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

    2026
    Paper
    DrawMark: Defeating Regeneration Attacks by Embedding Watermark into Predicted Noise of Diffusion Models
    Z Cao, X Liao*, Y Wu, J Wang, X Wu
    IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2026.
    Paper
    Self-Synchronization mechanism Based Screen-Shooting Resilient Watermarking
    Y Yao, X Liao*, B Ou, F Hu, Z Qin
    Chinese Journal of Computers, 2026. (in Chinese) [CCF A]
    Paper
    Sim-to-Real: An Unsupervised Noise Layer for Screen-Camera Watermarking Robustness
    Y Wu, X Liao*, B Wang, H Fang, X Wu, M Chen, G Wang
    Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2026. [CCF A]
    2025
    Paper
    Versatile and Harmless Deepfake Proactive Forensics via Conditional Watermarking
    X Wu, X Liao*, J Zhang, M Chen, Y Wu, J Guo
    Information Sciences (INS), DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2025.123030, 2025.
    Paper
    Color Image Steganography Using Generative Adversarial Networks with a Phased Training Strategy
    S Zhou, M Ye, W Luo, X Liao, K Wei
    Proceedings of the ACM Workshop on Information Hiding and Multimedia Security, 2025.
    Paper
    Video Frame Interpolation via Fast Bidirectional 3D Correlation Volume
    D Zhang, R Lou, J Chen, X Ding, X Liao, G Yang
    ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications (TOMM), DOI: 10.1145/3724123, 2025.
    Paper
    Flexible Partial Screen-shooting Watermarking with Provable Robustness
    M Chen, X Liao*, H Fang, J Guo, Y Chen, X Wu
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT), DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2025.3585739, 2025.
    Paper
    Compressed deepfake video detection method based on inconsistent facial motion
    Y Wang, J Hu, X Wu, J Xiao, Y Chen, X Liao*
    Journal of Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, vol. 37, no. 3, pp. 445-452, 2025. (in Chinese)
    Paper
    Data security
    Z Qin, J Shen, H Deng, L Ou, W Jin, Y Hu, X Liao
    Posts & Telecom Press, 2025. (in Chinese)
    Paper
    Efficient hierarchical feature collaboration transformer for image inpainting
    D Zhang, N Fu, X Liao*, J Chen, H Yang, G Yang
    IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), DOI: 10.1109/TMM.2025.3543039, 2025.
    Paper
    PRest-Net: multi-domain probability estimation network for robust image forgery detection
    J Chen, X Liao*, Z Qian, Z Qin
    ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM), DOI: 10.1145/3711930, 2025.
    2024
    Paper
    Digital image forensics
    X Liao, T Qiao, L Dong, Y Chen, J Chen, Z Qin
    Fudan University Press, 2024. (in Chinese)
    Paper
    Deepfake detection: a comprehensive survey from the reliability perspective
    T Wang, X Liao*, K Chow, X Lin, Y Wang
    ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), DOI: 10.1145/3699710, 2024. [TOP Journal] [IF=23.8]
    Paper
    ADA-FInfer: inferring face representations from adaptive select frames for high-visual-quality Deepfake detection
    J Hu, J Liang, Z Qin*, X Liao*, W Zhou, X Lin
    IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), DOI: 10.1109/TDSC.2024.3523289, 2024.
    Paper
    Dual defense: adversarial, traceable, and invisible robust watermarking against face swapping
    Y Zhang, D Ye, C Xie, L Tang, X Liao, Z Liu, C Chen, J Deng
    IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), 2024. [CCF A]
    Paper
    Are watermarks bugs for Deepfake detectors? Rethinking proactive forensics
    X Wu, X Liao*, B Ou, Y Liu, Z Qin
    International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2024. [CCF A]
    Paper
    Delocate: detection and localization for Deepfake videos with randomly-located tampered traces
    J Hu, X Liao*, D Gao, Satoshi, Q Wang, Z Qin, Mike Shou
    International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2024. [CCF A]
    Paper
    SafePaint: anti-forensic image inpainting with domain adaptation
    D Chen, X Liao*, X Wu, S Chen
    ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2024. [CCF A]
    Paper
    Anti-fake vaccine: safeguarding privacy against face swapping via visual-semantic dual degradation
    J Li, C Luo, H Zhang, Y Cao, X Liao, X Cao
    International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), 2024. [CCF A]
    Paper
    Screen-shooting resistant watermarking with grayscale deviation simulation
    Y Li, X Liao*, X Wu
    IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), 2024. [SCI #1]
    Paper
    Amount-based covert communication over blockchain
    Y Tian, X Liao, L Dong, Y Xu, H Jiang
    IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM), 2024.
