Minh Hoai Nguyen – Publications
Please cite using M. Hoai for publications in or after 2011 and M.H. Nguyen for publications before 2011. Google Scholar
All publications in Chronological Order
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Publications – All
 | Predicting Goal-directed Attention Control Using Inverse-Reinforcement Learning. G. Zelinsky, Y. Chen, S. Ahn, H. Adeli, Z. Yang, L. Huang, D. Samaras, M. Hoai (2020) Journal of Neurons, Behavior, Data analysis, and Theory. Paper Data BibTex |
 | Distribution Matching for Crowd Counting. B. Wang, H. Liu, D. Samaras, M. Hoai (2020) Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS). Paper Spotlight Oral-Presentation Slides Code BibTex |
 | Detecting Hands and Recognizing Physical Contact in the Wild. S. Narasimhaswamy, T. Nguyen, M. Hoai (2020) Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS). Paper Slides Code Data BibTex |
 | Uncertainty Estimation and Sample Selection for Crowd Counting. V. Ranjan, B. Wang, M. Shah, M. Hoai (2020) Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV). Paper Spotlight Code BibTex |
 | Predicting Goal-directed Human Attention Using Inverse Reinforcement Learning. Z. Yang, L. Huang, Y. Chen, Z. Wei, S. Ahn, G. Zelinsky, D. Samaras, M. Hoai (2020) IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). Paper Spotlight Oral-Presentation Project BibTex Nominated for Best Paper Awards (among 26 out of 5,865 submissions) |
 | Active Vision for Early Recognition of Human Actions. B. Wang, L. Huang, M. Hoai (2020) IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). Paper Spotlight BibTex |
 | Learning Visual Emotion Representations from Web Data. Z. Wei, J. Zhang, Z. Lin, J. Lee, N. Balasubramanian, M. Hoai, D. Samaras (2020) IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). Paper Spotlight Code-Data BibTex |
 | Attentive Action and Context Factorization. Y. Wang, V. Tran, G. Bertasius, L. Torresani, M. Hoai (2020) Proceedings of British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC). Paper Project BibTex |
 | A Study of Human Gaze Behavior During Visual Crowd Counting. R. Annadi, Y. Chen, V. Ranjan, D. Samaras, G. Zelinsky, M. Hoai (2020) arXiv:2009.06502. Paper Project Data BibTex |
 | Interactive Visual Study of Multiple Attributes Learning Model of X-Ray Scattering Images. X. Huang, S. Jamonnak, Y. Zhao, B. Wang, M. Hoai, K. Yager, W. Xu (2020) Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Scientific Visualization (SciVis). BibTex |
 | Contextual Attention for Hand Detection in the Wild. S. Narasimhaswamy, Z. Wei, Y. Wang, J. Zhang, M. Hoai (2019) International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV). Paper Poster Demo Demo-Video Project BibTex |
 | Sequence-to-Segment Networks for Segment Detection. Z. Wei, B. Wang, M. Hoai, J. Zhang, Z. Lin, X. Shen, R. Mech, D. Samaras (2019) IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI). Paper Poster BibTex |
 | WorkingHands: A Hand-Tool Assembly Dataset for Image Segmentation and Activity Mining. R. Shilkrot, S. Narasimhaswamy, S. Vazir, M. Hoai (2019) Proceedings of British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC). Paper Poster Data BibTex |
 | GIF2Video: Color Dequantization and Temporal Interpolation of GIF images. Y. Wang, H. Huang, C. Wang, T. He, J. Wang, M. Hoai (2019) IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). Paper Poster BibTex |
 | Benchmarking Gaze Prediction for Categorical Visual Search. G. Zelinsky, Z. Yang, L. Huang, Y. Chen, S. Ahn, Z. Wei, H. Adeli, D. Samaras, M. Hoai (2019) CVPR Workshop - Mutual Benefits of Cognitive and Computer Vision. Paper Data BibTex |
 | Large scale shadow annotation and detection using lazy annotation and stacked CNNs. L. Hou, T. F. Y. Vicente, M. Hoai, D. Samaras (2019) IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI). Paper BibTex |
 | Sequence-to-Segment Networks for Segment Detection. Z. Wei, B. Wang, M. Hoai, J. Zhang, Z. Lin, X. Shen, R. Mech, D. Samaras (2018) Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS). Paper Poster BibTex |
 | Back to the Beginning: Starting Point Detection for Early Recognition of Ongoing Human Actions. B. Wang, M. Hoai (2018) Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU), 175, 24–31. Paper BibTex |
 | Iterative Crowd Counting. V. Ranjan, H. Le, M. Hoai (2018) European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV). Paper Poster BibTex |
 | A+D Net: Training a Shadow Detector with Adversarial Shadow Attenuation. H. Le, T. F. Y. Vicente, V. Nguyen, M. Hoai, D. Samaras (2018) European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV). Paper Poster Demo Demo-Video Project BibTex |
