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most citedMicron-BERT: BERT-based Facial Micro-Expression Recognition

6 citations · 32 across the 24 of their papers we have counts for

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27 papers

cs.CV2026

QuPAINT: Physics-Aware Multimodal Reasoning for Quantum Material Characterization

Sankalp Pandey, Xuan-Bac Nguyen, Hoang-Quan Nguyen +4

Characterizing two-dimensional (2D) quantum materials by optical microscopy requires localizing exfoliated flakes and determining their layer thickness from subtle optical contrast…

cs.CV2026

OpenQlaw: An Agentic AI Assistant for Analysis of 2D Quantum Materials

Sankalp Pandey, Xuan-Bac Nguyen, Thanh-Dat Truong +5

Physics-aware multimodal large language models (MLLMs) can localize and characterize two-dimensional (2D) material flakes from optical microscopy images, producing rich candidate o…

cs.CV2026

QuPAINT: Physics-Aware Instruction Tuning Approach to Quantum Material Discovery

Xuan-Bac Nguyen, Hoang-Quan Nguyen, Sankalp Pandey +4

Characterizing two-dimensional quantum materials from optical microscopy images is challenging due to the subtle layer-dependent contrast, limited labeled data, and significant var…

cs.CV2025

BRAIN: Bias-Mitigation Continual Learning Approach to Vision-Brain Understanding

Xuan-Bac Nguyen, Thanh-Dat Truong, Pawan Sinha +1

Memory decay makes it harder for the human brain to recognize visual objects and retain details. Consequently, recorded brain signals become weaker, uncertain, and contain poor vis…

cs.CV2025

CLIFF: Continual Learning for Incremental Flake Features in 2D Material Identification

Sankalp Pandey, Xuan Bac Nguyen, Nicholas Borys +2

Identifying quantum flakes is crucial for scalable quantum hardware; however, automated layer classification from optical microscopy remains challenging due to substantial appearan…

quant-ph2025

QMoE: A Quantum Mixture of Experts Framework for Scalable Quantum Neural Networks

Hoang-Quan Nguyen, Xuan-Bac Nguyen, Sankalp Pandey +3

Quantum machine learning (QML) has emerged as a promising direction in the noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) era, offering computational and memory advantages by harnessing s…

cs.CV2025

-Adapt: A Physics-Informed Adaptation Learning Approach to 2D Quantum Material Discovery

Hoang-Quan Nguyen, Xuan Bac Nguyen, Sankalp Pandey +4

Characterizing quantum flakes is a critical step in quantum hardware engineering because the quality of these flakes directly influences qubit performance. Although computer vision…

cs.CV2025★ 1 cited

Insect-Foundation: A Foundation Model and Large Multimodal Dataset for Vision-Language Insect Understanding

Thanh-Dat Truong, Hoang-Quan Nguyen, Xuan-Bac Nguyen +3

Multimodal conversational generative AI has shown impressive capabilities in various vision and language understanding through learning massive text-image data. However, current co…

cs.CV2024

COBRA: A Continual Learning Approach to Vision-Brain Understanding

Xuan-Bac Nguyen, Manuel Serna-Aguilera, Arabinda Kumar Choudhary +3

Vision-Brain Understanding (VBU) aims to extract visual information perceived by humans from brain activity recorded through functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI). Despite n…

cs.CV2024

Quantum-Brain: Quantum-Inspired Neural Network Approach to Vision-Brain Understanding

Hoang-Quan Nguyen, Xuan-Bac Nguyen, Hugh Churchill +4

Vision-brain understanding aims to extract semantic information about brain signals from human perceptions. Existing deep learning methods for vision-brain understanding are usuall…

quant-ph2024★ 1 cited

Hierarchical Quantum Control Gates for Functional MRI Understanding

Xuan-Bac Nguyen, Hoang-Quan Nguyen, Hugh Churchill +2

Quantum computing has emerged as a powerful tool for solving complex problems intractable for classical computers, particularly in popular fields such as cryptography, optimization…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

A Novel Dataset for Video-Based Neurodivergent Classification Leveraging Extra-Stimulatory Behavior

