Dr. Mengyao Xiao is a Researcher and Master's Supervisor at the School of Software, Nanchang University. She received her B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees all from Beijing Jiaotong University. She joined the School of Information Science and Engineering at East China University of Science and Technology in September 2023 and subsequently moved to her current position at Nanchang University in January 2025.

Research Achievement:

Her research primarily focuses on Multimedia Content Security and Artificial Intelligence Security. She has been the principal investigator of several research projects, including the Jiangxi Provincial Natural Science Foundation for Young Scholars and an open project from the Key Laboratory of Computing Power Network and Information Security, Ministry of Education. She has also participated as a key member in multiple national-level projects, such as the National Key R&D Program and the Joint Funds of the National Natural Science Foundation of China. She has published more than 20 papers in prestigious international journals over the past five years, including IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT), and ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM). She also holds several authorized patents. She currently serves as a committee member of the Digital Media Forensics and Security Committee, China Society of Image and Graphics (CSIG). Additionally, she acts as a reviewer for several renowned international journals and conferences, including IEEE TMM, IEEE TCSVT, IWDW, and NCIG.

Representative Publications

1. Mengyao Xiao, Xiaolong Li, Jian Li, Qingchao Jiang, Yao Zhao."High-Capacity Reversible Data Hiding for JPEG Images Using Ternary Matrix Embedding," in IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Accepted, 2025.

2. Mengyao Xiao, Xiaolong Li, Bin Ma, Xinpeng Zhang, Yao Zhao*. “Efficient Reversible Data Hiding for JPEG Images with Multiple Histograms Modification.” IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. Video Technol., 2021, 31(7), 2535-2546.

3.Mengyao Xiao, Xiaolong Li, Yao Zhao, Bin Ma, Guodong Guo. “A Novel Reversible Data Hiding Scheme Based on Pixel Residual Histograms.” ACM Trans. Multimedia Comput. Commun. Appl., 2023, 19(1), 1-19.

4. Mengyao Xiao, Xiaolong Li, Feng Ding, Lingfeng Qu, Hong Rao, Yao Zhao “General distortion based reversible data hiding for JPEG images.” Journal of King Saud University - Computer and Information Sciences, Online, 2025.

5. Mengyao Xiao, Xiaolong Li, Yao Zhao*. “Reversible Data Hiding for JPEG Images Based on Multiple Two-Dimensional Histograms.” IEEE Signal Process. Lett., 2021, 28, 1620-1624.

6. Mengyao Xiao, Xiaolong Li, Yao Zhao. “General Distortion Based Reversible Data Hiding for Binary Covers.” IEEE Signal Process. Lett., 2022, 29, 2537-2541.

7. Mengyao Xiao, Xiaolong Li, Wei Lu, Yao Zhao, Histogram Shifting Based Reversible Data Hiding With Multiple Expansion Bin Pairs, Dispalys, 2024, 83:102674.

8. Mengyao Xiao, Xiaolong Li, Yangyang Wang, Yao Zhao, Rongrong Ni. “Reversible Data Hiding Based on Pairwise Embedding and Optimal Expansion Path.” Signal Process., 2019, 158, 210–218.

9. Xiang Li, Mengyao Xiao, Xiaolong Li, Shijun Xiang, Yao Zhao. “ Matrix Embedding Based Multiple Histograms Modification for Efficient Reversible Data Hiding,” IEEE Signal Process. Lett., vol. 31, pp. 2555-2559, 2024.

10. Shimei Ma, Xiaolong Li, Mengyao Xiao, Bin Ma, Yao Zhao, Fast Expansion-Bins-Determination for Multiple Histograms Modification Based Reversible Data Hiding[J]. IEEE Signal Process. Lett., 2022, 29: 662-666.

11. Shaowei Weng, Ye Zhou, Tiancong Zhang, Mengyao Xiao, Yao Zhao, General Framework to Reversible Data Hiding for JPEG Images With Multiple Two-Dimensional Histograms, IEEE Trans. Multimedia, vol. 25, pp. 5747-5762, 2023.

12. Shaowei Weng, Ye Zhou, Tiancong Zhang, Mengyao Xiao, Yao Zhao, “Reversible Data Hiding for JPEG Images With Adaptive Multiple Two-Dimensional Histogram and Mapping Generation,” IEEE Trans. Multimedia, vol. 25, pp.8738-8752, 2023.

Recruitment of Graduate Students / Undergraduate Students

Our research group is consistently recruiting Master's students and undergraduate students (sophomores and juniors) to join the team. We welcome students who possess a positive and optimistic attitude, strong self-motivation, and a desire to publish high-quality academic papers.

The group provides comprehensive support for each member, including:

• Systematic academic guidance (group meetings, paper discussions, code tutoring).

• Excellent research conditions (dedicated workspace, research assistantships, computing resources, funding for academic conferences).

• Personalized guidance and recommendations for further studies or career development.

We sincerely welcome students who are passionate about academic research, have certain programming and English reading/writing skills, and plan to pursue further studies or engage in technology R&D in the future. (Note: A diligent and earnest attitude towards learning is more important than existing foundational knowledge.)

Interested candidates are invited to send their CV/resume to: xiaomy@ncu.edu.cn.