Dr. Zi Helen Huang

Dr. Huang is a lecturer 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. Dr. Huang's research interests include multimedia search, knowledge discovery, and bioinformatics.

Selected Publications

Journal Articles

Xiaofeng Zhu, Zi Huang, Hong Cheng, Jiangtao Cui, and Heng Tao Shen, "Sparse Hashing for Fast Multimedia Search". ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), 2013.
Yang Yang, Zi Huang, Yi Yang, Heng Tao Shen and Jiebo Luo, "Local Image Tagging via Graph Regularized Joint Group Sparsity". Pattern Recognition (PR), 2012.
Zi Huang, Jiajun Liu, Bin Cui and Xiaoyiong Du "Gram-based String Paradigm for Efficient Video Subsequence Search". IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), 2012.
Yi Yang, Jingkuan Song, Zi Huang, Zhigang Ma, Nicu Sebe and Alexander G. Hauptmann "Multi-Feature Fusion via Hierarchical Regression for Multimedia Analysis". IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), 2012.
Xiaofeng Zhu, Zi Huang, Jiangtao Cui, and Heng Tao Shen "Video-to-Shot Tag Propagation by Graph Sparse Group Lasso". IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), 2012.
Yahong Han, Zhongwen Xu, Zhigang Ma and Zi Huang, "Image classification with manifold learning for out-of-sample data". Signal Processing, 2012.
Kai Zheng, Zi Huang, Aoying Zhou and Xiaofang Zhou. "Discovering the Most Influential Sites over Uncertain Data: A Rank Based Approach". IEEE Transaction on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 2012.
Jiajun Liu, Zi Huang,Hongyun Cai, Heng Tao Shen, Chong-Wah Ngo and Wei Wang, "Near-duplicate Video Retrieval: Current Research and Future Trends". ACM Computing Surveys, 2012.
Xiaofeng Zhu, Zi Huang, Yang Yang, Heng Tao Shen, Changsheng Xu and Jiebo Luo, "Self-taught Dimensionality Reduction on the High-dimensional Small-sized Data". Pattern Recognition (PR), 2012.
Xiaofeng Zhu, Zi Huang, Heng Tao Shen, Jian Cheng, and Changsheng Xu, "Dimensionality Reduction by Mixed Kernel Canonical Correlation Analysis". Pattern Recognition (PR), 45(8):3003-3016,2012.
Xiaoming Zhang, Zi Huang, Heng Tao Shen and Yang Yang and Zhoujun Li. "Automatic Tagging by Exploring Tag Information Capability and Correlation". World Wide Web (WWW), 15(3):233-256, 2012.
Jiajun Liu, Zi Huang, Heng Tao Shen and Bin Cui."Correlation-based Retrieval for Heavily Changed Near-duplicate Videos". ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS),29(4), 2011.
Yang Yang, Zi Huang, Heng Tao Shen and Xiaofang Zhou. "Mining Multi-tag Association for Image Tagging".World Wide Web (WWW), 14(2):133-156, 2011.
Qing Xie, Zi Huang, Heng Tao Shen and Xiaofang Zhou. "Quick Identification of Near-duplicate Video Sequences with Cut Signature". World Wide Web (WWW), 15(3):355-382, 2011.
Jie Shao, Heng Tao Shen, Zi Huang and Xiaofang Zhou. "Exploring Distributional Discrepancy for Multi-dimensional Point Set Retrieval". IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM). 13(1):71-78, 2011.
Zi Huang, Heng Tao Shen, Jie Shao, Bin Cui and Xiaofang Zhou. "Online Near-duplicate Subsequence Detection for Continuous Video Streams". IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM). 12(5):386-398, 2010.
Zi Huang, Bo Hu, Hong Cheng, Heng Tao Shen, Hongyan Liu and Xiaofang Zhou. "Mining Near-duplicate Graph for Cluster-based Reranking of Web Video Search Results". ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), 28(4), 2010.
Zi Huang, Heng Tao Shen, Jie Shao, Xiaofang Zhou and Bin Cui. "Bounded Coordinate System Indexing for Real-time Video Clip Search". ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), 27(3), 2009.
Heng Tao Shen, Jie Shao, Zi Huang and Xiaofang Zhou. "Effective and Efficient Query Processing for Video Subsequence Identification". IEEE Transaction on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 21(3):321-334, 2009.
Heng Tao Shen, Shouxu Jiang, Kian-Lee Tan, Zi Huang and Xiaofang Zhou. "Speed Up Interactive Image Retrieval". VLDB Journal, 18(1):329-343, 2009.
Jie Shao, Zi Huang, Heng Tao Shen, Xiaofang Zhou, Ee-Peng Lim and Yijun Li. "Batch Nearest Neighbor Search for Video Retrieval". IEEE Transaction on Multimedia (TMM),10(3):409-420, 2008.
Zi Huang, Heng Tao Shen, and Xiaofang Zhou. "Localized Co-occurrence Model for Fast Approximate Search in 3D Structure Databases". IEEE Transaction on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 20(4):519-531, 2008.

