Xin Liao 廖鑫

Associate Professor, Ph.D supervisor, YueLu Fellow
College of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, Hunan University, P. R. China

Distinguished Scholar-teacher, Outstanding Master Dissertation Supervisor, Hunan Province, P. R. China

Associate Editor, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine (IF: 12.551)
IEEE Senior Member

Google Scholar, DBLP, Semantic Scholar

Homepage in Chinese (中文主页)

Email: xinliao@hnu.edu.cn, liaoxinbupt@gmail.com

About Me

Xin Liao (M'16--SM'21) received the B.E. degree and Ph.D. degree in information security from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China, in 2007 and 2012, respectively. He was a visiting scholar with University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA, from 2016 to 2017. He is currently an associate professor with Hunan University, Changsha, China, where he joined in 2012. He is a senior member of China Computer Federation and Chinese Institute of Electronics, respectively. He is also a member of Technical Committee (TC) on Multimedia Security and Forensics of Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association, TC on Computer Forensics of Chinese Institute of Electronics, and TC on Digital Forensics and Security of China Society of Image and Graphics. His current research interests include information security and assurance, steganography and steganalysis, forensic and privacy for multimedia and machine learning, watermarking.

Education

• Sept. 2007-July 2012      Ph. D. Information Security
  Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China
• Sept. 2003-July 2007      B. S. Application Mathematics
  Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China
  Granted Examination Waiver (GPA Top 1 in undergraduate years)

Professional Experience

• July 2012-Present           Associate Professor
  College of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, Hunan University
• Aug. 2016-Sept. 2017     Visiting Scholar
  Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, USA
• July 2015-Sept. 2015      Research Associate
  Department of Computer Science, The University of Hong Kong
• Mar. 2014-Mar. 2016      Postdoctoral Fellow
  State Key Laboratory of Computer Science, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Selected Publications

• 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 (JSTSP), vol. 14, no. 5, pp. 955-968, 2020.
• 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 (TDSC), 2020, DOI: 10.1109/TDSC.2020.3004708.
• 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 (TCSVT), vol. 30, no. 3, pp. 685-696, 2020. [ESI Highly Cited Paper]
• Juan Hu, Xin Liao*, Wei Wang, Zheng Qin. Detecting compressed Deepfake video in social networks using frame-temporality two-stream convolutional network. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT), 2021, DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2021.3074259.
• Xin Liao*, Zihang Huang, Lin Peng, Tong Qiao, First step towards parameters estimation of image operator chain. Information Science (INS), vol. 575, pp. 231-247, 2021
• Xin Liao*, Zihang Huang, A framework for parameters estimation of image operator chain. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) , Barcelona, Spain. May 4-8, 2020: 2787-2791.
• Jiaxin Chen, Xin Liao*, Wei Wang, Zheng Qin, A features decoupling method for multiple manipulations identification in image operation chains. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Toronto, ON, Canada. June 6-11, 2021: 2505-2509.
• Yuhao Sun, Xin Liao*, Jianfeng Liu, An efficient paper anti-counterfeiting method based on microstructure orientation estimation. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Toronto, ON, Canada. June 6-11, 2021: 2525-2529.
• Xin Liao*, Jing Peng, Yun Cao, GIFMarking: The robust watermarking for animated GIF based deep learning. Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation (JVCIR), vol. 79, 103244, 2021.
• Xin Liao, Jing Chen, Jiaxin Chen*, Image source identification with known post-processed based on convolutional neural network. Signal Processing: Image Communication (SPIC), vol. 99, 116438, 2021.
• Jiaxin Chen, Xin Liao*, Zheng Qin, Identifying tampering operations in image operator chains based on decision fusion. Signal Processing: Image Communication (SPIC), vol. 95, 116287, 2021.
• Junxue Yang, Xin 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.
• Lin Peng, Xin Liao*, Mingliang Chen, Resampling parameter estimation via dual-filtering based convolutional neural network. Multimedia Systems (MS), vol. 27, pp. 363-370, 2021
• Shangde Gao, Xin Liao*, Xuchong Liu, Real-time detecting one specific tampering operation in multiple operator chains. Journal of Real-Time Image Processing (JRTIP), vol. 16, pp. 741-750, 2019
• Xin Liao*, Jiaojiao Yin, Two embedding strategies for payload distribution in multiple images steganography. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal * Processing (ICASSP), Calgary, AB, Canada, April 15-20, 2018: 1982-1986
• Jiana Li, Xin Liao*, Rongbing Hu, Xuchong Liu, Detectability of the image operation order: upsampling and mean filtering. IEEE Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, 2018: 1544-1549
• Xin Liao*, Zheng Qin, Liping Ding, Data embedding in digital images using critical functions. Signal Processing: Image Communication (SPIC). vol. 58, pp. 146-156, 2017 [ESI Highly Cited Paper]
• Xin Liao*, Changwen Shu, Reversible data hiding in encrypted images based on absolute mean difference of multiple neighboring pixels. Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation (JVCIR). vol. 28, no. 4, pp. 21-27, 2015 [ESI Highly Cited Paper]

