Zhihua Xia

6.2k total citations · 3 hit papers
145 papers, 4.4k citations indexed

About

Zhihua Xia is a scholar working on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Artificial Intelligence and Signal Processing. According to data from OpenAlex, Zhihua Xia has authored 145 papers receiving a total of 4.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 92 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 45 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 28 papers in Signal Processing. Recurrent topics in Zhihua Xia's work include Advanced Steganography and Watermarking Techniques (65 papers), Digital Media Forensic Detection (46 papers) and Chaos-based Image/Signal Encryption (31 papers). Zhihua Xia is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Steganography and Watermarking Techniques (65 papers), Digital Media Forensic Detection (46 papers) and Chaos-based Image/Signal Encryption (31 papers). Zhihua Xia collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Canada. Zhihua Xia's co-authors include Xingming Sun, Xinhui Wang, Qian Wang, Naixue Xiong, Zhan Qin, Kui Ren, Jianwei Fei, Peipeng Yu, Chengsheng Yuan and Quansheng Liu and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing and IEEE Access.

In The Last Decade

Zhihua Xia

131 papers receiving 4.2k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

A Secure and Dynamic Multi-Keyword Ranked Search Scheme over Encrypted Cloud Data

2015 902 citations Zhihua Xia, Xinhui Wang et al. profile →
A Privacy-Preserving and Copy-Deterrence Content-Based Image Retrieval Scheme in Cloud Computing

2016 524 citations Zhihua Xia, Xinhui Wang et al. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security profile →
Steganalysis of LSB matching using differences between nonadjacent pixels

2014 303 citations Zhihua Xia, Xinhui Wang et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Zhihua Xia China	28	2.5k	1.7k	985	581	568	145	4.4k
Xiao‐Yuan Jing China	40	2.9k 1.2×	1.3k 0.8×	1.7k 1.8×	564 1.0×	786 1.4×	284	5.6k
Zheng Qin China	32	1.2k 0.5×	1.5k 0.9×	848 0.9×	936 1.6×	492 0.9×	170	3.5k
Zhangjie Fu China	30	1.1k 0.5×	2.0k 1.2×	1.5k 1.5×	1.1k 2.0×	243 0.4×	155	4.2k
Stefan Katzenbeisser Germany	28	2.1k 0.8×	1.7k 1.0×	908 0.9×	516 0.9×	676 1.2×	211	4.1k
Zhan Qin China	31	993 0.4×	2.6k 1.5×	960 1.0×	686 1.2×	559 1.0×	101	4.1k
Feng Hao United Kingdom	23	1.0k 0.4×	777 0.5×	1.1k 1.1×	448 0.8×	733 1.3×	99	2.2k
Ling Huang China	36	1.2k 0.5×	3.1k 1.8×	1.5k 1.5×	3.0k 5.2×	803 1.4×	136	6.3k
Christopher Ré United States	38	1.1k 0.5×	3.1k 1.8×	1.1k 1.1×	1.7k 2.9×	1.4k 2.4×	153	5.3k
Ching‐Nung Yang Taiwan	38	3.9k 1.6×	1.6k 0.9×	524 0.5×	260 0.4×	318 0.6×	223	4.8k
Fei Sun China	22	1.7k 0.7×	2.7k 1.6×	2.2k 2.2×	323 0.6×	176 0.3×	66	4.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Zhihua Xia

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Fields of papers citing papers by Zhihua Xia

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zhihua Xia

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Zhihua Xia. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Zhihua Xia based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Zhihua Xia. Zhihua Xia is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Yan, Diqun, et al.. (2025). One-class network leveraging spectro-temporal features for generalized synthetic speech detection. Speech Communication. 169. 103200–103200. 1 indexed citations

Gao, Guangyong, et al.. (2025). Screen-Shooting Robust Watermark Based on Style Transfer and Structural Re-Parameterization. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security. 20. 2648–2663. 1 indexed citations

Yuan, Chengsheng, et al.. (2025). Compressed Domain Invariant Adversarial Representation Learning for Robust Audio Deepfake Detection. IEEE Signal Processing Letters. 32. 1111–1115. 1 indexed citations

Xiong, Lizhi, Wenhao Zhou, Zhihua Xia, & Jian Weng. (2025). A Universal Framework for Reversible Data Hiding in Encrypted Images With Multiple Hiders. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing. 22(4). 3944–3959. 1 indexed citations

Feng, Bingwen, et al.. (2024). Moiré pattern generation-based image steganography. Journal of Information Security and Applications. 82. 103753–103753. 1 indexed citations

Xia, Zhihua, et al.. (2024). SNGPLDP: Social network graph generation based on personalised local differential privacy. International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems. 17(2). 159–180. 1 indexed citations

Fei, Jianwei, Zhihua Xia, Benedetta Tondi, & Mauro Barni. (2024). Wide Flat Minimum Watermarking for Robust Ownership Verification of GANs. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security. 19. 8322–8337. 2 indexed citations

Yang, Zixuan, Yushu Zhang, Tao Wang, et al.. (2024). Once-for-all: Efficient Visual Face Privacy Protection via Person-specific Veils. 7705–7713.

Liang, Ding, et al.. (2024). SEDN: A Spatiotemporal Encoder-Decoder Network for End-to-End Object Removal Forgery Detection in High-Resolution Videos. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. 27. 2503–2515.

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Feng, Bingwen, et al.. (2024). Robust image hiding network with Frequency and Spatial Attentions. Pattern Recognition. 155. 110691–110691. 3 indexed citations

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Song, Li, et al.. (2023). Early warping deformation of high-speed railway CRTS III track slabs. Engineering Structures. 294. 116651–116651. 8 indexed citations

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Yang, Wenyuan, Zhikai Chen, Zhongjie Ba, et al.. (2023). AVoiD-DF: Audio-Visual Joint Learning for Detecting Deepfake. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security. 18. 2015–2029. 83 indexed citations

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Gao, Guangyong, et al.. (2023). Reversible Data Hiding-Based Contrast Enhancement With Multi-Group Stretching for ROI of Medical Image. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. 26. 3909–3923. 4 indexed citations

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Gao, Guangyong, et al.. (2022). A Data Integrity Authentication Scheme in WSNs Based on Double Watermark. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 10(9). 8245–8256. 1 indexed citations

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Xia, Zhihua, et al.. (2022). Secure outsourced NB: Accurate and efficient privacy-preserving Naive Bayes classification. Computers & Security. 124. 103011–103011. 8 indexed citations

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Fei, Jianwei, et al.. (2021). Channel-Wise Spatiotemporal Aggregation Technology for Face Video Forensics. Security and Communication Networks. 2021. 1–13. 6 indexed citations

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Yuan, Chengsheng, et al.. (2019). Fingerprint Liveness Detection Using an Improved CNN With Image Scale Equalization. IEEE Access. 7. 26953–26966. 60 indexed citations

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Xiong, Lizhi, et al.. (2018). High-Capacity Reversible Data Hiding for Encrypted Multimedia Data With Somewhat Homomorphic Encryption. IEEE Access. 6. 60635–60644. 23 indexed citations

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Xia, Zhihua, et al.. (2016). A Privacy-Preserving and Copy-Deterrence Content-Based Image Retrieval Scheme in Cloud Computing. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security. 11(11). 2594–2608. 524 indexed citations breakdown →

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Xia, Zhihua, et al.. (2011). A Robust Image Watermarking Based on Image Restoration Using SIFT. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 20 indexed citations

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