Professor Helen Huang
Professor

Helen Huang

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Background

Helen Huang is a Professor and the Discipline Leader for Data Science in the School of EECS at 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 EECS, The University of Queensland in 2001 and 2007 respectively. Helen's research interests mainly include multimedia indexing and search, computer vision, recommender systems, social data analysis and knowledge discovery. She has published 200+ papers in prestigious venues, and has served as an Associate Editor for The VLDB Journal, ACM Computing Surveys, ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), Pattern Recognition Journal, etc and also a member of the VLDB Endowment Board of Trustees. Helen has been elevated to IEEE Fellow for her contributions to multi-modal data management and ACM Fellow for contributions to large-scale multimedia content understanding, indexing and retrieval.

Helen 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.

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 Computing

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

  • Machine Learning

    Few-shot/Zero-shot Learning; Domain adaptation/Generalisation; Adversarial learning; Graph learning; Test-time Adaptation; Model Efficiency

  • Computer Vision

    3D Vision; Autonomous Driving; Embodied AI

  • Responsible Information Systems

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

  • Social Media Analytics

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

  • 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

329 works between 2003 and 2026
All (329) Journal Article (119) Other Outputs (2) Edited Outputs (1) Conference Publication (205) Book Chapter (2)

221 - 240 of 329 works

2017

Conference Publication

An integrated model for effective saliency prediction

Sun, Xiaoshuai, Huang, Zi, Yin, Hongzhi and Shen, Heng Tao (2017). An integrated model for effective saliency prediction. AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, San Francisco, CA, United States, 4-9 February 2017. Palo Alto, CA, United States: Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence.

An integrated model for effective saliency prediction

2017

Conference Publication

Event Early embedding: Predicting event volume dynamics at early stage

Liu, Zhiwei, Yang, Yang, Huang, Zi, Shen, Fumin, Zhang, Dongxiang and Tao Shen, Heng (2017). Event Early embedding: Predicting event volume dynamics at early stage. 40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2017, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan, 07-11 August 2017. New York, New York, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3077136.3080700

Event Early embedding: Predicting event volume dynamics at early stage

2017

Conference Publication

Leveraging weak semantic relevance for complex video event classification

Li, Chao, Cao, Jiewei, Huang, Zi, Zhu, Lei and Shen, Heng Tao (2017). Leveraging weak semantic relevance for complex video event classification. 16th IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Venice, Italy, 22-29 October 2017. Piscataway, NJ, United States: IEEE. doi: 10.1109/ICCV.2017.394

Leveraging weak semantic relevance for complex video event classification

2016

Journal Article

Web video event recognition by semantic analysis from ubiquitous documents

Yu, Litao, Yang, Yang, Huang, Zi, Wang, Peng, Song, Jingkuan and Shen, Heng Tao (2016). Web video event recognition by semantic analysis from ubiquitous documents. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 26 (12) 7577816, 5689-5701. doi: 10.1109/TIP.2016.2614136

Web video event recognition by semantic analysis from ubiquitous documents

2016

Journal Article

Robust spatial-temporal deep model for multimedia event detection

Yu, Litao, Sun, Xiaoshuai and Huang, Zi (2016). Robust spatial-temporal deep model for multimedia event detection. Neurocomputing, 213, 48-53. doi: 10.1016/j.neucom.2016.03.102

Robust spatial-temporal deep model for multimedia event detection

2016

Journal Article

Ranking weighted clustering coefficient in large dynamic graphs

Li, Xuefei, Chang, Lijun, Zheng, Kai, Huang, Zi and Zhou, Xiaofang (2016). Ranking weighted clustering coefficient in large dynamic graphs. World Wide Web, 20 (5), 1-29. doi: 10.1007/s11280-016-0420-2

Ranking weighted clustering coefficient in large dynamic graphs

2016

Journal Article

Joint modeling of user check-in behaviors for real-time point-of-interest recommendation

Yin, Hongzhi, Cui, Bin, Zhou, Xiaofang, Wang, Weiqing, Huang, Zi and Sadiq, Shazia (2016). Joint modeling of user check-in behaviors for real-time point-of-interest recommendation. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 35 (2) 2873055, 1-44. doi: 10.1145/2873055

Joint modeling of user check-in behaviors for real-time point-of-interest recommendation

