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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Recent Selected Publications Since 2020

  1. [53] 范宇祺, 陈嘉欣, 廖鑫*, 陈昌盛, 章登勇. 基于像素级-块级伪影协同建模的AI生成图像模型溯源. 软件学报, 2026. [CCF A]
  2. [52] Jie Huang, Junjie Wang, Xin Liao, Ziyou Jiang, Wenshuo Wang, Shoubin Li, Qing Wang. Generative Text-to-Image Retrieval via Hierarchical Identifiers and Semantic Internalization. Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2026. [CCF A]
  3. [51] Yufeng Wu, Xin Liao*, Baowei Wang, Han Fang, Guiling Wang. ReaguMark: A Resolution-Agnostic Unified Watermarking Framework for Screen-Camera Distortion Resistance. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 2026. [SCI #1] [CCF A]
  4. [50] Junxue Yang, Xin Liao*, Weixuan Tang, Jianhua Yang, Zhen Xia, Zheng Qin. Towards Imperceptible Color JPEG Image Hiding: Multi-Range Representations-Driven Adversarial Stego Generation. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 2026. [SCI #1]
  5. [49] Ziyuan He, Zhiqing Guo, Liejun Wang, Xiaoming Tao, Xin Liao. One-Identity-One-Key: Region-aware Watermark for Proactive Deepfake Detection and Robust Source Tracing. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 2026. [SCI #1]
  6. [48] Fangjun Yan, Yutong Huang, Li Dong, Jiacheng Deng, Qiuping Jiang, Zhibo Wang, Xin Liao. Universal Adversarial Watermarking for Text Image Protection Via Template-Based Underpainting. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 2026. [CCF A]
  7. [47] Dengyong Zhang, Miao Hu, Jiaxin Chen, Changsheng Chen, Jin Wang, Yun Song, Gaobo Yang, Xin Liao, Xiangling Ding. FALCON-Net: Feature Aggregation of Local Patterns for AI-Generated Image Detection. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, vol. 21, pp. 3842-3855, 2026. [SCI #1] [CCF A]
  8. [46] Songlin Li, Zhiqing Guo, Changtao Miao, Wenzhong Yang, Liejun Wang, Gaobo Yang, Xin Liao. Prototype Memory-based Neighboring Feature Fusion Network for Image Manipulation Localization. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 2026. [SCI #1]
  9. [45] Lihao Deng, Yuanhang Huang, Xiaorong Ma, Xin Liao, Weiqi Luo. FreqDINO: Frequency-Aware Adaptation of Vision Transformers for AI-Generated Content Detection. The IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME), 2026.
  10. [44] Beijing Chen, Yuxuan Chen, Xin Liao, Zhangjie Fu. DiffSwap-Tracker: A Robust Watermark for Tracing Diffusion-Based Face Swapping. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 2026. [SCI #1] [CCF A]
  11. [43] Kaiyue Hou, Cheng Zeng, Xiaoyi Zhou, Dahao Fu, Xin Liao. Multi-Dimensional Histogram Modification Framework for Reversible Data Hiding in JPEG Images. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 2026. [SCI #1]
  12. [42] Zixuan Cao, Xin Liao*, Yufeng Wu, Junjie Wang, Xiaoshuai Wu. DrawMark: Defeating Regeneration Attacks by Embedding Watermark into Predicted Noise of Diffusion Models. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2026.
  13. [41] 姚意智, 廖鑫*, 欧博, 胡峰松, 秦拯. 基于自同步机制的抗屏摄水印方法. 计算机学报, vol. 49, no. 4, pp. 934-951, 2026. [CCF A]
  14. [40] Yufeng Wu, Xin Liao*, Baowei Wang, Han Fang, Xiaoshuai Wu, Mingyue Chen, Guiling Wang. Sim-to-Real: An Unsupervised Noise Layer for Screen-Camera Watermarking Robustness. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2026. [CCF A]
  15. [39] Xiaoshuai Wu, Xin Liao*, Jie Zhang, Mingyue Chen, Yufeng Wu, Jinlin Guo. Versatile and Harmless Deepfake Proactive Forensics via Conditional Watermarking. Information Sciences, 123030, 2025.
  16. [38] Saixing Zhou, Miaoxin Ye, Weiqi Luo, Xin Liao, Kangkang Wei. Color Image Steganography Using Generative Adversarial Networks with a Phased Training Strategy. ACM Workshop on Information Hiding and Multimedia Security (IH&MMSec), 2025.
  17. [37] Dengyong Zhang, Runqi Lou, Jiaxin Chen, Xiangling Ding, Xin Liao, Gaobo Yang. Video Frame Interpolation via Fast Bidirectional 3D Correlation Volume. ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications, vol. 21, no. 5, pp. 1-22, 2025.
