Nguyễn Văn Lộc— Vol. 26
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№ 026 · The Practitioner Issue
Established 2002
Set in Cormorant & JetBrains Mono

Journal

A running log of moves, papers, roles, awards, and moments worth noting.

§ 01Dispatches

What's changed, in order.

May 2, 2026PaperDemo paper Cluster Erase: Zero‑Shot Mass‑Similar and Multi‑Object Removal in Single Pass accepted to the IEEE ICME 2026 Workshop in Bangkok, Thailand.ICMEW · TH
Apr 1, 2026RoleStarted as Software Engineer at Eurofins.Eurofins · VN
Mar 28, 2026MoveLeft the role of Student Researcher at the National Institute of Informatics (NII), Tokyo, Japan.NII · JP
Mar 17, 2026PaperPaper PANDORA: Pixel‑wise Attention Dissolution and Latent Guidance for Zero‑Shot Object Removal accepted to the 2026 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) in Bangkok, Thailand.ICME · TH
Feb 21, 2026EventParticipated in the Gemini 3 Hackathon Tokyo (Gemini 3 ハッカソン 東京), hosted by Cerebral Valley and Google DeepMind.Tokyo · JP
Nov 10, 2025PaperPaper Visionary: Optimized Temporal Video Retrieval via Large Language Model‑Enhanced Query Processing accepted to SOICT 2025.SOICT · VN
Oct 24, 2025PaperPaper EnAug: ENT Endoscopy Images Classification Using Ensemble and Augmentation Methods accepted to SOICT 2025.SOICT · VN
Oct 1, 2025RoleStarted as Student Researcher at the National Institute of Informatics (NII), Tokyo, Japan.NII · JP
Aug 29, 2025MoveLeft the role of AI Engineer at Autonomous.Autonomous
Aug 16, 2025PaperPaper SAMURAI: Shape‑Aware Multimodal Retrieval for 3D Object Identification published at MAPR 2025.MAPR 2025
Jul 14, 2025PaperPaper EVENT‑Retriever: Event‑Aware Multimodal Image Retrieval for Realistic Captions accepted to the 33rd ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM 2025).ACM MM 2025
Jul 14, 2025AwardWon top 1 at the ACM Multimedia 2025 Grand Challenge on Event‑Enriched Image Analysis.ACM MM 2025
Jul 12, 2025AwardWon top 1 in Track 1 of the ENTRep Challenge: Advancing Vision‑Language AI for ENT Endoscopy Analysis at ACM Multimedia 2025.ACM MM 2025
Mar 3, 2025RoleStarted as AI Engineer at Autonomous.Autonomous
Feb 21, 2025MoveLeft the role of Backend Engineer at Saritasa.Saritasa · VN
Dec 14, 2024PaperPaper NewsInsight2.0: An Enhanced Version Integrating Large Language Model‑Based Query Optimisation with Advanced Temporal Mechanisms published at SOICT 2024.SOICT · VN
Dec 9, 2024PaperPaper An Approach to Complex Visual Data Interpretation with Vision‑Language Models published at the 1st LAVA Workshop, ACCV 2024.ACCV 2024
Dec 8, 2024AwardWon third prize at the 26th Student Scientific Research Award — Euréka, 2024.Euréka · VN
Dec 5, 2024AwardWon third prize at the AI Challenge, Ho Chi Minh City 2024.AI Chall. · VN
Dec 1, 2024MilestoneGraduated rank 6/59 of the Bachelor of Science — Honors Program in Information Technology at the University of Science, VNUHCM.HCMUS · VN
Oct 7, 2024AwardWon first prize at the LAVA Workshop Challenge, ACCV 2024.ACCV 2024
Aug 25, 2024MilestoneSuccessfully defended undergraduate thesis with score 10.00.HCMUS · VN
Aug 16, 2024PaperPaper AI‑Enhanced Photo Authenticity: A User‑Focused Approach to Detecting and Analysing Manipulated Images published at MAPR 2024.MAPR 2024
Jul 2, 2024PaperPaper A Hybrid Approach for Cheapfake Detection Using Reputation Checking and End‑To‑End Network published at the ACM AsiaCCS 2024 workshop.AsiaCCS 2024
Jun 11, 2024PaperPaper A Unified Network for Detecting Out‑Of‑Context Information Using Generative Synthetic Data published at ACM ICMR 2024.ICMR 2024
Jun 1, 2023RoleJoined Saritasa Vietnam as Backend Engineer (Python + Django) after completing three months of internship.Saritasa · VN