I’m currently a postdotoral fellow in School of Computer Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University and a member of Artificial Intelligence and Cognization Security (AICS) Lab. My research interests include multimedia steganography, steganalysis, information hiding, etc.

Backgrounds

• 2025.05-Present: Postdoc, School of Computer Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
• 2020.09-2025.06: Ph.D., School of Computer Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
• 2016.09-2020.06: B.S., School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Beijing Jiaotong University.

Selected Publications

Full list of publications in Google Scholar

Journals

• Laijin Meng, Xinghao Jiang, Qiang Xu, Zhongjie Mi, Shijie Hou, Tanfeng Sun. Toward Resisting Black-box Attacks: A Robust Coverless Image Steganography Based on Hierarchical CID and Dual SIFT. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 2026, 23(1): 981-996. (CCF A, IF: 7.5)(PDF)
• Laijin Meng, Xinghao Jiang, Qiang Xu, Tanfeng Sun. A Robust Coverless Video Steganography Based on Two-level DCT Features Against Video Attacks. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 2025,27: 6434-6448. (CCF A, Q1-Top, IF: 9.7)(PDF)
• Laijin Meng, Fan Li, Xinghao Jiang, Qiang Xu. A Universal Framework for Improving the Robustness of Coverless Image Steganography Based on Image Restoration. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 2025, 35(1): 922-937. (Q1-Top, IF: 11.1)(PDF)
• Laijin Meng, Xinghao Jiang, Tanfeng Sun, Zeyu Zhao, Qiang Xu. A Robust Coverless Video Steganography Based on the Similarity of Inter-Frames. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 2024, 26: 5996-6011. (CCF A, Q1-Top, IF: 8.4)(PDF)
• Laijin Meng, Xinghao Jiang, Zhenzhen Zhang, Zhaohong Li, Tanfeng Sun. A Robust Coverless Image Steganography Based on an End-to-End Hash Generation Model. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 2023, 33(7): 3542-3558. (Q1-Top, IF: 8.3)(PDF)
• Laijin Meng, Xinghao Jiang, Tanfeng Sun. A review of coverless steganography. Neurocomputing, 2024, 566: 126945. (Q2-Top, IF: 5.5)(PDF)
• Laijin Meng, Xinghao Jiang, Zhenzhen Zhang, Zhaohong Li, Tanfeng Sun. A robust coverless video steganography based on maximum DC coefficients against video attacks. Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2024, 83(5): 13427-13461. (CCF C, IF: 3.0)(PDF)
• Shijie Hou, Xinghao Jiang, Ke Xu, Qiang Xu, Tanfeng Sun, Laijin Meng. Adaptive Learning with Augmentation Robustness Validation: Towards Generalizable Face Forgery Detection. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 2026. (Q1-Top, IF: 11.1)(PDF)
• Shijie Hou, Xinghao Jiang, Qiang Xu, Ke Xu, Laijin Meng, Tanfeng Sun. PrePurify: Pre-Trained Knowledge-Guided Data Purification for Generalizable Face Forgery Detection. Pattern Recognition, 2026: 113271. (Q1-Top, IF: 7.6)(PDF)
• Shijie Hou, Xinghao Jiang, Ke Xu, Qiang Xu, Laijin Meng. Normalization-consistent data curation for generalizable deepfake detection. Neurocomputing, 2025: 131838. (Q2, IF: 6.5)(PDF)
• Zeyu Zhao, Ke Xu, Laijin Meng, Tanfeng Sun, Xinghao Jiang. INN-RAE: Reversible Adversarial Examples based on Invertible Neural Networks for Facial Protection. Expert Systems with Applications, 2025: 129962.(Q1-Top, IF: 7.5)(PDF)
• Qiang Xu, Xinghao Jiang, Tanfeng Sun, Hao Wang, Laijin Meng, Hong Yan. Detecting Artificial Intelligence-Generated images via deep trace representations and interactive feature fusion. Information Fusion, 2024, 112: 102578.(Q1-Top, IF: 14.7)(PDF)
• Zhonghao Li, Xinghao Jiang, Yi Dong, Laijin Meng, Tanfeng Sun. An anti-steganalysis HEVC video steganography with high performance based on CNN and PU partition modes. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 2022, 20(1): 606-619. (CCF A, IF: 7.5)(PDF)

Conferences

• Laijin Meng, Zhongjie Mi, Qiang Xu, Xinghao Jiang, Tanfeng Sun, Shijie Hou. CIS-Guard: Preemptive Defense Algorithm for Coverless Image Steganography Based on Adversarial Perturbation. 34th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM). 2026. (CCF A, Accepted)
• Laijin Meng, Xinghao Jiang, Qiang Xu, Zhongjie Mi. A Coverless Image Steganography Based on a Robust Object Detection Network. International Conference on Intelligent Computing (ICIC). Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore, 2024: 343-356. (CCF C)(PDF)

Academic service

Reviewer

• IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security
• IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
• IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
• IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
• Pattern Recognition
• Expert Systems with Applications
• Knowledge-Based Systems
• Signal Processing
• Pattern Recognition Letter
• IEEE Signal Processing Letters
• Journal of Information Security and Applications
• ACM Multimedia 2025, 2026
• AAAI 2026
• IJCNN 2025, 2026
• ACM Multimedia Asia 2025
• etc.

学会任职

• 中国图象图形学学会数字媒体取证与安全专委会委员