Hanzhou Wu

Google Scholar // Curriculum Vitae · WuCode · h.wu.phd (at) ieee.org

Keywords: steganography, steganalysis, digital watermarking, digital forensics.

Occupation

• Adjunct Professor, Guizhou Normal University, Guiyang, China, 2024 -
• Associate Professor, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China, 2021 -
• Assistant Professor, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China, 2019 - 2021.
• Research Scientist, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, 2017 - 2019.
• Visiting Scholar, New Jersey Institute of Technology, New Jersey, USA, 2014 - 2016.
• Ph.D., Information Security, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China, 2011 - 2017.
• B.Sc., Information Security, with Mao Yisheng Honors Class, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China, 2007 - 2011.

Book Chapters

• Unsupervised steganographer identification via clustering and outlier detection, Digital Media Steganography, Elsevier, 2020.
• Recent advances in reversible watermarking in an encrypted domain, Advanced Security Solutions for Multimedia, IOP Science, 2021.
• Graph models in information hiding, Recent Applications in Graph Theory, IntechOpen, 2021.
• Linguistic steganography and linguistic steganalysis, Adversarial Multimedia Forensics, Springer, 2024.

Selected Preprints

Selected Publications (1st/Corresponding Author)

• Structural design of convolutional neural networks for steganalysis, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 2016.
• Ensemble of CNNs for steganalysis: an empirical study, ACM Workshop on Information Hiding and Multimedia Security, 2016.
• PPE-based reversible data hiding, ACM Workshop on Information Hiding and Multimedia Security, 2016.
• Dynamic content selection-and-prediction framework applied to reversible data hiding, IEEE International Workshop on Information Forensics and Security, 2016.
• Separable reversible data hiding for encrypted palette images with color partitioning and flipping verification, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 2017.
• New graph-theoretic approach to social steganography, IS&T Electronic Imaging, Media Watermarking, Security, and Forensics, 2019.
• Reducing invertible embedding distortion using graph matching model, IS&T Electronic Imaging, Media Watermarking, Security, and Forensics, 2020.
• Watermarking in deep neural networks via error back-propagation, IS&T Electronic Imaging, Media Watermarking, Security, and Forensics, 2020.
• Generative text steganography based on LSTM network and attention mechanism with keywords, IS&T Electronic Imaging, Media Watermarking, Security, and Forensics, 2020.
• Patch-level selection and breadth-first prediction strategy for reversible data hiding, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2020.
• Game-theoretic analysis to parameterized reversible watermarking, IETE Technical Review, 2021.
• Linguistic steganalysis with graph neural networks, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 2021.
• Watermarking neural networks with watermarked images, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 2021.
• Structural watermarking to deep neural networks via network channel pruning, IEEE International Workshop on Information Forensics and Security, 2021.
• ALiSa: Acrostic linguistic steganography based on BERT and Gibbs sampling, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 2022.
• Exploiting language model for efficient linguistic steganalysis, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2022.
• Robust and lossless fingerprinting of deep neural networks via pooled membership inference, IEEE HPCC, 2022. (AR: 117/663 = 17.6%, Session Chair)
• Hiding data hiding, Pattern Recognition Letters, 2023.
• Semantic-preserving linguistic steganography by pivot translation and semantic-aware bins coding, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 2023. Code by Tianyu Yang
• Overview of artificial intelligence model watermarking (in Chinese), Journal of Image and Graphics, 2023.
• A fast method for robust video watermarking based on Zernike moments, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 2023.
• Prompting steganography: a new paradigm, IS&T Electronic Imaging, Media Watermarking, Security, and Forensics, 2024. Slides
• Robust and imperceptible black-box DNN watermarking based on Fourier perturbation analysis and frequency sensitivity clustering, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 2024.
• Suppressing high-frequency artifacts for generative model watermarking by anti-aliasing, ACM Workshop on Information Hiding and Multimedia Security, 2024.
• Watermarking text documents with watermarked fonts, ACM Workshop on Information Hiding and Multimedia Security, 2024.

Services and Activities

• Technical Committee Member, IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Machine Intelligence, Allahabad, India, 2024.
• Steering Committee Member, 16th International Conference on Advances in Multimedia, Barcelona, Spain, 2024.
• Technical Committee Member, APSIPA Multimedia Security and Forensics (MFS), November 2023 -
• Invited Speech, Information hiding and its detection, Binjiang Institute of Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, 2023.
• Invited Speech, Rhino-Bird Middle School Science Talents Training Program, Tencent Inc., 2023.
• Invited Speech, Interpretable black-box model watermarking in frequency domain, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China, 2023.
• Invited Speech, Model watermarking for speech signal processing, A2M Summit, Shanghai, China, 2023.
• Guest Editor, Recent Advances in AI-Based Multimedia Security and Protection with Symmetry, Symmetry, 2023.
• Steering Committee Member, 15th International Conference on Advances in Multimedia, Venice, Italy, 2023.
• Steering Committee Member & Keynote Speech, 14th International Conference on Advances in Multimedia, Barcelona, Spain, 2022.
• Local Organization Chair, 14th IEEE International Workshop on Information Forensics and Security, Shanghai, China, 2022.
• Lead Guest Editor, Advances in AI-related Information Forensics and Security, Security and Communication Networks, 2022.
• Lead Guest Editor, Information Hiding - New Applications and Solutions, International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, 2021.
• Review manuscripts for influential journals and conferences covering information forensics and security, always.

Seminars

Honors and Awards

• Outstanding Paper Award (co-author), China Media Forensics and Security Workshop, 2023.
• CCF-Tencent Rhino-Bird Young Faculty Open Research Fund (as PI), Tencent Inc., 2022.
• Best Presentation Award (1st author), China Media Forensics and Security Workshop, 2021.
• Outstanding Paper Award (1st author), China Information Hiding Workshop, 2019.
• Shanghai Chenguang Scholar (as PI), Shanghai Municipal Education Commission, 2019.
• Silver Medal (as a contestant), 36th ACM-ICPC Asia Regional Programming Contest (Chengdu Site), 2011.
• Silver Medal (as a contestant), 36th ACM-ICPC Beijing Invitational Programming Contest (Beijing Site), 2011.
• Silver Medal (as a contestant), "Google Cup" ACM-ICPC Fudan Invitational Programming Contest (Shanghai Site), 2011.
• Bronze Medal (as a contestant), 35th ACM-ICPC Asia Regional Programming Contest (Hangzhou Site), 2010.
• Bronze Medal (as a contestant), 35th ACM-ICPC Asia Regional Programming Contest (Tianjin Site), 2010.

Graduated Students

• 2023: Xiaoyan Zheng (M.Sc., Thesis), Tianyu Yang (M.Sc., Thesis), Shiyi Chen (M.Sc., Thesis), Tianxing Zhang (M.Sc., Thesis), Qiyun Liu (M.Sc., Thesis)
• 2022: Biao Yi (M.Sc., Thesis), Yumin Wang (M.Sc., Thesis), Xiaoyu Zhang (B.Sc., Thesis, Best Thesis Award), Lina Lin (B.Sc., Best Thesis Award)

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