Professor Helen Huang
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Helen Huang

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Background

Dr. Huang is a Professor and ARC Future Fellow in School of ITEE, The University of Queensland. She received her BSc degree from Department of Computer Science, Tsinghua University, China, and her PhD in Computer Science from School of ITEE, The University of Queensland in 2001 and 2007 respectively. Dr. Huang's research interests mainly include multimedia indexing and search, social data analysis and knowledge discovery. She has published 200+ papers in prestigious venues, and is currently an Associate Editor of The VLDB Journal, ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), Pattern Recognition Journal, etc and also a member of the VLDB Endowment Board of Trustees.

Dr. Huang has received 2016 Chris Wallace Award from Computing Research and Education (CORE) Australasia for a notable breakthrough or a contribution of particular significance in Computer Science, and Women in Technology (WiT) Infotech Research Award 2014, Queensland. She was also a recipient of the Excellence in Higher Degree by Research Supervision Award, University of Queensland, 2018. Dr. Huang is the Data Science Discipline Leader, UQ.

Availability

Professor Helen Huang is:
Available for supervision

Fields of research

Information and Computing Sciences

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Queensland

Research interests

  • Multimedia Search

    Visual content (image and videos) understanding and analysis; Multimedia indexing and retrieval; Ranking and recommendation; Visual question answering;

  • Social Media Analytics

    Event detection and monitoring; User behaviour modelling and prediction; Social interactions analysis; Web data mining

  • Machine Learning

    Few-shot Learning; Zero-shot Learning; Domain adaptation; Adversarial learning; Graph learning

  • Information systems

    Privacy-aware information retrieval; cross-modal retrieval; Heterogeneous data fusion; Knowledge distillation

  • Big Database Management

    Data quality; Data linkage and fusion; Indexing structures; Query processing; Dimensionality reduction; spatio-temporal data management

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285 works between 2003 and 2024
All (285) Journal Article (100) Book Chapter (2) Conference Publication (180) Other Outputs (2) Edited Outputs (1)

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2024

Journal Article

A data-driven method for estimating sewer inflow and infiltration based on temperature and conductivity monitoring

Ge, Jingyu, Li, Jiuling, Qiu, Ruihong, Shi, Tao, Zhang, Chenming, Huang, Zi and Yuan, Zhiguo (2024). A data-driven method for estimating sewer inflow and infiltration based on temperature and conductivity monitoring. Water Research, 261 122002, 122002. doi: 10.1016/j.watres.2024.122002

A data-driven method for estimating sewer inflow and infiltration based on temperature and conductivity monitoring

2024

Journal Article

Explicit knowledge graph reasoning for conversational recommendation

Ren, Xuhui, Chen, Tong, Nguyen, Quoc Viet Hung, Cui, Lizhen, Huang, Zi and Yin, Hongzhi (2024). Explicit knowledge graph reasoning for conversational recommendation. ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, 15 (4) 86, 1-21. doi: 10.1145/3637216

Explicit knowledge graph reasoning for conversational recommendation

2024

Conference Publication

CaseLink: inductive graph learning for legal case retrieval

Tang, Yanran, Qiu, Ruihong, Yin, Hongzhi, Li, Xue and Huang, Zi (2024). CaseLink: inductive graph learning for legal case retrieval. 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Washington, DC, United States, 14-18 July 2024. New York, NY, United States: ACM. doi: 10.1145/3626772.3657693

CaseLink: inductive graph learning for legal case retrieval

2024

Conference Publication

Universal adversarial perturbations for vision-language pre-trained models

Zhang, Peng-Fei, Huang, Zi and Bai, Guangdong (2024). Universal adversarial perturbations for vision-language pre-trained models. 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Washington, DC, United States, 14-18 July 2024. New York, NY, United States: ACM. doi: 10.1145/3626772.3657781

Universal adversarial perturbations for vision-language pre-trained models

2024

Journal Article

Editorial on the Special Issue of the World Wide Web journal with selected papers from the 22nd International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE)

Chbeir, Richard, Huang, Helen, Manolopoulos, Yannis and Silvestri, Fabrizio (2024). Editorial on the Special Issue of the World Wide Web journal with selected papers from the 22nd International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE). World Wide Web, 27 (4) 45. doi: 10.1007/s11280-024-01284-1

Editorial on the Special Issue of the World Wide Web journal with selected papers from the 22nd International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE)

2024

Conference Publication

Abstract and explore: a novel behavioral metric with cyclic dynamics in reinforcement learning

Zhu, Anjie, Zhang, Peng-Fei, Qiu, Ruihong, Zheng, Zetao, Huang, Zi and Shao, Jie (2024). Abstract and explore: a novel behavioral metric with cyclic dynamics in reinforcement learning. 38th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) / 36th Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence / 14th Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence, Vancouver, Canada, 20-27 February 2024. Palo Alto, CA, United States: Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. doi: 10.1609/aaai.v38i15.29660

Abstract and explore: a novel behavioral metric with cyclic dynamics in reinforcement learning

2024

Journal Article

Filter-based Stance Network for Rumor Verification

Li, Jun, Bin, Yi, Ma, Yunshan, Yang, Yang, Huang, Zi and Chua, Tat-Seng (2024). Filter-based Stance Network for Rumor Verification. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 42 (4) ARTN ART108, 1-28. doi: 10.1145/3649462

Filter-based Stance Network for Rumor Verification

2024

Conference Publication

Event-content-oriented dialogue generation in short video

Cheng, Fenghua, Li, Xue, Huang, Zi, Wang, Jinxiang and Wang, Sen (2024). Event-content-oriented dialogue generation in short video. 2024 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Mexico City, Mexico, 16-21 June 2024. Kerrville, TX, United States: Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).

