Education
2008 - 2011: PhD Student, School of Computer Sience & Engineering, University of New South Wales, Australia
2004 - 2007: Bachelor of Engineering, major in Software Engineering, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia (First Class Honours)
2002 - 2003: Pre-departure Program for Australian Development Scholarship (ADS), Ha Noi , Vietnam
1999 - 2002: Thang Long High School for Gifted Students in Physics, Lam Dong, Vietnam (Ranking: Excellent)

Research Interests
I have great interests in computer vision and machine learning and their applications in Robotics and Smart Surveillance Systems. Recently, I have been working on Human Action Retrieval from Video. The main focus is in Local Invariant Space-Time Features integrated in Hierarchical Models. I am particulary interested in developing algorithm for action matching, using only one or few training sample. Together with other researchers in my group, we are developing a visual-based video search system aiming to replace current text-based video search engines.

Professional Experience
2009: Research Intern at the National Instituted of Informatics (NII), Tokyo, Japan
2007: Research Engineer at the National ICT of Australia (NICTA), Kensington Lab, Sydney
2007: Research Assistant at the Centre for Real-time Information Networks, the University of Technology, Sydney, UTS
2006: Research Assistant at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Autonomous Systems
2006 - 2007: Teaching Assistant for 48023 Object-oriented Programming , 48740 Communications Networks
2005: Senior Developer for Service Elements Pty Ltd

Awards Received
2006 - 2008: Research Summer scholarships 2006-2008 UNSW - NICTA
2007: Alan Chappel Engineering Innovation Prize Finalist, 2007
2004-2007: Faculty of Engineering Dean List
2005-2006: The ARC Centre of Excellence for Autonomous Systems (CAS) Rescue Robocup Scholarship
Second place in Autonomous League at Bremen, Germany, July - 2006
2005: Second place in Sydney Regional Site - ACM Programming Contests
2003: AUSAID - Australian Development Scholarship (ADS) for Undergraduate Study in University of Technology , Sydney
2002: Second Place in the Excellent National Competition in Physics
2001: Silver Medal from the Southern Vietnam Olympiad in Physics
2000: Royal Australian Chemical Institute, Australian National Chemistry Quiz, Certificate of Merit, Class Distinction, Junior Division

Research Projects
Implicit Motion-Shape Model and Approaches to Visual-based Video Searching
Semi-supervised Human Action Recoginition and Localization using Spatially and Temporally Integrated Local Features
Night-time Vehicle Detection and Tracking in Traffic Surveillance (NICTA)
Urban Search and Rescue Robot (Robocup) (CAS)
Managing Knowledge in Web-Driven Organisational Evolution (UTS)
3D Scene Reconstruction using Stereo camera Captures (author of S3dViewer and Composer) (CAS)
Vision based SLAM using Support Vector Machine (CAS)

Publication
Tuan Hue Thi, Li Cheng, Jian Zhang, Wang Li, Shinichi Satoh, Integrating local Action
Elements using Implicit Shape Model for Action Matching, Journal of Com- puter Vision
and Image Understanding, under review

Tuan Hue Thi, Li Cheng, Jian Zhang, Wang Li, Implicit Motion-Shape Model: A generic
approach for action matching, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on
Image Processing (ICIP), Hong Kong, China, September 26-29, 2010, accepted

Tuan Hue Thi, Li Cheng, Jian Zhang, Wang Li, Shinichi Satoh, Human Action Recognition
and Localization in Video using Structured Learning of Local Space- Time Features,
Proceedings of the 7th Sixth IEEE International Conference on Ad- vanced Video and Signal
Based Surveillance (AVSS), Boston, USA, August 29 - September 01, 2010, accepted

Tuan Hue Thi, Li Cheng, Jian Zhang, Wang Li, Implicit Shape Modeling based on Sparse
Bayesian Regression for Weakly Supervised Action Recognition, Proceedings of the 20th
IEEE International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), Istanbul, Turkey,
August 23-26, 2010, accepted

Tuan Hue Thi, Sijun Lu, Jian Zhang, Li Cheng, Li Wang, Human Body Articulation
for Action Recognition in Video Sequences, Proceedings of the 6th Sixth IEEE
International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS),
Genova, Italy, September 02-04, 2009

Tuan Hue Thi, Sijun Lu, Jian Zhang, Self-Calibration of Trac Surveillance Camera
using Motion Tracking, Proceedings of the 11th International IEEE Conference
on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), Beijing, China, October 12-15, 2008

Tuan Hue Thi, Kostia Robert, Sijun Lu, Jian Zhang, Vehicle classication at night-time
using Eigenspaces and Support Vector Machine, Proceedings of the IEEE
International Congress on Image and Signal Processing(CISP), China, May 28-30, 2008

Dissanayake, G., Paxman, J.P., Valls Miro, J., Thane, Oliver, and Hue Tuan, Thi,
Robotics for urban search and rescue, Proceedings of the IEEE First International
Conference on Industrial and Information Systems (ICIIS), 2006 Presented at First
International Conference on Industrial and Information Systems (ICIIS), Peradeniya,
Sri Lanka, August 08-11, 2006

Tuan Hue Thi, ”A Robust Traffic Surveillance System for Detecting and Tracking Vehicles
at Nighttime”, UTS Honours Thesis, 2007 (95/100)

Referees

Dr. Jian Zhang
Principal Researcher, Project leader, Conjoint Associate Professor
National ICT of Australia (NICTA)
Oce: Room E308, Building L5
Phone: +61 2 8306 0780
Fax: +61 2 8306 0403
Email: jian.zhang@nicta.com.au
Web: http://www.nicta.com.au/people/zhangjian

Dr. Li Cheng
Researcher, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago,
6045 S. Kenwood Ave., Chicago, Illinois 60637,USA
Phone: +1 773 834 6840
Email: chengli@ieee.org
Web: http://ttic.uchicago.edu/ licheng/

Prof. Shin'ichi Satoh
Professor, Multimedia Information Research Division, National Institute of Informatics
2-1-2 Hitotsubashi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-8430, Japan
Phone: +81-3-4212-2620
Fax: +81-3-3556-1916
Email: satoh@nii.ac.jp
Web: http://research.nii.ac.jp/ satoh/

Prof. Hung T Nguyen
Associate Dean, Research and Development
Faculty of Engineering, University of Technology, Sydney
Phone: +61 2 9514 2451 (Hung) or +61 2 9514 2663 (Gunasmin)
Fax: +61 2 9514 2868
Email: Hung.Nguyen@uts.edu.au
Web: http://services.eng.uts.edu.au/ htn/index.htm

Prof. David Lowe
Associate Dean, Teaching and Learning
Faculty of Engineering, University of Technology, Sydney
Phone: +61 2 9514 2526
Fax: +61 2 9514 2435
Email: david.lowe@uts.edu.au
Web: http://services.eng.uts.edu.au/ dbl/index.htm

Dr. Jaime Valls Miro
Research Fellow
Centre of Excellence for Autonomous Systems (CAS) UTS,
Faculty of Engineering, Room 2.6.31
Phone: +61 2 9514 2967
Fax: +61 2 9514 2655
Email: jaime.vallsmiro@eng.uts.edu.au
Web: http://www.cas.edu.au