I am now working as a senior research associate at Speech, Language and Music Group, University of East Anglia. My research is focused on multimodal information processing (speech/audio signal processing, natural language processing, and visual information processing). I have expertise in three aspects: (1) multimodal information processing and integration by signal processing and language modeling; (2) information inference and knowledge acquisition using the techniques of machine learning algorithms and semantic analysis; (3) dynamic adaptation of the acoustic and langauge model for speech recognition and audio event detection.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Multimodal Signal Processing
• Speech/Audio Recognition and Understanding
• Natural Language Processing
• Multimedia Information Retrieval
• Machine Learning
• Data Mining
• Information Theory
• Wireless Local Area Network

PUBLICATIONS

Theses

• Qiang Huang, Speech and Language Processing for Intelligent Call Routing. Ph.D Thesis, School of Computing Sciences, University of East Anglia.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
• Qiang Huang, Research on Data Transmission in Wireless Local Area Network. MSc Thesis, School of Telecommunication, XiDian University.

Journal

• Huang, Q., Cox, S., Task-Independent Call Routing. Speech Communication, PP.374-389, Volume 48, Issue: 3-4, Mar-2006. (Impact Factor: 1.275)                

• Huang, Q., Cox, S., Inferring the Structure of a Tennis Game using Audio Information. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, Vol. 19 No. 7, pp. 1925–1937, September 2011. (Impact Factor: 1.78)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                

• Song, D., Huang, Q., Bruza, P. D., Lau, R. Y. K., An Aspect Query Language Model Based on Query Decomposition and High-Order Contextual Term Associations, Journal of Computational Intelligence. (To be appeared in Vol. 28, No. 1, 2012) (Impact Factor: 5.378)                                                                                                                                                                                                               

Conference

• Huang, Q., Cox, S., Improved Audio Event Detection By Use of Contextual Noise. ICASSP'2012, Kyoto, 2012 (Accepted)

• Huang, Q., Cox, S., Yan, F., Campos, T., Windridge, D., Kittler, J. Christmas, W., Improved Detection of Ball Hit Events in a Tennis Game Using Multimodal Information. IEEE International Conference on Auditory and Visual Speech Processing (AVSP’2011), Volterra, Italy, Sep. 2011. (Oral Presentation)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              

                                

• Huang, Q., Cox, S., Iterative Improvement of Speaker Segmentation in a Noisy Environment Using High-level Knowledge. IEEE International Conference on InterSpeech’2011, Florence, Italy, Aug. 2011. (Oral Presentation)           

                                                                                                    

• Huang, Q., Cox, S., Learning Score Structure from Spoken Language for a Tennis Game. IEEE International Conference on InterSpeech’2011, Florence, Italy, Aug. 2011. 

• Windridge, D., Cox, S., Huang, Q. Speaker Cross-Modal Bootstrapping of Rule-Salient Audio-Visual Representations for Sports Video Annotation. V&L Net Workshop on Vision and Language, University of Brighton, Brighton, 2011 (Poster).

                                                                                                                                                                                      

• Huang, Q., Cox, S., Using High-level Information to Detect Key Audio Events in a Tennis Game. IEEE International Conferencec on InterSpeech'2010, PP.1409--1412, Markuhari, Janpan, Sep. 2010. (Oral Presentation)

• Huang, Q., Cox, S., Shallow Parsing of a Tennis Game from Audio Events. The 4th Conference on Intelligent Information Application Techniques, PP.5--8, (Oral Presentation) (IITA’2010).                                                                                     

                                                                                              

• Huang, Q., Huang, Y., Yi, H.Y., Improved Language Model Generation using Mixture Models. The 4th Conference on Intelligent Information Application Techniques (Oral Presentation) (IITA’2010).                                                                                                                                                                  
• Huang, Q., Cox, S., Speaker Spotting in a Tennis Game Using High-level Information. Machine Listening Workshop, Queen Mary University, London, 2010 (Poster).                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
• Huang, Q., Cox, S., Hierarchical Language Modeling for Audio Events Detection in a Sports Game. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, PP.2286--2289 (ICASSP’2010). (Oral Presentation)                                                   

                                                                 

• Hoenkamp, E., Bruza, P., Huang, Q. and Song, D., An Effective Approach to Verbose Queries Using a Limited Dependencies Language Model. The 2nd International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, PP. 116--127, (Oral Presentation) (ICTIR’2009).                               

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

• Huang, Q., Song, D., A latent Variable Model for Query Expansion using the Hidden Markov Model. The 17th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, PP. 1417--1418, (CIKM’2008).                                                                                                                                                                
• Huang, Q., Song, D., Rüger, S., Robust Query-specific Pseudo Feedback Document Selection for Query Expansion. The 30th European Conference on Information Retrieval, PP.547--554,  (ECIR’2008), Glasgow, UK. (Oral Presentation)                            

                                                                                     

• Song, D., Huang, Q., Rüger, S., Bruza, P., Facilitating Query Decomposition in Query Language Modeling by Association Rule Mining Using Multiple Sliding Windows. The 30th European Conference on Information Retrieval, PP.334--345, (Oral Presentation) (ECIR’2008), Glasgow, UK.    

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             

• Hoenkamp, E., Bruza, P., Huang, Q. and Song, D. The Asymptotic Behavior of a Limited Dependencies Language Model. International Conference on Dutch-Belgian information retrieval (DIR’2008), the Netherlands, 2008.                                                                                                                            
• Huang, Q., Song, D., Rüger, S., Bruza, P., Learning and Optimization of an Aspect Hidden Markov Model for Query Language Model Generation. The 1st International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, PP.157--164, (Oral Presentation) (ICTIR’2007).                

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             

• Lau R., Chung, A., Song, D., Huang, Q., Towards Fuzzy Domain Ontology Based Concept Map Generation. The 6th International Conference on Web-based Learning, PP. 90--101, 2007.                                                                                                                                                                     
• Huang, Q., Cox, S., Mixture Language Models for Call Routing. The 8th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP’2004), PP.2153--2156, Jeju Island, Korea, October 2004.                                                                                                                                                        
• Huang, Q., Cox, S., Automatic Call Routing with Multiple Language Models. Human Language Technology Conference / North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistic Annual Meeting (HTL/NAACL’2004), Proc. Workshop on Spoken Language Understanding for Conversational Systems, PP.25--30, , Boston, US, May 2004.                                                                                                       

                                                                

• Huang, Q., Cox, S., Improving Phoneme Recognition of Telephone Quality Speech. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP’2004), PP.445--448, Montreal, Canada, May 2004  

                                                                                                                       

• Huang, Q., Cox, S., Improve Phoneme Recognition by Speech Segmentation. 2nd UK Young Researcher Workshop on Speech and Language, University College London, May 2004 (Poster).                                                                                                                                                                            
• Huang, Q., Cox, S., Automatic Call Routing without Transcriptions. The 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (EUROSPEECH’2003), PP.1909--1912, Geneva, September, 2003.                                                                                                                                        
• Huang, Q., Cox, S., Automatic Call-Routing with Recognized Phonetic Sequence. 1st UK Young Researcher Workshop on Speech and Language, University College London, April 2003 (Poster).