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Yuezun Li

I am an Assistant Professor/Lecturer at Ocean University of China. My research focuses on multimedia forensics and computer vision. I have published numerous top-tier papers with a total of , including several works with more than citations each (CVPR20, CVPRW19, ICASSP19, WIFS18). The WIFS18 paper was also featured on CCTV13’s "World Weekly" special on deepfakes [7:43]. I have been recognized on Stanford’s 2023/2024/2025 list of the top 2% of scientists worldwide and am a recipient of the 2024 ACM Qingdao Rising Star Award. [中 CN]

I was a Senior Research Scientist at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of University at Buffalo, SUNY, working with Siwei Lyu (SUNY Distinguished Professor). I was a summer intern at GE glocal research center during 2016 - 2018. I received Ph.D. degree in computer science at University at Albany, SUNY in 2020, advised by Siwei Lyu (IEEE/IAPR/AAIA Fellow). I received M.S. degree in 2015 and B.S. degree in 2012 at Shandong University.

📢 Opening! Currently I am leading the Visual Analysis & Security (VAS) Lab . Our lab has multiple openings. Please drop me an email if you are interested in internship / M.S. program. I also advise the POVA Group , which focuses on underwater computer vision reserach. Drop me an email if you are interested.

🎉 News

[2025.07]: We have released Celeb-DF++ benchmark, an extension of earlier Celeb-DF dataset. 📌 📌
[2025.11]: Three master students are awarded an enterprise scholarship (¥2w). Congratulations! New!
[2025.10]: One paper on domain adaptation is accepted by TIP 2025. New!
[2025.10]: I gave a talk on advances on visual forensics PRCV 2025. New!
[2025.09]: Elected among World's Top 2% Scientists 2025 by Stanford University. New!
[2025.07]: One paper on proactive deepfake detection is accepted by TDSC 2025. New!
[2025.05]: One paper on underwater stereo matching is accepted by TCSVT 2025.
[2025.03]: One paper on image manipulation detection is accepted by ICME 2025.
[2025.02]: Two papers on deepfake detection are accepted by CVPR 2025.
[2025.02]: The work of TSOM is elected as WACV 2025 Oral.
[2025.01]: I gave a talk on face forensics in the wild at CSIG Young Scholars forum.
[2024.11]: One paper on phytoplankton tracking is accepted by TCSVT.
[2024.11]: Awarded BMVC outstanding reviewer.
[2024.10]: One paper on sequential deepfake detection is accepted by WACV.
[2024.09]: One paper on deepfake detection is accepted by NeurIPS.
[2024.09]: Elected among World's Top 2% Scientists 2024 by Stanford University.
[2024.09]: One paper on quality-agnostic deepfake detection is accepted by ACCV.
[2024.08]: One paper on 3D adversarial meshes are accepted by PG.
[2024.07]: Two papers on image manipulation detection are accepted by BMVC.
[2024.07]: One paper on transferable deepfake detection is accepted by IEEE TIFS.
[2024.07]: One paper on generalizable deepfake detection is accepted by ECCV.
[2024.05]: One paper on multi-face deepfake detection is accepted by IEEE TCSVT.
[2024.04]: One paper on deepfake detection is accepted by IEEE TIFS.
[2024.04]: One paper on deepfake defense is accepted by IEEE TETC.
[2024.04]: One paper on image-text retrieval is accepted by ICMR.
[2024.02]: One paper on image-text retrieval is accepted by KBS.
[2024.01]: One paper on deepfake defense is accepted by CVIU.
[2023.12]: One paper on adversarial robustness is accepted by ICASSP.
[2023.11]: I gave a talk at a forum in CSIG ChinaFMS conference 2023.
[2023.10]: One paper on adversarial robustness is accepted by CVIU.
[2023.07]: I gave a talk at a forum in CCF CFTC 2023 on Recent Advances on CV Security.
[2023.06]: One ICME paper entitled Forensics Forest is selected as Oral.
[2023.05]: A dataset on phytoplankton observation is accepted by JMSE.
[2023.05]: One paper on Semantic Segmentation is accepted by IEEE TNNLS.
[2023.04]: One paper on Universal Domain Adaptation is accepted by IEEE TCSVT.
[2023.03]: Two papers on DeepFake defense are accepted by ICME.
[2023.02]: One paper on Transferable Adversarial Attack is accepted by COSE.
[2022.12]: I gave a talk at CCBR 2022 on Recent Advances on AI Security.
[2022.11]: One paper on DeepFake detection is accepted by Pattern Recognition.
[2022.08]: I gave a tutorial at MIPR 2022 on DeepFake Creation, Detection and Obstruction.
[2022.07]: I gave a tutorial at ICME 2022 on DeepFake creation and detection.
[2022.07]: One paper on face synthesis is accepted by PRL.
[2022.06]: One paper on DeepFake defense is accepted by ICIP.
[2022.06]: One paper on DeepFake detection is accepted by Pattern Recognition.
[2022.05]: One paper on DeepFake detection is accepted by MIPR.
[2022.02]: One book chapter is publised on Handbook of Digital Face Manipulation and Detection, Springer.
[2021.12]: One book chapter is publised on Deep Learning-Based Face Analytics, 2021. Springer.
[2021.10]: One paper on adversarial attack is accepted by CVIU 2021.
[2021.08]: One paper on scene parsing is accepted by TNNLS 2021.
[2021.08]: I gave a tutorial at IJCB 2021 on Trustworthy Biometrics.
[2021.07]: One paper on backdoor attack is accepted by ICCV 2021.
[2021.06]: With my PhD advisor Prof. Siwei Lyu, I gave a tutorial at ICASSP 2021 on DeepFake Generation and Detection [Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3].
[2021.06]: We are releasing DeepFake Game Competition (DFGC) dataset [Here]
[2021.05]: We are holding DeepFake Game Competition (DFGC) [Here]
[2021.03]: One paper on DeepFake-o-meter is accepted by SADFE in conjunction with the IEEE S&P 2021
[2021.02]: One paper is accepted by ICASSP 2021.
[2020.02]: Our paper on Celeb-DF is accepted by CVPR 2020.