2016

Journal Article

Scalable video event retrieval by visual state binary embedding

Yu, Litao, Huang, Zi, Cao, Jiewei and Shen, Heng Tao (2016). Scalable video event retrieval by visual state binary embedding. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 18 (8) 7457257, 1590-1603. doi: 10.1109/TMM.2016.2557059

Scalable video event retrieval by visual state binary embedding

2016

Journal Article

A distance-computation-free search scheme for binary code databases

Song, Jingkuan, Shen, Heng Tao, Wang, Jianfeng, Huang, Zi, Sebe, Nicu and Wang, Jingdong (2016). A distance-computation-free search scheme for binary code databases. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 18 (3) 7377105, 484-495. doi: 10.1109/TMM.2016.2515990

A distance-computation-free search scheme for binary code databases

2016

Conference Publication

What's Wrong with that Object? Identifying Images of Unusual Objects by Modelling the Detection Score Distribution

Wang, Peng, Liu, Lingqiao, Shen, Chunhua, Huang, Zi, van den Hengel, Anton and Shen, Heng Tao (2016). What's Wrong with that Object? Identifying Images of Unusual Objects by Modelling the Detection Score Distribution. 29th IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW), Las Vegas Nv, 26 June - 1 July 2016. Piscataway NJ, United States: IEEE. doi: 10.1109/CVPR.2016.174

What's Wrong with that Object? Identifying Images of Unusual Objects by Modelling the Detection Score Distribution

2016

Conference Publication

Quartet-net learning for visual instance retrieval

Cao, Jiewei, Huang, Zi, Wang, Peng, Li, Chao, Sun, Xiaoshuai and Shen, Heng Tao (2016). Quartet-net learning for visual instance retrieval. 24th ACM Multimedia Conference, MM 2016, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 15 - 19 October 2016. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/2964284.2967262

Quartet-net learning for visual instance retrieval

2016

Conference Publication

Using detected visual objects to index video database

Du, Xingzhong, Yin, Hongzhi, Huang, Zi, Yang, Yi and Zhou, Xiaofang (2016). Using detected visual objects to index video database. Australasian Database Conference on Databases Theory and Applications, Sydney, Australia, 28-29 September 2016. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-46922-5_26

Using detected visual objects to index video database

2016

Conference Publication

A unified framework for discrete spectral clustering

Yang, Yang, Fumin, Shen, Zi, Huang and Shen, Heng Tao (2016). A unified framework for discrete spectral clustering. 25th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2016, New York, NY, 9-15 July 2016. International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence.

A unified framework for discrete spectral clustering

2016

Conference Publication

Supervised robust discrete multimodal hashing for cross-media retrieval

Yan, Ting-Kun, Xu, Xin-Shun, Guo, Shanqing, Huang, Zi and Wang, Xiao-Lin (2016). Supervised robust discrete multimodal hashing for cross-media retrieval. 25th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2016, Indianapolis, IN, United States, 24 - 28 October 2016. New York, NY, United States: ACM. doi: 10.1145/2983323.2983743

Supervised robust discrete multimodal hashing for cross-media retrieval

2015

Journal Article

Indexing Evolving Events from Tweet Streams

Cai, Hongyun, Huang, Zi, Srivastava, Divesh and Zhang, Qing (2015). Indexing Evolving Events from Tweet Streams. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 27 (11) 7124472, 3001-3015. doi: 10.1109/TKDE.2015.2445773

Indexing Evolving Events from Tweet Streams

2015

Journal Article

Heterogeneous environment aware streaming graph partitioning

Xu, Ning, Cui, Bin, Chen, Lei, Huang, Zi and Shao, Yingxia (2015). Heterogeneous environment aware streaming graph partitioning. IEEE Transactions On Knowledge and Data Engineering, 27 (6) 6975163, 1560-1572. doi: 10.1109/TKDE.2014.2377743

Heterogeneous environment aware streaming graph partitioning

2015

Journal Article

Keyword search over probabilistic RDF graphs

Lian, Xiang, Chen, Lei and Huang, Zi (2015). Keyword search over probabilistic RDF graphs. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 27 (5) 6940261, 1246-1260. doi: 10.1109/TKDE.2014.2365791

Keyword search over probabilistic RDF graphs

2015

Journal Article

Evaluation of machine learning interpolation techniques for prediction of physical properties

