Duc-Tien Dang-NguyenPost-Doctoral Research FellowDISI - University of TrentoItaly

Piazzetta Lunelli 1, Interno 238122 - Trento

Italy+39 (380) 154 6854

B dangnguyen@disi.unitn.it

EducationFeb 2014 Ph.D. in Information Communication and Technology, University of Trento.

Areas of Concentration: Multimedia Forensics, Computer Vision.Dissertation: "Discrimination of Computer Generated versus Natural Human Faces"Supervisors: professor Giulia Boato and professor Francesco De Natale.Committee Members: professor Fernando Perez-Gonzalez, professor Alessandro Piva, andDoctor Raffaele De Amicis

Mar 2010 M.Sc. in Computer Science, University of Science, VNU-HCM, Vietnam.Areas of Concentration: Digital Image Processing, Computer Vision.Master’s Thesis: “Real-time Lane Detection in Autonomous Driving Systems".Supervisors: professor Nguyen Dinh Thuc and professor Seiichi Mita.

Sep 2006 B.Sc., Honors in Computer Science, University of Science, VNU-HCM, Vietnam.Areas of Concentration: Digital Image Processing, Computer Vision, Graph Theory.Honors’ Thesis: “Shape matching and retrieval by integrating geometric and topologicalinformation”

Academic & Research PositionsFeb 2014 -

NowPost-doctoral Research Fellow, DISI - University of Trento & DIEE - Universityof Cagliari, Italy.Areas of Concentration: Multimedia Forensics, Computer Vision, Multimedia Retrieval.

2010 - 2014& 2015 - Now

Teaching Professional, Media Lab, DISI - University of Trento, Italy.I was doing teaching assistant during my PhD and post-doc in Trento for "Data Hiding"Master course in 2011/12, 2012/13, and 2015/2016.

Mar 2009 –Jul 2009

Visiting Researcher, Toyota Technology Institute, Nagoya, Japan.I did my Master thesis there. We were working in a project of building autonomous drivingvehicles. I studied the problem of Lane Detection from video camera.

Mar 2007 –Sep 2010

Teaching Professional, University of Science, VNU-HCM, Vietnam.I was a lecturer and teaching assistant for the following BSc courses from 2007 - 2010:"Digital Image Processing", "Introduction to Computer Graphics", "Graph Theory", "DataStructures and Algorithms".I was a coach of ACM/ICPC teams. Our team entered the World Final ACM/ICPCprogramming contest in 2010.

Academic & Research ExperienceResearcher/Coordinator

European Projects.{ GLOCAL (2010 - 2013): European project.{ Living Knowledge (2009 - 2012): coordinated by the University of Trento FP7 231126.National & Regional Projects.{ "Multimedia data analysis for the automatic detection of manipulations" (2015 - 2016):

a part of MOTUS (Mobility and Tourism in Urban Scenarios), a project coordinated byTelecom Italia with the contribution of Universities, Research Centers and Industries.

{ “Multimodal image understanding and content-based retrieval techniques in presence ofpossible manipulated images" (2014 - 2015): Regional Administration of Sardinia, Italy.

{ DERMONET (2015 - 2015): A project in Sardinia about detecting skin cancer frommedical images.

{ Stem Cell Trajectory Reconstruction (2010 - 2010): VNU-HCM University project.{ Vietnamese Word Segmentation (2008 - 2009): VNU-HCM University project, coordinator.{ Camera State Change Detection (2008 - 2008): An R&D project, developing methods

for detecting camera stage change.Organizer/Committee

Conferences & Workshops.{ Verifying Multimedia Use - MediaEval Benchmarking Initiative for Multimedia Evaluation

2015.{ IEEE International Conference on Computing and Telecommunication Technologies 2009.{ International Conference on Theories and Applications on Computer Science (ICTACS)

2008.Reviewer Journals & Conferences.

{ ACM Transactions on Applied Perception.{ Multimedia Tools and Applications.{ Elsevier Journal of Information Security and Applications.{ Elsevier Journal of Neurocomputing.{ Journal on the Theory and Applications of Computer Vision and Image Analysis.{ International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods 2016.{ International Workshop on Digital-forensics and Watermarking 2014.

Talks Security and Privacy Lab, University of Innsbruck, Austria, November 2015.Topics: Computer Generated versus Natural Human Faces

Other Experience and Activities2008 - 2009 Software/Web Developer, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

Working as a freelancer in an international group of 6-10 people. We built CMS for high-profile clients from The Netherlands, namely BB Natural Stone Company, Fleet KnowledgeCompany, and Iwano Company.

Sep 2007 –Mar 2010

IT Instructor, NIIT Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.Part-time lecturer for quarter 1, 2, and 3.Subjects: Introduction to Information Technology, Introduction to Programming Languagesand Basics of Operating System.

