2014
2013	An image-based approach for classification of human micro-doppler radar signatures Published In Proceedings of SPIE - Active and Passive Signatures IV
2013	Depth image super-resolution using multi-dictionary sparse representation Published In 20th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2013)
2013	Enhanced through-the-wall radar imaging using bayesian compressive sensing Published In Proceedings of SPIE - Compressive Sensing II
2012	Adaptive autoregressive logarithmic search for 3D human tracking Published In AVSS 2012: 9th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal-Based Surveillance
2012	Automatic classification of human motions using Doppler radar Published In 2012 Annual International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN)
2012	Compressed sensing-based frequency selection for classification of ground penetrating radar signals Published In ICASSP 2012: IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing
2012	Pedestrian lane detection for assistive navigation of blind people Published In 21st International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2012)
2012	Pedestrian lane detection for the visually impaired Published In 2012 International Conference on Digital Image Computing Techniques and Applications, DICTA 2012
2012	Scene segmentation and pedestrian classification from 3-D range and intensity images Published In ICME 2012: IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo
2011	A two-stage image fusion method for enhanced through-the-wall radar target detection Published In 2011 IEEE Radar Conference
2011	Adaptive regularization for multiple image restoration using an extended total variations approach Published In 2011 18th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2011
2011	Optical flow estimation using sparse gradient representation Published In 2011 18th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2011
2011	Pedestrian sensing using time-of-flight range camera Published In IEEE CVPR 2011: IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
2011	Sparse signal decomposition for ground penetrating radar Published In 2011 IEEE Radar Conference
2010	A compressive sensing approach to image restoration Published In Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications
2010	A particle swarm optimization algorithm based on orthogonal design Published In IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence
2010	A training algorithm for sparse LS-SVM using compressive sampling Published In IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing
2010	Adaptive regularization for image restoration using a variational inequality approach Published In International Conference on Image Processing
2010	Automatic classification of GPR signals Published In International Conference on Ground Penetrating Radar
2010	Automatic parameter selection for feature-enhanced radar image restoration Published In IEEE Radar Conference
2010	Automatic recognition of smiling and neutral facial expressions Published In Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications
2010	Dimensionality reduction using compressed sensing and its application to a large-scale visual recognition task Published In IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence
2010	Efficient SVM training with reduced weighted samples Published In IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence
2010	Fast digital optical flow estimation based on EMD Published In European Workshop on Visual Information Processing
2010	Feature selection for facial expression recognition Published In European Workshop on Visual Information Processing
2010	Improved facial expression recognition with trainable 2-D filters and support vector machines Published In International Conference on Pattern Recognition
2010	Markov random fields for abnormal behavior detection on highways Published In European Workshop on Visual Information Processing
2010	Motion estimation with adaptive regularization and neighborhood dependent constraint Published In Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications
2010	Multi-resolution mean-shift algorithm for vector quantization Published In Data Compression Conference
2010	On the analysis of background subtraction techniques using Gaussian mixture models Published In IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing
2010	Wavelet based nonlocal-means super-resolution for video sequences Published In International Conference on Image Processing
2009	A neural network pruning approach based on compressive sampling Published In International Joint Conference on Neural Networks 2009
2009	Reduced training of convolutional neural networks for pedestrian detection Published In International Conference on Information Technology and Applications
2009	Vehicle tracking using projective particle filter Published In IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance
2008	A supervised learning approach for imbalanced data sets Published In International Conference on Pattern Recognition
2008	Efficient supervised learning with reduced training exemplars Published In IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks
2008	Local estimation of displacement density for abnormal behavior detection Published In Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing
2008	Vehicle tracking by non-drifting mean-shift using projective Kalman filter Published In International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems
2007	A multi-class image classification system using salient features and support vector machines Published In International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing
2007	Automatic annotation of digital images using colour structure and edge direction Published In International Conference on Signal Processing and Communication Systems
2007	Detecting people in images: An edge density approach Published In International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing

