Multimedia Security and Forensics Group

Xin Liao, Ph. D.

Xin Liao

Professor, PhD. Supervisor
Vice Dean, College of Cyber Science and Technology
Hunan University, China
email: xinliao AT hnu.edu.cn
Chinese homepage（中文主页）: https://grzy.hnu.edu.cn/site/index/liaoxin
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News

  • 2025.07 Congratulations to Mingyue Chen for publishing the paper, "Flexible Partial Screen-shooting Watermarking with Provable Robustness", on TCSVT.
  • 2025.02 Congratulations to Dr. Hu on winning the Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award of Hunan Association Artificial Intelligence.
  • 2025.01 Congratulations to Dr. Chen for publishing the paper, "PRest-Net: Multi-domain Probability Estimation Network for Robust Image Forgery Detection", on TOMM.
  • 2024.12 Congratulations to Dr. Hu for publishing the paper, "ADA-FInfer: Inferring Face Representations from Adaptive Select Frames for High-Visual-Quality Deepfake Detection", on TDSC.
  • 2024.12 Congratulations to Linbo Fu for publishing the paper, "WaveRecovery: Screen-shooting Watermarking based on Wavelet and Recovery", on TCSVT.
  • 2024.11 Congratulations to Yizhi Yao, Zhengdong Wang, Jindou Xin and Mingyue Chen for winning the first prize in China Postgraduate Cybersecurity Innovation Competition.
  • 2024.11 Congratulations to Xiaoshuai Wu for winning the National Scholarship (Doctoral Student).
  • 2024.11 Congratulations to Dunyun Chen for winning the National Scholarship (Master's Student).
  • 2024.08 Congratulations to Dr. Chen on being approved as the National Natural Science Foundation Youth Project of China.
  • 2024.07 Congratulations to Dunyun Chen for publishing the paper, "SafePaint: Anti-forensic Image Inpainting with Domain Adaptation", on ACM MM.
  • 2024.06 Congratulations to Yiyi Li for publishing the paper, "Screen-Shooting Resistant Watermarking with Grayscale Deviation Simulation", on TMM.
  • 2024.04 Congratulations to Xiaoshuai Wu for publishing the paper, "Are Watermarks Bugs for Deepfake Detectors? Rethinking Proactive Forensics", on IJCAI.
  • 2024.04 Congratulations to Dr. Hu for publishing the paper, "Delocate: Detection and Localization for Deepfake Videos with Randomly-Located Tampered Traces", on IJCAI.
  • 2024.03 Congratulations to Dr. Chen for publishing the paper, "Multi-domain Probability Estimation Network for Forgery Detection over Online Social Network Shared Images", on ICME.
  • 2024.01 Congratulations to Yang Tian for publishing the paper, "Amount-based Covert Communication over Blockchain", on TNSM.
  • 2023.12 Dr. Chen gave the oral presentation in CIHW 2023.
  • 2023.11 Prof. Liao was invited to participate in the ChinaMFS and gave a report.
  • 2023.10 Congratulations to Xiaoshuai Wu and Junxue Yang for winning the Excellent Graduate.
  • 2023.09 Prof. Liao was invited to participate in the Information Network Security Forum in Central China and gave a report.
  • 2023.07 Prof. Liao was invited to participate in the Network Security Technology Innovation and Talent Education Summit Forum and gave a report.
  • 2023.07 Congratulations to Xiaoshuai Wu for publishing the paper, "SepMark: Deep Separable Watermarking for Unified Source Tracing and Deepfake Detection", on ACM MM.
  • 2023.07 Congratulations to Junxue Yang for publishing the paper, "Exploiting Fine-Grained DCT Representations for Hiding Image-Level Messages within JPEG Images", on ACM MM.
  • 2023.05 Prof. Liao was invited to participate in the Hunan Commercial Cryptography Autonomous Security Forum and gave a report.
  • 2023.05 Congratulations to Yumei Wang for publishing the paper, "FAMM: Facial Muscle Motions for Detecting Compressed Deepfake Videos over Social Networks", on TCSVT.
  • 2023.04 Congratulations to Jiaxin Chen for publishing the paper, "Identification of Image Global Processing Operator Chain Based on Feature Decoupling", on INS.
  • 2023.03 Congratulations to Junxue Yang for publishing the paper, "ACGIS: Adversarial Cover Generator for Image Steganography with Noise Residuals Features-Preserving", on SPIC.
  • 2022.12 Congratulations to Juan Hu for winning the Presidential Scholarship for Doctoral Students.
  • 2022.12 Congratulations to Yang Tian for winning the Excellent Graduate Cadres.
  • 2022.12 Congratulations to Yumei Wang and Yiyi Li for winning the Excellent Graduate.
  • 2022.09.07 Congratulations to Jiaxin Chen for publishing the paper, "SNIS: A Signal Noise Separation-based Network for Post-processed Image Forgery Detection", on IEEE TCSVT.
  • 2022.05.04 Congratulations to Zhengyan Chen for publishing the paper, "Multi-Dimensional Attention with Similarity Constraint for Weakly-Supervised Temporal Action Localization”, on IEEE TMM.
  • 2022.04.08 Congratulations to Rui Liu for publishing the paper, "Aspect Feature Distillation and Enhancement Network for Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis", on ACM SIGIR 2022.
  • 2022.03.23 Since March 2022, Juan Hu will be studying in National University of Singapore as a visiting doctoral student supported by CSC.
  • 2021.12.29 Congratulations to Jingxuan Tan for publishing the paper, "Channel Attention Image Steganography with Generative Adversarial Networks", on IEEE TNSE.
  • 2021.12.1 Congratulations to Juan Hu for publishing the paper, "Finger Frame Inference-based Deepfake Detection for High-visual-quality Videos", on AAAI 2022.
  • 2021.12 Congratulations to Jiaxin Chen for winning the Excellent Postgraduate.
  • 2021.12 Congratulations to Juan Hu for winning the Excellent Postgraduate Cadres.
  • 2021.11 Congratulations to Jiaxin Chen for winning the Zhongjiao Scholarship.

