Dr. Heng Tao SHEN


Senior Lecturer

School of Information Technology & Electrical Engineering

The University of Queensland, Brisbane

QLD 4072 AUSTRALIA

 

Office:

Room 651, Building 78, St Lucia Campus    (map)

Phone:

(61-7) 336 58359

Fax: (61-7) 336 54999

Email:

shenht@itee.uq.edu.au

   Teaching & Students        Research Interest         Publications          Research Grants         Professional Services     

Dr. Heng Tao Shen is currently a Senior Lecturer in School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, University of Queensland. He received MOE (Ministry of Education) Scholarship, Singapore in 1995 and began his undergraduate study in NUS (National University of Singapore) in 1996. Heng Tao obtained his BSc (1st class Honours) and PhD from Department of Computer Science, NUS in 2000 and 2004 respectively, and then joined the University of Queensland as a Lecturer in June 2004 and a Senior Lecturer (tenure) in March 2007. His research interests include Database, Multimedia/Web search, Mobile/Web information system, Peer-to-Peer computing, etc. Due to his meritorious performance, Heng Tao was rewarded Dean's Graduate Award, in School of Computing, NUS, in 2001 and 2003. Heng Tao has published and served for program committees in most prestigious international publication venues of interests.

 

Research Interests

  • Media (Video)/Web Search

  • Multimedia/Web/Spatial/Genome Database Management

  • Nonlinear/Local Dimensionality Reduction

  • Indexing and Query Processing

  • P2P Database Management

    • News: UQLIPS, a real-time near-duplicate video detection and retrieval system is now released for trial. To try the system, please send me an email for username/password. UQLIPS won the Highly Commended Open Award 2007 in Trailblazer 5 by UniQuest in recognition of the commercial potential of this early-stage research

Selected Publications (full list) (Tier-1 Publication Venues of Interests)

  • Zi Huang, Heng Tao Shen, Jie Shao, Xiaofang Zhou and Bin Cui. "Bounded Coordinate System Indexing for Real-time Video Clip Search". ACM Transaction on Information System (TOIS), 2008.
  • 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), 2008.
  • 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) 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) 2008.
  • Hoyoung Jeung, Man Lung Yiu, Xiaofang Zhou, Christian S. Jensen and Heng Tao Shen. "Discovery of Convoys in Trajectory Databases". In Proceedings of 34th VLDB, 2008.
  • Heng Tao Shen, Shouxu Jiang, Kian-Lee Tan, Zi Huang and Xiaofang Zhou. "Speed Up Interactive Image Retrieval". VLDB Journal, 2008.
  • Ke Deng, Xiaofang Zhou, Heng Tao Shen, Shazia Sadiq and Xue Li."Instance Optimal Query Processing in Spatial Network". VLDB Journal, 2008.
  • Ke Deng, Xiaofang Zhou, Heng Tao Shen, Qing Liu, Kai Xu, and Xuemin Lin, "A Multi-resolution Surface Distribution Model for k-NN Query Processing",  VLDB Journal, 2008. 
  • Hoyoung Jeung, Qing Liu, Heng Tao Shen, Xiaofang Zhou. "A Hybrid Prediction Model for Moving Objects". In Proceedings of 24th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2008.
  • Hoyoung Jeung, Heng Tao Shen, Xiaofang Zhou. "Convoy Queries in Spatio-Temporal Databases".In Proceedings of 24th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2008. (poster)
  • 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. 
  • Heng Tao Shen, Xiaofang Zhou, Zi Huang, and Jie Shao, "Statistical Summarization of Content Features for Fast Near-duplicate Video Detection". In Proceedings of 15th 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).
  • Ke Deng, Xiaofang Zhou and Heng Tao Shen. "Multi-source Skyline Query Processing in Road Networks". In Proceedings of 23rd IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), pages 796-805, 2007.
  • Jie Shao, Zi Huang, Heng Tao Shen, Xiaofang Zhou and Yijun Li, "Dynamic Batch Nearest Neighbour Search in Video Retrieval". In Proceedings of 23rd IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), pages 1395-1399, 2007. (Poster)
  • Heng Tao Shen, Xiaofang Zhou and Aoying Zhou. "An adaptive and dynamic dimensionality reduction method for high-dimensional indexing". VLDB Journal, 16(2):219-234, 2007.
  • Jialie Shen, Bin Cui, Cong Gao, Heng Tao Shen, Cui Yu. "Exploring Composite Acoustic Features for Efficient Music Similarity Query". In Proceedings of 14th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), pages 412-420, 2006.
  • Hong Lu, Beng Chin Ooi, Heng Tao Shen, and Xiangyang Xue. "Hierarchical Indexing Structure for Efficient Similarity Search in Video Retrieval". IEEE Transaction on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 18(11):1544-1559, 2006.
  • Kai Xu, Xiaofang Zhou, Xuemin Lin, Heng Tao Shen, and Ke Deng. "A Multi-Resolution Terrain Model for Efficient Visualization Query Processing", IEEE Transaction on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 18(10):1382-1396, 2006.
  • H.V. Jagadish, Beng Chin Ooi, Heng Tao Shen, Kian-Lee Tan, "Towards efficient multi-feature query processing". IEEE Transaction on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 18(3):350-362, 2006.
  • Ke Deng, Xiaofang, Heng Tao Shen, Kai Xu, and Xuemin Lin. "Surface KNN Query Processing". In Proceedings of 22nd IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2006.
  • Heng Tao Shen, Beng Chin Ooi, and Kian-Lee Tan, "SaveRF: Towards Efficient Relevance Feedback Search". In Proceedings of 22nd IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2006. (Poster)
  • Heng Tao Shen, Xiaofang Zhou and Bin Cui. "ICICLE: A semantic-based WWW image retrieval system". ACM Multimedia System Journal (MMSJ), 11(5):438-454, 2006.
  • Heng Tao Shen, Beng Chin OOi,  Xiaofang Zhou and Zi Huang. "Towards Effective Indexing for Very Large Video Sequence Database". In Proceedings of 24th ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), pages 730-741, 2005.
  • Heng Tao Shen, Yan Feng Shu and Bei Yu. "Efficient Semantic-based Content Search in P2P Network". IEEE Transaction on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 16(7):813-826, 2004.
  • Nick Koudas, Beng Chin Ooi, Heng Tao Shen, and Anthony Tung. "LDC: Enabling Search By Partial Distance In A Hyper-Dimensional Space". In Proceedings of 20th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering  (ICDE), page 6-17, 2004.
  • Hui Jin, Beng Chin Ooi, Heng Tao Shen, Cui Yu, Ao Ying Zhou. "An Adaptive and Efficient Dimensionality Reduction Algorithm for High-Dimensional Indexing", In Proceedings of 19th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), page 87-98, 2003.
  • Heng Tao Shen, Ooi Beng Chin and Kian-Lee Tan, "Giving Meanings to WWW Images". In Proceedings of the 8th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), page 39 - 47, 2000.
  • Heng Tao Shen, Ooi Beng Chin and Kian-Lee Tan, "Finding semantically related images in WWW". IN Proceedings of the 8th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), page 491 - 493, 2000 (demo).

