# Journal — Van‑Loc Nguyen

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


- **May 2, 2026** · Paper — Demo 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, 2026** · Role — Started as *Software Engineer* at Eurofins. (Eurofins · VN)
- **Mar 28, 2026** · Move — Left the role of *Student Researcher* at the National Institute of Informatics (NII), Tokyo, Japan. (NII · JP)
- **Mar 17, 2026** · Paper — Paper *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, 2026** · Event — Participated 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, 2025** · Paper — Paper *Visionary: Optimized Temporal Video Retrieval via Large Language Model‑Enhanced Query Processing* accepted to SOICT 2025. (SOICT · VN)
- **Oct 24, 2025** · Paper — Paper *EnAug: ENT Endoscopy Images Classification Using Ensemble and Augmentation Methods* accepted to SOICT 2025. (SOICT · VN)
- **Oct 1, 2025** · Role — Started as *Student Researcher* at the National Institute of Informatics (NII), Tokyo, Japan. (NII · JP)
- **Aug 29, 2025** · Move — Left the role of *AI Engineer* at Autonomous. (Autonomous)
- **Aug 16, 2025** · Paper — Paper *SAMURAI: Shape‑Aware Multimodal Retrieval for 3D Object Identification* published at MAPR 2025. (MAPR 2025)
- **Jul 14, 2025** · Paper — Paper *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, 2025** · Award — Won *top 1* at the ACM Multimedia 2025 Grand Challenge on Event‑Enriched Image Analysis. (ACM MM 2025)
- **Jul 12, 2025** · Award — Won *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, 2025** · Role — Started as *AI Engineer* at Autonomous. (Autonomous)
- **Feb 21, 2025** · Move — Left the role of *Backend Engineer* at Saritasa. (Saritasa · VN)
- **Dec 14, 2024** · Paper — Paper *NewsInsight2.0: An Enhanced Version Integrating Large Language Model‑Based Query Optimisation with Advanced Temporal Mechanisms* published at SOICT 2024. (SOICT · VN)
- **Dec 9, 2024** · Paper — Paper *An Approach to Complex Visual Data Interpretation with Vision‑Language Models* published at the 1st LAVA Workshop, ACCV 2024. (ACCV 2024)
- **Dec 8, 2024** · Award — Won *third prize* at the 26th Student Scientific Research Award — Euréka, 2024. (Euréka · VN)
- **Dec 5, 2024** · Award — Won *third prize* at the AI Challenge, Ho Chi Minh City 2024. (AI Chall. · VN)
- **Dec 1, 2024** · Milestone — Graduated *rank 6/59* of the Bachelor of Science — Honors Program in Information Technology at the University of Science, VNUHCM. (HCMUS · VN)
- **Oct 7, 2024** · Award — Won *first prize* at the LAVA Workshop Challenge, ACCV 2024. (ACCV 2024)
- **Aug 25, 2024** · Milestone — Successfully defended undergraduate thesis with score *10.00*. (HCMUS · VN)
- **Aug 16, 2024** · Paper — Paper *AI‑Enhanced Photo Authenticity: A User‑Focused Approach to Detecting and Analysing Manipulated Images* published at MAPR 2024. (MAPR 2024)
- **Jul 2, 2024** · Paper — Paper *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, 2024** · Paper — Paper *A Unified Network for Detecting Out‑Of‑Context Information Using Generative Synthetic Data* published at ACM ICMR 2024. (ICMR 2024)
- **Jun 1, 2023** · Role — Joined *Saritasa Vietnam* as Backend Engineer (Python + Django) after completing three months of internship. (Saritasa · VN)