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)

141 - 160 of 287 works

2018

Journal Article

Unsupervised deep hashing with similarity-adaptive and discrete optimization

Shen, Fumin, Xu, Yan, Liu, Li, Yang, Yang, Huang, Zi and Shen, Heng Tao (2018). Unsupervised deep hashing with similarity-adaptive and discrete optimization. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 40 (12) 8247210, 1-1. doi: 10.1109/TPAMI.2018.2789887

Unsupervised deep hashing with similarity-adaptive and discrete optimization

2018

Conference Publication

Neural memory streaming recommender networks with adversarial training

Wang, Qinyong, Lian, Defu, Yin, Hongzhi, Wang, Hao, Hu, Zhiting and Huang, Zi (2018). Neural memory streaming recommender networks with adversarial training. 24th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, KDD 2018, London, United Kingdom, 19 - 23 August 2018. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3219819.3220004

Neural memory streaming recommender networks with adversarial training

2018

Conference Publication

Look deeper see richer: Depth-aware image paragraph captioning

Wang, Ziwei, Luo, Yadan, Li, Yang, Huang, Zi and Yin, Hongzhi (2018). Look deeper see richer: Depth-aware image paragraph captioning. 26th ACM Multimedia conference, MM 2018, Seoul, South Korea, October 22 - 26, 2018. New York, NY, Untied States: Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. doi: 10.1145/3240508.3240583

Look deeper see richer: Depth-aware image paragraph captioning

2018

Conference Publication

Joint event-partner recommendation in event-based social networks

Yin, Hongzhi, Zou, Lei, Nguyen, Quoc Viet Hung, Huang, Zi and Zhou, Xiaofang (2018). Joint event-partner recommendation in event-based social networks. 34th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2018), Paris, France, 16-19 April 2018. NEW YORK: IEEE. doi: 10.1109/ICDE.2018.00088

Joint event-partner recommendation in event-based social networks

2018

Journal Article

Deep-sea organisms tracking using dehazing and deep learning

Lu, Huimin, Uemura, Tomoki, Wang, Dong, Zhu, Jihua, Huang, Zi and Kim, Hyoungseop (2018). Deep-sea organisms tracking using dehazing and deep learning. Mobile Networks and Applications, 25 (3), 1008-1015. doi: 10.1007/s11036-018-1117-9

Deep-sea organisms tracking using dehazing and deep learning

2018

Conference Publication

Restricted boltzmann machine based active learning for sparse recommendation

Wang, Weiqing, Yin, Hongzhi, Huang, Zi, Sun, Xiaoshuai and Hung, Nguyen Quoc Viet (2018). Restricted boltzmann machine based active learning for sparse recommendation. 23rd International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, DASFAA 2018, Gold Coast, QLD Australia, 21 - 24 May 2018. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-91452-7_7

Restricted boltzmann machine based active learning for sparse recommendation

2018

Conference Publication

TSAUB: a temporal-sentiment-aware user behavior model for personalized recommendation

Wang, Qinyong, Yin, Hongzhi, Wang, Hao and Huang, Zi (2018). TSAUB: a temporal-sentiment-aware user behavior model for personalized recommendation. 29th Australasian Database Conference, ADC 2018, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia, 24-27 May 2018. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer Verlag. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-92013-9_17

TSAUB: a temporal-sentiment-aware user behavior model for personalized recommendation

2018

Conference Publication

I read, I saw, I tell: texts assisted fine-grained visual classification

Li, Jingjing, Zhu, Lei, Huang, Zi, Lu, Ke and Zhao, Jidong (2018). I read, I saw, I tell: texts assisted fine-grained visual classification. 26th ACM Multimedia conference (MM 2018), Seoul, Republic of Korea, 22-26 October 2018. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). doi: 10.1145/3240508.3240579

I read, I saw, I tell: texts assisted fine-grained visual classification

2018

Conference Publication

Fast parallel path concatenation for graph extraction

Shao, Yingxia, Lei, Kai, Chen, Lei, Huang, Zi, Cui, Bin, Liu, Zhongyi, Tong, Yunhai and Xu, Jin (2018). Fast parallel path concatenation for graph extraction. 34th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, ICDE 2018, Paris, France, 16-19 April 2018. Piscataway, NJ, United States: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/ICDE.2018.00234

Fast parallel path concatenation for graph extraction

2018

Conference Publication

Streaming ranking based recommender systems

Wang, Weiqing, Yin, Hongzhi, Huang, Zi, Wang, Qinyong, Du, Xingzhong and Nguyen, Quoc Viet Hung (2018). Streaming ranking based recommender systems. 41st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2018, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, 8-12 July 2018. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3209978.3210016