📝 Selected publications (+ Advised student, # Corresponding author, * Equal contribution)

HG-SFDA: HyperGraph Learning Meets Source-free Unsupervised Domain Adaptation
Jinkun Jiang⁺, Qingxuan Lv, Yuezun Li^#, Yong Du, Junyu Dong^#, Sheng Chen, Hui Yu
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), 2025.
[Code] [CCF A]

Hiding Faces in Plain Sight: Defending DeepFakes by Disrupting Face Detection
Delong Zhu⁺, Yuezun Li^#, Baoyuan Wu, Jiaran Zhou, Zhibo Wang, Siwei Lyu
IEEE Transactions On Dependable And Secure Computing (TDSC), 2025. (Extended from ICME 2023)
[Code] [CCF A]

Forensics Adapter: Adapting CLIP for Generalizable Face Forgery Detection
Xinjie Cui⁺, Yuezun Li^#, Ao Luo, Jiaran Zhou, Junyu Dong
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2025.
[Code] [CCF A]

Where the Devil Hides: Deepfake Detectors Can No Longer Be Trusted
Shuaiwei Yuan⁺, Junyu Dong, Yuezun Li^#
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2025.

[CCF A]

UWStereo: A Large Synthetic Dataset for Underwater Stereo Matching
Qingxuan Lv⁺, Junyu Dong^#, Yuezun Li^#, Sheng Chen, Hui Yu, Shu Zhang, Wenhan Wang
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT), 2025.
[Code] [CCF B]

Texture, Shape and Order Matter: A New Transformer Design for Sequential DeepFake Detection
Yunfei Li⁺, Yuezun Li^#, Xin Wang, Baoyuan Wu, Jiaran Zhou, Junyu Dong
IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2025. (Oral)
[Code]

FreqBlender: Enhancing DeepFake Detection by Blending Frequency Knowledge
Hanzhe Li⁺, Jiaran Zhou, Yuezun Li^#, Baoyuan Wu, Bin Li, Junyu Dong
Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2024.
[Code] [CCF A]

DomainForensics: Exposing Face Forgery across Domains via Bi-directional Adaptation
Qingxuan Lv⁺, Yuezun Li^#, Junyu Dong^#, Sheng Chen, Hui Yu, Huiyu Zhou, Shu Zhang
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), 2024.
[Code] [CCF A]

ForensicsForest Family: Multi-scale Hierarchical Cascade Forests for GAN Faces
Jiucui Lu⁺, Jiaran Zhou^#, Junyu Dong, Bin Li, Siwei Lyu, Yuezun Li^#
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), 2024. (Extended from ICME 2023)
[Code] [CCF A]