  18. [36] Mingyue Chen, Xin Liao*, Han Fang, Jinlin Guo, Yanxiang Chen, Xiaoshuai Wu. Flexible Partial Screen-Shooting Watermarking With Provable Robustness. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 35, no. 12, pp. 12152-12166, 2025. [SCI #1]
  19. [35] 王玉梅, 胡娟, 武晓帅, 肖靖, 陈雁翔, 廖鑫*. 基于面部动作不一致的压缩深度伪造视频检测方法. 重庆邮电大学学报(自然科学版), vol. 37, no. 3, pp. 445-452, 2025.
  20. [34] 秦拯, 沈剑, 邓桦, 欧露, 靳文强, 胡玉鹏, 廖鑫. 数据安全. 人民邮电出版社.
  21. [33] Dengyong Zhang, Nuo Fu, Xin Liao, Jiaxin Chen, Hengfu Yang, Gaobo Yang. Efficient Hierarchical Feature Collaboration Transformer for Image Inpainting. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol. 27, pp. 5255-5266, 2025. [SCI #1] [CCF A]
  22. [32] Jiaxin Chen, Xin Liao*, Zhenxing Qian, Zheng Qin. PRest-Net: Multi-Domain Probability Estimation Network for Robust Image Forgery Detection. ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications, vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 1-20, 2025.
  23. [31] 廖鑫, 乔通, 董理, 陈艳丽, 陈嘉欣, 秦拯. 数字图像取证. 复旦大学出版社.
  24. [30] Tianyi Wang, Xin Liao*, Kam Pui Chow, Xiaodong Lin, Yinglong Wang. Deepfake Detection: A Comprehensive Survey from the Reliability Perspective. ACM Computing Surveys, vol. 57, no. 3, pp. 1-35, 2024. [SCI #1] [ESI Highly Cited Paper]
  25. [29] Juan Hu, Jinwen Liang, Zheng Qin, Xin Liao*, Wenbo Zhou, Xiaodong Lin. ADA-FInfer: Inferring Face Representations from Adaptive Select Frames for High-Visual-Quality Deepfake Detection. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 3011-3027, 2024. [CCF A]
  26. [28] Yunming Zhang, Dengpan Ye, Caiyun Xie, Long Tang, Xin Liao, Ziyi Liu, Chuanxi Chen, Jiacheng Deng. Dual Defense: Adversarial, Traceable, and Invisible Robust Watermarking Against Face Swapping. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, vol. 19, pp. 4628-4641, 2024. [SCI #1] [CCF A]
  27. [27] Xiaoshuai Wu, Xin Liao*, Bo Ou, Yuling Liu, Zheng Qin. Are Watermarks Bugs for Deepfake Detectors? Rethinking Proactive Forensics. Proceedings of the Thirty-Third International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2024. [CCF A]
  28. [26] Juan Hu, Xin Liao*, Difei Gao, Satoshi Tsutsui, Qian Wang, Zheng Qin, Mike Zheng Shou. DeLocate: Detection and Localization for Deepfake Videos with Randomly-Located Tampered Traces. Proceedings of the Thirty-Third International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2024. [CCF A]
  29. [25] Dunyun Chen, Xin Liao*, Xiaoshuai Wu, Shiwei Chen. SafePaint: Anti-Forensic Image Inpainting with Domain Adaptation. Proceedings of the 32nd ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2024. [CCF A]
  30. [24] Jingzhi Li, Changjiang Luo, Hua Zhang, Yang Cao, Xin Liao, Xiaochun Cao. Anti-Fake Vaccine: Safeguarding Privacy Against Face Swapping via Visual-Semantic Dual Degradation. International Journal of Computer Vision, vol. 133, no. 4, pp. 2025-2043, 2025. [CCF A]
  31. [23] 李谢华, 娄芹, 杨俊雪, 廖鑫. 结合可逆神经网络和逆梯度注意力的抗屏摄攻击水印方法. 电子与信息学报, vol. 46, no. 7, pp. 3046-3053, 2024.
  32. [22] Yiyi Li, Xin Liao*, Xiaoshuai Wu. Screen-Shooting Resistant Watermarking with Grayscale Deviation Simulation. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol. 26, pp. 10908-10923, 2024. [SCI #1] [CCF A] [ESI Highly Cited Paper]
  33. [21] Yang Tian, Xin Liao*, Li Dong, Yang Xu, Hongbo Jiang. Amount-Based Covert Communication over Blockchain. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 3095-3111, 2024.
  34. [20] Linbo Fu, Xin Liao*, Jinlin Guo, Li Dong, Zheng Qin. WaveRecovery: Screen-Shooting Watermarking Based on Wavelet and Recovery. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 35, no. 4, pp. 3603-3618, 2024. [SCI #1] [ESI Highly Cited Paper]
  35. [19] Dengyong Zhang, Jiahao Chen, Xin Liao*, Feng Li, Jiaxin Chen, Gaobo Yang. Face Forgery Detection via Multi-Feature Fusion and Local Enhancement. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 34, no. 9, pp. 8972-8977, 2024. [SCI #1]
  36. [18] Fan Li, Yanxiang Chen, Haiyang Liu, Zuxing Zhao, Yuanzhi Yao, Xin Liao. Vocoder Detection of Spoofing Speech Based on GAN Fingerprints and Domain Generalization. ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications, vol. 20, no. 6, pp. 1-20, 2024.
