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

Search Professor Helen Huang’s works on UQ eSpace

287 works between 2003 and 2024
All (287) Journal Article (102) Book Chapter (2) Conference Publication (180) Other Outputs (2) Edited Outputs (1)

21 - 40 of 287 works

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

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

How Far Pre-trained Models Are from Neural Collapse on the Target Dataset Informs their Transferability

Wang, Zijian, Luo, Yadan, Zheng, Liang, Huang, Zi and Baktashmotlagh, Mahsa (2023). How Far Pre-trained Models Are from Neural Collapse on the Target Dataset Informs their Transferability. IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision 2023 (ICCV), Paris, France, 2-6 October 2023. Paris, France: Computer Vision Foundation. doi: 10.1109/iccv51070.2023.00511

How Far Pre-trained Models Are from Neural Collapse on the Target Dataset Informs their Transferability

2023

Conference Publication

KECOR: Kernel Coding Rate Maximization for Active 3D Object Detection

Luo, Yadan, Chen, Zhuoxiao, Fang, Zhen, Zhang, Zheng, Baktashmotlagh, Mahsa and Huang, Zi (2023). KECOR: Kernel Coding Rate Maximization for Active 3D Object Detection. IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision 2023 (ICCV), Paris, France, 2-6 October 2021. Paris, France: Computer Vision Foundation. doi: 10.1109/iccv51070.2023.01676

KECOR: Kernel Coding Rate Maximization for Active 3D Object Detection

2023

Conference Publication

Revisiting Domain-Adaptive 3D Object Detection by Reliable, Diverse and Class-balanced Pseudo-Labeling

Chen, Zhuoxiao, Luo, Yadan, Wang, Zheng, Baktashmotlagh, Mahsa and Huang, Zi (2023). Revisiting Domain-Adaptive 3D Object Detection by Reliable, Diverse and Class-balanced Pseudo-Labeling. IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision 2023 (ICCV), Paris, France, 2-6 October 2023. Paris, France: Computer Vision Foundation. doi: 10.1109/iccv51070.2023.00344

Revisiting Domain-Adaptive 3D Object Detection by Reliable, Diverse and Class-balanced Pseudo-Labeling

2023

Conference Publication

ICMR 2023 Program Chairs Welcome Message

Mazaris, Vasileios, Papadopoulos, Symeon, Popescu, Adrian and Huang, Zi Helen (2023). ICMR 2023 Program Chairs Welcome Message. ICMR 2023, Thessaloniki, Greece, 12 – 15 June 2023. Association for Computing Machinery.

ICMR 2023 Program Chairs Welcome Message

2023

Journal Article

Video captioning by learning from global sentence and looking ahead

Niu, Tian-Zi, Chen, Zhen-Duo, Luo, Xin, Zhang, Peng-Fei, Huang, Zi and Xu, Xin-Shun (2023). Video captioning by learning from global sentence and looking ahead. ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications, 19 (5s) 171, 1-20. doi: 10.1145/3587252

Video captioning by learning from global sentence and looking ahead

2023

Conference Publication

Object-goal visual navigation via effective exploration of relations among historical navigation states

Du, Heming, Li, Lincheng, Huang, Zi and Yu, Xin (2023). Object-goal visual navigation via effective exploration of relations among historical navigation states. IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Vancouver, BC, Canada, 17-24 June 2023. Piscataway, NJ, United States: IEEE. doi: 10.1109/cvpr52729.2023.00252

Object-goal visual navigation via effective exploration of relations among historical navigation states

2023

Conference Publication

Exploring active 3D object detection from a generalization perspective

Luo, Yadan, Chen, Zhuoxiao, Wang, Zijian, Yu, Xin, Huang, Zi and Baktashmotlagh, Mahsa (2023). Exploring active 3D object detection from a generalization perspective. 11th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), Kigali, Rwanda, 1 - 5 May 2023. New York, NY, United States: Cornell Tech. doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2301.09249

Exploring active 3D object detection from a generalization perspective

2023

Conference Publication

Semi-decentralized federated ego graph learning for recommendation

Qu, Liang, Tang, Ningzhi, Zheng, Ruiqi, Nguyen, Quoc Viet Hung, Huang, Zi, Shi, Yuhui and Yin, Hongzhi (2023). Semi-decentralized federated ego graph learning for recommendation. The ACM Web Conference 2023, Austin, TX, United States, 30 April - 4 May 2023. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3543507.3583337

Semi-decentralized federated ego graph learning for recommendation

2023

Journal Article

Source-free progressive graph learning for open-set domain adaptation

Luo, Yadan, Wang, Zijian, Chen, Zhuoxiao, Huang, Zi and Baktashmotlagh, Mahsa (2023). Source-free progressive graph learning for open-set domain adaptation. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 45 (9), 1-16. doi: 10.1109/tpami.2023.3270288