COMICS: End-to-end Bi-grained Contrastive Learning for Multi-face Forgery Detection
Cong Zhang⁺, Honggang Qi, Shuhui Wang, Yuezun Li^#, Siwei Lyu
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT), 2024.
[Code] [CCF B]

PhyTracker: An Online Tracker for Phytoplankton
Yang Yu⁺, Qingxuan Lv, Yuezun Li^#, Zhiqiang Wei, Junyu Dong^#
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT), 2024.
[Code] [CCF B]

LaFea: Learning Latent Representation beyond Feature for Universal Domain Adaptation
Qingxuan Lv⁺, Yuezun Li^#, Junyu Dong^#, Ziqian Guo.
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT), 2023.
[CCF B]

Watching the BiG Artifacts: Exposing DeepFake Videos via Bi-Granularity Artifacts
Han Chen^*, Yuezun Li^*, Dongdong Lin, Bin Li, Junqiang Wu.
Pattern Recognition (PR), 2023.
[CCF B]

Invisible Backdoor Attack with Sample-Specific Triggers
Yuezun Li, Yiming Li, Baoyuan Wu, Longkang Li, Ran He, Siwei Lyu.
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2021.
[Code] [CCF A]

Celeb-DF: A Large-scale Challenging Dataset for DeepFake Forensics
Yuezun Li, Xin Yang, Pu Sun, Honggang Qi, Siwei Lyu.
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2020.
[Dataset download] [CCF A]

Exposing DeepFake Videos By Detecting Face Warping Artifacts
Yuezun Li, Siwei Lyu.
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshop on Media Forensics, 2019.
[Code]

Exposing Deep Fakes Using Inconsistent Head Poses
Xin Yang^*, Yuezun Li^*, Siwei Lyu.
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2019
[Code] [CCF B]

Exposing GAN-synthesized Faces Using Landmark Locations
Xin Yang, Yuezun Li, Honggang Qi, Siwei Lyu.
ACM Workshop on Information Hiding and Multimedia Security (IHMMSec), 2019
[CCF C]

Exploring the Vulnerability of Single Shot Module in Object Detectors via Imperceptible Background Patches
Yuezun Li, Xiao Bian, Ming-Ching Chang, Siwei Lyu.
British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), 2019.
[CCF C]

In Ictu Oculi: Exposing AI Generated Fake Face Videos by Detecting Eye Blinking
Yuezun Li, Ming-Ching Chang, Siwei Lyu.
IEEE International Workshop on Information Forensics and Security (WIFS), 2018
[Code] / [Dataset download]

Robust Adversarial Perturbation on Deep Proposal-based Models
Yuezun Li, Daniel Tian, Ming-Ching Chang, Xiao Bian, Siwei Lyu.
British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), 2018
[Code] [CCF C]

🔔 Preprints

Celeb-DF++: A Large-scale Challenging Video DeepFake Benchmark for Generalizable Forensics
Yuezun Li^#, Delong Zhu⁺, Xinjie Cui⁺, Siwei Lyu
arXiv:2507.18015, 2025. (An extension of Celeb-DF dataset)
[Code]

Texture, Shape, Order, and Relation Matter: A New Transformer Design for Sequential DeepFake Detection
Yunfei Li⁺, Yuezun Li^#, Baoyuan Wu, Junyu Dong, Guopu Zhu, Siwei Lyu
arXiv:2404.13873, 2025. (Extended from WACV 2025 (oral))
[Code]

Forensics Adapter: Unleashing CLIP for Generalizable Face Forgery Detection
Xinjie Cui⁺, Yuezun Li^#, Delong Zhu, Jiaran Zhou, Junyu Dong, Siwei Lyu
arXiv:2411.19715, 2025. (Extended from CVPR 2025)
[Code]

Active Fake: DeepFake Camouflage
Pu Sun⁺, Honggang Qi^#, Yuezun Li^#
arXiv:2409.03200, 2024.

Hiding Faces in Plain Sight: Disrupting AI Face Synthesis with Adversarial Perturbations
Yuezun Li, Xin Yang, Baoyuan Wu, Siwei Lyu
arXiv:1906.09288, 2019.
(preliminary version of TDSC 2025)