Vuong (Dustin) Nguyen

Welcome to my website. My name is Dustin. Currently, I'm a Ph.D. candidate at University of Houston under the supervision of Prof. Shishir K. Shah and Dr. Pranav Mantini. Before that, I earned my bachelor's degree in Applied Mathematics at Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Vietnam.

Contact:
- Personal email: nguyenvuong29599@gmail.com
- University of Houston: dnguy222@cougarnet.uh.edu
- Office: Philip Guthrie Hoffman Hall, Room 203, University of Houston

Resume / Google Scholar / Github / Linkedin

Research Interests

My research lies in the field of Computer Vision and Deep Learning, including but not limited to:
- Person Re-Identification in-the-wild
- 3D Human Reconstruction
- 3D/CAD Generation and Reconstruction

Work Experience

- AI Research Scientist Intern @ Autodesk. Project: CAD Generation and Reconstruction. Supervisor: Dr. Hooman Shayani
- Machine Learning Engineer @ Grooo International

Selected Publications

	Cross-Modality Complementary Learning for Video-based Cloth-Changing Person Re-Identification. Vuong D. Nguyen, Pranav Mantini, Shishir K. Shah Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV), 2024 (Oral - 5.6%) [PDF]
	CrossViT-ReID: Cross-Attention Vision Transformer for Occluded Cloth-Changing Person Re-Identification. Vuong D. Nguyen, Pranav Mantini, Shishir K. Shah Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV), 2024 [PDF]
	Contrastive Viewpoint-aware Shape Learning for Long-term Person Re-Identification. Vuong D. Nguyen, Khadija Khaldi, Dzung Nguyen, Pranav Mantini, Shishir K. Shah IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2024 [PDF] [Code]
	Domain Shift in Person Re-Identification: A Survey and Analysis. Vuong D. Nguyen, Samiha Mirza, Abdollah Zakeri, Ayush Gupta, Khadija Khaldi, Rahma Aloui, Pranav Mantini, Shishir K. Shah, Fatima Merchant IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW), 2024 [PDF]
	Attention-based Cross-Modality Learning for Cloth-Changing and Occluded Person Re-Identification. Vuong D. Nguyen, Pranav Mantini, Shishir K. Shah IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2024 [PDF]
	Occlusion-aware Cross-Attention Fusion for Video-based Occluded Cloth-Changing Person Re-Identification. Vuong D. Nguyen, Pranav Mantini, Shishir K. Shah IEEE International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB), 2024 (Oral) [PDF]
	Recall-based Knowledge Distillation for Data Distribution based Catastrophic Forgetting in Semantic Segmentation. Samiha Mirza, Apurva Gala, Pandu Devarakota, Vuong D. Nguyen, Pranav Mantini, Shishir K. Shah International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), 2024 [PDF]
	Occluded Cloth-Changing Person Re-Identification via Occlusion-aware Appearance and Shape Reasoning. Vuong D. Nguyen, Pranav Mantini, Shishir K. Shah IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal-Based Surveillance (AVSS), 2024 (Oral) [PDF]
	Contrastive Clothing and Pose Generation for Cloth-Changing Person Re-Identification. Vuong D. Nguyen, Pranav Mantini, Shishir K. Shah IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW), 2024 [PDF]
	Temporal 3D Shape Modeling for Video-based Cloth-Changing Person Re-Identification. Vuong D. Nguyen, Pranav Mantini, Shishir K. Shah IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision Workshops (WACVW), 2024 [PDF] [Code]
	Unsupervised Person Re-Identification in Aerial Imagery. Khadija Khaldi, Vuong D. Nguyen, Pranav Mantini, Shishir K. Shah IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision Workshops (WACVW), 2024 [PDF]
	Attention-based 3D Shape and Gait Representations Learning for Video-based Cloth-Changing Person Re-Identification. Vuong D. Nguyen, Samiha Mirza, Pranav Mantini, Shishir K. Shah VISIGRAPP (2: VISAPP), 2024 [PDF]
	Data Quality Aware Approaches for Addressing Model Drift of Semantic Segmentation Models. Samiha Mirza, Vuong D. Nguyen, Pranav Mantini, Shishir K. Shah VISIGRAPP (3: VISAPP), 2024 [PDF]

Professional Services

- President at Cougar Vision group
- Judge at Three-minute Thesis Competition (3MT), College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, UH
- Reviewer at

International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2025
International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV)
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT)
Pattern Recognition (Elsevier)
Image and Vision Computing (Elsevier)
British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC) 2024
ACM Conference on Multimedia (MM) 2024
The IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops 2024
IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) 2024

- Mentor at Vietnam Education Foundation (VEF) 2.0 Program

Awards and Achievements

- Outstanding Junior Ph.D. Student Award - University of Houston, 2024
- Winner of Audience's Choice Prize and 1st-Runner-up of Committee's Choice Prize - Ph.D. Research Showcase Competition, University of Houston 2024
- Cullen Graduate Student Success Fellowship - University of Houston, 2022
- FPT Young Talents Scholarship - FPT Group, 2020

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