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Biography

Xin Liao (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.E. and Ph.D. degree in information security from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, in 2007 and 2012, respectively. He worked as a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and also a Research Associate at The University of Hong Kong. From 2016 to 2017, he was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Maryland, College Park, USA. He is currently a Professor, a PhD. Supervisor, and the Vice Dean, College of Cyber Science and Technology, Hunan University, Changsha, China. He leads the Multimedia Security and Forensics Group, with main research interests on multimedia forensics, steganography, and watermarking.

He is serving as the Associate Editor for IEEE Signal Processing Magazine and Multimedia Tools and Applications. He is the Vice Chair and a member of Technical Committee (TC) on Multimedia Security and Forensics of Asia Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association, TC on Cyberspace Security of Chinese Institute of Electronics, TC on Computer Forensics of Chinese Institute of Electronics, and TC on Digital Forensics and Security of China Society of Image and Graphics.

Chinese homepage（中文主页）: https://grzy.hnu.edu.cn/site/index/liaoxin

Funding

  • "Research on key technologies and applications of cross-medium media bridge", National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), Key Project, 01/2023-12/2026, 3.04M RMB, PI
  • "Full lifecycle AIGC identification, authentication, and forensics method", National Key Research and Development Program of China, 12/2024-11/2027, 4.6M RMB, PI
  • "Research on passive image forensics of operator chains for processing history estimation", National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), General Project, 01/2020-12/2023, 0.71M RMB, PI
  • "Multimedia privacy content detection and protection technology", National Key Research and Development Program of China, 12/2022-11/2025, 0.9M RMB, PI
  • "Research on distortion function and embedding positions for adaptive image steganography", National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), Young Project, 01/2015-12/2017, 0.25M RMB, PI
  • "Data acquisition analysis and databases construction for material simulation and performance optimization", National Key Research and Development Program of China, 07/2018-06/2022, 1.39M RMB, PI
  • "Visual media forensics", Hunan Provincial Funds for Distinguished Young Scholars, 01/2024-12/2026, PI
  • "AIGC image and video forensics ", Hunan Provincial Key R&D Program, 07/2024-06/2026, PI

