DUC-TIEN DANG-NGUYEN
I received the Ph.D. degree from the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science (DISI) of the University of Trento (Italy). In 2014, I have been a post-doctoral research fellow at Pattern Recognition and Applications Lab (PRa Lab), Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (DIEE) of University of Cagliari. My main interests include multimedia forensics, multimedia retrieval, and multimedia event analysis.
Name:
Duc-Tien Dang Nguyen (Đặng Nguyễn Đức Tiến in Vietnamese)
Date of Birth:
21st February 1984
Nationality:
Vietnamese
Address:
piazzetta Bruno Lunelli 1, Intero 2
Phone:
+39 380 154 6854
E-mail:
dangnguyen (at) disi.unitn.it; dnductien (at) google.com
My full CV can be found here: 
Ph.D. in Multimedia Forensics
University of Trento, Italy
Areas of Concentration: Digital Image Processing, Computer Vision. Dissertation: "Discrimination of Computer Generated versus Natural Human Faces". Supervisors: professor Giulia Boato and professor Francesco De Natale.
My Ph.D. thesis can be found here: 
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.
My master thesis (in Vietnamese) can be found here: , abstract (in Vietnamese and English)
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 topological information". Supervisor: professor Duong Anh Duc.
Mar 2007 - Sep 2010
College/University teaching professional
University of Science, VNU-HCM, Vietnam
Teaching activity:
- Subjects: Graph Theory, Computer Graphics, Digital Image Processing, Data Structures.
- Coach of ACM-ICPC teams.
Research activity: Worked in academic projects:
- Camera State Change Detection.
- Stem Cell Trajectory Reconstruction.
Mar 2008 - Feb 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 Knowledge Company, and Iwano Company.
Sep 2007 - Mar 2008
IT Instructor
NIIT Vietnam, Vietnam
Part-time lecturer for quarter 1, 2, and 3. Subjects: Introduction to Information Technology, Introduction to Programming Languages and Basics of Operating System.
Problem solving
Code guru with multiple awards in international programming contests. Coach of ACM-ICPC teams. Our team entered the World Final ACM/ICPC programming contest in 2010.
Photography
I am a landscape photographer. I also have some experiences with photo-editing tools: Photoshop, Lightroom, etc.
Multimedia Forensics
- Duc-Tien Dang-Nguyen, Valentina Conotter, Giulia Boato, Francesco De Natale, "Video forensics based on expression dynamics", IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing, 2014.
- Duc-Tien Dang-Nguyen, Giulia Boato, Francesco De Natale, "Revealing Synthetic Facial Animations of Realistic Characters", IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, 2014.
- Oleg Muratov, Duc-Tien Dang-Nguyen, Giulia Boato, Francesco De Natale, "Saliency detection as a support for image forensics", 5th International Symposium on Communications, Control, and Signal Processing, May 2012.
- Duc-Tien Dang-Nguyen, Giulia Boato, Francesco De Natale, "Discrimination between computer generated and natural human faces based on asymmetry information", 20th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2012), 2012, pp. 1234-1238.
- Duc-Tien Dang-Nguyen, Giulia Boato, Francesco De Natale, "Identify computer generated characters by analysing facial expressions variation", IEEE International Workshop on Information Forensics and Security, Tenerife, Spain, December 2-5, 2012. BEST PAPER AWARD
- Duc-Tien Dang-Nguyen, Israel Dejene Gebru, Valentina Conotter, Giulia Boato, Francesco G. B. De Natale, “Counter-forensics of median filtering”, IEEE Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP), 2013.
Others
- Valentina Conotter, Duc-Tien Dang-Nguyen, Michael Riegler, Giulia Boato, Martha Larson, "A Crowdsourced Data Set of Edited Images Online”, ACM International Workshop on Crowdsourcing for Multimedia, 2014.
- Duc-Tien Dang-Nguyen, Luca Piras, Giorgio Giacinto, Giulia Boato, Francesco G. B. De Natale, “Retrieval of Diverse Images by Pre-filtering and Hierarchical Clustering”, MediaEval 2014 Multimedia Benchmark Workshop, 2014. WINNER
- Andrea Rosani, Duc-Tien Dang-Nguyen, Giulia Boato, Francesco G. B. De Natale, “EventMask: a game-based analysis of event-related saliency in photo galleries”, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Show and Tell Demo, 2014.
- Valentina Conotter, Duc-Tien Dang-Nguyen, María Menéndez, Giulia Boato, Martha Larson, "Assessing the Impact of Image Manipulation and Image Context on Users' Perceptions of Deception”, IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging, 2014.
- Paolo Rota, Duc-Tien Dang-Nguyen, Nicola Conci, Nicu Sebe, “Exploiting visual search theory to infer social interactions”, IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging, 2013.
- Duc-Tien Dang-Nguyen, Giulia Boato, Alessandro Moschitti, Francesco G. B. De Natale, "Supervised Models for Multimodal Image Retrieval based on Visual, Semantic and Geographic Information", 10th workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing, 2012.
- Minh-Son Dao, Duc-Tien Dang-Nguyen, Francesco G. B. De Natale, "Robust Event Discovery from Photo Collections using Signature Image Bases (SIB)". International Journal of Multimedia Tools and Application, 16 June 2012, pp. 1-29.
- Minh-Son Dao, Duc-Tien Dang-Nguyen, Francesco G. B. De Natale, "Signature-Image-Based Event Analysis for Personal Photo Albums", Proc. ACM Multimedia (ACM MM11), Scottsdale-Arizona, USA, November 28-December 1, 2011., pp. 1481-1484