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Duc-Tien Dang-Nguyen Post-Doctoral Research Fellow DISI - University of Trento Italy Piazzetta Lunelli 1, Interno 2 38122 - Trento Italy +39 (380) 154 6854 B dangnguyen@disi.unitn.

1 Duc-Tien Dang-Nguyen Post-Doctoral Research Fellow DISI - University of Trento Italy Piazzetta Lunelli 1, Interno Trento Italy +39 (380) B dangnguyen@disi.unitn.it Education Feb 2014 Ph.D. in Information Communication and Technology, University of Trento. Areas of Concentration: Multimedia Forensics, Computer Vision. Dissertation: "Discrimination of Computer Generated versus Natural Human Faces" Supervisors: professor Giulia Boato and professor Francesco De Natale. Committee Members: professor Fernando Perez-Gonzalez, professor Alessandro Piva, and Doctor Raffaele De Amicis Mar 2010 M.Sc. in Computer Science, University of Science, VNU-HCM, Vietnam. Areas of Concentration: Digital Image Processing, Computer Vision. Master s Thesis: Real-time Lane Detection in Autonomous Driving Systems". Supervisors: professor Nguyen Dinh Thuc and professor Seiichi Mita. Sep 2006 B.Sc., Honors in Computer Science, University of Science, VNU-HCM, Vietnam. Areas of Concentration: Digital Image Processing, Computer Vision, Graph Theory. Honors Thesis: Shape matching and retrieval by integrating geometric and topological information Academic & Research Positions Feb Post-doctoral Research Fellow, DISI - University of Trento & DIEE - University Now of Cagliari, Italy. Areas of Concentration: Multimedia Forensics, Computer Vision, Multimedia Retrieval Teaching Professional, Media Lab, DISI - University of Trento, Italy. & Now I was doing teaching assistant during my PhD and post-doc in Trento for "Data Hiding" Master course in 2011/12, 2012/13, and 2015/2016. Mar 2009 Visiting Researcher, Toyota Technology Institute, Nagoya, Japan. Jul 2009 I did my Master thesis there. We were working in a project of building autonomous driving vehicles. I studied the problem of Lane Detection from video camera. Mar 2007 Teaching Professional, University of Science, VNU-HCM, Vietnam. Sep 2010 I was a lecturer and teaching assistant for the following BSc courses from : "Digital Image Processing", "Introduction to Computer Graphics", "Graph Theory", "Data Structures and Algorithms". I was a coach of ACM/ICPC teams. Our team entered the World Final ACM/ICPC programming contest in 2010.

2 Researcher/ Coordinator Organizer/ Committee Reviewer Academic & Research Experience European Projects. GLOCAL ( ): European project. Living Knowledge ( ): coordinated by the University of Trento FP National & Regional Projects. "Multimedia data analysis for the automatic detection of manipulations" ( ): a part of MOTUS (Mobility and Tourism in Urban Scenarios), a project coordinated by Telecom Italia with the contribution of Universities, Research Centers and Industries. Multimodal image understanding and content-based retrieval techniques in presence of possible manipulated images" ( ): Regional Administration of Sardinia, Italy. DERMONET ( ): A project in Sardinia about detecting skin cancer from medical images. Stem Cell Trajectory Reconstruction ( ): VNU-HCM University project. Vietnamese Word Segmentation ( ): VNU-HCM University project, coordinator. Camera State Change Detection ( ): An R&D project, developing methods for detecting camera stage change. Conferences & Workshops. Verifying Multimedia Use - MediaEval Benchmarking Initiative for Multimedia Evaluation IEEE International Conference on Computing and Telecommunication Technologies International Conference on Theories and Applications on Computer Science (ICTACS) Journals & Conferences. ACM Transactions on Applied Perception. Multimedia Tools and Applications. Elsevier Journal of Information Security and Applications. Elsevier Journal of Neurocomputing. Journal on the Theory and Applications of Computer Vision and Image Analysis. International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods International Workshop on Digital-forensics and Watermarking Talks Security and Privacy Lab, University of Innsbruck, Austria, November Topics: Computer Generated versus Natural Human Faces Other Experience and Activities Software/Web Developer, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Working as a freelancer in an international group of 6-10 people. We built CMS for highprofile clients from The Netherlands, namely BB Natural Stone Company, Fleet Knowledge Company, and Iwano Company. Sep 2007 IT Instructor, NIIT Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Mar 2010 Part-time lecturer for quarter 1, 2, and 3. Subjects: Introduction to Information Technology, Introduction to Programming Languages and Basics of Operating System Developer, FPT Software Solution, FPT Corporation, Vietnam. I was doing my internship here. We built an application for Word and Excel Automation and built a web portal (website) for District 10 People s Committee using DotNetNuke.