Awards

  • Included in the World’s Top 2% Scientists (2021–2023) by Elsevier and Stanford University.
  • Recipient of the Hunan Provincial Distinguished Young Scholars Fund.
  • First Place, IEEE ICASSP Signal Processing Grand Challenge – “COVID-19 Radiomics,” 2021.
  • Best Paper Award, ACM Multimedia (ACM MM 2023), a CCF-A conference.
  • Best Paper Award Finalist, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT), 2021 & 2022.
  • First Prize, 12th National Conference on Electronic Data Forensics, 2024.
  • Recognized as a Top Academic Paper in China’s F5000 Leading Journal Collection, 2024.
  • Second Prize, CCF Technological Invention Award, 2022.
  • First Prize, CCF Outstanding Teaching Award, Hunan Province, 2022.
  • Second Prize, Hunan University Teaching Achievement Award, 2021.
  • Recipient of the Hunan University Excellent Teacher Award, 2023.
  • Outstanding Teaching Case Award for Professional Degree Graduate Education (Hunan Province, 2021) – “Threat of Deepfake Videos”.
  • First and Second Prizes as the supervising instructor in the National College Student Information Security Contests in 2019, 2020, 2022, and 2023.
  • Outstanding Master’s Thesis Supervisor, Hunan Province (2020, 2021, 2022).
  • Supervised students receiving Outstanding Master’s Theses (Hunan Province and Hunan University, 2019–2025).
  • Supervised Outstanding Undergraduate Theses (Hunan University, 2017, 2019, 2025).
  • Advisor of National First Prize in the China Graduate Cybersecurity Innovation Competition, 2024.
  • Advisor of the Top-Ranked “Ten Best Class Groups” at Hunan University (Class of 2019), 2022.
  • Recipient of the Yuelu Fellowship, Hunan University, 2019.
  • Named Distinguished Young Faculty Member, Hunan Province, 2019.
  • Excellent Contribution Award, 13th National Information Security Competition, 2020.
  • Recipient of the China Scholarship Council (CSC) Scholarship, 2016.
  • Recognized as an Excellent Communist Party Member, Hunan University, 2022.
  • Awards for teaching excellence and student mentorship from Hunan University in 2019, 2021, 2023.

Professional Recognitions

  • Associate Editor for Columns and Forum, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine (SPM), start from May 2021.
  • Vice Chair, Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA), Multimedia Security and Forensics Technical Committee, start from Nov. 2024.
  • Associate Editor for Multimedia Tools and Applications (MTAP), start from Oct. 2023.
  • IEEE Senior Member, start from Oct. 2021.
  • Elected Member, Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA), Multimedia Security and Forensics Technical Committee, start from Oct. 2020.
  • Elected Member, lEEE TrustCom, Technical Program Committee, start from Jul. 2025.
  • Elected Member, Chinese Institute of Electronics (CIE), Computer Forensics Technical Committee, start from Jan. 2015.
  • Elected Member, Chinese Institute of Electronics (CIE), Cyberspace Security Technical Committee, start from Jun. 2023.
  • Elected Member, China Society of Image and Graphics (CSIG), Digital Forensics and Security Technical Committee, start from May 2019.
  • Senior Member, Chinese Institute of Electronics (CIE), start from Jan. 2015.
  • Senior Member, China Computer Federation (CCF), start from Jan. 2018.
  • Senior Member, China Society of Image and Graphics(CSIG), start from May. 2023.