2005 Developer, FPT Software Solution, FPT Corporation, Vietnam.I was doing my internship here. We built an application for Word and Excel Automationand built a web portal (website) for District 10 People’s Committee using DotNetNuke.

Honours and awards2014 First place, in Retrieving Diverse Social Images competition, MediaEval 2014

MediaEval 2014 Multimedia Benchmark Workshop, Barcelona, Spain.2012 Best paper award, in Multimedia Forensics, IEEE International Workshop on

Information Forensics and Security, Tenerife, Spain.2010 Honorable Mention, in World Final ACM/ICPC, International Collegiate Program-

ming Contest, Harbin, China.2009 First Runner-up, in ACM/ICPC, Regional International Collegiate Programming

Contest, Manila, Philippines.2008 Excellent ACM/ICPC Coaching Award, University of Science, VNU-HCM,

Vietnam.2006 Award for outstanding students in Undergraduate Research, University of

Science, VNU-HCM, Vietnam.2005 Award for outstanding students, Ministry of Posts and Telematics of Vietnam

and Motorola Corporation, Vietnam.2001 Third prize, in Vietnam National Olympiad of Informatics Contest, Vietnam.

Personal SkillsLanguages Vietnamese, Mother tongue.

English, Understanding: C1, Speaking: B2, Writing: B2.Italian, Understanding: A2, Speaking: A1, Writing: A1.Korean, Understanding: A2, Speaking: A1, Writing: A1.

Computer Programming, Code guru with multiple international awards.skills Programming languages.

{ Excellent level: C, C++, C#, Matlab, Pascal, Delphi.{ Good level: Python, PHP, Java, Perl, Javascript, Basic, Batch scriptOperating Systems & Office suites, Advanced knowledge in Microsoft Office,Windows and Mac OS.Others, Latex, Photoshop, Lightroom.

InterestsPhotography I’m a landscape photographer.

Hiking I often do hiking in weekends.Writing I am writing a book for traveling feeling experiences.

RefereesItaly{ Giulia Boato, Assistant Professor

DISI - University of Trento, via Sommarive 5, 38123 Trento (Italy)Tel: +39 046 128 3193Email: boato - at - disi.unitn.it

{ Francesco G. B. De Natale, ProfessorDISI - University of Trento, via Sommarive 5, 38123 Trento (Italy)Tel: +39 046 128 2058Email: denatale - at - ing.unitn.it

{ Giorgio Giacinto, Associate ProfessorDIEE - University of Cagliari, via Is Maglias, 09123 Cagliari (Italy)Tel: +39 070 675 5779Email: giacinto - at - diee.unica.it

Netherlands{ Martha Larson, Associate Professor

Delft University of Technology, Mekelweg 4, 2628 CD Delft (Netherlands)Tel: +31 (0)15 278 7357Email: m.a.larson - at - tudelft.nl

Vietnam{ Nguyen Dinh Thuc, Associate Professor

FIT - University of Science, 227 Nguyen Van Cu, Dist. 5, HCMC (Vietnam)Tel: +84 (0)8 38354266Email: ndthuc - at - fit.hcmus.edu.vn

{ Duong Anh Duc, Associate Professor, RectorVNUHCM - University of Information Technology, Quarter 6, Linh Trung Ward,Thu Duc Dist., HCMC (Vietnam)Tel: +84 (0)8 37251993Email: ducda - at - uit.edu.vn

Publications[1] C. Boididou, S. E. Middleton, Z. Jin, S. Papadopoulos, D.-T. Dang-Nguyen, G. Boato,

and Y. Kompatsiaris, “A comparative study of automated approaches for verifyinginformation with multimedia content on twitter,” ACM Transactions on IntelligentSystems and Technology, 2016, submitted.

[2] D.-T. Dang Nguyen, G. Boato, and F. De Natale, “3D-Model-Based Video Analysisfor Computer Generated Faces Identification,” IEEE Transactions on InformationForensics and Security, vol. 10, no. 8, pp. 1752–1763, 2015.

[3] G. Boato, D.-T. Dang-Nguyen, O. Muratov, N. Alajlan, and F. G. De Natale,“Exploiting visual saliency for increasing diversity of image retrieval results,” Journalof Multimedia Tools and Applications, pp. 1–22, 2015.

[4] M.-S. Dao, D.-T. Dang-Nguyen, and F. G. B. De Natale, “Robust event discovery

from photo collections using signature image bases (sibs),” Journal of MultimediaTools and Applications, pp. 1–29, 2012.

[5] M. Riegler, D.-T. Dang-Nguyen, B. Winther, C. Griwodz, K. Pogorelov, andP. Halvorsen, “Heimdallr: A dataset for sport analysis,” in ACM Multimedia Systems,2016, accepted.

[6] Q.-T. Phan, D.-T. Dang-Nguyen, G. Boato, and F. G. B. De Natale, “Face SpoofingDetection Using LDP-TOP,” in IEEE International Conference on Image Processing,2016, submitted.