 | Pulling Actions out of Context: Explicit Separation for Effective Combination. Y. Wang, M. Hoai (2018) IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). Paper Poster Project BibTex |
 | Good View Hunting: Learning Photo Composition from 1 Million View Pairs. Z. Wei, J. Zhang, M. Hoai, X. Shen, Z. Lin, R. Mech, D. Samaras (2018) IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). Paper Poster BibTex |
 | Predicting Body Movement and Recognizing Actions: an Integrated Framework for Mutual Benefits. B. Wang, M. Hoai (2018) International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG). Paper Poster BibTex |
 | Eigen-Evolution Dense Trajectory Descriptors. Y. Wang, V. Tran, M. Hoai (2018) International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG). Paper Spotlight Poster BibTex |
 | Leave-one-out Kernel Optimization for Shadow Detection and Removal. T. F. Y. Vicente, M. Hoai, D. Samaras (2018) IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), 40(3), 682–695. Paper Project BibTex |
 | Large-scale Continual Road Inspection: Visual Infrastructure Assessment in the Wild. K. Ma, M. Hoai, D. Samaras (2017) Proceedings of British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC). Paper BibTex |
 | Shadow Detection with Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks. V. Nguyen, T. F. Y. Vicente, M. Zhao, M. Hoai, D. Samaras (2017) International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV). Paper Project BibTex |
 | Latent Bi-constraint SVM for Video-based Object Recognition. Y. Liu, M. Hoai, M. Shao, T. Kim (2017) IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 28(10), 3044–3052. BibTex |
 | X-ray Scattering Image Classification Using Deep Learning. B. Wang, K. Yager, D. Yu, M. Hoai (2017) Proceedings of Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision. Paper BibTex |
 | Learned Region Sparsity and Diversity Also Predict Visual Attention. Z. Wei, H. Adeli, M. Hoai, G. Zelinsky, D. Samaras (2016) Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS). Paper BibTex |
 | Large-scale Training of Shadow Detectors with Noisily-Annotated Shadow Examples. T. F. Y. Vicente, L. Hou, C. Yu, M. Hoai, D. Samaras (2016) European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV). Paper Project BibTex |
 | Noisy Label Recovery for Shadow Detection in Unfamiliar Domains. T. F. Y. Vicente, M. Hoai, D. Samaras (2016) IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). Paper Project BibTex |
 | Improving Human Action Recognition by Non-action Classification. Y. Wang, M. Hoai (2016) IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). Paper Project BibTex |
 | Region Ranking SVMs for Image Classification. Z. Wei, M. Hoai (2016) IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). Paper BibTex |
 | Leave-One-Out Kernel Optimization for Shadow Detection. T. F. Y. Vicente, M. Hoai, D. Samaras (2015) IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). Paper BibTex |
 | Improving Human Action Recognition using Score Distribution and Ranking. M. Hoai, A. Zisserman (2014) Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV). Paper BibTex |
 | Thread-Safe: Towards Recognizing Human Actions Across Shot Boundaries. M. Hoai, A. Zisserman (2014) Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV). Paper BibTex |
 | Recognizing Cultural Events in Images: a Study of Image Categorization Models. H. Kwon, K. Yun, M. Hoai, D. Samaras (2015) Proceedings of ChaLearn Looking at People Workshop and Competitions. Paper BibTex |
 | Talking Heads: Detecting Humans and Recognizing Their Interactions. M. Hoai, A. Zisserman (2014) IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). Paper Spotlight Poster Project BibTex |
 | Regularized Max Pooling for Image Categorization. M. Hoai (2014) Proceedings of British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC). Paper BibTex |
 | Action Recognition From Weak Alignment of Body Parts. M. Hoai, L. Ladicky, A. Zisserman (2014) Proceedings of British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC). Paper BibTex |
 | Max-Margin Early Event Detectors. M. Hoai, F. De la Torre (2014) International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), 107(2), 191–202. Paper Project BibTex |
 | Structured Prediction for Event Detection. M. Hoai, F. De la Torre (2014) Advanced Structured Prediction. Nowozin, S. and Gehler, P. and Jancsary, J. and and Lampert, C. (Eds.), MIT Press, Cambridge, MAPaper BibTex |
 | Learning Discriminative Localization from Weakly Labeled Data. M. Hoai, L. Torresani, F. De la Torre, C. Rother (2014) Pattern Recognition (PR), 47(3), 1523–1534. Paper Project Project Code BibTex |