Source-free progressive graph learning for open-set domain adaptation

2023

Journal Article

A multi-layer memory sharing network for video captioning

Niu, Tian-Zi, Dong, Shan-Shan, Chen, Zhen-Duo, Luo, Xin, Huang, Zi, Guo, Shanqing and Xu, Xin-Shun (2023). A multi-layer memory sharing network for video captioning. Pattern Recognition, 136 109202, 1-11. doi: 10.1016/j.patcog.2022.109202

A multi-layer memory sharing network for video captioning

2023

Journal Article

Editorial for Special Issue on Large-scale Pre-training: Data, Models, and Fine-tuning

Wen, Ji-Rong, Huang, Zi and Zhang, Hanwang (2023). Editorial for Special Issue on Large-scale Pre-training: Data, Models, and Fine-tuning. Machine Intelligence Research, 20 (2), 145-146. doi: 10.1007/s11633-023-1431-y

Editorial for Special Issue on Large-scale Pre-training: Data, Models, and Fine-tuning

2023

Conference Publication

Beyond double ascent via recurrent neural tangent kernel in sequential recommendation

Qiu, Ruihong, Huang, Zi and Yin, Hongzhi (2023). Beyond double ascent via recurrent neural tangent kernel in sequential recommendation. 22nd IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), Orlando, FL USA, 28 November-1 December 2022. New York, NY USA: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/icdm54844.2022.00053

Beyond double ascent via recurrent neural tangent kernel in sequential recommendation

2023

Journal Article

Uniting heterogeneity, inductiveness, and efficiency for graph representation learning

Chen, Tong, Yin, Hongzhi, Ren, Jie, Huang, Zi, Zhang, Xiangliang and Wang, Hao (2023). Uniting heterogeneity, inductiveness, and efficiency for graph representation learning. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 35 (2), 2103-2117. doi: 10.1109/TKDE.2021.3100529

Uniting heterogeneity, inductiveness, and efficiency for graph representation learning

2023

Conference Publication

Abstract then Play: A Skill-centric Reinforcement Learning Framework for Text-based Games

Zhu, Anjie, Zhang, Peng-Fei, Zhang, Yi, Huang, Zi and Shao, Jie (2023). Abstract then Play: A Skill-centric Reinforcement Learning Framework for Text-based Games. 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL’23), Toronto, Canada, 9-14 July 2024. Toronto, Canada: Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).

Abstract then Play: A Skill-centric Reinforcement Learning Framework for Text-based Games

2023

Journal Article

Proactive privacy-preserving learning for cross-modal retrieval

Zhang, Peng-Fei, Bai, Guangdong, Yin, Hongzhi and Huang, Zi (2023). Proactive privacy-preserving learning for cross-modal retrieval. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 41 (2) ARTN 35, 1-23. doi: 10.1145/3545799

Proactive privacy-preserving learning for cross-modal retrieval

2023

Conference Publication

FFM: injecting out-of-domain knowledge via factorized frequency modification

Wang, Zijian, Luo, Yadan, Huang, Zi and Baktashmotlagh, Mahsa (2023). FFM: injecting out-of-domain knowledge via factorized frequency modification. 23rd IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), Waikoloa, HI, United States, 3-7 January 2023. Piscataway, NJ, United States: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/wacv56688.2023.00412

FFM: injecting out-of-domain knowledge via factorized frequency modification

2023

Journal Article

GSMFlow: generation shifts mitigating flow for generalized zero-shot learning

Chen, Zhi, Luo, Yadan, Wang, Sen, Li, Jingjing and Huang, Zi (2023). GSMFlow: generation shifts mitigating flow for generalized zero-shot learning. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 25 (99), 5374-5385. doi: 10.1109/tmm.2022.3190678

GSMFlow: generation shifts mitigating flow for generalized zero-shot learning

2022

Conference Publication

Robust learning with adversarial perturbations and label noise: a two-pronged defense approach

Zhang, Peng-Fei, Huang, Zi, Luo, Xin and Zhao, Pengfei (2022). Robust learning with adversarial perturbations and label noise: a two-pronged defense approach. 4th ACM International Conference on Multimedia in Asia, Tokyo, Japan, 13-16 December 2022. New York, NY, United States: ACM. doi: 10.1145/3551626.3564934

Robust learning with adversarial perturbations and label noise: a two-pronged defense approach

Current funding

  • 2024 - 2029
    ARC Research Hub for Future Digital Manufacturing (ARC ITRP led by Swinburne University of Technology)
    Swinburne University of Technology
    Open grant
  • 2024 - 2029
    ARC Training Centre in Predictive Breeding for Agricultural Futures
    ARC Industrial Transformation Training Centres
    Open grant
  • 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
  • 2021 - 2027
    ARC Centre of Excellence for Children and Families over the Life Course
    ARC Centres of Excellence
    Open grant

Past funding

  • 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
  • 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

    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

    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

    Multimodal Sensing System for 3D Vision

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Yadan Luo

  • 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

Completed supervision

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