Professor Helen Huang
Professor

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

310 works between 2003 and 2025
All (310) Journal Article (110) Other Outputs (2) Edited Outputs (1) Conference Publication (195) Book Chapter (2)

261 - 280 of 310 works

2012

Conference Publication

Robust cross-media transfer for visual event detection

Yang, Yang, Yang, Yi, Huang, Zi, Liu, Jianjun and Ma, Zhigang (2012). Robust cross-media transfer for visual event detection. 20th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM'12), Nara, Japan, 29 October - 2 November 2012. New York, United States: ACM. doi: 10.1145/2393347.2396379

Robust cross-media transfer for visual event detection

2012

Conference Publication

On the prediction of re-tweeting activities in social networks – a report on WISE 2012 Challenge

Unankard, Sayan, Chen, Ling, Li, Peng, Wang, Sen, Huang, Zi, Sharaf, Mohamed A. and Li, Xue (2012). On the prediction of re-tweeting activities in social networks – a report on WISE 2012 Challenge. 13th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE 2012), Paphos, Cyprus, 28 - 30 November 2012. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-35063-4_61

On the prediction of re-tweeting activities in social networks – a report on WISE 2012 Challenge

2011

Journal Article

Correlation-based retrieval for heavily changed near-duplicate videos

Liu, Jiajun, Huang, Zi, Shen, Heng Tao and Cui, Bin (2011). Correlation-based retrieval for heavily changed near-duplicate videos. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 29 (4) 2037666, 21.1-21.25. doi: 10.1145/2037661.2037666

Correlation-based retrieval for heavily changed near-duplicate videos

2011

Journal Article

Mining multi-tag association for image tagging

Yang, Yang, Huang, Zi, Shen, Heng Tao and Zhou, Xiaofang (2011). Mining multi-tag association for image tagging. World Wide Web, 14 (2), 133-156. doi: 10.1007/s11280-010-0099-8

Mining multi-tag association for image tagging

2011

Journal Article

Exploring distributional discrepancy for multidimensional point set retrieval

Shao, Jie, Shen, Heng Tao, Huang, Zi and Zhou, Xiaofang (2011). Exploring distributional discrepancy for multidimensional point set retrieval. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 13 (1) 5597949, 71-81. doi: 10.1109/TMM.2010.2085424

Exploring distributional discrepancy for multidimensional point set retrieval

2011

Conference Publication

Probabilistic image tagging with tags expanded by text-based search

Zhang, Xiaoming, Huang, Zi, Shen, Heng Tao and Li, Zhoujun (2011). Probabilistic image tagging with tags expanded by text-based search. 16th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, DASFAA 2011, Hong Kong, China, 22-23 April 2011. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-20149-3_21

Probabilistic image tagging with tags expanded by text-based search

2011

Conference Publication

Transfer tagging from image to video

Yang, Yang, Yang, Yi, Huang, Zi and Shen, Heng Tao (2011). Transfer tagging from image to video. 19th ACM International Conference on Multimedia ACM Multimedia 2011 (MM’11), Scottsdale, AZ, United States, 28 November-01 December 2011. New York, United States: ACM Press. doi: 10.1145/2072298.2071958

Transfer tagging from image to video

2011

Conference Publication

UQMSG experiments for TRECVID 2011

Shen, Heng Tao, Shao, Jie, Huang, Zi, Yang, Yang, Song, Jingkuan, Liu, Jiajun and Zhu, Xiaofeng (2011). UQMSG experiments for TRECVID 2011. TREC Video Retrieval Evaluation, TRECVID 2011, Gaithersburg, MD, United States, 5 - 7 December 2011. National Institute of Standards and Technology.

UQMSG experiments for TRECVID 2011

2011

Conference Publication

Efficient histogram-based similarity search in ultra-high dimensional space

Liu, Jiajun, Huang, Zi, Shen, Heng Tao and Zhou, Xiaofang (2011). Efficient histogram-based similarity search in ultra-high dimensional space. 16th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, DASFAA 2011, Hong Kong, China, 22-25 April 2011. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-20152-3_1

Efficient histogram-based similarity search in ultra-high dimensional space

2011

Conference Publication

Video-to-shot tag allocation by weighted sparse group lasso

Zhu, Xiaofeng, Huang, Zi and Shen, Heng Tao (2011). Video-to-shot tag allocation by weighted sparse group lasso. 19th ACM International Conference on Multimedia ACM Multimedia 2011 (MM’11), Scottsdale, AZ, United States, 28 November - 2 December 2011. New York, United States: ACM Press. doi: 10.1145/2072298.2072050

Video-to-shot tag allocation by weighted sparse group lasso

2011

Conference Publication

Tag localization with spatial correlations and joint group sparsity

Yang, Yang, Yang, Yi, Huang, Zi, Shen, Heng Tao and Nie, Feiping (2011). Tag localization with spatial correlations and joint group sparsity. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Colorado Springs, CO, United States, 20-25 June 2011. Piscataway, NJ, United States: IEEE. doi: 10.1109/CVPR.2011.5995499

Tag localization with spatial correlations and joint group sparsity

2011

Conference Publication

l2,1-norm regularized discriminative feature selection for unsupervised learning

Yang, Yi, Shen, Heng Tao, Ma, Zhigang, Huang, Zi and Zhou, Xiaofang (2011). l2,1-norm regularized discriminative feature selection for unsupervised learning. International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence - IJCAI 2011, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, 16-22 July 2011. Menlo Park, CA, USA: AAAI Press/International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence. doi: 10.5591/978-1-57735-516-8/IJCAI11-267

l2,1-norm regularized discriminative feature selection for unsupervised learning

2011

Conference Publication

Tagging image with informative and correlative tags

Zhang, Xiaoming, Shen, Heng Tao, Huang, Zi and Li, Zhoujun (2011). Tagging image with informative and correlative tags. 13th Asia-Pacific Conference on Web Technology, APWeb 2011, Beijing, China, 18-20 April 2011. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-20291-9