3 Honours and awards 2014 First place, in Retrieving Diverse Social Images competition, MediaEval 2014 MediaEval 2014 Multimedia Benchmark Workshop, Barcelona, Spain Best paper award, in Multimedia Forensics, IEEE International Workshop on Information Forensics and Security, Tenerife, Spain Honorable Mention, in World Final ACM/ICPC, International Collegiate Programming Contest, Harbin, China First Runner-up, in ACM/ICPC, Regional International Collegiate Programming Contest, Manila, Philippines Excellent ACM/ICPC Coaching Award, University of Science, VNU-HCM, Vietnam Award for outstanding students in Undergraduate Research, University of Science, VNU-HCM, Vietnam Award for outstanding students, Ministry of Posts and Telematics of Vietnam and Motorola Corporation, Vietnam Third prize, in Vietnam National Olympiad of Informatics Contest, Vietnam. Personal Skills Languages Computer skills Vietnamese, Mother tongue. English, Understanding: C1, Speaking: B2, Writing: B2. Italian, Understanding: A2, Speaking: A1, Writing: A1. Korean, Understanding: A2, Speaking: A1, Writing: A1. Programming, Code guru with multiple international awards. Programming languages. Excellent level: C, C++, C#, Matlab, Pascal, Delphi. Good level: Python, PHP, Java, Perl, Javascript, Basic, Batch script Operating Systems & Office suites, Advanced knowledge in Microsoft Office, Windows and Mac OS. Others, Latex, Photoshop, Lightroom. Interests Photography Hiking Writing I m a landscape photographer. I often do hiking in weekends. I am writing a book for traveling feeling experiences.

4 Referees Italy Giulia Boato, Assistant Professor DISI - University of Trento, via Sommarive 5, Trento (Italy) Tel: boato - at - disi.unitn.it Francesco G. B. De Natale, Professor DISI - University of Trento, via Sommarive 5, Trento (Italy) Tel: denatale - at - ing.unitn.it Giorgio Giacinto, Associate Professor DIEE - University of Cagliari, via Is Maglias, Cagliari (Italy) Tel: giacinto - at - diee.unica.it Netherlands Martha Larson, Associate Professor Delft University of Technology, Mekelweg 4, 2628 CD Delft (Netherlands) Tel: +31 (0) m.a.larson - at - tudelft.nl Vietnam Nguyen Dinh Thuc, Associate Professor FIT - University of Science, 227 Nguyen Van Cu, Dist. 5, HCMC (Vietnam) Tel: +84 (0) ndthuc - at - fit.hcmus.edu.vn Duong Anh Duc, Associate Professor, Rector VNUHCM - University of Information Technology, Quarter 6, Linh Trung Ward, Thu Duc Dist., HCMC (Vietnam) Tel: +84 (0) ducda - at - uit.edu.vn Publications [1] C. Boididou, S. E. Middleton, Z. Jin, S. Papadopoulos, D.-T. Dang-Nguyen, G. Boato, and Y. Kompatsiaris, A comparative study of automated approaches for verifying information with multimedia content on twitter, ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, 2016, submitted. [2] D.-T. Dang Nguyen, G. Boato, and F. De Natale, 3D-Model-Based Video Analysis for Computer Generated Faces Identification, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, vol. 10, no. 8, pp , [3] G. Boato, D.-T. Dang-Nguyen, O. Muratov, N. Alajlan, and F. G. De Natale, Exploiting visual saliency for increasing diversity of image retrieval results, Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications, pp. 1 22, [4] M.-S. Dao, D.-T. Dang-Nguyen, and F. G. B. De Natale, Robust event discovery

