Nguyễn Văn Lộc— Vol. 26
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№ 026 · The Practitioner Issue
Established 2002
Set in Cormorant & JetBrains Mono

Van‑Loc (Felix)Nguyen,building useful AI.

A computer‑vision and deep‑learning engineer working at the seam between research and production — currently at Eurofinsin Ho Chi Minh City, recently a student researcher in Tokyo, presently chasing a Master's in AI.

~ / whoami.pyutf‑8
1class Engineer:
2name = "Van‑Loc Nguyen"
3based = "Ho Chi Minh / Tokyo"
4focus = ["vision", "deep‑learning", "agents"]
5stack = {"py", "torch", "django", "docker", "git"}
6writes = ["papers", "systems", "docs"]
7curious = True
8shipping = True
9# speaks vi · en · 中文 (a little)
10def hireable(self):
11return curious and shipping
Current roleSoftware Engineer, Eurofins
Now researchingMSc · AI, HCMUS
Open to— Collaboration · Talks
RecentlyReturned from NII, Tokyo
§ 01The Subject

An engineer, a researcher, a perpetual student of useful systems.

My name is Nguyễn Văn Lộc — a professional and enthusiastic programmer with a particular love for Artificial Intelligence, especially Computer Vision and Deep Learning. I am a quick learner with a self-learning attitude, always eager to explore new technologies and passionate about solving hard problems. Python is my core language and closest tool; I love almost everything that can be built with it.

Over the last several years I've moved between a research lab at the University of Science in Ho Chi Minh City, a student researcher position at the National Institute of Informatics in Tokyo (Echizen Laboratory, under Prof. Isao Echizen), a role building AI agents at Autonomous, and now a Software Engineer position at Eurofins. The throughline is the same: take a model out of the notebook and into something a person can use without thinking about it.

I read widely, ship steadily, and believe that the most interesting problems sit between disciplines — vision and language, research and product, Vietnamese and Japanese, theory and the messy thing it's supposed to model.

§ 02Currently

What I'm working on this quarter.

Shipping

ArcanaAI — redesigned UI with smoother tarot flow, clearer card storytelling, and a more immersive mystical aesthetic.

Personal project · Live
Researching

Zero‑shot object removal and multi‑object reasoning for video, continuing work from PANDORA and Cluster‑Erase.

Master's thesis · HCMUS
Reading

Diffusion world models, evaluation of vision‑language systems, and the long quiet literature on agents that don't hallucinate.

Ongoing
§ 03Recent projects

A few recent projects.

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§ 04From the bibliography

Recent writings & accepted papers.

May 2, 2026IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo Workshops — ICMEW 2026, BangkokAccepted

Cluster Erase: Zero‑Shot Mass‑Similar and Multi‑Object Removal in a Single Pass

A demonstration of a single‑pass removal approach for visually similar object clusters in natural imagery, extending zero‑shot inpainting toward the messy, repetitive scenes that one‑object methods choke on.

Mar 17, 2026IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo — ICME 2026, BangkokAccepted

PANDORA: Pixel‑wise Attention Dissolution and Latent Guidance for Zero‑Shot Object Removal

A zero‑shot object removal method that leverages pixel‑wise attention dissolution and latent guidance within a diffusion framework — achieving clean inpainting without task‑specific fine‑tuning on the target scene.

December 13, 2025The 14th International Symposium on Information and Communication Technology (SOICT 2025)Accepted

Visionary: Optimized Temporal Video Retrieval via Large Language Model‑Enhanced Query Processing

Addressing the Ho Chi Minh City AI Challenge 2025, Visionary introduces an adaptive keyframe extraction algorithm, a Qwen3‑VL pre‑processing pipeline for metadata generation with integrated OCR, a flexible architecture supporting multiple embedding models, and Reciprocal Rank Fusion for synthesizing retrieval results across complex, large‑scale video tasks.

December 13, 2025The 14th International Symposium on Information and Communication Technology (SOICT 2025)Accepted

ENAug: ENT Endoscopy Images Classification Using Ensemble and Augmentation Methods

A practical pipeline for classifying ENT endoscopy imagery that pairs an ensemble of vision backbones with a curated augmentation schedule, designed to remain robust to the imaging variance typical of clinical capture devices.

All publications
§ 05Dispatches

What's changed recently.

May 2, 2026PaperDemo paper Cluster Erase: Zero‑Shot Mass‑Similar and Multi‑Object Removal in Single Pass accepted to the IEEE ICME 2026 Workshop in Bangkok, Thailand.ICMEW · TH
Apr 1, 2026RoleStarted as Software Engineer at Eurofins.Eurofins · VN
Mar 28, 2026MoveLeft the role of Student Researcher at the National Institute of Informatics (NII), Tokyo, Japan.NII · JP
Mar 17, 2026PaperPaper PANDORA: Pixel‑wise Attention Dissolution and Latent Guidance for Zero‑Shot Object Removal accepted to the 2026 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) in Bangkok, Thailand.ICME · TH
Feb 21, 2026EventParticipated in the Gemini 3 Hackathon Tokyo (Gemini 3 ハッカソン 東京), hosted by Cerebral Valley and Google DeepMind.Tokyo · JP
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§ 06Correspondence

I read every letter.

Working on something that needs computer vision, agent infrastructure, or a careful pair of hands? Let's talk — research collaborations, contract work, or just an interesting question.

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