Contacts

Address: Level 1, NICTA Canberra Research Laboratory,

7 London Circuit, ACT 2601, Australia.

Email: cong.huynh@anu.edu.au

Phone: +61-2-6267-6234

Notes for potential students

Admission and scholarships for higher degree research programs have to be applied for through the ANU formal channel. More information is available here.
Potential research students could contact me regarding research topics prior to lodging a formal application. In such a case, they should email me their CVs and academic transcripts in the first instance.

Curriculum Vitae

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Research Interests

Computer Vision
- Multispectral and Hyperspectral Imaging.
- Computational Photography.
- Shape Recovery and Analysis.
- Reflectance Modelling and Illumination.
- Color Science and Photogrammetry.
- Image enhancement: Deblurring, Denoising, Super-resolution, Visibility enhancement.
Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition
- Neural Networks: CNN and RNN
- Transfer Learning
- Material Classification and Segmentation
- Object Recognition and Localisation
- Skin Detection, Classification, Skin Biometrics
- Kernel Methods
Mathematics: Optimisation, Variational Methods, Multivariate Calculus, Differential Geometry, Linear Algebra, Analysis.
Optoelectronics: Optics and Sensor Design.

Books

Antonio Robles-Kelly and Cong Phuoc Huynh. Imaging Spectroscopy for Scene Analysis, in Advances in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Series, Springer-Verlag, London, 2013.

Theses

PhD thesis: Spectrum Representation, Photometric Invariants and Shape Recovery in Imaging Spectroscopy (2011).
Honours thesis: Modelling programming language semantics using a common semantic model (2006).

Journal articles

Cong Phuoc Huynh, Samir Mustapha, Peter Runcie and Fatih Porikli. Multi-class support vector machines for paint condition assessment on the Sydney Harbour Bridge using hyperspectral imaging, Structural Monitoring and Maintenance. Volume 2 , Issue 3, 2015, pp. 181-197. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.12989/smm.2015.2.3.181.
Lin Gu, Cong Phuoc Huynh and Antonio Robles-Kelly. Segmentation and Estimation of Spatially Varying Illumination, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. Volume 23 , Issue 8, 2014. DOI: 0.1109/TIP.2014.2330768.
Cong Phuoc Huynh, Antonio Robles-Kelly and Edwin Hancock. Shape and Refractive Index from Single-View Spectro-Polarimetric Images, International Journal of Computer Vision 2013, Springer. DOI: 10.1007/s11263-012-0546-3.
Cong Phuoc Huynh, Antonio Robles-Kelly. A Solution of the Dichromatic Model for Multispectral Photometric Invariance, International Journal of Computer Vision 2010, Springer. DOI: 10.1007/s11263-010-0333-y.

Conference papers

Saeed Anwar, Cong Phuoc Huynh and Fatih Porikli. Class-specific image deblurring, International Conference on Computer Vision 2015 (ICCV 2015).
Samir Mustapha, Cong Phuoc Huynh, Peter Runcie, Fatih Porikli. Paint condition assessment of civil structures using hyper-spectral imaging,7th International Conference on Structural Health Monitoring of Intelligent Infrastructure (SHMII 2015).
Cong Phuoc Huynh and Antonio Robles-Kelly. Recovery of Spectral Sensitivity Functions from a Colour Chart Image under Unknown Spectrally Smooth Illumination, International Conference on Pattern Recognition 2014 (ICPR 2014).
Lin Gu, Cong Phuoc Huynh and Antonio Robles-Kelly. Reconstructing Polarisation Components from Unpolarised Images, International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA 2013) (Best Student Paper Prize).
Cong Phuoc Huynh and Antonio Robles-Kelly. Comparative Evaluation of Spectral Reflectance Representations for Spectrum Reconstruction, Interpolation and Classification, IEEE Workshop on Perception Beyond the Visible Spectrum (PBVS 2013).
Cong Phuoc Huynh and Antonio Robles-Kelly. Illuminant Segmentation in Non-Uniformly Lit Scenes, International Conference on Pattern Recognition 2014 (ICPR 2012).
Lin Gu, Cong Phuoc Huynh, Antonio Robles-Kelly and Jun Zhou. Material-Specific User Colour Profiles from Imaging Spectroscopy Data, International Conference on Computer Vision 2011 (ICCV 2011).
Cong Phuoc Huynh and Antonio Robles-Kelly. Hyperspectral Imaging for Skin Recognition and Biometrics, International Conference on Image Processing 2010 (ICIP 2010).
Cong Phuoc Huynh and Antonio Robles-Kelly. A Probabilistic Approach to Spectral Unmixing, Joint IAPR International Workshops on Structural and Syntactic Pattern Recognition (SSPR) and Statistical Techniques in Pattern Recognition (SPR) 2010.
Cong Phuoc Huynh, Antonio Robles-Kelly and Edwin Hancock. Robust Shape from Polarisation and Shading, International Conference on Pattern Recognition 2010 (ICPR 2010).
Cong Phuoc Huynh, Antonio Robles-Kelly and Edwin Hancock. Shape and Refractive Index Recovery from Single-View Polarisation Images, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2010 (CVPR 2010).
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.

