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

304 works between 2003 and 2025
All (304) Journal Article (109) Book Chapter (2) Conference Publication (190) Other Outputs (2) Edited Outputs (1)

281 - 300 of 304 works

2008

Conference Publication

Dissimilarity measures for content-based image retrieval

Hu, Rui, Rüger, Stefan, Song, Dawei, Liu, Haiming and Huang, Zi (2008). Dissimilarity measures for content-based image retrieval. doi: 10.1109/ICME.2008.4607697

Dissimilarity measures for content-based image retrieval

2008

Journal Article

Batch nearest neighbor search for video retrieval

Jie Shao, Zi Huang, Shen, Heng Tao, Zhou, Xiaofang, Lim, Ee-Peng and Li, Yijun (2008). Batch nearest neighbor search for video retrieval. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 10 (3), 409-420. doi: 10.1109/TMM.2008.917339

Batch nearest neighbor search for video retrieval

2008

Journal Article

Localized co-occurrence model for fast approximate search in 3D structure databases

Huang, Zi, Shen, Heng Tao and Zhou, Xiaofang (2008). Localized co-occurrence model for fast approximate search in 3D structure databases. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 20 (4) 4407704, 519-531. doi: 10.1109/TKDE.2007.190729

Localized co-occurrence model for fast approximate search in 3D structure databases

2008

Conference Publication

Batch nearest neighbor search for video retrieval

Shao, Jie, Huang, Zi, Shen, Heng Tao, Zhou, Xiaofang, Lim, Ee-Peng and Li, Yijun (2008). Batch nearest neighbor search for video retrieval. doi: 10.1109/TMM.2008.917339

Batch nearest neighbor search for video retrieval

2008

Conference Publication

Content-Based Video Search: is there a need, and is it possible?

Huang, Zi, Li, Yijun, Shao, Jie, Shen, Heng Tao, Wang, Liping, Zhang, Danqing, Zhou, Xiangmin and Zhou, Xiaofang (2008). Content-Based Video Search: is there a need, and is it possible?. INGS, International Workshop on Information-Explosion and Next Generation Search, Shenyang, China, 26-27 April, 2008. Bethesda MD, U.S.A.: IEEE. doi: 10.1109/INGS.2008.16

Content-Based Video Search: is there a need, and is it possible?

2008

Conference Publication

Distribution-based similarity measures for Multi-dimensional point set retrieval applications

Shao, Jie, Huang, Zi, Shen, Heng Tao, Shen, Jialie and Zhou, Xiaofang (2008). Distribution-based similarity measures for Multi-dimensional point set retrieval applications. 16th ACM International Conference on Multimedia, Vancouver BC, Canada, 27-31 October 2008. New York, U.S A.: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/1459359.1459417

Distribution-based similarity measures for Multi-dimensional point set retrieval applications

2008

Conference Publication

Locality condensation: A new dimensionality reduction method for image retrieval

Huang, Z., Shen, H.T., Shao, J., Rueger, S. and Zhou, X. (2008). Locality condensation: A new dimensionality reduction method for image retrieval. 16th ACM International Conference on Multimedia, Vancouver BC, Canada, 27-31 October 2008. New York, U.S A.: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/1459359.1459389

Locality condensation: A new dimensionality reduction method for image retrieval

2007

Conference Publication

UQLIPS: A real-time near-duplicate video clip detection system

Shen, Heng Tao, Zhou, Xiaofang, Huang, Zi, Shao, Jie and Zhou, Xiangmin (2007). UQLIPS: A real-time near-duplicate video clip detection system. 33rd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2007), Vienna, Austria, 23-28 September, 2007. USA: VLDB Endowment.

UQLIPS: A real-time near-duplicate video clip detection system

2007

Conference Publication

UQLIPS: A real-time near-duplicate video clip detection system

Shen, Heng Tao, Zhou, Xiaofang, Huang, Zi, Shao, Jie and Zhou, Xiangmin (2007). UQLIPS: A real-time near-duplicate video clip detection system. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc.

UQLIPS: A real-time near-duplicate video clip detection system

2007

Conference Publication

Dynamic batch nearest neighbor search in video retrieval

Shao, Jie, Huang, Zi, Shen, Heng Tao, Zhou, Xiaofang and Li, Yijun (2007). Dynamic batch nearest neighbor search in video retrieval. IEEE 23rd International Conference on Data Engineering, 2007 (ICDE 2007), Istanbul, Turkey, 15-20 April 2007. Los Alamitos, California, U.S.A.: IEEE. doi: 10.1109/ICDE.2007.369020

Dynamic batch nearest neighbor search in video retrieval

2007

Conference Publication

Statistical summarization of content features for fast near-duplicate video detection

Shen, H. T., Zhou, X., Huang, Z. and Shao, J. (2007). Statistical summarization of content features for fast near-duplicate video detection. ACM Multimedia 2007, Augsburg, Germany, 24–29 September 2007. New York, U.S.A.: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/1291233.1291271

Statistical summarization of content features for fast near-duplicate video detection

2007

Other Outputs

Summarization-based similarity search for complex databases

Huang, Zi (2007). Summarization-based similarity search for complex databases. PhD Thesis, School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/158666

Summarization-based similarity search for complex databases

2007

Conference Publication

The University of Queensland at TRECVID 2007 search task

Shen H.T., Zhou X., Shao J. and Huang Z. (2007). The University of Queensland at TRECVID 2007 search task. TREC Video Retrieval Evaluation, TRECVID 2007, Gaithersburg, MD, November 5, 2007-November 6, 2007. National Institute of Standards and Technology.