Investigator On

Year	Title
2019 - 2022	Real-time ATR of Naval Mines with AUV Sonar Imaging Awarded by: Defence Science and Technology Group Funding Scheme: Defence Innovation Network PhD Project
2020 - 2021	Enhanced detection, localisation and identification of sandcovered naval mines using novel hybrid signal processing methods Awarded by: Defence Innovation Network (DIN) Funding Scheme: Pilot Projects
2019 - 2021	A Novel Non-GPS Based Positioning, Navigation and Timing Solution for Reconnaissance Missions Awarded by: Defence Innovation Network (DIN) Funding Scheme: Pilot Projects
2019 - 2021	Assistive Micro-Navigation for Vision Impaired People Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
2020	Low-bias Age Prediction Awarded by: Defence Innovation Network (DIN) Funding Scheme: Artificial Intelligence for Decision Making Initiative
2019	Big Crowd Data Analytics using Bayesian Inference and Deep Learning Awarded by: Qatar National Research Fund Funding Scheme: National Priorities Research Program
2018 - 2019	Classification of Sonar Snapshot Images for Autonomous Underwater Vehicle On-board Processing Awarded by: Defence Innovation Network (DIN) Funding Scheme: Pilot Projects
2014	Dynamic Visual Scene Gist Recognition using a Probabilistic Inference Framework Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
2007	Advanced processing for through-the-wall radar imaging Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Other Research Activities

Impact Story

Underwater Mine Detection with Sonar Imaging
Summary
Underwater mines are a cost-effective tool in asymmetric warfare and are commonly used to block shipping lanes and restrict naval operations. The aim of this research is develop an automatic system based on sonar imaging for locating naval mines and then recognizing their various types. It involves investigating the latest advances in deep learning and artificial intelligence for object detection, image segmentation, and image classification. This on-going research, supported by the NSW Defence Innovation Network (DIN), is conducted in collaboration with Defence and Science Technology Group (DSTG) and a defence software company. The research team includes Assoc. Prof. Son Lam Phung (CI, Technical Lead, Principal Supervisor), Mr Hoang Thanh Le (PhD Student), Mr Luca Russo (PhD student), Dr. Thi N. A. Nguyen (Associate Research Fellow), Senior Prof. Salim Bouzerdoum (CI), Prof. Christian Ritz (CI), and Dr. Le Chung Tran (CI). In this project, we have developed a deep learning-based tool for underwater mine detection. Further discussions are in progress to apply the project outcomes. Publication: H. T. Le, S. L. Phung, P. B. Chapple, A. Bouzerdoum, C. H. Ritz, L. C. Tran, "<a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9095329?source=authoralert" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Deep Gabor Neural Network for Automatic Detection of Mine-like Objects in Sonar Imagery</a>," IEEE Access, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 94126-94139, 2020.

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Assistive Navigation Tools for Vision Impaired People
Summary
Over 250 million people worldwide and 380,000 people in Australia suffer from visual impairment. The aim of the project is to develop, based on deep learning and artificial intelligence technologies, a portable electronic tool that enables a vision-impaired user to perform micro-navigation tasks. The targeted tasks include locating the pedestrian path in crowded scenes, evading obstacles and hazards, and recognising relevant landmarks. The technologies developed in this project can be adopted for road safety, self-driving vehicles, and autonomous robots. This project is funded by an ARC Discovery Project DP190100607, titled "Assistive Micro-Navigation for Project for Vision Impaired People" (2019-2021). It is one of five national projects highlighted in the Ministerial Media Release on 27 Nov 2018 <a href="https://www.arc.gov.au/news-publications/media/media-releases/funding-world-leading-research" target="_blank" rel="noopener">(link)</a>. The research team includes blind volunteers, Assoc. Prof. Son Lam Phung (CI), Senior Prof. Salim Bouzerdoum (CI), Dr Thi N. A. Nguyen (Associate Research Fellow), and a number of PhD/MPhil students.This on-going research has received the Best Recognition Paper Award at the International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA) in 2014, and the Highly Commended Award at the Canon Extreme Imaging Competition in 2012. Recently, we have reached a project milestone by successfully developing a deep learning-based tool to locate the pedestrian path for the blind. This tool is published in IEEE TNNLS which has an impact factor of 8.793 (top 10% in 136 computer science and AI journals, and top 5% in 266 electrical/electronic engineering journals).Publication: T. N. A. Nguyen, S. L. Phung, and A. Bouzerdoum, "Hybrid deep learning-Gaussian process network for pedestrian lane detection in unstructured scenes," IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 2020. <a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8998354" target="_blank" rel="noopener">(URL)</a>

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Available as Research Supervisor

Potential Supervision Topics

- image, video, and signal processing
- assistive navigation for vision-impaired people, autonomous navigation, self-driving cars
- machine learning, pattern recognition, neural networks, deep learning
- imaging applications in defence, security, and healthcare
- magnetic resonance imaging, atomic force microscopy
- sonar, thermal and hyperspectral imaging
- depth sensing and 3D object scanning
- through-wall radar imaging, ground-penetrating radar, micro-Doppler radar