Event-content-oriented dialogue generation in short video

2024

Journal Article

Effective and Robust Adversarial Training Against Data and Label Corruptions

Zhang, Peng-Fei, Huang, Zi, Xu, Xin-Shun and Bai, Guangdong (2024). Effective and Robust Adversarial Training Against Data and Label Corruptions. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 1-12. doi: 10.1109/tmm.2024.3394677

Effective and Robust Adversarial Training Against Data and Label Corruptions

2024

Book Chapter

CaseGNN: Graph Neural Networks for Legal Case Retrieval with Text-Attributed Graphs

Tang, Yanran, Qiu, Ruihong, Liu, Yilun, Li, Xue and Huang, Zi (2024). CaseGNN: Graph Neural Networks for Legal Case Retrieval with Text-Attributed Graphs. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. (pp. 80-95) Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-56060-6_6

CaseGNN: Graph Neural Networks for Legal Case Retrieval with Text-Attributed Graphs

2024

Journal Article

Focusing on Relevant Responses for Multi-modal Rumor Detection

Li, Jun, Bin, Yi, Peng, Liang, Yang, Yang, Li, Yangyang, Jin, Hao and Huang, Zi (2024). Focusing on Relevant Responses for Multi-modal Rumor Detection. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 1-12. doi: 10.1109/tkde.2024.3389694

Focusing on Relevant Responses for Multi-modal Rumor Detection

2024

Journal Article

Self-supervised learning for recommender systems: a survey

Yu, Junliang, Yin, Hongzhi, Xia, Xin, Chen, Tong, Li, Jundong and Huang, Zi (2024). Self-supervised learning for recommender systems: a survey. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 36 (1), 335-355. doi: 10.1109/tkde.2023.3282907

Self-supervised learning for recommender systems: a survey

2023

Journal Article

Calligraphy Font generation via explicitly modeling location-aware glyph component deformations

Zhao, Minda, Qi, Xingqun, Hu, Zhipeng, Li, Lincheng, Zhang, Yongqiang, Huang, Zi and Yu, Xin (2023). Calligraphy Font generation via explicitly modeling location-aware glyph component deformations. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 26, 5939-5950. doi: 10.1109/tmm.2023.3342690

Calligraphy Font generation via explicitly modeling location-aware glyph component deformations

2023

Conference Publication

Multi-head Siamese prototype learning against both data and label corruption

Zhang, Peng-Fei and Huang, Zi Helen (2023). Multi-head Siamese prototype learning against both data and label corruption. MMAsia '23: 5th ACM International Conference on Multimedia in Asia, Tainan, Taiwan, 6-8 December 2023. New York, NY, United States: ACM. doi: 10.1145/3595916.3626435

Multi-head Siamese prototype learning against both data and label corruption

2023

Conference Publication

Learning efficient unsupervised satellite image-based building damage detection

Zhang, Yiyun, Wang, Zijian, Luo, Yadan, Yu, Xin and Huang, Zi (2023). Learning efficient unsupervised satellite image-based building damage detection. 2023 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), Shanghai, China, 1-4 December 2023. Piscataway, NJ, United States: IEEE. doi: 10.1109/icdm58522.2023.00206

Learning efficient unsupervised satellite image-based building damage detection

2023

Conference Publication

CaT: balanced continual graph learning with graph condensation

Liu, Yilun, Qiu, Ruihong and Huang, Zi (2023). CaT: balanced continual graph learning with graph condensation. 23rd IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (IEEE ICDM), Shanghai, China, 1-4 December 2023. Piscataway, NJ, United States: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/icdm58522.2023.00141

CaT: balanced continual graph learning with graph condensation

2023

Conference Publication

Toward a unified framework for RGB and RGB-D visual navigation

Du, Heming, Huang, Zi, Chapman, Scott and Yu, Xin (2023). Toward a unified framework for RGB and RGB-D visual navigation. 36th Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AJCAI 2023, Brisbane, QLD Australia, 28 November –1 December 2023. Singapore: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-981-99-8391-9_29

Toward a unified framework for RGB and RGB-D visual navigation

2023

Journal Article

Semantic enhanced video captioning with multi-feature fusion

Niu, Tian-Zi, Dong, Shan-Shan, Chen, Zhen-Duo, Luo, Xin, Guo, Shanqing, Huang, Zi and Xu, Xin-Shun (2023). Semantic enhanced video captioning with multi-feature fusion. ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications, 19 (6) 182, 1-21. doi: 10.1145/3588572