Course Teaching

Research Students

  • Zai Ben: (PhD Candidate, from Tsinghua University, China).
    • Duration: 1/2008-12/2010.
    • Topic: Mobile Advertising.
  • Jie Shao: (PhD).
    • Duration: 5/2005-9/2008.
    • Topic: Video Indexing.
    • Publication: ACM Multimedia, TOIS, TMM, TKDE.
    • First Job: -> Melbourne University, Australia.
  • Hoyoung Jeung: (PhD).
    • Duration: 3/2005-9/2008.
    • Topic: Moving object prediction.
    • Publication: VLDB, ICDE.
    • First Job: -> EPFL, Switzerland.
  • Ke Deng: (PhD, Associate Supervisor).
    • Graduated in 2007.
    • Publication: ICDE, VLDB Journal, TKDE.
    • First Job: -> CSIRO, Australia.

Professional Services (partial list)

  • [PC Member] The APWeb/WAIM 2009

  • [PC Member] The 20th Australasian Database Conference (ADC 2009).

  • [PC Member] The 24th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (ACM SAC 2009), ASIIS Track

  • [PC Member] The 25th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2009)

  • [PC Co-chair] The 1st Australia Annual Video Conference (AusVideo 2008). (Cancelled)

  • [PC Member] The 7th International Workshop on Agents and Peer-to-Peer Computing  (AP2PC 2008)

  • [PC Member] The 10th international workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP 2008)

  • [PC Member] The 9th International Conference on Web-Age Information Management (WAIM 2008)

  • [PC Member] The 7th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engieering (WISE 2008).

  • [PC Member] The 10th Asia Pacific Web Conference (APWEB 2008)

  • [PC Member] The 23rd Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (ACM SAC 2008), ASIIS Track

  • [PC Member] The 34th VLDB, 2008.

  • [PC Member] The 19th Australasian Database Conference (ADC 2008).

  • [PC Member] The 13th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA 2008)

  • [PC Member] The Second International Conference on Digital Information Management (IEEE ICDIM 2007)

  • [PC Member] The 3rd International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications (ADMA07)

  • [PC Member] The VLDB PhD workshop 2007

  • [PC Member] IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME 2007), Multimedia database track

  • [PC Member] The 6th International Workshop on Agents and Peer-to-Peer Computing  (AP2PC 2007)

  • [PC Member] The 12th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA 2007)

  • [PC Member] The 9th APWEB and 8th WAIM (APWeb/WAIM 2007)

  • [PC Member] The 22nd Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (ACM SAC 2007), ASIIS Track

  • [PC Member] The 7th International Conference on Web-Age Information Management (WAIM'06)

  • [PC Member] The 21st Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (ACM SAC 2006), ASIIS Track

  • [PC Member] The 10th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT 2006), Demo Track

  • [PC Member] The 22nd International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2006)

  • [Publication Chair] The 8th Asia Pacific Web Conference (APWEB 2006)

  • [PC Member] The 4th International Workshop on Agents and Peer-to-Peer Computing  (AP2PC 2005)

  • [PC Member] The 10th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFFA 2005)

  • [PC Member] The 6th International Conference on Web Information System (WISE 2005)

Research Grants

  • Heng Tao Shen. UniQuest Pathfinder Grant: "UQLIPS". Amount 25,000$ (2008).

  • Heng Tao Shen. DEST Australia-China Special Fund for Scientific and Technological Cooperation: "Effective and Efficient Indexing for Real-time Video Search". Amount 23,500$ (2007-2009).

  • Heng Tao Shen. ARC Discovery Project (DP): "PreferPeer: Towards Efficient Location-aware Preference Search in Mobile Peer-to-Peer Databases", Amount 168,000$ (2007-2009).

  • Xiaofang Zhou, Heng Tao Shen. ARC Discovery Project (DP): "Efficient Similarity query processing in High-dimensional Database", Amount 210,000$ (2006-2008).

  • Heng Tao Shen. UQ Start-Up: "Batch Nearest Neighbour Searching in Video Retrieval", Amount 12,000$ (2005).