Dr. Phung received his BEng (Hon1) in 1999 and his PhD in computer engineering in
2003 from Edith Cowan University, Perth. He was awarded the University Medal in 2000 as
the graduating student with the highest results. Through 2003 and 2004, Dr. Phung worked
as a Research Associate in the Visual Information Processing Research Group at the School
of Engineering and Mathematics, Edith Cowan University before joining the University of
Wollongong in 2005. His first role with UOW was as a Research Fellow when he participated
in the Discovery Project titled, ”Detecting, Locating and Tracking Human Faces using Skin
Colour,” funded by the Australian Research Council in 2005-2007 

Field of Study: Image, video, signal processing, visual perception and neural networks,
machine learning and pattern recognition, thermal, radar and infrared imaging, vision
algorithms in embedded platforms 

Professional Activities and Affiliations: • Member of SECTE Research Committee,
2011-present. • Member of SECTE Education Committee, 2009-2011. • SECTE Academic
Coordinator for First-Year Students, 2010-2011. • SECTE Academic Coordinator for
Third-Year Students, 2009-2010. • SECTE Coordinator for Discovery Days, 2007-2011. •
Member of SECTE Marketing and High-School Liason Committee, 2009-2011 • Reviewer for
International Journals: • IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
• IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology • IEEE Transactions on
Image Processing • IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks • IEEE Transactions on Very Large
Scale Integration Systems • IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering • EEE
Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics - Part C • Pattern Recognition •
International Journal of Computer Vision • International Journal of Image and Graphics 

Current Research Students: • Matthew Kitchener : Investigations into Image Restoration
using a Variational Inequality Approach • Wenbin Shao : Target Detection and Recognition
in Radar Images • Cher Hau Seng : Advanced Image Processing for Through-the-Wall Radar
Imaging. • Muhammad Nawaz : Representation and Estimation of Visual Motion in Video
Sequences • Cuong Le Manh : Navigational Aids for the Visually Impaired. • Van Ha Tang :
Through-The-Wall Radar Imaging and Compressive Sensing • Peiyao Li : Human Motion
Tracking and Activitiy Recognition via 3-D Sensors • Haoheng Zheng : Super Reslution
Image Enhancement • Jingli Li : Automatic Classification of Human Motions Using Doppler
Radar • Xue Wei : Visual Gist Recognition in Humans and Machine • Huiguang Sun : Mobile
Visual Search • Jie Yang : Machine Learning for Compressive Sampling

Articles

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Automatic Classification of Ground-Penetrating-Radar Signals for Railway-Ballast Assessment (with Wenbin Shao, Abdesselam Bouzerdoum, Lijun Su, Buddhima Indraratna, and Cholachat Rujikiatkamjorn), IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (2011)

The ground-penetrating radar (GPR) has been widely used in many applications. However, the processing and...

 

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Adaptive hierarchical architecture for visual recognition (with Fok Hing Chi Tivive, Abdesselam Bouzerdoum, and Khan M. Iftekharuddin), Faculty of Informatics - Papers (2010)

We propose a new hierarchical architecture for visual pattern classification. The new architecture consists of...

 

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A pyramidal neural network for visual pattern recognition (with Abdesselam Bouzerdoum), S. Phung & A. Bouzerdoum, "A pyramidal neural network for visual pattern recognition," IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, vol. 18, (2) pp. 329-343, 2007. (2007)
 

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Skin Segmentation Using Color Pixel Classification: Analysis and Comparison (with Abdesselam Bouzerdoum and Douglas Chai), Phung, S., Bouzerdoum, A. & Chai, D. (2005). Skin Segmentation Using Color Pixel Classification: Analysis and Comparison. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 27 (1), 148-154. (2005)
 

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Skin Segmentation using Color Pixel Classification: Analysis and Comparison (with Abdesselam Bouzerdoum and Douglas Chai), ECU Publications (2005)

This work presents a study of three important issues of the color pixel classification approach...

 

Presentations

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Efficient SVM training with reduced weighted samples (with Giang Hoang Nguyen and Abdesselam Bouzerdoum), Faculty of Informatics - Papers (2010)

This paper presents an efficient training approach for support vector machines that will improve their...