Multimedia Security and Forensics Group

Xin Liao, Ph. D.

Xin Liao

Professor, PhD. Supervisor
Director of Cyberspace Security Department
Hunan University, China
email: xinliao AT hnu.edu.cn
Chinese homepage（中文主页）: http://csee.hnu.edu.cn/people/liaoxin
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News

  • 2024.08 Congratulations to Dr. Chen Jiaxin 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 Director of Cyberspace Security Department with 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 Secretary 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）: http://csee.hnu.edu.cn/people/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
  • "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

  • 2021-2023 World's Top2% Scientists selected by Elsevier and Stanford University.
  • Hunan Provincial Funds for Distinguished Young Scholars.
  • 2021 The First Place of IEEE ICASSP Signal Processing Grand Challenge "COVID-19 Radiomics".
  • 2023 ACM Multimedia, Best Paper Award Finalist 4/902.
  • 2022 IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Best Paper Award Finalist.
  • 2022 The First Place of The 15th National College Student Information Security Contest.
  • 2023 The Second Place of The 16th National College Student Information Security Contest.
  • 2022 Outstanding Master Dissertation Supervisor, Hunan Province, China.
  • 2022 The Second Place of CCF Technological Inventiong Awards, China
  • 2022 The First Place of CCF Outstanding Teaching Awards, Hunan Province, China.
  • 2021 The Second Place of Hunan University Outstanding Teaching Awards.
  • 2021 Outstanding Master Dissertation Supervisor, Hunan Province, China.
  • 2021 Outstanding Teaching Case for Professional Degree Graduates, Hunan Province, China. "Threat of Deepfakes Video".
  • 2020 Outstanding Master Dissertation Supervisor, Hunan Province, China.
  • 2020 Excellent Contribution Award, National Information Security Competition for College Student.
  • 2019 Recipient of the Distinguished Scholar-teacher, Hunan Province, China.
  • 2019 Recipient of the YueLu Fellow of Hunan University, China.
  • 2016 China Scholarship Council Scholarship.

Professional Recognitions

  • Associate Editor for Columns and Forum, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine (SPM), start from May 2021.
  • Secretary, Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA), Multimedia Security and Forensics Technical Committee, start from Nov. 2022.
  • 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, 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.