Patents

Cong Phuoc Huynh and Antonio Robles-Kelly, 2014, Decomposing hyperspectral or multispectral image data, US Patent 8,670,620.
Cong Phuoc Huynh and Antonio Robles-Kelly, 2014, Compact representation of a reflectance spectrum, US Patent 8,666,700.
Lin Gu, Cong Phuoc Huynh and Antonio Robles-Kelly. Image clustering for estimation of illumination spectra, PCT Application. Filing date: 02 May 2014. Assignee: NICTA
Lin Gu, Cong Phuoc Huynh and Antonio Robles-Kelly. Determining colour values in hyperspectral or multispectral image, PCT Application. Filing date: 02 Nov 2012. Assignee: NICTA
Cong Phuoc Huynh and Antonio Robles-Kelly. Shape and photometric invariants recovery from polarisation images, PCT Application. Filing date: 20 April 2011. Assignee: NICTA
Cong Phuoc Huynh and Antonio Robles-Kelly. Estimating reflectance model parameters from an image, PCT Application. Filing date: 22 April 2010. Assignee: NICTA
Cong Phuoc Huynh and Antonio Robles-Kelly. Illumination spectrum recovery, PCT Application. Filing date: 01 February 2010. Assignee: NICTA

Teaching

Sem. 1/2011: Tutor of the Computer Vision course, at the Research School of Engineering, ANU.
Sem. 2/2009: Tutor of the Relational Databases course, at the Department of Computer Science, ANU.
Sem. 1/2009: Tutor of the Software Construction course, at the Department of Computer Science, ANU.
Sem. 2/2008: Tutor of the Statistical Pattern Recognition and Its Applications in Computer Vision course, at the Department of Engineering, ANU.
Sem. 2/2008: Tutor of the Relational Databases course, at the Department of Computer Science, ANU.
Sem. 1/2008: Tutor of the Software Construction course, at the Department of Computer Science, ANU.
Sem. 2/2007: Tutor of the Software Design course, at the Department of Computer Science, ANU.

Biography (in brief)

Cong Phuoc Huynh graduated with a Bachelor Degree in Computer Science and Software Engineering with first Class Honours from the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand in 2006. Between 2007-2011, he undertook his Doctoral study on spectral imagery analysis at the Australian National University ( ANU ) and the National ICT Australia ( NICTA ) Canberra Research Lab, under the supervision of Dr. Antonio Robles-Kelly. Since 2011, he has been a Researcher at the NICTA Canberra Research Laboratory and an Adjunct Research Fellow at the Research School of Engineering of the ANU.

He has been a program committee member of multiple Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition conferences such as ACCV and DICTA. He has also been a reviewer for the IET Computer Vision Journal, Pattern Recognition Journal and IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology. Since 2011, he has been the Chair of the IEEE Computer Society of the Australian Capital Territory Section.

Links

Imaging Spectroscopy for Scene Analysis at NICTA
Research School of Engineering of the Australian National University ( ANU )
University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
Quoc Hoc Hue high school

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