Belisle, Eve, Huang, Zi, Le Digabel, Sebastien and Gheribi, Aimen E. (2015). Evaluation of machine learning interpolation techniques for prediction of physical properties. Computational Materials Science, 98, 170-177. doi: 10.1016/j.commatsci.2014.10.032

Evaluation of machine learning interpolation techniques for prediction of physical properties

2015

Conference Publication

Joint modeling of users' interests and mobility patterns for point-of-interest recommendation

Yin, Hongzhi, Cui, Bin, Huang, Zi, Wang, Weiqing, Wu, Xian and Zhou, Xiaofang (2015). Joint modeling of users' interests and mobility patterns for point-of-interest recommendation. 23rd ACM International Conference on Multimedia, MM 2015, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 26-30 October, 2015. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. doi: 10.1145/2733373.2806339

Joint modeling of users' interests and mobility patterns for point-of-interest recommendation

2015

Conference Publication

Spatial-Aware multimodal location estimation for social images

Cao, Jiewei, Huang, Zi and Yang, Yang (2015). Spatial-Aware multimodal location estimation for social images. 23rd ACM International Conference on Multimedia 2015, Brisbane, QLD Australia, 26-30 October 2015. New York, NY United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/2733373.2806249

Spatial-Aware multimodal location estimation for social images

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 - 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

  • 2023 - 2026
    Road Atlas: AI-power platform for automated road distress detection and asset management
    Logan City Council
    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
  • 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

    Structure-Aware Legal Case Retrieval

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Professor Xue Li

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Data driven approaches for smart farming

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Associate Professor Xin Yu

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Latent Reasoning for Unifying Amodal Completion and Domain Generalization in Visual Foundation Model

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Zijian Wang

  • Doctor Philosophy

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

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Zijian Wang

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Efficient Remote Sensing under Real-world Constraints

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Associate Professor Xin Yu

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Advancing Embodied Visual Content understanding through Egocentric Videos

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Yadan Luo

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Fairness-aware Recommender Systems for Marginalized User Groups

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Jie Wang, Associate Professor Rocky Chen

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Foundation-Model-Guided Gaussian Modelling for Immersive 3D Scene Simulation

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Yadan Luo

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Towards Comprehensive Australian Sign Language Understanding: Datasets, Methodologies, and Systems

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Heming Du, Associate Professor Xin Yu

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Multimodal Representation Learning for Responsive Video-sharing Services

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Yadan Luo, Associate Professor Rocky Chen

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Towards Privacy-Preserving and Fairness-Aware Federated Recommendation Systems

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Ruihong Qiu

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Advancing Reasoning Ability of Large Language Models

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Ruihong Qiu

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Information Dissemination Prediction for Emerging Video Sharing Platforms

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Yadan Luo

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Fairness in Graph Representation Learning Models

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Ruihong Qiu

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Towards Open-vocabulary 3D Object Detection

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Yadan Luo

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Active Learning for Multi-modal 3D Perception

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Priyanka Singh

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Open-domain Dialogue Generation

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Priyanka Singh, Professor Xue Li

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Deformation and Failure Mechanisms in the Shaping Process of Roll-Bonded Hybrid Bilayer Steel

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Associate Professor Mingyuan Lu

  • Doctor Philosophy

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

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Ruihong Qiu

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Diagnostic data analytics for sewer inflow and infiltration

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Ruihong Qiu, Honorary Professor Zhiguo Yuan

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Maximizing Object Detection Dataset Efficiency through the Power of Active Learning

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Yadan Luo

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Multimodal Sensing System for 3D Vision

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Yadan Luo

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Multimodal Learning for Advanced Graph Data Analysis

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Yujun Cai, Dr Ruihong Qiu

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Controlling Knowledge Dynamics in Pre-trained Deep Neural Networks

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Yadan Luo, Associate Professor Mahsa Baktashmotlagh

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Data-Centric Advancements in Neural Radiance Fields for 3D Reconstruction

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Yadan Luo

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Data-Driven Crop Breeding: Enhancing Disease Resistance through Vision-based Digital Phenotyping

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Professor Scott Chapman, Dr Ruihong Qiu, Dr Millicent Smith, Dr Shanice Van Haeften, Associate Professor Sen Wang

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Reasoning in Knowledge Editing of Large Language Models

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Ruihong Qiu

  • Doctor Philosophy

    efficiency oriented multimedia system

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Ruihong Qiu

Completed supervision

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