Thuan Hoang Nguyen

PhD Student

A portrait of Thuan Hoang Nguyen

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thuan.nguyen@mbzuai.ac.ae

Education

Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence
PhD in Computer Vision, advised by Prof. Hao Li (primary) and Prof. Nils Lukas (secondary).
Fall 2024 - Present
Abu Dhabi, UAE
Ho Chi Minh University of Technology - VNUHCM
B.Eng. in Computer Science, advised by Prof. Duc Dung Nguyen.
Fall 2017 - Spring 2021
Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam

Employment

VinAI Research
Research Resident, supervised by Dr. Anh Tran. Worked on CREPS, Anti-DreamBooth, SwiftBrush and SwiftBrush v2.
July 2022 - July 2024
Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam
Goback Technology
Machine Learning Engineer. Developed a Traffic Violation System in Kontum, Vietnam.
Jun 2021 - July 2022
Jeonju, South Korea
Anttizen
Research Intern of the DeepHub team. Worked on improving CP-VTON+.
Jun 2020 - Sep 2020
Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam

Publications
* means equal contribution

SwiftBrush v2: Make Your One-step Diffusion Model Better Than Its Teacher
T. Dao, T. Nguyen*, T. Le*, D. Vu*, K. Nguyen, C. Pham, A. Tran
An improved SwiftBrush that makes the one-step diffusion student beat its multi-step teacher.
ECCV, 2024
SwiftBrush: One-Step Text-to-Image Diffusion Model with Variational Score Distillation
T. Nguyen, A. Tran
An image-free distillation method that transforms multi-step text-to-image diffusion models into one-step generators.
CVPR, 2024
Anti-DreamBooth: Protecting Users from Personalized Text-to-Image Synthesis
T. Le*, H. Phung*, T. Nguyen*, Q. Dao*, N. Tran, A. Tran
A security booth safeguards your privacy against malicious threats of DreamBooth by preventing it from synthesizing photo-realistic images of you.
ICCV, 2023
Efficient Scale-Invariant Generator with Column-Row Entangled Pixel Synthesis
T. Nguyen*, T. Le*, A. Tran
An efficient and geometry-invariant generator for synthesizing high-resolution images without using spatial convolutions or a coarse-to-fine design.
CVPR, 2023