Semantic enhanced video captioning with multi-feature fusion

2023

Conference Publication

Zero-shot learning by harnessing adversarial samples

Chen, Zhi, Zhang, Pengfei, Li, Jingjing, Wang, Sen and Huang, Zi (2023). Zero-shot learning by harnessing adversarial samples. MM '23: The 31st ACM International Conference on Multimedia, Ottawa, ON Canada, 29 October - 3 November 2023. New York, NY United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3581783.3611823

Zero-shot learning by harnessing adversarial samples

2023

Conference Publication

Cal-SFDA: Source-free domain-adaptive semantic segmentation with differentiable expected calibration error

Wang, Zixin, Luo, Yadan, Chen, Zhi, Wang, Sen and Huang, Zi (2023). Cal-SFDA: Source-free domain-adaptive semantic segmentation with differentiable expected calibration error. MM '23: The 31st ACM International Conference on Multimedia, Ottawa, ON Canada, 29 October - 3 November 2023. New York, NY United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3581783.3611808

Cal-SFDA: Source-free domain-adaptive semantic segmentation with differentiable expected calibration error

Current funding

  • 2024 - 2027
    Embracing Changes for Responsive Video-sharing Services
    ARC Discovery Projects
    Open grant
  • 2023 - 2026
    Responsible modelling respecting privacy, data quality, and green computing
    ARC Discovery Projects
    Open grant
  • 2023 - 2028
    Sewer Monitoring and Management in the Digital Era
    ARC Linkage Projects
    Open grant
  • 2023 - 2026
    Road Atlas: AI-power platform for automated road distress detection and asset management
    Logan City Council
    Open grant
  • 2023 - 2027
    Analytics for the Australian Grains Industry (AAGI)
    Grains Research & Development Corporation
    Open grant
  • 2022 - 2024
    Developing a proof-of-concept self-contact tracing app to support epidemiological investigations and outbreak response (Australia-Korea Joint Call for Joint Research Projects - ATSE Tech Bridge Grant)
    Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering
    Open grant
  • 2021 - 2027
    ARC Centre of Excellence for Children and Families over the Life Course
    ARC Centres of Excellence
    Open grant

Past funding

  • 2019 - 2022
    Deep Attribute-aware Hashing for Cross Retrieval
    ARC Discovery Projects
    Open grant
  • 2018 - 2021
    Deeply mining user online behaviour with social event influence
    UQ Development Fellowships
    Open grant
  • 2016
    Dr Zi Huang - Maternity Funding (Advance Queensland Women's Academic Fund)
    Queensland Government Advance Queensland Women's Academic Fund
    Open grant
  • 2014 - 2019
    Real-time Event Detection, Prediction, and Visualization for Emergency Response
    ARC Future Fellowships
    Open grant
  • 2014 - 2016
    Declaration, Exploration, Enhancement and Provenance: The DEEP Approach to Data Quality Management Systems
    ARC Discovery Projects
    Open grant
  • 2011 - 2013
    Monitoring Online Topic Evolvements with Near-duplicate Videos
    ARC Discovery Projects
    Open grant
  • 2011 - 2012
    Social Interest Discovery with Redundant Media Content Analysis
    UQ Early Career Researcher
    Open grant
  • 2009 - 2011
    Homeland, Police and Biosecurity
    National ICT Australia Ltd (NICTA)
    Open grant

Availability

Professor Helen Huang is:
Available for supervision

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Supervision history

Current supervision

  • Doctor Philosophy

    efficiency oriented multimedia system

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Ruihong Qiu

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Towards Privacy-Preserving and Fairness-Aware Federated Recommendation Systems

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Ruihong Qiu, Associate Professor Guangdong Bai

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Remote Sensing Analysis in computer vision

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Xin Yu

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Exploring the Trustworthiness of Information Retrieval in the Era of Large Language Models

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Ruihong Qiu, Associate Professor Guangdong Bai

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Data driven approaches for smart farming

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Honorary Professor Zhi-Gang Chen, Dr Xin Yu

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Towards Reliable and Efficient Vegetation Segmentation for multi-modality Australian Wheat Data Analysis

    Principal Advisor

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Graph Mining for Legal Case Retrieval

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Professor Xue Li

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Unsupervised Domain Adaptation on 3D Object Detection and Segmentation

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Mahsa Baktashmotlagh, Dr Yadan Luo

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Towards Open-vocabulary 3D Object Detection

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Yadan Luo

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Towards Explainable Multi-source Multivariate Time-series Analysis

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Associate Professor Sen Wang, Dr Yadan Luo

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Two way Auslan Translation

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Xin Yu

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Data quality assurance in digitalisation of urban water management

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Honorary Professor Zhiguo Yuan, Dr Jiuling Li, Dr Ruihong Qiu

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Maximizing Object Detection Dataset Efficiency through the Power of Active Learning

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Yadan Luo

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Open-domain Dialogue Generation

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Professor Xue Li

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Multimodal Sensing System for 3D Vision

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Yadan Luo

Completed supervision

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