LE QUOC ANH

 

 

Family Name: Le

First Name: Quoc Anh

Email: quoc@telecom-paristech.fr

Telephone: +33 (0) 1 45 81 79 27

Mobiphone: +33 (0) 6 33 87 93 83

Address: DB302, TSI, Télécom-ParisTech, 37 rue Dareau 75014 Paris, France

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 I am currently PhD student on the topic of 3D expressive gesture model at the department TSI (Signal and Image Processing) , TELECOM ParisTech – CNRS LTCI . This subject belongs to the GV-LEX project, (French National Agency for Research Project). My work focuses on expressive behaviors, especially on expressive gestures for ECAs (Embodied Conversation Agents) and the humanoid robot called NAO.

I also work on 3D graphic animation at the group Computer Graphics (CG) as a part of the PhD project.

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Education

2009 – 2012    Telecom ParisTech ENST, Paris, France

PhD Student

The research on expressive gestures is aimed at creating an agent (be virtual or physical) able to read a story expressively. My supervisors include Mrs Catherine Pelachaud and Mr Tamy Boubekeur.

 

2007 – 2009    University of Namur, Belgium

Master in Computer Science (Belgian government scholarship) 

The programme lasts two years, in which I had a six-month internship as the third term at the Idiap Research Institute, Switzerland thanks to the AMIDA scholarship. 

I completed a thesis on Automatic Question Answering on Meetings under the direction of Mr. Andrei Popescu-Belis and Mr. Jean-Paul Leclercq. The goal is to design a system that discriminates true vs. false parallel statements as questions about facts in meetings.

 

1998 – 2003    University of Le Quy Don, Hanoi, Vietnam

Engineer in Computer Science

My studies included Artificial Intelligence and Information System modules. I completed my thesis on intelligent hospital management software under the direction of Professor Nguyen Duc Hieu.

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Awards

  1. Awards in the Vietnamese Intellectual Contest 2005 (TTVN2005): “Vietnam Reality” award and Prospects award for the solution of applying computer vision in traffic surveillance in Vietnam. Participated in the International Information Technology and Communication Contest of Asia-Pacific, APICTA 2005, Chiangmai, Thailand.
  1. Second Prize in the National Informatics Olympiad for Students, Vietnam 2002.
  1. Diploma of merit from the Vietnamese Minister of Education and Training, 2002.

 

 

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Publications

[1] Catherine Pelachaud, Rodolphe Gelin, Jean-Claude Martin and Quoc Anh Le. Expressive Gestures Displayed by a Humanoid Robot during a Storytelling Application. Second International Symposium on New Frontiers in Human-Robot Interaction, AISB 2010, 31 March – 1 April 2010. To appear. (Demo videos)

[2] Quoc Anh Le, Andrei Popescu-Belis. Automatic vs. human question answering over multimedia meeting recordings. The 10th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (InterSpeech2009), 6-10 September 2009, Brighton, United Kingdom (pdf).

[3] Quoc Anh Le, Andrei Popescu-Belis. AutoBET : towards automatic answering of BET questions for meeting browser evaluation. The 7th Annual Site Visit of the IM2 (Interactive Multimodal Information Management) Review Panel. November, 12-13, 2008, Martigny, Switzerland (Poster presentation).

[4] Quoc Anh Le, Ngoc Anh Nguyen. Some problems in extracting moving object from video sequences. Young Vietnamese Scientists Meeting (YVSM’05), June 12-16, 2005, Nha Trang, Vietnam.

[5] Quoc Anh Le, Phan Tuong Lai, Le Hung Lan, Nguyen Van Tiem. Applying Computer Vision to Traffic Surveillance in Vietnam. The sixth Vietnam Conference on Automation (VICA6), April 12-14, 2005, Hanoi, Vietnam (link).

 

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Languages

·         English: working knowledge

·         French: good

·         Vietnamese: native

 

 

 

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