Awards

• 2021 The First Place of IEEE ICASSP Signal Processing Grand Challenge "COVID-19 Radiomics".
• 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.
• 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, 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.

Rsearch Grants

• "Research on passive image forensics of operator chains for processing history estimation", National Natural Science Foundation of China, Grant No. 61972142, 01/2020-12/2023
• "Research on distortion function and embedding positions for adaptive image steganography", National Natural Science Foundation of China, Grant No. 61402162, 01/2015-12/2017
• "Data acquisition analysis and databases construction for material simulation and performance optimization", National Key Research and Development Program of China, Grant No. 2018YFB0704003, 07/2018-06/2022
• "Data hiding based on game equilibrium", Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education, Grant No. 20130161120004, 01/2014-12/2016
• "Authenticity detection of digital images on social media", Hunan Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China, Grant No. 2020JJ4212, 01/2020-12/2022
• "GAN-based practical image steganography", Project Program of National Laboratory of Information Security, Grant No. 2020-ZD-06, 01/2020-12/2021
• "Research on batch steganography of digital images", Hunan Provincial Natural Science, Grant No. 2017JJ3040, 01/2017-12/2019
• "Research on dynamic covert communication based on IPv6", The Next Generation Internet Innovation project, Grant No. NGII20180412, 12/2018-11/2019
• "Research on adaptive image steganography based on game theory", Hunan Provincial Natural Science, Grant No. 2014JJ7024, 01/2014-12/2016
• "Research on adaptive image steganography", Project Program of National Laboratory of Information Security, Grant No. 2014-18, 01/2014-12/2015
• "Research on image authenticity identification based on processing history", Project Program of National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Grant No. 201900017, 01/2019-12/2020
• "Research on digital watermarking and digital forensics for cloud storage", China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, Grant No. 2014M560123, 09/2014-03/2016

Program Committee Member

• ACM Multimedia 2021
• IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (TrustCom 2015-2021)
• International Conference on Ubiquitous Security (UbiSec 2021)
• International Conference on Security and Privacy in Digital Economy (SPDE 2020)
• International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2018-2020)
• National Conference on Image and Graphics (NCIG 2020)
• IEEE International Conference on Big Data Intelligence and Computing (DataCom 2016-2019)
• IEEE MASS Workshop on Trust, Security and Privacy for Big Data (BigTrust 2018)
• International Conference on Security, Privacy and Anonymity in Computation, Communication and Storage (SpaCCS 2016, 2017)

Reviewer

• IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS)
• IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC)
• IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT)
• IEEE Transactions on MultiMedia (TMM)
• IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (TII)
• IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoT)
• IEEE MultiMedia
• IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
• ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM)
• International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
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