Presenter
Dr Kien Nguyen
Senior Researcher
Queensland University of Technology
Dr Kien Nguyen Thanh is a senior researcher in surveillance, biometrics, and computer vision at Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia. His research focuses on person re-identification, physics-informed neural networks, and multimodal perception, with particular emphasis on real-world, large-scale surveillance systems.
Since 2023, Dr Nguyen and his team have pioneered the field of Aerial-Ground Person Re-identification (AG-ReID), introducing the first benchmark dataset at ICME 2023. They have since developed a series of influential AG-ReID datasets and methodologies, with publications in leading venues including IEEE TIFS, CVPR, IJCB, and T-BIOM. Their work has received international recognition, including a Best Paper Award at IJCB. They have organised multiple international AG-ReID challenges at IJCB, a CVPR workshop on aerial surveillance, and a related special issue in IEEE T-BIOM.
Dr Kien Nguyen from Queensland University of Technology, will present a seminar on Thursday, 18 June 2026.
Title: Aerial-Ground Person Re-identification.
Abstract: Aerial-ground person re-identification aims to match individuals across aerial and ground cameras, forming a critical capability for modern surveillance systems. Since its emergence in 2023, this field has rapidly grown, with new datasets, benchmarks, and methods addressing its unique challenges. This keynote provides an overview of this evolution, highlighting three fundamental puzzles that break conventional ground-based assumptions, and reviewing data progression and international challenges. It then surveys state-of-the-art approaches across four themes: geometry-aware modeling, semantic reasoning, physics-informed learning, and temporal structure. Finally, it outlines key future directions toward more robust, scalable, and intelligent identity understanding systems.
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