Phi The Pham

Research Assistant
LIIR Research Group
Computer Science Department
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Room 03.66, Celestijnenlaan 200A, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium
Phone: +32 16 32 76 62
Email: PhiThe.Pham at CS dot KULEUVEN dot BE

About me

I am a graduate student pursuing my Ph.D. in Computer Science at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. My research focus is on algorithms for cross-media and cross-lingual alignment of equivalent content. I work under Professor Marie-Francine Moens. I did my undergraduate work at College of Information Technology - Cantho University and my Master's work in here, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.

Research

My research focuses on designing, implementing and evaluating algorithms for cross-media (textual and visual data) alignment. My research also investigates the models for cross-lingual alignment that focuses on the alignment of equivalent content across texts written in different languages. Generative and discriminative learning techniques for text alignment will be studied for their suitability and will be adapted for the cross-media task. The research also regards content recognition of the visual and textual medium that is reinforced by their mutual and integrated processing (e.g. by using clustering with the Expectation Maximization algorithm or simulated annealing algorithms). The degree of supervision and the incorporation of extra knowledge will be varied in the experiments. The research will be applied and evaluated in a cross-media and cross-lingual summarization system for news data (text-image data found on the World Wide Web and broadcasted video data) developed within the research group.

Research projects

Following are the research projects that I am and was involving in:
AMASS++Advanced Multimedia Alignment and Structured Summarization
CLASSCognitive-Level Annotation using Latent Statistical Structure

Publications

  1. PHAM, Phi The, TUYTELAARS, Tinne & MOENS, Marie-Francine (2011) Naming Persons in News Videos with Label Propagation. IEEE Multimedia, 18 (3), 44-55.
  2. PHAM, Phi The, MOENS, Marie-Francine & TUYTELAARS, Tinne (2010) Cross-Media Alignment of Names and Faces, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 12 (1), 13-27.
  3. PHAM, Phi The, MOENS, Marie-Francine & TUYTELAARS, Tinne (2010) Cross-Media Alignment of Names and Faces. In Proceedings of DIR 2010 10th Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval Workshop (pp. 88-89). Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen.
  4. PHAM, Phi The, MOENS, Marie-Francine & TUYTELAARS, Tinne (2010) Weakly Supervised Person Naming in News Video. In Proceedings RIAO 2010: 9th International Conference on Adaptivity, Personalization and Fusion of Heterogeneous Information. Paris: CID.
  5. PHAM, Phi The, MOENS, Marie-Francine & TUYTELAARS, Tinne (2010) Naming Persons in News Video. In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Visual Content Identification and Search (VCIDS 2010) - IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME 2010).
  6. PHAM, Phi The, DESCHACHT, Koen & MOENS, Marie-Francine (2008) Document Clustering with User Feedback. In Eduard HOENKAMP, Martine DE COCK & Véronique HOSTE (Eds.), Proceedings of the 8th Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval Workshop (pp. 73-80).Maastricht University.
  7. PHAM, Phi The, MOENS, Marie-Francine & TUYTELAARS, Tinne (2008) Linking names and faces: Seeing the problem in different ways. In Proceedings of ECCV Workshop on Faces in Real-Life Images: Detection, Alignment and Recognition.