Yuan Lin, Ph.D., associate professor, master’s supervisor, deputy director of the Department of Information Security, School of Cyberspace Security and Information Law, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, forensic appraiser of the Forensic Appraisal Center of Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, affiliated to the Chongqing Key Laboratory of Image Cognition (Gao Xinboprofessor’s research group). He graduated from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China with a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree from the Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne (EPFL) under the tutelage of Prof. Touradj Ebrahimi (JPEG Chairman). His research interests include multimedia security, privacy protection, image and video processing, etc. He has published more than 30 academic papers in conferences and journals such as TIFS, TCSVT, MM, PR, etc., obtained 4 authorized patents, presided over 1 National Natural Science Foundation of China project and 4 provincial and ministerial projects, participated in the National Natural Science Foundation of China Innovation Research Group, Regional Joint Fund Project, EU Horizon 2020, and Swiss National Foundation and many other projects. He is currently a member of the Digital Media Forensics and Security Professional Committee of the Chinese Society of Image and Graphics. He has been engaged in video-related technology research and development at Technicolor Institute Hannover in Germany, Irdeto BV’s R&D headquarters in the Netherlands, and Huawei 2012 Laboratory Central Media Technology Institute.

📝 Publications

NeurIPS 2025
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MLEP: Multi-granularity Local Entropy Patterns for Generalized AI-generated Image Detection

Lin Yuan, Xiaowan Li, Yan Zhang, Jiawei Zhang, Hongbo Li, Xinbo Gao

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IEEE TCSVT 2025
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Deepfake Detection Leveraging Self-Blended Artifacts Guided by Facial Embedding Discrepancy

Shanshan Han, Shuang Li, Shuodi Wang, Lin Yuan, Yan Zhang, Xinbo Gao

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计算机科学 2025
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Adversarial Face Privacy Protection Based on Makeup Style Patch Activation

Lin Yuan, Kaile Hao, Jiawei Zhang, Mingrui Zhu, Nannan Wang, Xinbo Gao

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IEEE SPL 2025
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Big Brother Is Watching: Proactive Deepfake Detection via Learnable Hidden Face

Hongbo Li, Shangchao Yang, Ruiyang Xia, Lin Yuan, Xinbo Gao

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Pattern Recognition 2025
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iFADIT: Invertible Face Anonymization via Disentangled Identity Transform

Lin Yuan, Kai Liang, Xiong Li, Tao Wu, Nannan Wang, Xinbo Gao

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IEEE SPL 2024
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Improving Image-Text Matching by Integrating Word Sense Disambiguation

Xiao Pu, Ping Yang, Lin Yuan, Xinbo Gao

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IEEE TCSVT 2024
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Invertible Image Obfuscation for Facial Privacy Protection via Secure Flow

Lin Yuan, Kai Liang, Xiao Pu, Yan Zhang, Jiaxu Leng, Tao Wu, Nannan Wang, Xinbo Gao

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IEEE TIFS 2024
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PRO-Face C: Privacy-Preserving Recognition of Obfuscated Face via Feature Compensation

Lin Yuan, Wu Chen, Xiao Pu, Yan Zhang, Hongbo Li, Yushu Zhang, Xinbo Gao, Touradj Ebrahimi

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Pattern Recognitiont 2024
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MiC: Image-text Matching in Circles with cross-modal generative knowledge enhancement

Xiao Pu, Yuwen Chen, Lin Yuan, Yan Zhang, Hongbo Li, Liping Jing, Xinbo Gao

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ACM MM 2022
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PRO-Face: A Generic Framework for Privacy-preserving Recognizable Obfuscation of Face Images

Lin Yuan, Linguo Liu, Xiao Pu, Zhao Li, Hongbo Li, Xinbo Gao

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📖 Educations

  • 2014.3 – 2017.7, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Ph.D in Electrical Engineering, Lausanne, Switzerland.
  • 2011.9 – 2013.10, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Lausanne, Switzerland.
  • 2007.9 – 2011.7, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), B.S. in Electronic Science and Technology, Chengdu, China.

💻 Work Experience

  • 2021.07 - Now, [Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications], Chongqing,China.
  • 2020.03 - 2021.06, [Huawei], Hangzhou,Zhejiang,China.
  • 2017.10 - 2019.12, [Irdeto BV], Hoofddorp,The Netherlands.
  • 2012.07 - 2013.08, [Technicolor], Hannover,Germany.