Hyperdimensional Multimedia Perception and Frontier Security

Faculty of Applied Sciences, Macao Polytechnic University

Xiaochen Yuan, Cissy


Xiaochen Yuan is currently an Associate Professor with the Faculty of Applied Sciences of the Macao Polytechnic University. Her research interests  digital multimedia processing, digital watermarking, multimedia forensics, tampering detection and self-recovery, quantum image watermarking, remote image processing, and deep learning techniques and applications

🎓 PhD in Software Engineering,  2013    
      University of Macau

🎓 MSc in E-Commerce Technology,  2010    
      University of Macau

🎓 BSc in Electronic Information Technology,  2008    
      Macau University of Science and Technology


  Latest Publications


A noise-assistant network for tampering detection via inconspicuous feature enhancement and multi-perspective perception


Zhiyao Xie, Xiaochen Yuan, Chan-Tong Lam, Guoheng Huang, Nuno Lourenço

Expert Systems with Applications, vol. 296, 2026, p. 129089


Using 3D-LMM-Based Encryption to Secure Digital Images with 3D S-box and Fibonacci Q-Matrix


Yunlong Liao, Yiting Lin, Zheng Xing, Qiutong Li, Guoheng Huang, Donglong Chen, Xiaochen Yuan

IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2025, pp. 1-1


TransHFC: Joints Hypergraph Filtering Convolution and Transformer Framework for Temporal Forgery Localization


Jiahao Huang, Xiaochen Yuan, Chan-Tong Lam, Sio-Kei Im, Fangyuan Lei, Xiuli Bi

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 35, 2025, pp. 9261-9275


SAM-Based Efficient Feature Integration Network for Remote Sensing Change Detection: A Case Study on Macao Sea Reclamation


Junqing Huang, Junqi Bao, Min Xia, Xiaochen Yuan

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, vol. 18, 2025, pp. 16916-16928


RNPM: Neural-Guided Embedding Region Selection and Error Correction for Robust Audio Multi-Watermarking


Qiutong Li, Tong Liu, Xiaochen Yuan

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, 2025, pp. 1-12


PFPS: Polymerized Feature Panoptic Segmentation Based on Fully Convolutional Networks


Shucheng Ji, Xiaochen Yuan, Junqi Bao, Tong Liu, Yang Lian, Guoheng Huang, Guo Zhong

IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, vol. 9, 2025, pp. 2584-2596


LungScope: An Intelligent Embedded System With a Lightweight Model for Real-Time Lung Sound Analysis


Fan Wang, Xiaochen Yuan, Guoheng Huang, Chan-Tong Lam, Sio-Kei Im

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, vol. 74, 2025, pp. 1-12


LCCDMamba: Visual State Space Model for Land Cover Change Detection of VHR Remote Sensing Images


Junqing Huang, Xiaochen Yuan, Chan-Tong Lam, Yapeng Wang, Min Xia

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, vol. 18, 2025, pp. 5765-5781


GHCW: A novel Guarded High-fidelity Compression-based Watermarking scheme for AI model protection and self-recovery


Tong Liu, Xiaochen Yuan, Wei Ke, Chan-Tong Lam, Sio-Kei Im, Xiuli Bi

Applied Soft Computing, vol. 183, 2025, p. 113576


DFFormer: Capturing Dynamic Frequency Features to Locate Image Manipulation through Adaptive Frequency Transformer and Prototype Learning


Yan Xiang, Kaiqi Zhao, Zhenghong Yu, Xiaochen Yuan, Guoheng Huang, Jinyu Tian, Jianqing Li

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 2025, pp. 1-1


CCA-YOLO: Channel and Coordinate Aware-Based YOLO for Photovoltaic Cell Defect Detection in Electroluminescence Images


Junqi Bao, Xiaochen Yuan, Qingying Wu, Chan-Tong Lam, Wei Ke, Ping Li

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, vol. 74, 2025, pp. 1-12


A Two-Phase Scheme by Integration of Deep and Corner Feature for Balanced Copy-Move Forgery Localization


Tong Liu, Xiaochen Yuan, Zhiyao Xie, Kaiqi Zhao, Guoheng Huang, Chi-Man Pun

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, vol. 21, 2025, pp. 1299-1308


LED-Net: A Lightweight Edge Detection Network


Shucheng Ji, Xiaochen Yuan, Junqi Bao, Tong Liu

Pattern Recognition Letters, vol. 187, 2025 Jan, pp. 56--62


Pattern-based quantum text watermarking: Securing digital content with next-Gen quantum techniques


Zheng Xing, Xiaochen Yuan, Chan-Tong Lam

iScience, vol. 27, 2024, p. 111364


OFGST-Swin: Swin Transformer Utilizing Overlap Fusion-Based Generalized S-Transform for Respiratory Cycle Classification


Fan Wang, Xiaochen Yuan, Junqi Bao, Chan-Tong Lam, Guoheng Huang, Hai Chen

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, vol. 73, 2024, pp. 1-13


LungNeXt: A novel lightweight network utilizing enhanced mel-spectrogram for lung sound classification


Fan Wang, Xiaochen Yuan, Yue Liu, Chan-Tong Lam

Journal of King Saud University - Computer and Information Sciences, vol. 36, 2024, p. 102200


Encryption-then-embedding-based hybrid data hiding scheme for medical images


Bowen Meng, Xiaochen Yuan, Qiyuan Zhang, Chan-Tong Lam, Guoheng Huang

Journal of King Saud University-Computer and Information Sciences, vol. 36, Elsevier, 2024, p. 101932


A novel blockchain-watermarking mechanism utilizing interplanetary file system and fast walsh hadamard transform


Tong Liu, Si-Nga Lai, Xiaochen Yuan, Yue Liu, Chan-Tong Lam

iScience, vol. 27, Elsevier, 2024


Tampering localization and self-recovery using block labeling and adaptive significance


Qiyuan Zhang, Xiaochen Yuan, Tong Liu, Chan-Tong Lam, Guoheng Huang, Di Lin, Ping Li

Expert Systems with Applications, vol. 226, 2023, p. 120228


C3MW: A novel comprehensive-monitoring-motivated multi-model watermarking scheme for tamper detection and self-recovery


Qiyuan Zhang, Xiaochen Yuan, Chan-Tong Lam, Zheng Xing, Guoheng Huang

Journal of King Saud University - Computer and Information Sciences, vol. 35, 2023, p. 101795