Vuong Le
Email: vuongle2 (at) ifp.uiuc.edu (or) gmail.com
My technical interest is on
the range of image and video processing, machine learning and computer vision.
I have been especially invested my time in building models and algorithms to
accurately recognize 3D shapes and motions from RGB-D signals. Applications of
these works include animation and biometrics such as detecting and recognizing
human emotions and actions in images and videos. Recently I am more involved
with object detection and recognition in industrial camera systems.
I secured a PhD of Department of
Electrical and Computer Engineering, University
of Illinois at Urbana Champaign in 2014. I am currently with Amazon in Seattle on an undisclosed
project. We are working on a distributed system using a wide range of computer
vision and image processing techniques in an initiative aiming at providing
unique customer experience.
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June 2016: Our Patent with HP “3D
modeling motion parameters” is granted.
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March 2016: Our book “Face
Processing and Applications to Distance Learning” is on the shelves! Check
it out: https://www.amazon.com/Face-Processing-Applications-Distance-Learning/dp/9814733024
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December 2015: Two more patents granted: “Adjusting a contour by a shape model” and “Fitting contours to features”
3D face processing for animation and biometrics (funded by
Intel, Microsoft, Cisco)
Avacholar
- Visual Applications Framework in Immersive Virtual Educational Environments
Interactive face segmentation for portrait editing and Helen
dataset (with Adobe)
Cloud-based
simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) for reconstruction of 3D scenes
using RGB-D data (with HP labs)
A
Wavelet Approach for Cellular Optical Phase Shift Data Analysis
Fast scalable multi-pole
algorithm for efficient fitting of RBF implicit embedding to the noisy
scattered 3D point cloud.
Human action
recognition classifier using shape features
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3D modeling motion
parameters. Vuong Le, Wei Hong, Kar-Han Tan, John Apostolopoulos – 2016, US
Patent 9,286,717
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Adjusting a contour
by a shape model. Jonathan W. Brandt, Zhe Lin, Vuong Le, Lubomir D. Bourdev –
2015, US Patent 9,202,138
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Fitting contours to
features. Jonathan W. Brandt, Zhe Lin, Lubomir D. Bourdev, Vuong Le – 2015, US
Patent 9,158,963
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Methods and
Apparatus for Automated Portrait Retouching Using Facial Feature Localization.
Jonathan Brandt, Zhe Lin, Vuong Le – 2014, US Patent 8,811,686
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Methods and
Apparatus for Automated Facial Feature Localization. Jonathan Brandt, Zhe Lin,
Vuong Le – 2014, US Patent 8,824,808
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Vuong Le, Usman
Tariq, Pooya Khorrami, Hao Tang, Thomas S. Huang, Face processing and
Applications to Distance Learning, World Scientific Publishing Company,
2016. Monograph, ISBN: 9789814733021
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Dennis Lin, Vuong
Le, Thomas S. Huang, Human-Computer Interaction (Book chapter), in Visual
Analysis of Humans: Looking at People, Springer 2011
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Antoni Liang, Wanquan Liu, Ling Li, Mir Rizwan
Farid, Vuong Le, Accurate Facial Landmarks Detection for Frontal Faces with
Extended Tree-Structured Models. ICPR 2014
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Thomas Huang, Vuong
Le, Thomas Paine, Pooya Khorrami, Usman Tariq, Visual Media: History and
Perspectives, IEEE Multimedia, April - June 2014
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Pooya Khorrami, Vuong
Le, John C. Hart, Thomas S. Huang: A System for Monitoring the Engagement of
Remote Online Students, ICMEWorkshop 2014
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Vuong Le, Jonathan
Brandt, Lubomir Boudev, Zhe Lin, Thomas S. Huang, Interactive Facial Feature Localization,
European conference on computer vision ECCV 2012
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Vuong Le, Hao Tang,
Thomas S. Huang, Expression Recognition from 3D Dynamic Faces using Robust Spatio-temporal
Shape Features, International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture
Recognition – FGR 2011
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Usman Tariq,
Kai-Hsiang Lin, Zhen Li, Xi Zhou, Zhaowen Wang, Vuong Le, Thomas S. Huang,
Xutao Lv, Tony X. Han: Emotion recognition from an ensemble of features - FGR
2011
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Vuong Le, Hao Tang,
Liangliang Cao, Thomas S. Huang, Accurate and Efficient Reconstruction of 3D
Faces From Stereo Images, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing
2010 -ICIP 2010
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Vuong Le, Yuxiao Hu,
Thomas S. Huang, A Quantitative Evaluation for 3D Face Reconstruction
Algorithms, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal
Processing 2009 - ICASSP 2009
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Mert Dikmen,
Huazhong Ning, Dennis J. Lin, Liangliang Cao, Vuong Le, Shen-Fu Tsai,
Kai-Hsiang Lin, Zhen Li, Jianchao Yang, Thomas S. Huang, Fengjun Lv, Wei Xu,
Ming Yang, Kai Yu, G. Zhu, Yihong Gong, Surveillance Event Detection, TRECVID
2008