The University of Queensland at TRECVID 2007 search task

2007

Conference Publication

Dual dimensionality reduction for efficient video similarity search

Huang, Zi, Shen, Heng Tao, Zhou, Xiaofang and Shao, Jie (2007). Dual dimensionality reduction for efficient video similarity search. 9th International Conference, DaWaK 2007: Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery, Regensburg, Germany, 3-7 September 2007. Berlin, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-540-74553-2_37

Dual dimensionality reduction for efficient video similarity search

2007

Conference Publication

Dimensionality reduction for dimension-specific search

Huang, Z., Shen, H. T., Zhou, X., Song, D. and Rüger, S. M. (2007). Dimensionality reduction for dimension-specific search. 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval 2007, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 23-27 July, 2007. New York: ACM. doi: 10.1145/1277741.1277940

Dimensionality reduction for dimension-specific search

2006

Conference Publication

3D protein structure matching by patch signatures

Huang, Zi, Zhou, Xiaofang, Shen, Heng Tao and Song, Dawei (2006). 3D protein structure matching by patch signatures. 17th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2006), Krakow, Poland, 4-8 September, 2006. Germany: Springer-Verlag. doi: 10.1007/11827405

3D protein structure matching by patch signatures

2006

Book Chapter

3D Protein Structure Matching by Patch Signatures

Huang, Zi, Zhou, Xiaofang, Shen, Heng Tao and Song, Dawei (2006). 3D Protein Structure Matching by Patch Signatures. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. (pp. 528-537) Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg. doi: 10.1007/11827405_52

3D Protein Structure Matching by Patch Signatures

2006

Conference Publication

Dimensionality reduction in patch-signature based protein structure matching

Huang, Z, Zhou, X, Song, and Bruza, P. (2006). Dimensionality reduction in patch-signature based protein structure matching. 17th Australasian Database Conference (ADC2006), Tasmania, Australia, 16-19 January, 2006. New South Wales: Australian Computer Society Inc..

Dimensionality reduction in patch-signature based protein structure matching

2006

Conference Publication

Dimensionality reduction in patch-signature based protein structure matching

Huang, Zi, Zhou, Xiaofang, Song, Dawei and Bruza, Peter (2006). Dimensionality reduction in patch-signature based protein structure matching. 17th Australasian Database Conference, ADC 2006, Hobart, TAS Australia, 16 - 19 January 2006. Sydney, NSW Australia: Australian Computer Society.

Dimensionality reduction in patch-signature based protein structure matching

2005

Conference Publication

High dimensional indexing for protein structure matching using bowties

Huang, H.Z., Zhou, X. and Song, (2005). High dimensional indexing for protein structure matching using bowties. 3rd Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Conference (APBC 2005), Singapore, 17-21 January, 2005. London: Imperial College Press. doi: 10.1142/9781860947322_0003

High dimensional indexing for protein structure matching using bowties

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

    efficiency oriented multimedia system

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Ruihong Qiu

  • 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

    Graph Mining for Legal Case Retrieval

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Professor Xue Li

  • Doctor Philosophy

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

    Principal Advisor

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Data driven approaches for smart farming

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Xin Yu

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Multimodal Representation Learning for Responsive Video-sharing Services

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Yadan Luo

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Towards Privacy-Preserving and Fairness-Aware Federated Recommendation Systems

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Ruihong Qiu, Associate Professor Guangdong Bai

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Fairness in Graph Representation Learning Models

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Associate Professor Guangdong Bai

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Remote Sensing Analysis in computer vision

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Xin Yu

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Active Learning for Multi-modal 3D Perception

    Principal 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

    Unsupervised Domain Adaptation on 3D Object Detection and Segmentation

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Associate Professor Mahsa Baktashmotlagh, Dr Yadan Luo

  • 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

    Multimodal Sensing System for 3D Vision

    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

    Information Dissemination Prediction for Emerging Video Sharing Platforms

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: 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

    Open-domain Dialogue Generation

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Professor Xue Li

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Two way Auslan Translation

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Xin Yu

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Maximizing Object Detection Dataset Efficiency through the Power of Active Learning

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Yadan Luo

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Towards Practical Adaptation to Domain Shift in Deep Vision Learning

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Yadan Luo, Associate Professor Sen Wang

Completed supervision

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