|   | Hieu Le (Hiếu Lê)
              Assistant Professor
               University of North Carolina - Charlotte 
              Our group focuses on building controllable and reliable machine vision systems—developing methods to guide models to follow constraints, enhance interpretability, and quantify or reduce uncertainty in predictions.
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            [2025] Part-SDF has been accepted to TMLR 2025. 
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            [2025] Iterative meshing of UDFs has been accepted to NeurIPS 2025. 
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            [2025] Two papers have been accepted to ICCV 2025, both are selected for Oral presentation (64 out of 11,239 submissions). 
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            [2025] Pair-wise implicit constraint has been early accepted (top 9%) to MICCAI 2025. 
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            [2025] Qt-DoG 🐶 has been accepted to ICML 2025. 
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            [2025] A paper on personalized scanpath prediction has been accepted to CVPR 2025. 
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            [2025] A paper on identifying reliable seeds for diffusion models has been accepted to ICLR 2025 as a Spotlight paper. 
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            [2024] Two papers accepted to WACV 2025: Material-Consistent Shadow Edges, and Multi-Class Object Counting. 
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            [2024] Pseudo-Density has been accepted to TMLR. Similar to Latent Density Score, this paper reveals the learning mechanism of generative models. 
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            [2024] Four papers accepted to ECCV 2024: Latent Density Score, Neural Surface Localization, Pseudo-Pixel Weighting, and Beyond Pixels. 
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            [2024] A paper on 3D heart generation has been accepted to MICCAI 2024. 
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            [2024] Our paper on uncertainty estimation has been accepted to ICML 2024. 
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            [2024] Zigzag has been accepted by TMLR. Zigzag is a universal uncertainty estimation method that requires only two inference passes. 
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            [2023] Two papers accepted to CVPR 2023: Zero-Shot Object Counting and Few-Shot Object Detection. 
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            [2023] Selected as an outstanding reviewer at ACCV 2022. 
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            [2022] Our paper on Few-Shot Classification via Generating Representative Prototypes has been accepted to CVPR 2022. 
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            [2022] Our journal paper on Physics-Based Shadow Removal has been accepted by TPAMI 2022. 
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            [2022] Our journal paper on detecting penguin colonies from satellite images has been accepted by Remote Sensing 2022. 
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            [2021] Our paper on Few-Shot Classification has been accepted to ICCV 2021. 
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            [2021] Outstanding Reviewer - CVPR 2021. 
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            [2020] Ph.D. completed. 
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            [2020] Outstanding Reviewer - ECCV 2020. 
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            [2020] Our paper on Weakly-Supervised Shadow Removal has been accepted to ECCV 2020. Project Page. 
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            [2019] Our paper on Shadow Removal has been accepted to ICCV 2019. Project Page. 
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            [2019] Our paper on Semi-Supervised Segmentation has been accepted to CVPR 2019 - CV4GC. 
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            [2019] Our paper on Policy Mining Using Neural Networks has been accepted to SACMAT 2019. 
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            [2018] Two papers accepted to ECCV 2018: ADNet for shadow detection and Iterative Crowd Counting. 
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            [2017] Our paper on Object Co-Localization has been accepted to ICCV 2017, Workshop on CEFRL, Venice, Italy. 
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            [2017] Our poster on Object Co-Localization was presented at VSS 2017 (Florida, US). [Poster] 
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            [2016] Geodesic Features for Video Segmentation has been accepted to ACCV 2016. 
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Journal Reviewer:
- IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI)
- International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV)
- IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP)
- Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU)
- Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS)
Conference Reviewer:
- IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
- International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
- European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)
- AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
- Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV)
- The International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
- International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
- Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurISP)
Awards
- DAAD Postdoc-NeT-AI 2024
- Outstanding Reviewer - ECCV 2020, CVPR 2021, ACCV 2022
- Vietnam Education Foundation Fellowship - 2014
- Microsoft AI for Earth Travel Grant , 2019
- Vietnam NAFOTES Sponsorship, 2014
- Silver Medal - Vietnam National Olympiad in Informatics
