One way function built from AES?
This is the Matyas–Meyer–Oseas construction.  It was introduced by engineers at IBM in 1985, and analyzed in the ideal cipher model by Black, Rogaway, and Shrimpton in 2002 among all possible iterated compression functions $h_i = f(h_{i-1}, m_i) = E_a(b) \oplus c$ where $a$, $b$, and $c$ are message blocks $m_i$ or chaining values $h_{i-1}$.  For this case ($i=1, j=6$, or $a = h_{i-1}$, $b = m_i$, $c = m_i$), in the ideal cipher model, the adversary's probability of finding a preimage after $q$ queries lies in $[0.4 q/2^n, 2q/2^n]$.

Now, AES is not an ideal cipher—at best, it is a pseudorandom permutation family.  But it is likely that the related-key attacks of Biryukov and Khovratovich do not substantively affect the security of this scheme when the salt is not under attacker control.

(All the references you need are actually in the paper you cited already, right where it recommends using AES.  If you can't follow them because of morally reprehensible academic paywalls, Sci-Hub and LibGen are your friends.)