Teaching Activities

- ECTE301 Digital Signal Processing Subject Coordinator, Instructor 2013 -
- ECTE433/ECTE833/ECTE933 Embedded Systems Subject Coordinator, Instructor 2007 -
- ECTE903 Image and Video Processing Subject Coordinator, Instructor 2007 -
- ECTE333 Microcontroller Architecture and Applications Subject Coordinator, Instructor 2006 -
- ECTE431/ECTE931 Real-Time Computing Subject Coordinator, Instructor 2006 - 2018
- ECTE203 Signals and Systems Subject Coordinator, Instructor 2006 - 2012

Advisees

Graduate Advising Relationship

Degree	Research Title	Advisee
Doctor of Philosophy	Deep Learning Algorithms for Image Segmentation and Generation	Ang, Paul
Doctor of Philosophy	Deep Learning Algorithms for Image and Signal Processing Applications	Le Hoang, Thanh
Doctor of Philosophy	Depth Perception from a Single Colour Image	Thompson, Joshua
Doctor of Philosophy	Real-time Automatic Target Recognition of Naval Mines with Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Sonar Imaging	Russo, Luca
Doctor of Philosophy	Depth Estimation with Deep Learning for Assistive Navigation	Phan, Steve
Doctor of Philosophy		Nguyen, Tran Thanh Phong
Doctor of Philosophy	Scene Perception and 3D Sound Synthesis for Assistive Navigation of Blind People	Lei, Yunjia
Master of Philosophy - EIS	Deep Learning for Hyperspectral Image Processing	Bui, Ly

Reviewer Of

IEEE Access (Article)
IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters (Article)
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (Article)
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (Article)
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (Article)
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Date Engineering (Article)
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (Article)
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (Article)
International Journal of Computer Vision (Article)
Pattern Recognition (Article)

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Education And Training

Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Engineering, Edith Cowan University 2000 - 2003
B.E. in Computer Engineering, First-Class Honours, Edith Cowan University 1996 - 1999

Awards And Honors

- Best Recognition Paper Prize, conferred by International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications, 2014
-Highly Recommended Supervisor in Annual Extreme Imaging Competition, conferred by Canon Information Systems Research Australia, 2012
- Third Prize Student Paper, conferred by European Workshop on Visual Information Processing, 2010
- Best Student Paper, conferred by IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance, 2009
- Third Prize Student Paper, conferred by Australian New Zealand Conference on Intelligent Information Systems, 2001
- National Finalist in Prize for Innovations (one of six), conferred by Siemens, 2000
-Electrical College Prize, conferred by Institution of Engineers Australia (Engineers Australia), 2000
- Faculty Medal, conferred by Communications, Health and Science, Edith Cowan University , 2000
- University Medal, conferred by Edith Cowan University, 2000
- John Renner Medal, conferred by Institution of Engineers Australia (Engineers Australia), 2000
- CRC Broadband Telecommunications and Networking Prize, conferred by CRC, 1999
- Golden Key National Honour Society Scholarship (one of 4 ECU recipients), conferred by Golden Key National Honour Society, 1998
- Institution of Electrical Engineers Prize, conferred by IEE, 1998

Teaching Overview

- UOW Outstanding Contribution to Teaching and Learning, Faculty of Informatics Early Career Award 2010.

- Peer Recognition Teaching Award by the Australian College of Educators in 2011.

- Peer Recognition Teaching Award by the Australian College of Educators in 2007.

- UOW Educational Strategic Development Fund (ESDF) grant, "Integrating MATLAB-based experimentation into engineering curriculum,” Son Lam Phung, Abdesselam Bouzerdoum, Montserrat Ros, 2010, $6,000.

- UOW ESDF grant, "Developing an immersive environment and platform for microcontroller study,” Montserrat Ros, Son Lam Phung, David Stirling, Peter Vial, Christian Ritz, 2008, $14,000.

- UOW Educational Resource Development Agreement, ERDA Project, “Enhancing microcontroller curriculum with video resources,” 2015.

Keywords

image processing, machine learning, artificial intelligence, pattern recognition, signal processing, deep learning, neural networks, radar imaging, magnetic resonance imaging, atomic force microscopy, multispectral imaging, thermal imaging, mine countermeasures.