Conference Papers

Jingkuan Song, Yang Yang, Yi Yang, Zi Huang and Heng Tao Shen."Inter-Media Hashing for Large-scale Retrieval from Heterogeneous Data Sources". ACM SIGMOD 2013.
Jiajun Liu, Zi Huang, Heng Tao Shen, Hong Cheng and Yueguo Chen. "Presenting Diverse Location Views with Real-time Near-duplicate Photo Elimination ". In Proceedings of 29th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2013.
Jiajun Liu, Zi Huang, Lei Chen, Heng Tao Shen, and Zhixian Yan. "Discovering and Ranking Areas of Interest with Geo-tagged Images and Check-ins". In Proceedings of 20th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2012.
Yang Yang, Yi Yang, Zi Huang, Jiajun Liu and Zhigang Ma. "Robust Cross-Media Transfer for Visual Event Detection". In Proceedings of 20th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2012. (short)
Hongyun Cai, Zi Huang, Jie Shao and Xue Li. "Context Sensitive Tag Expansion with Information Inference". In proceedings of 17th International Conferences on Databases Systems for Advanced Systems (DASFAA), 2012. (Best Paper Award)
Jingkuan Song, Yi Yang, Zi Huang, Heng Tao Shen and Richang Hong. "Multiple Feature Hashing for Real-time Large Scale Near-duplicate Video Retrieval". In Proceedings of 19th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2011.
Yang Yang, Yi Yang, Zi Huang and Heng Tao Shen. "Transfer Tagging from Image to Video". In Proceedings of 19th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2011. (short)
Xiaofeng Zhu, Zi Huang and Heng Tao Shen. "Video-to-Shot Tag Allocation by Weighted Sparse Group Lasso". In Proceedings of 19th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2011. (short)
Yi Yang, Heng Tao Shen, Zhigang Ma, Zi Huang and Xiaofang Zhou. "L21-Norm Regularized Discriminative Feature Selection for Unsupervised Learning". In Proceedings of the 22nd International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2011.
Zi Huang, Heng Tao Shen, Jiajun Liu and Xiaofang Zhou. "Effective Data Co-Reduction for Multimedia Similarity Search". ACM SIGMOD 2011.
Yang Yang, Yi Yang, Zi Huang, Heng Tao Shen and Feiping Nie. "Tag Localization with Spatial Correlations and Joint Group Sparsity". In Proceedings of IEEE Comptuer Vision and and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2011.
Ran Cheng, Zi Huang, Heng Tao Shen and Xiaofang Zhou. "Interactive Near-Duplicate Video Retrieval and Detection". In Proceedings of 17th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2009. (demo)
Zi Huang, Liping Wang, Heng Tao Shen, Jie Shao and Xiaofang Zhou, "Online Near-Duplicate Video Clip Detection and Retrieval: An Accurate and Fast System". In Proceedings of 25^th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), pages 1511-1514, 2009. (demo)
Zi Huang, Heng Tao Shen, Jie Shao, Stefan Rueger and Xiaofang Zhou. "Locality Condensation: A New Dimensionality Reduction Method for Image Retrieval". In Proceedings of 16th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), pages 219-228, 2008.
Jie Shao, Zi Huang, Heng Tao Shen, Jialie Shen and Xiaofang Zhou. "Distribution-based Similarity Measures for Multi-dimensional Point Set Retrieval Applications". In Proceedings of 16th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), pages 429-438, 2008.
Heng Tao Shen, Xiaofang Zhou, Zi Huang, and Jie Shao,"Statistical Summarization of Content Features for Fast Near-duplicate Video Detection". In Proceedings of 15^th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), pages 164-165, 2007.(demo)
Heng Tao Shen, Xiaofang Zhou, Zi Huang, Jie Shao, and Emily Zhou, "UQLIPS: A Real-time Near-duplicate Video Clip Detection System", In Proceedings of 33rd VLDB, pages 849-850, 2007. (demo)
Zi Huang, Heng Tao Shen, Xiaofang Zhou, Dawei Song and Stefan Rueger, "Dimensionality Reduction for Dimension-specific Search". In Proceedings of 30th ACM SIGIR, pages 849-850, pages 1395-1399, 2007. (Poster).
Jie Shao, Zi Huang, Heng Tao Shen, Xiaofang Zhou and Yijun Li, "Dynamic Batch Nearest Neighbour Search in Video Retrieval". In Proceedings of 23^rd IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), pages 1395-1399, 2007. (Short paper)
Heng Tao Shen, Beng Chin OOi, Xiaofang Zhou and Zi Huang. "Towards Effective Indexing for Very Large Video Sequence Database". In Proceedings of 24^th ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), pages 730-741, 2005.

