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