Tagging image with informative and correlative tags

2011

Conference Publication

Multiple feature hashing for real-time large scale near-duplicate video retrieval

Song, Jingkuan, Yang, Yi, Huang, Zi, Shen, Heng Tao and Hong, Richang (2011). Multiple feature hashing for real-time large scale near-duplicate video retrieval. 19th ACM International Conference on Multimedia ACM Multimedia 2011 (MM’11), Scottsdale, AZ, United States, 28 November - 2 December 2011. New York, United States: ACM Press. doi: 10.1145/2072298.2072354

Multiple feature hashing for real-time large scale near-duplicate video retrieval

2011

Conference Publication

Effective data co-reduction for multimedia similarity search

Huang, Zi, Shen, Heng Tao, Liu, Jiajun and Zhou, Xiaofang (2011). Effective data co-reduction for multimedia similarity search. 2011 ACM SIGMOD/PODS Conference, Athens, Greece, 12-16 June 2011. New York, United States: ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Press. doi: 10.1145/1989323.1989430

Effective data co-reduction for multimedia similarity search

2010

Journal Article

Mining near-duplicate graph for cluster-based reranking of web video search results

Huang, Zi, Hu, Bo, Cheng, Hong, Shen, Heng Tao, Liu, Hongyan and Zhou, Xiaofang (2010). Mining near-duplicate graph for cluster-based reranking of web video search results. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 28 (4) 22, 22-1-22-27. doi: 10.1145/1852102.1852108

Mining near-duplicate graph for cluster-based reranking of web video search results

2010

Journal Article

Practical online near-duplicate subsequence detection for continuous video streams

Huang, Zi, Shen, Heng Tao, Shao, Jie, Cui, Bin and Zhou, Xiaofang (2010). Practical online near-duplicate subsequence detection for continuous video streams. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 12 (5) 5466199, 386-398. doi: 10.1109/TMM.2010.2050737

Practical online near-duplicate subsequence detection for continuous video streams

2010

Conference Publication

Efficient and continuous near-duplicate video detection

Xie, Qing, Huang, Zi, Shen, Heng Tao, Zhou, Xiaofang and Pan, Chaoyi (2010). Efficient and continuous near-duplicate video detection. Web Conference (APWEB), 2010 12th International Asia-Pacific, Busan, South Korea, 6-8 April 2010. Piscataway NJ, U.S.A.: IEEE. doi: 10.1109/APWeb.2010.72

Efficient and continuous near-duplicate video detection

2009

Journal Article

Bounded coordinate system indexing for real-time video clip search

Huang, Zi, Shen, Heng Tao, Shao, Jie, Zhou, Xiaofang and Cui, Bin (2009). Bounded coordinate system indexing for real-time video clip search. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 27 (3) 17, 17.1-17.33. doi: 10.1145/1508850.1508855

Bounded coordinate system indexing for real-time video clip search

2009

Journal Article

Effective and efficient query processing for video subsequence identification

Shen, Heng Tao, Shao, Jie, Huang, Zi and Zhou, Xiaofang (2009). Effective and efficient query processing for video subsequence identification. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 21 (3), 321-334. doi: 10.1109/TKDE.2008.168

Effective and efficient query processing for video subsequence identification

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

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

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Yadan Luo

  • Doctor Philosophy

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

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Zijian Wang

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Nudging High-Accessible Privacy Policy Compliance

    Principal Advisor

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Data driven approaches for smart farming

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Xin Yu

  • Doctor Philosophy

    efficiency oriented multimedia system

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Ruihong Qiu

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Attacks and Defenses in Federated Learning: A Client Perspective

    Principal Advisor

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Auditing Privacy Policy Compliance of IoT Applications

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Ruihong Qiu

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Multimodal Representation Learning for Responsive Video-sharing Services

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Yadan Luo

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Advancing Embodied Visual Content understanding through Egocentric Videos

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Yadan Luo

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Graph Mining for Legal Case Retrieval

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Professor Xue Li

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Active Learning for Multi-modal 3D Perception

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Yadan Luo

  • Doctor Philosophy

    A Multi-Perspective Security Analysis of Multi-Party Collaboration Platforms

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Naipeng Dong

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Privacy Compliance of Virtual Personal Assistant Apps Ecosystem

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Guowei Yang

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Enhancing Safety and Reliability of machine learning models using lifelong multi-modal learning

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Yadan Luo, Associate Professor Mahsa Baktashmotlagh

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Unsupervised Domain Adaptation on 3D Object Detection and Segmentation

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Associate Professor Mahsa Baktashmotlagh, Dr Yadan Luo

  • Doctor Philosophy

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

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Ruihong Qiu, Associate Professor Sen Wang

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Fairness in Graph Representation Learning Models

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Ruihong Qiu

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Multimodal Sensing System for 3D Vision

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Yadan Luo

  • Doctor Philosophy

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

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

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Yadan Luo

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Two way Auslan Translation

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Mr Heming Du, Dr Xin Yu

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Information Dissemination Prediction for Emerging Video Sharing Platforms

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Yadan Luo

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Open-domain Dialogue Generation

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Professor Xue Li

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Multi-Modal Perception for Context-Aware Systems

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Ruihong Qiu, Dr Yujun Cai

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Maximizing Object Detection Dataset Efficiency through the Power of Active Learning

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Yadan Luo

  • 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

    Towards Privacy-Preserving and Fairness-Aware Federated Recommendation Systems

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Ruihong Qiu

Completed supervision

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