Bio

I am a PhD candidate in the Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where I am conducting research on computer vision under the supervision of Prof. David Forsyth. My research interests are computer vision and machine learning, particularly object recognition, parsing articulated objects (such as human body parts) and action recognition. I am also interested in text analysis and classification and have spent significant time working on those topics.

I got my Bachelor and Master from Department of Computer Science at University of Natural Science at Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam.

Recent Projects

Learning Hierarchical Poselets for Human Parsing
Yang Wang, Duan Tran and Zicheng Liao
[project page] [paper]
Improved Human Parsing with a Full Relational Model
Duan Tran and D. Forsyth
[project page] [paper]
The dataset will be available online soon. Please email me if you need it.
Attribute-based People Search in Surveillance Environments
D.A. Vaquero, R.S. Feris, Duan Tran, L. Brown, A. Hampapur, M. Turk
[project page] [paper] [demo]
Configuration Estimates Improve Pedestrian Finding
Duan Tran and D. Forsyth
[project page] [paper]

Master thesis project: Vehicle License Plate Recognition

  • Building an Automatic Vehicle License Plate Recognition System
    Duan Tran, Tran Le Hong Du, Tran Vinh Phuoc, Nguyen Viet Hoang
    [project page] [paper]

  • Combining Hough Transform and Contour Algorithm for Detecting Vehicle License Plates
    Duan Tran, Duong Anh Duc, Tran Le Hong Du
    [project page] [paper]

Publications

  • Yang Wang, Duan Tran and Zicheng Liao
    Learning Hierarchical Poselets for Human Parsing [PDF]
    IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition(CVPR), 2011.

  • Duan Tran and D. Forsyth
    Improved Human Parsing with a Full Relational Model [PDF]
    11th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2010.

  • D.A. Vaquero, R.S. Feris, Duan Tran, L. Brown, A. Hampapur, M. Turk
    Attribute-based People Search in Surveillance Environments [PDF]
    Workshop on applications in computer vision (WACV), 2009.

  • Duan Tran and D. Forsyth
    Configuration Estimates Improve Pedestrian Finding [PDF]
    Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2007.

  • Duan Tran, Tran Le Hong Du, Tran Vinh Phuoc, Nguyen Viet Hoang
    Building an Automatic Vehicle License-Plate Recognition System
    3rd International Conference on Computer Science - Recherche, Innovation & Vision du Futur (RIVF), Can Tho, Vietnam, Feb 21-24, 2005. [PDF]

  • Duan Tran, Duong Anh Duc, Tran Le Hong Du
    Combining Hough Transform and Contour Algorithm for Detecting Vehicle License Plates [PDF]
    IEEE 2004 International Symposium on Intelligent Multimedia, Video & Speech Processing (ISIMP), Hong Kong, pp 747-750, Oct 22-24, 2004.

Last updated on March 10th, 2011