Mailing Address

University of Wollongong, SECTE (EIS)

Northfields Avenue

Wollongong

NSW

2522

Australia

Top Publications

Year	Title
2020	Compressive Radar Imaging of Stationary Indoor Targets with Low-Rank plus Jointly Sparse and Total Variation Regularizations Published in IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
2019	A Super Descriptor Tensor Decomposition for Dynamic Scene Recognition Published in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
2019	A scalable hierarchical gaussian process classifier Published in IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
2018	Multipolarization Through-wall Radar Imaging using Low-rank and Jointly-sparse Representations Published in IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
2017	A Sparse Bayesian Learning Approach for Through-Wall Radar Imaging of Stationary Targets Published in IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems
2017	Breast cancer diagnosis in DCE-MRI using mixture ensemble of convolutional neural networks Published in Pattern Recognition
2016	Pedestrian lane detection in unstructured scenes for assistive navigation Published in Computer Vision and Image Understanding
2014	Signal classification for ground penetrating radar using sparse kernel feature selection Published in IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
2013	Probabilistic fuzzy image fusion approach for radar through wall sensing Published in IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
2013	Sparse representation of GPR traces with application to signal classification Published in IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
2011	Automatic classification of ground-penetrating-radar signals for railway-ballast assessment Published in IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
2007	A pyramidal neural network for visual pattern recognition Published in IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems

Research Areas

Research Overview

My research is in the areas of image processing, pattern recognition, signal processing, machine learning and artificial intelligence. I focus on developing new algorithms and systems to solve strategic and practical problems in defence, security, healthcare, and industry.

I have published over 110 Scopus-listed papers in international journals and conferences. Several publications appear in high-impact journals, including IEEE Trans. Neural Networks and Learning Systems, IEEE. Trans. Image Processing, Pattern Recognition, IEEE. Trans. Signal Processing, IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Trans. Geoscience and Remote Sensing. My papers have received over 2040 Scopus citations (h-index: 20), and over 3590 Google Scholar citations (h-index: 26).

Among several research projects, I and my team are currently developing assistive navigation tools for vision-impaired people, sonar image processing algorithms for underwater mine detection, and through-wall radar imaging. I am mentoring a group of highly motivated, hard-working and capable research students.

I conduct research in the Centre for Signal and Information Processing (CSIP) at the Signals, Information and Communications Research Institute (SICOM). I have been a Conference Organizing Committee member for 3 international conferences, and a peer reviewer for numerous high-impact journals and conferences.

Member Of

IEEE Senior Member 2014 -

Has Collaborator

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Year	Title
2020	A part-based spatial and temporal aggregation method for dynamic scene recognition Published In Neural Computing and Applications
2020	An unsupervised deep learning technique for susceptibility artifact correction in reversed phase-encoding EPI images Published In Magnetic Resonance Imaging
2020	Compressive Radar Imaging of Stationary Indoor Targets with Low-Rank plus Jointly Sparse and Total Variation Regularizations Published In IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
2020	Deep Gabor Neural Network for Automatic Detection of Mine-like Objects in Sonar Imagery Published In IEEE Access
2020	Susceptibility artifact correction for sub-millimeter fMRI using inverse phase encoding registration and T1 weighted regularization Published In Journal of Neuroscience Methods
2020	Unbalanced hybrid aoa/rssi localization for simplified wireless sensor networks Published In Sensors (Switzerland)
2019	A Super Descriptor Tensor Decomposition for Dynamic Scene Recognition Published In IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
2019	A scalable hierarchical gaussian process classifier Published In IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
2019	Dynamics of Inter-Molecular Interactions Between Single Aβ42 Oligomeric and Aggregate Species by High-Speed Atomic Force Microscopy Published In Journal of Molecular Biology
2019	Performance Evaluation of Non-GPS Based Localization Techniques under Shadowing Effects Published In Sensors
2019	Pooling-Based Feature Extraction and Coarse-to-fine Patch Matching for Optical Flow Estimation Published In Lecture Notes in Computer Science
2018	Efficient cost aggregation for feature-vector-based wide-baseline stereo matching Published In Eurasip Journal on Image and Video Processing
2018	Multipolarization Through-wall Radar Imaging using Low-rank and Jointly-sparse Representations Published In IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
2018	Stochastic variational hierarchical mixture of sparse Gaussian processes for regression Published In Machine Learning
2017	A Sparse Bayesian Learning Approach for Through-Wall Radar Imaging of Stationary Targets Published In IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems
2017	Breast cancer diagnosis in DCE-MRI using mixture ensemble of convolutional neural networks Published In Pattern Recognition
2016	High-speed adaptive wireless body area networks Published In Eurasip Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking
2016	Pedestrian lane detection in unstructured scenes for assistive navigation Published In Computer Vision and Image Understanding
2016	Visual descriptors for scene categorization: experimental evaluation Published In Artificial Intelligence Review: an international survey and tutorial journal
2015	Classification of micro-Doppler signatures of human motions using log-Gabor filters Published In IET Radar, Sonar and Navigation
2014	Object segmentation and classification using 3-D range camera Published In Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation
2014	Optimal adaptive wireless body area networks for high speed in Health Services Published In Biomedizinische Technik
2014	Signal classification for ground penetrating radar using sparse kernel feature selection Published In IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
2013	Probabilistic fuzzy image fusion approach for radar through wall sensing Published In IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
2013	Sparse representation of GPR traces with application to signal classification Published In IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
2013	Two-stage fuzzy fusion with applications to through-the-wall radar imaging Published In IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters
2013	Two-stage through-the-wall radar image formation using compressive sensing Published In Journal of Electronic Imaging
2011	Automatic classification of ground-penetrating-radar signals for railway-ballast assessment Published In IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
2011	Integrating the projective transform with particle filtering for visual tracking Published In Eurasip Journal on Image and Video Processing
2010	Adaptive hierarchical architecture for visual recognition Published In Applied Optics
2007	A new image feature for fast detection of people in images Published In International Journal of Information and Systems Sciences
2007	A pyramidal neural network for visual pattern recognition Published In IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
2007	Automatic image annotation for semantic image retrieval Published In Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Advances in Visual Information Systems

