Gang Cao

Gang Cao （中文简历）          

Department 

Department of Cybersecurity

E-Mail 

gangcao@cuc.edu.cn

Courses Taught 

Digital Content Security (Bachelor Program), Matrix Theory (Master Program), Multimedia Forensics and Security (Doctoral Program)

Research Interest or 

Teaching Expertise

Multimedia Forensics, Image Processing

Self-Introduction 

My research interest is on multimedia security & processing. I have hosted two Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) as Principal Investigator (PI), and joined a National 973 Sub-project and some NSFCs. I have published more than 40 international journal/conference papers on IEEE TIFS/SPL, Science China-Information Science, IET-Image Processing, Forensic Science International, ICIP, ICME, ACM MM&Sec, etc. More than 20 of them are indexed by SCI. Up to Nov. 2020, Google Scholar shows my papers have been cited by 868 times with the highest 206 citations for a single paper. One paper was reported by the special column of Readers’ Choice, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine. I won the 2015 Science and Technology Award of Communication University of China, and the 2019 Excellent Paper Award of China Society of Motion Picture & Television Engineers. I served as reviewers for NSFC, Academic Dissertation Center of Ministry of Education, and the journals of IEEE TIFS/TIP/TSP/TMM/SPL, etc. I am a member of IEEE, CCF and two special committees of CSIG. 

Publication

1. Haochen Zhu, Gang Cao*, Mo Zhao, etc. Effective image tampering localization with multi-scale ConvNeXt feature fusion, Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, 2023

2. Zijie Lou, Gang Cao*, Man Lin. Black-box attack against GAN-generated image detector with contrastive perturbation, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 124: 106594, 2023

3. Mo Zhao, Gang Cao*, Xianglin Huang, Lifang Yang. Hybrid transformer-CNN for real image denoising, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 29: 1252-1256, 2022

4. Gang Cao, Lihui Huang, Huawei Tian, etc. Contrast enhancement of brightness-distorted images by improved adaptive gamma correction, Computers & Electrical Engineering, 66: 569-582, 2018  (100+ citations)

5. Gang Cao, Huawei Tian, Lifang Yu, etc. Acceleration of histogram-based contrast enhancement via selective downsampling, IET Image Processing, 12(3): 447-452, 2018.

6. Gang Cao, Yao Zhao, Rongrong Ni, Xuelong Li. Contrast enhancement-based forensics in digital images, IEEE Trans. on Info. Forensics and Security, 9(3): 515-525, 2014  (270+ citations)

7. Gang Cao, Yao Zhao, Rongrong Ni, etc. Attacking contrast enhancement forensics in digital images, Science China Information Sciences, 57(5): 052110(1-13), 2014

Projects

1. Theory and method of image tampering forensics, General Program of NSFC (62071434), 2021-2024, PI, RMB630,000.00

2. Extraction and evaluation of device fingerprints in images, General Program of NSFC (Joint Project, 61772539), 2018-2021, Co-PI, RMB150,000.00

Admission Requirements

Interested in the fundamental research of multimedia security and image/video processing, determined to publish remarkable academic research results.