[7] D.-T. Dang-Nguyen, L. Piras, G. Giacinto, G. Boato, and F. G. De Natale, “Ahybrid approach for retrieving diverse social images of landmarks,” in 2015 IEEEInternational Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), 2015, pp. 1–6.

[8] D.-T. Dang-Nguyen, G. Boato, F. G. Natale, L. Piras, G. Giacinco, F. Tuveri, andM. Angioni, “Multimodal-based diversified summarization in social image retrieval,”in Proceedings of the MediaEval 2015 Multimedia Benchmark Workshop, vol. 1436,2015.

[9] C. Boididou, K. Andreadou, S. Papadopoulos, D.-T. Dang-Nguyen, G. Boato,M. Riegler, and Y. Kompatsiaris, “Verifying multimedia use at mediaeval 2015,” inProceedings of the MediaEval 2015 Multimedia Benchmark Workshop, vol. 1436,2015.

[10] C. Boididou, S. Papadopoulos, D.-T. Dang-Nguyen, G. Boato, and Y. Kompatsiaris,“The certh-unitn participation@ verifying multimedia use 2015,” in Proceedings ofthe MediaEval 2015 Multimedia Benchmark Workshop, vol. 1436, 2015.

[11] D.-T. Dang-Nguyen, C. Pasquini, V. Conotter, and G. Boato, “RAISE – A RawImages Dataset for Digital Image Forensics,” in ACM Multimedia Systems. ACM,2015, pp. 219–224.

[12] D.-T. Dang-Nguyen, V. Conotter, G. Boato, and F. G. B. De Natale, “Video forensicsbased on expression dynamics,” in IEEE International Workshop on InformationForensics and Security (WIFS), 2014, pp. 161–166.

[13] V. Conotter, D.-T. Dang-Nguyen, M. Riegler, G. Boato, and M. Larson, “A crowd-sourced data set of edited images online,” in Proceedings of the 2014 InternationalACM Workshop on Crowdsourcing for Multimedia, 2014, pp. 49–52.

[14] D.-T. Dang-Nguyen, G. Boato, and F. G. B. De Natale, “Revealing Synthetic FacialAnimations of Realistic Characters,” in IEEE International Conference on ImageProcessing, 2014, pp. 5327–5331.

[15] D.-T. Dang-Nguyen, L. Piras, G. Giacinto, G. Boato, and F. G. B. De Natale,“Retrieval of diverse images by pre-filtering and hierarchical clustering,” in MediaEval2014 Multimedia Benchmark Workshop, vol. 1263, 2014, WINNER.

[16] A. Rosani, D.-T. Dang-Nguyen, G. Boato, and F. G. B. De Natale, EventMask: agame-based analysis of event-related saliency in photo galleries, IEEE InternationalConference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Show and Tell Demo, 2014.

[17] V. Conotter, D.-T. Dang-Nguyen, G. Boato, M. Menendez, and M. Larson, “As-sessing the impact of image manipulation on users’ perceptions of deception,” inProc. SPIE 9014, Human Vision and Electronic Imaging XIX, vol. 9014, 2014, p.90140Y.

[18] D.-T. Dang-Nguyen, I. D. Gebru, V. Conotter, G. Boato, and F. G. B. De Na-tale, “Counter-forensics of median filtering,” in IEEE International Workshop onMultimedia Signal Processing (MMSP), 2013, pp. 260–265.

[19] P. Rota, D.-T. Dang-Nguyen, N. Conci, and N. Sebe, “Exploiting visual searchtheory to infer social interactions,” in Proc. SPIE 8667, Multimedia Content andMobile Devices, vol. 8667, 2013, p. 86670C.

[20] D.-T. Dang-Nguyen, G. Boato, and F. G. B. De Natale, “Identify computer generatedcharacters by analysing facial expressions variation,” in IEEE International Workshopon Information Forensics and Security (WIFS), 2012, pp. 252–257, BEST PAPERAWARD.

[21] O. Muratov, D.-T. Dang-Nguyen, G. Boato, and F. G. B. De Natale, “Saliencydetection as a support for image forensics,” in IEEE International Symposium onCommunications Control and Signal Processing (ISCCSP), 2012, pp. 1–5.

[22] D.-T. Dang-Nguyen, G. Boato, and F. G. B. De Natale, “Discrimination betweencomputer generated and natural human faces based on asymmetry information,” inEuropean Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), 2012, pp. 1234–1238.

[23] D.-T. Dang-Nguyen, G. Boato, A. Moschitti, and F. G. B. De Natale, “Supervisedmodels for multimodal image retrieval based on visual, semantic and geographic in-formation,” in IEEE International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing(CBMI), 2012, pp. 1–5.

[24] M.-S. Dao, D.-T. Dang-Nguyen, and F. G. B. De Natale, “Signature-image-basedevent analysis for personal photo albums,” in ACM International Conference onMultimedia, 2011, pp. 1481–1484.