Chapter

Year	Title
2015	Lane detection in unstructured environments for autonomous navigation systems Published In Computer Vision -- ACCV 2014 Publisher United States
2009	A new approach to sparse image representation using MMV and K-SVD Published In Advanced concepts for intelligent vision systems : ACIVS 2009 Publisher Berlin, Germany
2009	Learning pattern classification tasks with imbalanced data sets Published In Pattern recognition

Conference Paper

Year	Title
2020	A variational Bayesian approach for multichannel through-wall radar imaging with low-rank and sparse priors Published In ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings
2019	A study on moving image noise removal using 3D and time-domain total variation regularization method Published In International Workshop on Advanced Image Technology 2019, IWAIT 2019
2019	Improvement of authenticity inspection accuracy using logo region detection Published In International Workshop on Advanced Image Technology 2019, IWAIT 2019
2019	Improvement of face image super-resolution by high-precision skin color detection Published In International Forum on Medical Imaging in Asia 2019
2019	Radar Stationary and Moving Indoor Target Localization with Low-rank and Sparse Regularizations Published In ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings
2019	Super-resolution image reconstruction utilizing high-precision skin color for face images Published In IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics - Berlin, ICCE-Berlin
2018	A Matrix Completion Approach for Wall-Clutter Mitigation in Compressive Radar Imaging of Indoor Targets Published In IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) : Proceedings
2018	Anatomy-Guided Inverse-Gradient Susceptibility Artifact Correction Method for High-Resolution FMRI Published In IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP): Proceedings
2018	Human Brain Tissue Segmentation in fMRI using Deep Long-Term Recurrent Convolutional Network Published In 2018 International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications, DICTA 2018
2018	Human Gait Recognition with Micro-Doppler Radar and Deep Autoencoder Published In 24th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2018)
2018	Human Motion Classification with Micro-Doppler Radar and Bayesian-Optimized Convolutional Neural Networks Published In IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP): Proceedings
2018	Scalable Hierarchical Mixture of Gaussian Processes for Pattern Classification Published In IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP): Proceedings
2017	A low-rank and jointly-sparse approach for multipolarization through-wall radar imaging Published In IEEE Radar Conference, RadarConf 2017
2017	An efficient local method for stereo matching using daisy features Published In IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2017
2017	Enhanced pixel-wise voting for image vanishing point detection in road scenes Published In 2017 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing
2017	Human interaction recognition using low-rank matrix approximation and super descriptor tensor decomposition Published In 2017 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing
2017	Wall Clutter Mitigation for Radar Imaging of Indoor Targets: A Matrix Completion Approach Published In 21st Asia Pacific Symposium On Intelligent And Evolutionary Systems (IES 2017)
2016	Efficient vanishing point estimation for unstructured road scenes Published In International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA)
2016	Indoor scene reconstruction for through-the-wall radar imaging using low-rank and sparsity constraints Published In 2016 IEEE Radar Conference (RadarConf)
2016	Radar imaging of stationary indoor targets using joint low-rank and sparsity constraints Published In 2016 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
2016	Variational inference for infinite mixtures of sparse Gaussian processes through KL-correction Published In 2016 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
2015	Depth image super resolution using internal and e ternal information Published In Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2015 IEEE International Conference on
2015	Invariant image recognition under projective deformations: an image normalization approach Published In 2015 Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP)
2015	Multi-view TWRI scene reconstruction using a joint Bayesian sparse approximation model Published In Conference on Compressive Sensing IV
2015	Multi-view indoor scene reconstruction from compressed through-wall radar measurements using a joint Bayesian sparse representation Published In Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2015 IEEE International Conference on
2015	Video classification based on spatial gradient and optical flow descriptors Published In Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA), 2015 International Conference on
2015	Violent scene detection using a super descriptor tensor decomposition Published In Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA), 2015 International Conference on
2014	Affine-invariant scene categorization Published In IEEE International Conference on Image Processing
2014	Crowd behavior recognition using dense trajectories Published In Digital lmage Computing: Techniques and Applications (DlCTA), 2014 International Conference on
2014	Enhanced wall clutter mitigation for compressed through-the-wall radar imaging using joint Bayesian sparse signal recovery Published In IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2014)
2014	Pedestrian lane detection in unstructured environments for assistive navigation Published In 2014 International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications, DICTA 2014
2013	An image-based approach for classification of human micro-doppler radar signatures Published In Proceedings of SPIE - Active and Passive Signatures IV