 | Discriminative Sub-categorization. M. Hoai, A. Zisserman (2013) IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). Paper Spotlight Poster Slides Project Code BibTex |
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| Max-Margin Early Event Detectors. M. Hoai, F. De la Torre (2012) IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). Paper Project BibTex Best Student Paper Award |
 | Maximum Margin Temporal Clustering. M. Hoai, F. De la Torre (2012) Proceedings of International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics. Paper BibTex |
 | Joint Segmentation and Classification of Human Actions in Video. M. Hoai, Z. Lan, F. De la Torre (2011) IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). Paper BibTex |
 | Action Unit Detection with Segment-based SVMs. M. H. Nguyen, T. Simon, F. De la Torre, J. Cohn (2010) IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). Paper BibTex |
 | Optimal Feature Selection for Support Vector Machines. M. H. Nguyen, F. De la Torre (2010) Pattern Recognition (PR), 43(3), 584–591. Paper Code BibTex |
 | Metric Learning for Image Alignment. M. H. Nguyen, F. De la Torre (2010) International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), 88(1), 69–84. Paper BibTex |
 | Personalized Stress Detection from Physiological Measurements. Y. Shi, M. H. Nguyen, P. Blitz, B. French, S. Fisk, F. De la Torre, A. Smailagic, D. Siewiorek (2010) International Symposium on Quality of Life Technology. BibTex |
 | Robust Kernel Principal Component Analysis. M. H. Nguyen, F. De la Torre (2009) Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS). Paper Spotlight Poster BibTex |
 | Weakly supervised discriminative localization and classification: a joint learning process. M. H. Nguyen, L. Torresani, F. De la Torre, C. Rother (2009) International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV). Paper Poster Project BibTex |
 | Detecting Depression from Facial Actions and Vocal Prosody. J. Cohn, T. Simon, I. Matthews, Y. Yang, M. Nguyen, M. Tejera, F. Zhou, F. De la Torre (2009) Proceedings of International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction. Paper BibTex |
 | Local Minima Free Parameterized Appearance Models. M. H. Nguyen, F. De la Torre (2008) IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). Paper Project BibTex |
 | Learning Image Alignment without Local Minima for Face Detection and Tracking. M. H. Nguyen, F. De la Torre (2008) International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG). Paper Slides Project BibTex |
 | Facial Feature Detection with Optimal Pixel Reduction SVMs. M. H. Nguyen, J. Perez, F. De la Torre (2008) International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG). Paper Slides BibTex |
 | Image-based Shaving. M. H. Nguyen, J. Lalonde, A. Efros, F. De la Torre (2008) Computer Graphics Forum, 27(2), 627–635. Paper Slides Project BibTex |
 | Parameterized Kernel Principal Component Analysis: Theory and Applications to Supervised and Unsupervised Image Alignment. F. De la Torre, M. H. Nguyen (2008) IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). Paper BibTex |
 | A Flexible Framework for SharedPlans. M. H. Nguyen, W. Wobcke (2006) AI 2006: Advances in Artificial Intelligence. Paper BibTex |
 | Towards a General Implementation of SharedPlans. M. H. Nguyen, W. Wobcke (2005) Proceedings of the 3rd Australian Undergraduate Students' Computing Conference. Paper BibTex |
 | DRT: A Tool for Design Recovery of Interactive Graphical Applications. K. Chan, A. Chen, Z. Liang, A. Michail, M. H. Nguyen, N. Seow (2003) Proceedings of International Conference on Software Engineering. Paper BibTex |
Technical reports & unpublished work
Weakly supervised discriminative localization and classication: a joint learning process.
Nguyen, M.H., Torresani, L., De la Torre, F., & Rother, C. (2009)
Tech. report CMU-RI-TR-09-29, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. Paper.
Minimal Infrastructure Support for Teams.
Nguyen, M.H. (2005)
Honours Thesis - the University of New South Wales. PDF.
Presentations
Max-Margin Early Event Detectors, oral presentation, CVPR12. Video
Local Minima Free Parameterized Appearance Models, Machine Learning Lunch, CMU. Video
Learning Image Alignment without Local Minima for Face Detection and Tracking, oral presentation, Face & Gesture 08. Slides Paper
Facial Feature Detection with Optimal Pixel Reduction SVMs, oral presentation, Face & Gesture 08. Slides Paper
Metric Learning for Image Alignment and Classification, Vision and Autonomous Systems Center (VASC) Seminar, CMU