    Paper
    WaveRecovery: screen-shooting watermarking based on wavelet and recovery
    L Fu, X Liao*, J Guo, L Dong, Z Qin
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT), 2024. [ESI Highly Cited Paper]
    Paper
    Face forgery detection via multi-feature fusion and local enhancement
    D Zhang, J Chen, X Liao*, F Li, J Chen, G Yang
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT), 2024.
    Paper
    Vocoder detection of spoofing speech based on GAN fingerprints and domain generalization
    F Li, Y Chen, H Liu, Z Zhao, Y Yao, X Liao
    ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM), 2024.
    Paper
    Spatiotemporal inconsistency learning and interactive fusion for Deepfake video detection
    D Zhang, W Zhu, X Liao*, F Qi, G Yang, X Ding
    ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications (TOMM), 2024.
    Paper
    Face forgery detection based on fine-grained clues and noise inconsistency
    D Zhang, R He, X Liao*, F Li, J Chen, G Yang
    IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence (TAI), 2024.
    2023
    Paper
    SepMark: deep separable watermarking for unified source tracing and Deepfake detection
    X Wu, X Liao*, B Ou
    ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2023. [CCF A]
    Paper
    Exploiting fine-grained DCT representations for hiding image-level messages within JPEG images
    J Yang, X Liao*
    ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2023. [CCF A]
    Paper
    A novel deep video watermarking framework with enhanced robustness to H.264/AVC compression
    Y Zhang, J Ni, W Su, X Liao
    ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2023. [CCF A]
    Paper
    FAMM: facial muscle motions for detecting compressed Deepfake videos over social networks
    X Liao*, Y Wang, T Wang, J Hu, X Wu
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT), 2023. [SCI #1]
    Paper
    Image dehazing assessment: a real-world dataset and a haze density-aware criteria
    J Chen, G Yang, S Wang, D Wang, X Liao
    IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), 2023. [SCI #1]
    2022
    Paper
    FInfer: frame inference-based Deepfake detection for high-visual-quality videos
    J Hu, X Liao*, J Liang, W Zhou, Z Qin
    Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2022. [CCF A]
    Paper
    PulseEdit: editing physiological signal in facial videos for privacy protection
    M Chen, X Liao, M Wu*
    IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), 2022. [CCF A]
    2021
    Paper
    Spatial steganalysis of low embedding rate based on convolutional neural network
    J Shen, X Liao*, Z Qin, X Liu
    Journal of Software, 2021. (in Chinese) [CCF A]
    Paper
    Detecting compressed Deepfake video in social networks using frame-temporality two-stream convolutional network
    J Hu, X Liao*, W Wang, Z Qin
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT), 2021. [ESI Highly Cited Paper]
    2020
    Paper
    Adaptive payload distribution in multiple images steganography based on image texture features
    X Liao*, J Yin, M Chen, Z Qin
    IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), 2020. [CCF A] [ESI Highly Cited Paper]
    Paper
    Robust detection of image operator chain with two-stream convolutional neural network
    X Liao*, K Li, X Zhu, K. J. R Liu
    IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing (JSTSP), 2020. [TOP Journal]
  • X Liao*, J Peng, Y Cao, GIFMarking: the robust watermarking for animated GIF based deep learning. Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation (JVCIR), vol. 79, 103244, 2021. [pdf]
  • X Liao, J Chen, J Chen*, Image source identification with known post-processed based on convolutional neural network. Signal Processing: Image Communication (SPIC), vol. 99, 116438, 2021. [pdf]
  • J Chen, X Liao*, Z Qin, Identifying tampering operations in image operator chains based on decision fusion. Signal Processing: Image Communication (SPIC), vol. 95, 116287, 2021. [pdf]
  • J Yang, X Liao*, ACGIS: adversarial cover generator for image steganography with noise residuals features-preserving. Signal Processing: Image Communication (SPIC), vol. 113, 116927, 2023. [pdf]
  • J Yang, X Liao*, An embedding strategy on fusing multiple image features for data hiding in multiple images. Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation (JVCIR), vol. 71, 102822, 2020. [pdf]
  • L Peng, X Liao*, M Chen, Resampling parameter estimation via dual-filtering based convolutional neural network. Multimedia Systems (MS), vol. 27, pp. 363-370, 2021. [pdf]
  • S Gao, J Chen*, X Liao. Exploring feature coupling for multiple operations type and order detection. IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP), 2022. [pdf]