Streaming ranking based recommender systems

2018

Conference Publication

Feature reconstruction by laplacian eigenmaps for efficient instance search

Ke, Bingqing, Shao, Jie, Huang, Zi and Shen, Heng Tao (2018). Feature reconstruction by laplacian eigenmaps for efficient instance search. 8th ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval, ICMR 2018, Yokohama, Japan, 11-14 June 2018. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3206025.3206032

Feature reconstruction by laplacian eigenmaps for efficient instance search

2018

Conference Publication

Discrete deep learning for fast content-aware recommendation

Zhang, Yan, Yin, Hongzhi, Huang, Zi, Du, Xingzhong, Yang, Guowu and Lian, Defu (2018). Discrete deep learning for fast content-aware recommendation. 11th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, WSDM 2018, Marina Del Rey, CA, United States, 5-9 February 2018. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3159652.3159688

Discrete deep learning for fast content-aware recommendation

2018

Conference Publication

Index and retrieve multimedia data: Cross-modal hashing by learning subspace relation

Liu, Luchen, Yang, Yang, Hu, Mengqiu, Xu, Xing, Shen, Fumin, Xie, Ning and Huang, Zi (2018). Index and retrieve multimedia data: Cross-modal hashing by learning subspace relation. 23rd International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, DASFAA 2018, Gold Coast, QLD Australia, 21 - 24 May 2018. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-91458-9_37

Index and retrieve multimedia data: Cross-modal hashing by learning subspace relation

2018

Conference Publication

Coarse-to-fine annotation enrichment for semantic segmentation learning

Luo, Yadan, Wang, Ziwei, Huang, Zi, Yang, Yang and Zhao, Cong (2018). Coarse-to-fine annotation enrichment for semantic segmentation learning. 27th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2018, Torino, Italy, 22-26 October 2018. New York, NY United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3269206.3271672

Coarse-to-fine annotation enrichment for semantic segmentation learning

2018

Conference Publication

Discrete binary hashing towards efficient fashion recommendation

Liu, Luyao, Du, Xingzhong, Zhu, Lei, Shen, Fumin and Huang, Zi (2018). Discrete binary hashing towards efficient fashion recommendation. 23rd International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, DASFAA 2018, Gold Coast, QLD Australia, 21 - 24 May 2018. Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-91452-7_8

Discrete binary hashing towards efficient fashion recommendation

2018

Conference Publication

Modal-adversarial semantic learning network for extendable cross-modal retrieval

Xu, Xing, Song, Jingkuan, Lu, Huimin, Yang, Yang, Shen, Fumin and Huang, Zi (2018). Modal-adversarial semantic learning network for extendable cross-modal retrieval. 8th ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval, ICMR 2018, Yokohama, Japan, 11-14 June 2018. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. doi: 10.1145/3206025.3206033

Modal-adversarial semantic learning network for extendable cross-modal retrieval

2017

Journal Article

Exploiting detected visual objects for frame-level video filtering

Du, Xingzhong, Yin, Hongzhi, Huang, Zi, Yang, Yi and Zhou, Xiaofang (2017). Exploiting detected visual objects for frame-level video filtering. World Wide Web, 21 (5), 1-26. doi: 10.1007/s11280-017-0505-6

Exploiting detected visual objects for frame-level video filtering

2017

Journal Article

Guest Editorial: Knowledge-Based Multimedia Computing

Li, Liang, Huang, Zi, Zha, Zheng-Jun and Jiang, Shuqiang (2017). Guest Editorial: Knowledge-Based Multimedia Computing. Multimedia Tools and Applications, 76 (23), 24955-24959. doi: 10.1007/s11042-017-5212-x

Guest Editorial: Knowledge-Based Multimedia Computing

2017

Journal Article

Bilinear optimized product quantization for scalable visual content analysis

Yu, Litao, Huang, Zi, Shen, Fumin, Song, Jingkuan, Shen, Heng Tao and Zhou, Xiaofang (2017). Bilinear optimized product quantization for scalable visual content analysis. IEEE Transactions On Image Processing, 26 (10) 7964737, 5057-5069. doi: 10.1109/TIP.2017.2722224

Bilinear optimized product quantization for scalable visual content analysis

2017

Journal Article

Discrete nonnegative spectral clustering

Yang, Yang, Shen, Fumin, Huang, Zi, Shen, Heng Tao and Li, Xuelong (2017). Discrete nonnegative spectral clustering. IEEE Transactions On Knowledge and Data Engineering, 29 (9) 7920371, 1834-1845. doi: 10.1109/TKDE.2017.2701825

Discrete nonnegative spectral clustering

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

    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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