Current Grants

The University of Queensland: Z. Huang. ResTeach Grant. Amount: $41,000 (2012-2013)
Australian Research Council: Z. Huang, Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship (APD): Monitoring online topic evolvements with near-duplicate videos. Amount: $267,000 (2011-2013)
The University of Queensland: Z. Huang. UQ Early Career Researcher Grant. Amount: $26,000 (2011)
The University of Queensland: Z. Huang. ResTeach Grant. Amount: $35,000 (2010-2011)

Awards

Best Paper Award, the 17th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA 2012), 2012
Early Career Researcher Award, Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology, The University of Queensland, 2011
Best Paper Award,12th International Asia-Pacific Web Conference (APWeb), 2010

Patents

A Real-time Near-duplicate Video clip Detection Method, US patent, 2009.
A String Paradigm for Massive Video Sequence Indexing and Search, US patent, 2010 (Pending)
A Fast Online Near-duplicate Video Detection Method over Streams, US patent, 2010 (Pending)

PhD Students

Mr Litao Yu: Transfer Learning in Multimedia
Ms Hongyun Cai: Social Media Knowledge Discovery
Ms Xuefei Li: Social Media Knowledge Discovery
Mr Huynh Tan Dat
Mr Xiaofeng Zhu: Video Temporal Tagging
Mr Jiajun Liu: Near-duplicate Sequence Detection and Indexing (thesis submitted)
Mr Jia Zhu: Context-based Information Reconciliation (part-time) (thesis submitted)

Teaching

ENGG4802: Engineering Thesis (Semester 2 2012, Semester 1 2013)
ENGG7803: Engineering Thesis (Semester 1, 2 2012)
COMP7880: Research Project (Semester 1, 2012)
INFS3202/INFS7202: Web Information System (Semester 1, 2012)
INFS4203/INFS7203: Data Mining (Semester 2, 2011)
INFS4203/INFS7203: Data Mining (Semester 2, 2010)
INFS4205/INFS7205: Spatial and Multimedia Database (Semester 1, 2009)