  37. [17] Dengyong Zhang, Wenjie Zhu, Xin Liao*, Feifan Qi, Gaobo Yang, Xiangling Ding. Spatiotemporal Inconsistency Learning and Interactive Fusion for Deepfake Video Detection. ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 1-24, 2024.
  38. [16] Dengyong Zhang, Ruiyi He, Xin Liao*, Feng Li, Jiaxin Chen, Gaobo Yang. Face Forgery Detection Based on Fine-Grained Clues and Noise Inconsistency. IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 144-158, 2024.
  39. [15] Xiaoshuai Wu, Xin Liao*, Bo Ou. SepMark: Deep Separable Watermarking for Unified Source Tracing and Deepfake Detection. Proceedings of the 31st ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2023. [CCF A]
  40. [14] Junxue Yang, Xin Liao*. Exploiting Fine-Grained DCT Representations for Hiding Image-Level Messages Within JPEG Images. Proceedings of the 31st ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2023. [CCF A]
  41. [13] Yulin Zhang, Jiangqun Ni, Wenkang Su, Xin Liao. A Novel Deep Video Watermarking Framework with Enhanced Robustness to H.264/AVC Compression. Proceedings of the 31st ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2023. [CCF A]
  42. [12] Xin Liao*, Yumei Wang, Tianyi Wang, Juan Hu, Xiaoshuai Wu. FAMM: Facial Muscle Motions for Detecting Compressed Deepfake Videos over Social Networks. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 33, no. 12, pp. 7236-7251, 2023. [SCI #1] [ESI Highly Cited Paper]
  43. [11] Jiyou Chen, Gaobo Yang, Shengchun Wang, Dewang Wang, Xin Liao. Image Dehazing Assessment: A Real-World Dataset and a Haze Density-Aware Criteria. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol. 26, pp. 6037-6049, 2023. [SCI #1] [CCF A]
  44. [10] 廖鑫*, 唐志强, 曹纭. 基于生成对抗网络的空域彩色图像隐写失真函数设计方法. 软件学报, vol. 33, no. 9, pp. 3470-3484, 2022. [CCF A]
  45. [9] 廖鑫, 黎懿熠, 欧阳军林, 周江盟, 戴湘桃, 秦拯. 一种基于深度学习的移动端隐写方法. 湖南大学学报(自然科学版), vol. 49, no. 4, pp. 18-25, 2022.
  46. [8] Juan Hu, Xin Liao*, Jinwen Liang, Wenbo Zhou, Zheng Qin. FInfer: Frame Inference-Based Deepfake Detection for High-Visual-Quality Videos. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2022. [CCF A]
  47. [7] Mingliang Chen, Xin Liao, Min Wu. PulseEdit: Editing Physiological Signals in Facial Videos for Privacy Protection. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, vol. 17, pp. 457-471, 2022. [SCI #1] [CCF A]
  48. [6] Jingxuan Tan, Xin Liao*, Jiate Liu, Yun Cao, Hongbo Jiang. Channel Attention Image Steganography with Generative Adversarial Networks. IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 888-903, 2021. [ESI Highly Cited Paper]
  49. [5] 沈军, 廖鑫*, 秦拯, 刘绪崇. 基于卷积神经网络的低嵌入率空域隐写分析. 软件学报, vol. 32, no. 9, pp. 2901-2915, 2021. [CCF A]
  50. [4] Juan Hu, Xin Liao*, Wei Wang, Zheng Qin. Detecting Compressed Deepfake Videos in Social Networks Using Frame-Temporality Two-Stream Convolutional Network. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 32, no. 3, pp. 1089-1102, 2021. [SCI #1] [ESI Highly Cited Paper]
  51. [3] Xin Liao*, Yingbo Yu, Bin Li, Zhongpeng Li, Zheng Qin. A New Payload Partition Strategy in Color Image Steganography. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 30, no. 3, pp. 685-696, 2020. [SCI #1] [ESI Highly Cited Paper]
  52. [2] Xin Liao*, Jiaojiao Yin, Mingliang Chen, Zheng Qin. Adaptive Payload Distribution in Multiple Images Steganography Based on Image Texture Features. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 897-911, 2020. [CCF A] [ESI Highly Cited Paper]
  53. [1] Xin Liao*, Kaide Li, Xinshan Zhu, K. J. Ray Liu. Robust Detection of Image Operator Chain with Two-Stream Convolutional Neural Network. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, vol. 14, no. 5, pp. 955-968, 2020. [ESI Highly Cited Paper]