Honors & recognition

Awards

Recognized at international and national competitions in AI, computer vision and video retrieval.

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MMM 2025 · Japan · Interactive Video Retrieval

First Prize at the premier global competition in interactive video retrieval, hosted at MMM 2025 in Japan. Our system managed 9 TB of video data with under one-second query performance, outperforming teams from top institutions worldwide.

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2026

6 awards
Top-View Person Re-Identification — ICPR 2026
🥇 First Prize
2026 · International Conference on Pattern Recognition 2026

Top-View Person Re-Identification — ICPR 2026

First place at the ICPR 2026 competition on re-identifying people across top-view (overhead) camera networks.

ICDAR 2026 — CircleID Pen Classification
🥇 First Prize
2026 · ICDAR 2026

ICDAR 2026 — CircleID Pen Classification

First place at the ICDAR 2026 CircleID challenge on pen-based handwriting / instrument classification.

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🥈 Second Prize
2026 · MMM 2026 · Prague, Czech Republic

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Second place at the Video Browser Showdown 2026 with NII-UIT, competing in large-scale interactive and multimodal video retrieval at MMM 2026.

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AI City Challenge
🥈 Second Prize (Track 2)
2026 · NVIDIA & ECCV 2026

AI City Challenge

Runner-up in Transportation Safety Understanding and Captioning (Track 2), tackling the challenging Sim2Real setting of fine-grained traffic-safety video captioning and visual question answering, with models trained on synthetic data and evaluated on real-world traffic scenes.

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AI City Challenge
🥈 Second Prize (Track 4)
2026 · NVIDIA & ECCV 2026

AI City Challenge

Runner-up in Text-Based Person Re-Identification (Track 4), achieving 98.3535 mAP in the challenging Sim2Real person anomaly search task.

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Low-Resolution License Plate Recognition — ICPR 2026
🏅 Top 5
2026 · ICPR 2026

Low-Resolution License Plate Recognition — ICPR 2026

Top-5 finish at the ICPR 2026 competition on recognizing license plates in low-resolution imagery.

2025

8 awards
Science & Technology Award for University Students
🥇 First Prize
2025 · Ministry of Education and Training, Vietnam

Science & Technology Award for University Students

Prestigious national award recognizing outstanding scientific research contributions by university students across all disciplines in Vietnam.

Ho Chi Minh AI Challenge
🥇 First / Second / Third Prize
2025 · Department of Science & Technology, HCMC

Ho Chi Minh AI Challenge

Fourth consecutive championship at the city's largest AI arena, sweeping the top placements.

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🥇 First Prize (VQA)
2025 · NIST (USA)

TRECVID Video Question Answering

Top global ranking on the Video Question Answering task at NIST's prestigious benchmark.

Vietnam Student AI Olympiad (1st edition)
🥇 First & Third Prize (national round)
2025 · Vietnam Informatics Association

Vietnam Student AI Olympiad (1st edition)

Leading results at the first national in-depth AI olympiad for students.

Ho Chi Minh City AI Olympiad
🥈 Second Prize
2025 · Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee

Ho Chi Minh City AI Olympiad

Strong showing at the city's flagship AI competition.

Vietnam Electronic Design Award
🥉 Third Prize
2025 · VEEA

Vietnam Electronic Design Award

Applying AI to electronic-component design and optimization.

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🥉 Third Prize
2025 · EAI Challenge

Explainable AI for Educational Question-Answering

International award for explainable AI models in education.

Viettel AI Race
🏅 Consolation Prize
2025 · Viettel Group

Viettel AI Race

Solving large-scale, real-world AI problems under competition conditions.

2024

5 awards
TRECVID Ad-hoc Video Search
🥇 First Prize
2024 · NIST · Ad-hoc Video Search benchmark

TRECVID Ad-hoc Video Search

Top performance at NIST's benchmark for interpreting complex textual queries against large-scale video datasets, using advanced vision-language models and multimodal retrieval.

AI City Challenge
🥇 First Prize (Track 4) · Top 4
2024 · NVIDIA & CVPR 2024

AI City Challenge

Resounding win on Road Object Detection in Fish-Eye Cameras (Track 4); 4th place on Track 5 — a challenging real-world task with severe lens distortion, outperformed by only a few major companies globally.

Ho Chi Minh AI Challenge
🥇 First Prize
2024 · Video Retrieval & Multimodal Understanding

Ho Chi Minh AI Challenge

Vietnam's flagship AI competition, building innovative AI solutions for the country's unique challenges in video retrieval and multimodal understanding.

Science & Technology Award
🥈 Second Prize
2024 · Ministry of Education & Training

Science & Technology Award

Outstanding ministry-level scientific research achievement.

BKAI – SoICT Hackathon
🥈 Second Prize
2024 · HUST & BKAI

BKAI – SoICT Hackathon

Excellent performance at an in-depth AI hackathon.

2023

2 awards
Key Information Localization & Extraction (KILE)
🥉 Third Prize
2023 · ICDAR 2023 · CLEF

Key Information Localization & Extraction (KILE)

Top 3 globally in designing systems for extracting key information from complex document layouts at ICDAR 2023's Key Information Extraction challenge (CLEF 2023).

Ho Chi Minh AI Challenge
🥇 First Prize
2023 · Video Retrieval

Ho Chi Minh AI Challenge

Won first place in Vietnam's flagship AI competition, demonstrating excellence in video retrieval systems for real-world AI challenges.