2013	Depth image super-resolution using multi-dictionary sparse representation Published In 20th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2013)
2013	Enhanced through-the-wall radar imaging using bayesian compressive sensing Published In Proceedings of SPIE - Compressive Sensing II
2012	Adaptive autoregressive logarithmic search for 3D human tracking Published In AVSS 2012: 9th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal-Based Surveillance
2012	Automatic classification of human motions using Doppler radar Published In 2012 Annual International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN)
2012	Compressed sensing-based frequency selection for classification of ground penetrating radar signals Published In ICASSP 2012: IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing
2012	Pedestrian lane detection for assistive navigation of blind people Published In 21st International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2012)
2012	Pedestrian lane detection for the visually impaired Published In 2012 International Conference on Digital Image Computing Techniques and Applications, DICTA 2012
2012	Scene segmentation and pedestrian classification from 3-D range and intensity images Published In ICME 2012: IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo
2011	A two-stage image fusion method for enhanced through-the-wall radar target detection Published In 2011 IEEE Radar Conference
2011	Adaptive regularization for multiple image restoration using an extended total variations approach Published In 2011 18th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2011
2011	Optical flow estimation using sparse gradient representation Published In 2011 18th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2011
2011	Pedestrian sensing using time-of-flight range camera Published In IEEE CVPR 2011: IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
2011	Sparse signal decomposition for ground penetrating radar Published In 2011 IEEE Radar Conference
2010	A compressive sensing approach to image restoration Published In Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications
2010	A particle swarm optimization algorithm based on orthogonal design Published In IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence
2010	A training algorithm for sparse LS-SVM using compressive sampling Published In IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing
2010	Adaptive regularization for image restoration using a variational inequality approach Published In International Conference on Image Processing
2010	Automatic classification of GPR signals Published In International Conference on Ground Penetrating Radar
2010	Automatic parameter selection for feature-enhanced radar image restoration Published In IEEE Radar Conference
2010	Automatic recognition of smiling and neutral facial expressions Published In Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications
2010	Dimensionality reduction using compressed sensing and its application to a large-scale visual recognition task Published In IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence
2010	Efficient SVM training with reduced weighted samples Published In IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence
2010	Fast digital optical flow estimation based on EMD Published In European Workshop on Visual Information Processing
2010	Feature selection for facial expression recognition Published In European Workshop on Visual Information Processing
2010	Improved facial expression recognition with trainable 2-D filters and support vector machines Published In International Conference on Pattern Recognition
2010	Markov random fields for abnormal behavior detection on highways Published In European Workshop on Visual Information Processing
2010	Motion estimation with adaptive regularization and neighborhood dependent constraint Published In Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications
2010	Multi-resolution mean-shift algorithm for vector quantization Published In Data Compression Conference
2010	On the analysis of background subtraction techniques using Gaussian mixture models Published In IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing
2010	Wavelet based nonlocal-means super-resolution for video sequences Published In International Conference on Image Processing
2009	A neural network pruning approach based on compressive sampling Published In International Joint Conference on Neural Networks 2009
2009	Reduced training of convolutional neural networks for pedestrian detection Published In International Conference on Information Technology and Applications
2009	Vehicle tracking using projective particle filter Published In IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance
2008	A supervised learning approach for imbalanced data sets Published In International Conference on Pattern Recognition
2008	Efficient supervised learning with reduced training exemplars Published In IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks
2008	Local estimation of displacement density for abnormal behavior detection Published In Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing
2008	Vehicle tracking by non-drifting mean-shift using projective Kalman filter Published In International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems
2007	A multi-class image classification system using salient features and support vector machines Published In International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing
2007	Automatic annotation of digital images using colour structure and edge direction Published In International Conference on Signal Processing and Communication Systems
2007	Detecting people in images: An edge density approach Published In International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing

Investigator On

Year	Title
2019 - 2022	Real-time ATR of Naval Mines with AUV Sonar Imaging Awarded by: Defence Science and Technology Group Funding Scheme: Defence Innovation Network PhD Project
2020 - 2021	Enhanced detection, localisation and identification of sandcovered naval mines using novel hybrid signal processing methods Awarded by: Defence Innovation Network (DIN) Funding Scheme: Pilot Projects
2019 - 2021	A Novel Non-GPS Based Positioning, Navigation and Timing Solution for Reconnaissance Missions Awarded by: Defence Innovation Network (DIN) Funding Scheme: Pilot Projects
2019 - 2021	Assistive Micro-Navigation for Vision Impaired People Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
2020	Low-bias Age Prediction Awarded by: Defence Innovation Network (DIN) Funding Scheme: Artificial Intelligence for Decision Making Initiative
2019	Big Crowd Data Analytics using Bayesian Inference and Deep Learning Awarded by: Qatar National Research Fund Funding Scheme: National Priorities Research Program
2018 - 2019	Classification of Sonar Snapshot Images for Autonomous Underwater Vehicle On-board Processing Awarded by: Defence Innovation Network (DIN) Funding Scheme: Pilot Projects
2014	Dynamic Visual Scene Gist Recognition using a Probabilistic Inference Framework Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
2007	Advanced processing for through-the-wall radar imaging Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

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Impact Story

Underwater Mine Detection with Sonar Imaging
Summary
Underwater mines are a cost-effective tool in asymmetric warfare and are commonly used to block shipping lanes and restrict naval operations. The aim of this research is develop an automatic system based on sonar imaging for locating naval mines and then recognizing their various types. It involves investigating the latest advances in deep learning and artificial intelligence for object detection, image segmentation, and image classification. This on-going research, supported by the NSW Defence Innovation Network (DIN), is conducted in collaboration with Defence and Science Technology Group (DSTG) and a defence software company. The research team includes Assoc. Prof. Son Lam Phung (CI, Technical Lead, Principal Supervisor), Mr Hoang Thanh Le (PhD Student), Mr Luca Russo (PhD student), Dr. Thi N. A. Nguyen (Associate Research Fellow), Senior Prof. Salim Bouzerdoum (CI), Prof. Christian Ritz (CI), and Dr. Le Chung Tran (CI). In this project, we have developed a deep learning-based tool for underwater mine detection. Further discussions are in progress to apply the project outcomes. Publication: H. T. Le, S. L. Phung, P. B. Chapple, A. Bouzerdoum, C. H. Ritz, L. C. Tran, "<a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9095329?source=authoralert" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Deep Gabor Neural Network for Automatic Detection of Mine-like Objects in Sonar Imagery</a>," IEEE Access, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 94126-94139, 2020.

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Assistive Navigation Tools for Vision Impaired People
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Over 250 million people worldwide and 380,000 people in Australia suffer from visual impairment. The aim of the project is to develop, based on deep learning and artificial intelligence technologies, a portable electronic tool that enables a vision-impaired user to perform micro-navigation tasks. The targeted tasks include locating the pedestrian path in crowded scenes, evading obstacles and hazards, and recognising relevant landmarks. The technologies developed in this project can be adopted for road safety, self-driving vehicles, and autonomous robots. This project is funded by an ARC Discovery Project DP190100607, titled "Assistive Micro-Navigation for Project for Vision Impaired People" (2019-2021). It is one of five national projects highlighted in the Ministerial Media Release on 27 Nov 2018 <a href="https://www.arc.gov.au/news-publications/media/media-releases/funding-world-leading-research" target="_blank" rel="noopener">(link)</a>. The research team includes blind volunteers, Assoc. Prof. Son Lam Phung (CI), Senior Prof. Salim Bouzerdoum (CI), Dr Thi N. A. Nguyen (Associate Research Fellow), and a number of PhD/MPhil students.This on-going research has received the Best Recognition Paper Award at the International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA) in 2014, and the Highly Commended Award at the Canon Extreme Imaging Competition in 2012. Recently, we have reached a project milestone by successfully developing a deep learning-based tool to locate the pedestrian path for the blind. This tool is published in IEEE TNNLS which has an impact factor of 8.793 (top 10% in 136 computer science and AI journals, and top 5% in 266 electrical/electronic engineering journals).Publication: T. N. A. Nguyen, S. L. Phung, and A. Bouzerdoum, "Hybrid deep learning-Gaussian process network for pedestrian lane detection in unstructured scenes," IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 2020. <a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8998354" target="_blank" rel="noopener">(URL)</a>

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Potential Supervision Topics