5 from photo collections using signature image bases (sibs), Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications, pp. 1 29, [5] M. Riegler, D.-T. Dang-Nguyen, B. Winther, C. Griwodz, K. Pogorelov, and P. Halvorsen, Heimdallr: A dataset for sport analysis, in ACM Multimedia Systems, 2016, accepted. [6] Q.-T. Phan, D.-T. Dang-Nguyen, G. Boato, and F. G. B. De Natale, Face Spoofing Detection Using LDP-TOP, in IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, 2016, submitted. [7] D.-T. Dang-Nguyen, L. Piras, G. Giacinto, G. Boato, and F. G. De Natale, A hybrid approach for retrieving diverse social images of landmarks, in 2015 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), 2015, pp [8] D.-T. Dang-Nguyen, G. Boato, F. G. Natale, L. Piras, G. Giacinco, F. Tuveri, and M. Angioni, Multimodal-based diversified summarization in social image retrieval, in Proceedings of the MediaEval 2015 Multimedia Benchmark Workshop, vol. 1436, [9] C. Boididou, K. Andreadou, S. Papadopoulos, D.-T. Dang-Nguyen, G. Boato, M. Riegler, and Y. Kompatsiaris, Verifying multimedia use at mediaeval 2015, in Proceedings of the MediaEval 2015 Multimedia Benchmark Workshop, vol. 1436, [10] C. Boididou, S. Papadopoulos, D.-T. Dang-Nguyen, G. Boato, and Y. Kompatsiaris, The certh-unitn participation@ verifying multimedia use 2015, in Proceedings of the MediaEval 2015 Multimedia Benchmark Workshop, vol. 1436, [11] D.-T. Dang-Nguyen, C. Pasquini, V. Conotter, and G. Boato, RAISE A Raw Images Dataset for Digital Image Forensics, in ACM Multimedia Systems. ACM, 2015, pp [12] D.-T. Dang-Nguyen, V. Conotter, G. Boato, and F. G. B. De Natale, Video forensics based on expression dynamics, in IEEE International Workshop on Information Forensics and Security (WIFS), 2014, pp [13] V. Conotter, D.-T. Dang-Nguyen, M. Riegler, G. Boato, and M. Larson, A crowdsourced data set of edited images online, in Proceedings of the 2014 International ACM Workshop on Crowdsourcing for Multimedia, 2014, pp [14] D.-T. Dang-Nguyen, G. Boato, and F. G. B. De Natale, Revealing Synthetic Facial Animations of Realistic Characters, in IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, 2014, pp [15] D.-T. Dang-Nguyen, L. Piras, G. Giacinto, G. Boato, and F. G. B. De Natale, Retrieval of diverse images by pre-filtering and hierarchical clustering, in MediaEval 2014 Multimedia Benchmark Workshop, vol. 1263, 2014, WINNER. [16] A. Rosani, D.-T. Dang-Nguyen, G. Boato, and F. G. B. De Natale, EventMask: a game-based analysis of event-related saliency in photo galleries, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Show and Tell Demo, 2014.

6 [17] V. Conotter, D.-T. Dang-Nguyen, G. Boato, M. Menendez, and M. Larson, Assessing the impact of image manipulation on users perceptions of deception, in Proc. SPIE 9014, Human Vision and Electronic Imaging XIX, vol. 9014, 2014, p Y. [18] D.-T. Dang-Nguyen, I. D. Gebru, V. Conotter, G. Boato, and F. G. B. De Natale, Counter-forensics of median filtering, in IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP), 2013, pp [19] P. Rota, D.-T. Dang-Nguyen, N. Conci, and N. Sebe, Exploiting visual search theory to infer social interactions, in Proc. SPIE 8667, Multimedia Content and Mobile Devices, vol. 8667, 2013, p C. [20] D.-T. Dang-Nguyen, G. Boato, and F. G. B. De Natale, Identify computer generated characters by analysing facial expressions variation, in IEEE International Workshop on Information Forensics and Security (WIFS), 2012, pp , BEST PAPER AWARD. [21] O. Muratov, D.-T. Dang-Nguyen, G. Boato, and F. G. B. De Natale, Saliency detection as a support for image forensics, in IEEE International Symposium on Communications Control and Signal Processing (ISCCSP), 2012, pp [22] D.-T. Dang-Nguyen, G. Boato, and F. G. B. De Natale, Discrimination between computer generated and natural human faces based on asymmetry information, in European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), 2012, pp [23] D.-T. Dang-Nguyen, G. Boato, A. Moschitti, and F. G. B. De Natale, Supervised models for multimodal image retrieval based on visual, semantic and geographic information, in IEEE International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI), 2012, pp [24] M.-S. Dao, D.-T. Dang-Nguyen, and F. G. B. De Natale, Signature-image-based event analysis for personal photo albums, in ACM International Conference on Multimedia, 2011, pp

Fragile Sensor Fingerprint Camera Identification

Fragile Sensor Fingerprint Camera Identification Erwin Quiring Matthias Kirchner Binghamton University IEEE International Workshop on Information Forensics and Security Rome, Italy November 19, 2015 Camera