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)

181 - 200 of 304 works

2017

Journal Article

Robust discrete code modeling for supervised hashing

Luo, Yadan, Yang, Yang, Shen, Fumin, Huang, Zi, Zhou, Pan and Shen, Heng Tao (2017). Robust discrete code modeling for supervised hashing. Pattern Recognition, 75, 128-135. doi: 10.1016/j.patcog.2017.02.034

Robust discrete code modeling for supervised hashing

2017

Conference Publication

Transductive visual-semantic embedding for zero-shot learning

Xu, Xing, Shen, Fumin, Yang, Yang, Shao, Jie and Huang, Zi (2017). Transductive visual-semantic embedding for zero-shot learning. 2017 ACM on International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval, Bucharest, Romania, 06--09 June 2017. New York, New York, United States: ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Press. doi: 10.1145/3078971.3078977

Transductive visual-semantic embedding for zero-shot learning

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. 31st AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2017, San Francisco, CA., United States, 04-10 February 2017. Palo Alto, CA., United States: AAAI press.

An integrated model for effective saliency prediction

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

2017

Conference Publication

Social lens: searching and browsing communities by content and interaction

Cai, Hongyun, Zheng, Vincent W., Chen, Penghe, Zhu, Fanwei, Chang, Kevin Chen-Chuan and Huang, Zi (2017). Social lens: searching and browsing communities by content and interaction. 33rd IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, ICDE 2017, San Diego, CA, United States, 19 - 22 April 2017. Washington, DC, United States: IEEE Computer Society. doi: 10.1109/ICDE.2017.194

Social lens: searching and browsing communities by content and interaction

2017

Conference Publication

Exploring consistent preferences: Discrete hashing with pair-exemplar for scalable landmark search

Zhu, Lei, Huang, Zi, Chang, Xiaojun, Song, Jingkuan and Shen, Heng Tao (2017). Exploring consistent preferences: Discrete hashing with pair-exemplar for scalable landmark search. 2017 ACM on Multimedia Conference, Mountain View, California, USA, 23-27 October 2017. New York, New York, United States: Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. doi: 10.1145/3123266.3123301

Exploring consistent preferences: Discrete hashing with pair-exemplar for scalable landmark search

2017

Conference Publication

Jointly modeling static visual appearance and temporal pattern for unsupervised video hashing

Li, Chao, Yang, Yang, Cao, Jiewei and Huang, Zi (2017). Jointly modeling static visual appearance and temporal pattern for unsupervised video hashing. 26th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2017, Singapore, Singapore, 06 - 10 November 2017. New York, New York, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3132847.3133030

Jointly modeling static visual appearance and temporal pattern for unsupervised video hashing

2017

Conference Publication

Event video mashup: From hundreds of videos to minutes of Skeleton

Gao, Lianli, Wang, Peng, Song, Jingkuan, Huang, Zi, Shao, Jie and Shen, Heng Tao (2017). Event video mashup: From hundreds of videos to minutes of Skeleton. 31st AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2017, San Francisco, CA., United States, 04-10 February 2017. Palo Alto, CA., United States: AAAI press.

Event video mashup: From hundreds of videos to minutes of Skeleton

2017

Conference Publication

Multi-attention Network for One Shot Learning

Wang, Peng, Liu, Lingqiao, Shen, Chunhua, Huang, Zi, van den Hengel, Anton and Shen, Heng Tao (2017). Multi-attention Network for One Shot Learning. 30th IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Honolulu Hi, USA, 21-26 July 2017. Washington, DC United States: IEEE Computer Society. doi: 10.1109/CVPR.2017.658

Multi-attention Network for One Shot Learning

2017

Conference Publication

From community detection to community profiling

Cai, Hongyun, Zheng, Vincent W., Zhu, Fanwei, Chang, Kevin Chen-Chuan and Huang, Zi (2017). From community detection to community profiling. 43rd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, VLDB 2017, Munich, Germany, 28 August - 1 September 2017. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.14778/3067421.3067430

From community detection to community profiling

2017

Conference Publication

Unifying multi-source social media data for personalized travel route planning

Hu, Gang, Shao, Jie, Shen, Fumin, Huang, Zi and Tao Shen, Heng (2017). Unifying multi-source social media data for personalized travel route planning. 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: 10.1145/3077136.3080672

Unifying multi-source social media data for personalized travel route planning

2017

Conference Publication

Local deep descriptors in bag-of-words for image retrieval

Cao, Jiewei, Huang, Zi and Shen, Heng Tao (2017). Local deep descriptors in bag-of-words for image retrieval. Thematic Workshops of ACM Multimedia 2017, Mountain View, CA, USA, 23-27 October 2017. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3126686.3127018

Local deep descriptors in bag-of-words for image retrieval

2017

Conference Publication

Two birds one stone: On both cold-start and long-tail recommendation

Li, Jingjing, Lu, Ke, Huang, Zi and Shen, Heng Tao (2017). Two birds one stone: On both cold-start and long-tail recommendation. 25th ACM International Conference on Multimedia, MM 2017, California, United States, 23-27 October 2017. New York NY United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3123266.3123316

Two birds one stone: On both cold-start and long-tail recommendation

2017

Conference Publication

Preface

Huang, Zi, Xiao, Xiaokui and Cao, Xin (2017). Preface. 28th Australasian Database Conference, ADC 2017, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, September 25–28, 2017. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-68155-9

Preface

2017

Conference Publication

POI popularity prediction via hierarchical fusion of multiple social clues

Duan, Yaqian, Wang, Xinze, Yang, Yang, Huang, Zi, Xie, Ning and Shen, Heng Tao (2017). POI popularity prediction via hierarchical fusion of multiple social clues. 40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2017, Tokyo, Shinjuku Japan, 7-11 August 2017. New York City, New York, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3077136.3080701

POI popularity prediction via hierarchical fusion of multiple social clues

2017

Conference Publication

Adaptively attending to visual attributes and linguistic knowledge for captioning

Bin, Yi, Yang, Yang, Zhou, Jie, Huang, Zi and Shen, Heng Tao (2017). Adaptively attending to visual attributes and linguistic knowledge for captioning. 25th ACM International Conference on Multimedia, MM 2017, Mountain View, CA, 23-27 October 2017. New York City, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3123266.3123391

Adaptively attending to visual attributes and linguistic knowledge for captioning

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

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

    Fairness in Graph Representation Learning Models

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Associate Professor Guangdong Bai

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Active Learning for Multi-modal 3D Perception

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Yadan Luo

  • 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

    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

    Data driven approaches for smart farming

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: 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: Associate Professor Mahsa Baktashmotlagh, Dr Yadan Luo

  • 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

    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

    Towards Practical Adaptation to Domain Shift in Deep Vision Learning

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Yadan Luo, Associate Professor Sen Wang

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Towards Explainable Multi-source Multivariate Time-series Analysis

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Associate Professor Sen Wang, Dr Yadan Luo

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Towards Open-vocabulary 3D Object Detection

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: 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

    Information Dissemination Prediction for Emerging Video Sharing Platforms

    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

    Open-domain Dialogue Generation

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Professor Xue Li

Completed supervision

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