- image, video, and signal processing
- assistive navigation for vision-impaired people, autonomous navigation, self-driving cars
- machine learning, pattern recognition, neural networks, deep learning
- imaging applications in defence, security, and healthcare
- magnetic resonance imaging, atomic force microscopy
- sonar, thermal and hyperspectral imaging
- depth sensing and 3D object scanning
- through-wall radar imaging, ground-penetrating radar, micro-Doppler radar

Teaching Activities

- ECTE301 Digital Signal Processing Subject Coordinator, Instructor 2013 -
- ECTE433/ECTE833/ECTE933 Embedded Systems Subject Coordinator, Instructor 2007 -
- ECTE903 Image and Video Processing Subject Coordinator, Instructor 2007 -
- ECTE333 Microcontroller Architecture and Applications Subject Coordinator, Instructor 2006 -
- ECTE431/ECTE931 Real-Time Computing Subject Coordinator, Instructor 2006 - 2018
- ECTE203 Signals and Systems Subject Coordinator, Instructor 2006 - 2012

Advisees

Graduate Advising Relationship

Degree	Research Title	Advisee
Doctor of Philosophy	Deep Learning Algorithms for Image Segmentation and Generation	Ang, Paul
Doctor of Philosophy	Deep Learning Algorithms for Image and Signal Processing Applications	Le Hoang, Thanh
Doctor of Philosophy	Depth Perception from a Single Colour Image	Thompson, Joshua
Doctor of Philosophy	Real-time Automatic Target Recognition of Naval Mines with Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Sonar Imaging	Russo, Luca
Doctor of Philosophy	Depth Estimation with Deep Learning for Assistive Navigation	Phan, Steve
Doctor of Philosophy		Nguyen, Tran Thanh Phong
Doctor of Philosophy	Scene Perception and 3D Sound Synthesis for Assistive Navigation of Blind People	Lei, Yunjia
Master of Philosophy - EIS	Deep Learning for Hyperspectral Image Processing	Bui, Ly

Reviewer Of

IEEE Access (Article)
IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters (Article)
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (Article)
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (Article)
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (Article)
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Date Engineering (Article)
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (Article)
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (Article)
International Journal of Computer Vision (Article)
Pattern Recognition (Article)

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Education And Training

Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Engineering, Edith Cowan University 2000 - 2003
B.E. in Computer Engineering, First-Class Honours, Edith Cowan University 1996 - 1999

Awards And Honors

- Best Recognition Paper Prize, conferred by International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications, 2014
-Highly Recommended Supervisor in Annual Extreme Imaging Competition, conferred by Canon Information Systems Research Australia, 2012
- Third Prize Student Paper, conferred by European Workshop on Visual Information Processing, 2010
- Best Student Paper, conferred by IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance, 2009
- Third Prize Student Paper, conferred by Australian New Zealand Conference on Intelligent Information Systems, 2001
- National Finalist in Prize for Innovations (one of six), conferred by Siemens, 2000
-Electrical College Prize, conferred by Institution of Engineers Australia (Engineers Australia), 2000
- Faculty Medal, conferred by Communications, Health and Science, Edith Cowan University , 2000
- University Medal, conferred by Edith Cowan University, 2000
- John Renner Medal, conferred by Institution of Engineers Australia (Engineers Australia), 2000
- CRC Broadband Telecommunications and Networking Prize, conferred by CRC, 1999
- Golden Key National Honour Society Scholarship (one of 4 ECU recipients), conferred by Golden Key National Honour Society, 1998
- Institution of Electrical Engineers Prize, conferred by IEE, 1998

Teaching Overview

- UOW Outstanding Contribution to Teaching and Learning, Faculty of Informatics Early Career Award 2010.

- Peer Recognition Teaching Award by the Australian College of Educators in 2011.

- Peer Recognition Teaching Award by the Australian College of Educators in 2007.

- UOW Educational Strategic Development Fund (ESDF) grant, "Integrating MATLAB-based experimentation into engineering curriculum,” Son Lam Phung, Abdesselam Bouzerdoum, Montserrat Ros, 2010, $6,000.

- UOW ESDF grant, "Developing an immersive environment and platform for microcontroller study,” Montserrat Ros, Son Lam Phung, David Stirling, Peter Vial, Christian Ritz, 2008, $14,000.

- UOW Educational Resource Development Agreement, ERDA Project, “Enhancing microcontroller curriculum with video resources,” 2015.

Keywords

image processing, machine learning, artificial intelligence, pattern recognition, signal processing, deep learning, neural networks, radar imaging, magnetic resonance imaging, atomic force microscopy, multispectral imaging, thermal imaging, mine countermeasures.

Mailing Address

University of Wollongong, SECTE (EIS)

Northfields Avenue

Wollongong

NSW

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Australia

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Building 35, Room G38

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http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3076-0540 (confirmed)

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7801638780

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