Heng Tao SHEN  name

 

Associate Professor (Reader)

School of Information Technology & Electrical Engineering

The University of Queensland, Brisbane, 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

 

*To advance the research in multimedia search and database management with novel applications*

Heng Tao is an Associate Professor (Reader) in School of Information Technology & Electrical Engineering, The University of Queensland. He obtained his BSc (with 1st class Honours) and PhD from Department of Computer Science, National University of Singapore in 2000 and 2004 respectively, then joined The University of Queensland as a Lecturer in June 2004 and Senior Lecturer in March 2007. His research interests include Multimedia/Mobile/Web Search, Database Management, P2P/Cloud Computing, etc. Heng Tao has published and served on program committees in most prestigious international publication venues of interests.

Research Interests

  • Multimedia/Mobile/Web Search (near-duplicate detection, ranking, tagging, advertising, etc)

  • Multimedia/Mobile/Spatial Database Management (indexing, query processing, etc)

  • P2P/Cloud Computing

    • *UQLIPS*: a real-time near-duplicate video detection and retrieval system is now released for trial. UQLIPS won the Highly Commended Open Award 2007 in Trailblazer 5 by UniQuest in recognition of the commercial potential of this early-stage research.

Academic Qualification

  • [Doctor of Philosophy] Department of Computer Science, National University of Singapore, 6/2004 (Supervisor: Prof Beng Chin Ooi)

  • [Bachelor of Science with First Class Honours] Department of Computer Science, National University of Singapore, 8/2000

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

  • 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)

  • Zaiben Chen, Heng Tao Shen, Xiaofang Zhou and Jeffrey Xu Yu. "Monitoring Path Nearest Neighbor in Road Networks". In proceedings of ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), 2009.

  • Zaiben Chen, Heng Tao Shen, Quanqing Xu and Xiaofang Zhou. "Instant Advertising in Mobile Peer-to-Peer Networks". In Proceedings of 25th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), pages 736-747, 2009.

  • Ken Deng, Hu Xu, Shazia Sadiq, Yansheng Lu, Gabriel Fung and Heng Tao Shen. "Processing Group Nearest Group Query". In Proceedings of 25th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), pages 1144-1147, 2009. (Short paper)

  • 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 25th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), pages 1511-1514, 2009. (demo)

  • 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), 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.
  • Ke Deng, Xiaofang Zhou, Heng Tao Shen, Shazia Sadiq and Xue Li."Instance Optimal Query Processing in Spatial Network". VLDB Journal, 18(3):675-693, 2009.
  • 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.
  • 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, pages 1(1):1068-1080, 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, 17(5):1101-1119, 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), pages 70-79, 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), pages 1157-1159, 2008. (Short paper)
  • 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. (Short paper)
  • 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.
  • Bin Cui, Jialie Shen, 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. (Short paper)
  • 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

  • Yang Yang: (PhD Candidate, from Peking University, China)
    • During: 9/2009-9/2012
    • Topic: Effective Video Tagging over Dynamic and Large Video Database
    • Publication:
  • Jiajun Liu: (PhD Candidate, from Nanjing University, China).
    • Duration: 6/2009-6/2012
    • Topic: Near-duplicate Sequence Detection in Online Communities.
    • Publication:
  • Zai Ben: (PhD Candidate, from Tsinghua University, China).
    • Duration: 1/2008-6/2010.
    • Topic: Monitoring and Advertising in Mobile Environments.
    • Publication: ICDE, SIGMOD
  • Completed Students
  • Jie Shao: (PhD).
    • Duration: 5/2005-9/2008.
    • Topic: Content-based Video Search.
    • 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)

Research Grants

  • Australia Research Council

    • Heng Tao Shen. ARC Discovery Project (DP): "Spotting Near-duplicate Sequences from Online Databases, Streams and Communities". Amount 300,000$ (2010-2012).

    • Heng Tao Shen, Wei Wang. ARC Discovery Project (DP): "Effective and Efficient Video Search". Amount 220,000$ (2009-2011).

    • 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).

  • Australia Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research

    • Australia-China Special Fund for Scientific and Technological Cooperation. Amount 23,500$ (2007-2009).

  • University of Queensland

    • Heng Tao Shen. UQ Early Career Researcher  Grant: "Online Near-duplicate Detection over Continuous Video Streams". 25,000$ (2009). 

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

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