Manuel Serna-Aguilera, Xuan Bac Nguyen, Han-Seok Seo +1

Facial expressions and actions differ among different individuals at varying degrees of intensity given responses to external stimuli, particularly among those that are neurodiverg…

quant-ph2024

Diffusion-Inspired Quantum Noise Mitigation in Parameterized Quantum Circuits

Hoang-Quan Nguyen, Xuan Bac Nguyen, Samuel Yen-Chi Chen +4

Parameterized Quantum Circuits (PQCs) have been acknowledged as a leading strategy to utilize near-term quantum advantages in multiple problems, including machine learning and comb…

quant-ph2024

Quantum Visual Feature Encoding Revisited

Xuan-Bac Nguyen, Hoang-Quan Nguyen, Hugh Churchill +2

Although quantum machine learning has been introduced for a while, its applications in computer vision are still limited. This paper, therefore, revisits the quantum visual encodin…

cs.CV2024★ 3 cited

QClusformer: A Quantum Transformer-based Framework for Unsupervised Visual Clustering

Xuan-Bac Nguyen, Hoang-Quan Nguyen, Samuel Yen-Chi Chen +3

Unsupervised vision clustering, a cornerstone in computer vision, has been studied for decades, yielding significant outcomes across numerous vision tasks. However, these algorithm…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

BRACTIVE: A Brain Activation Approach to Human Visual Brain Learning

Xuan-Bac Nguyen, Hojin Jang, Xin Li +3

The human brain is a highly efficient processing unit, and understanding how it works can inspire new algorithms and architectures in machine learning. In this work, we introduce a…

cs.CV2024

Video-Based Autism Detection with Deep Learning

M. Serna-Aguilera, X. B. Nguyen, A. Singh +5

Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) often experience challenges in health, communication, and sensory processing; therefore, early diagnosis is necessary for proper tre…

cs.CV2023★ 3 cited

Brainformer: Mimic Human Visual Brain Functions to Machine Vision Models via fMRI

Xuan-Bac Nguyen, Xin Li, Pawan Sinha +2

Human perception plays a vital role in forming beliefs and understanding reality. A deeper understanding of brain functionality will lead to the development of novel deep neural ne…

cs.CV2023

Insect-Foundation: A Foundation Model and Large-scale 1M Dataset for Visual Insect Understanding

Hoang-Quan Nguyen, Thanh-Dat Truong, Xuan Bac Nguyen +3

In precision agriculture, the detection and recognition of insects play an essential role in the ability of crops to grow healthy and produce a high-quality yield. The current mach…

quant-ph2023★ 1 cited

Quantum Vision Clustering

Xuan Bac Nguyen, Hugh Churchill, Khoa Luu +1

Unsupervised visual clustering has garnered significant attention in recent times, aiming to characterize distributions of unlabeled visual images through clustering based on a par…

cs.CV2023★ 2 cited

The Algonauts Project 2023 Challenge: UARK-UAlbany Team Solution

Xuan-Bac Nguyen, Xudong Liu, Xin Li +1

This work presents our solutions to the Algonauts Project 2023 Challenge. The primary objective of the challenge revolves around employing computational models to anticipate brain…

cs.CV2023★ 6 cited

Micron-BERT: BERT-based Facial Micro-Expression Recognition

Xuan-Bac Nguyen, Chi Nhan Duong, Xin Li +3

Micro-expression recognition is one of the most challenging topics in affective computing. It aims to recognize tiny facial movements difficult for humans to perceive in a brief pe…

cs.CV2023★ 5 cited

Fairness in Visual Clustering: A Novel Transformer Clustering Approach

Xuan-Bac Nguyen, Chi Nhan Duong, Marios Savvides +3

Promoting fairness for deep clustering models in unsupervised clustering settings to reduce demographic bias is a challenging goal. This is because of the limitation of large-scale…

eess.IV2022

Prediction of Model Generalizability for Unseen Data: Methodology and Case Study in Brain Metastases Detection in T1-Weighted Contrast-Enhanced 3D MRI

Engin Dikici, Xuan Nguyen, Noah Takacs +1

A medical AI system's generalizability describes the continuity of its performance acquired from varying geographic, historical, and methodologic settings. Previous literature on t…