Anh-Kiet Duong

Anh-Kiet Duong, Hoang-Lan Nguyen, Toan-Thinh Truong

The overall objective of the main project is to propose and develop a system of facial authentication in unlocking phones or applications in phones using facial recognition. The system will include four separate architectures: face detection, face recognition, face spoofing, and classification of closed eyes. In which, we consider the problem of face recognition to be the most important, determining the true identity of the person standing in front of the screen with absolute accuracy is what facial recognition systems need to achieve. Along with the development of the face recognition problem, the problem of the anti-fake face is also gradually becoming popular and equally important. Our goal is to propose and develop two loss functions: LMCot and Double Loss. Then apply them to the face authentication process.

Anh-Kiet Duong

This paper presents our solution for the Elderly Action Recognition (EAR) Challenge, part of the Computer Vision for Smalls Workshop at WACV 2025. The competition focuses on recognizing Activities of Daily Living (ADLs) performed by the elderly, covering six action categories with a diverse dataset. Our approach builds upon a state-of-the-art action recognition model, fine-tuned through transfer learning on elderly-specific datasets to enhance adaptability. To improve generalization and mitigate dataset bias, we carefully curated training data from multiple publicly available sources and applied targeted pre-processing techniques. Our solution currently achieves 0.81455 accuracy on the public leaderboard, highlighting its effectiveness in classifying elderly activities. Source codes are publicly available at https://github.com/ffyyytt/EAR-WACV25-DAKiet-TSM.

Anh-Kiet Duong, Petra Gomez-Krämer, Hoàng-Ân Lê et al.

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training while keeping training data localized, allowing us to preserve privacy in various domains including remote sensing. However, recent studies show that FL models may still leak sensitive information through their outputs, motivating the need for rigorous privacy evaluation. In this paper, we leverage membership inference attacks (MIA) as a quantitative privacy measurement framework for FL applied to remote sensing image classification. We evaluate multiple black-box MIA techniques, including entropy-based attacks, modified entropy attacks, and the likelihood ratio attack, across different FL algorithms and communication strategies. Experiments conducted on two public scene classification datasets demonstrate that MIA effectively reveals privacy leakage not captured by accuracy alone. Our results show that communication-efficient FL strategies reduce MIA success rates while maintaining competitive performance. These findings confirm MIA as a practical metric and highlight the importance of integrating privacy measurement into FL system design for remote sensing applications.

Anh-Kiet Duong, Petra Gomez-Krämer, Jean-Michel Carozza

Unsupervised fine-grained image hashing aims to learn compact binary codes that preserve subtle visual differences among highly similar instances without manual annotations. However, most existing methods neglect collision resistance, leading to identical hash codes for slightly semantically different samples. In this paper, we propose Collision-Resistant Single-Pass Self-Supervised Semantic Hashing (CS3H), a collision-resistant framework that directly optimizes Hamming-space similarity via a single-pass normalized Hamming distance loss to produce well-separated binary representations. We further introduce a collision-sensitive attention module to emphasize rare and discriminative local patterns, reducing hash collisions and improving fine-grained discrimination. Experiments on multiple benchmarks show that CS3H consistently outperforms state-of-the-art methods in retrieval accuracy while achieving superior collision resistance with minimal computational overhead.

Anh-Kiet Duong, Marie-Claire Iatrides, Petra Gomez-Krämer et al.

Image hashing provides compact representations for efficient storage and retrieval but is inherently limited to global comparison and cannot reason about where changes occur. This limitation prevents hashing from being directly applicable to scene change detection, where spatial localization is essential. In this work, we revisit hashing from a scene change detection perspective and propose HashSCD, a patch-wise hashing framework that enables both efficient global change detection and localized change identification. HashSCD encodes spatially aligned patches into compact hash codes and aggregates them through an XOR-like operation, allowing change detection and localization to be performed directly in the Hamming space without repeated inference on previous images. The model is trained in an unsupervised manner using contrastive learning at both patch and global levels. Experiments demonstrate that HashSCD achieves competitive performance compared to state-of-the-art unsupervised hashing and scene change detection methods, while significantly reducing computational cost and storage requirements.

Anh-Kiet Duong, Hoàng-Ân Lê, Minh-Tan Pham

In the realm of Federated Learning (FL) applied to remote sensing image classification, this study introduces and assesses several innovative communication strategies. Our exploration includes feature-centric communication, pseudo-weight amalgamation, and a combined method utilizing both weights and features. Experiments conducted on two public scene classification datasets unveil the effectiveness of these strategies, showcasing accelerated convergence, heightened privacy, and reduced network information exchange. This research provides valuable insights into the implications of feature-centric communication in FL, offering potential applications tailored for remote sensing scenarios.