About
I am a Ph.D. at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA), advised by Prof. Yushu Zhang. I am currently studying as a visiting Ph.D. scholar in Milano, Italy, under the supervision of Prof. Elena Ferrari (IEEE/ACM Fellow).
Email: xukun930@nuaa.edu.cn; xukun930@gmail.com; xukun12138@outlook.com
Research Interests:
- Generative Model Security
- Uncertainty
- Trustworthy AI
News
- 📅 A talk with Prof. Pierangela Samarati (IEEE/ACM Fellow) and Prof. Vincenzo Piuri (IEEE Fellow) at the Università degli Studi di Milano.
- 📅 A minisymposium "Generative Concept Security in Trustworthy AIGC" at the Università degli Studi dell'Insubria [slides].
- 🔥 A collaborative research work manuscript has been submitted for peer review and as a preprint to arXiv.
- 🎉 I am honored to be awarded the CSC Excellence Talent Program Scholarship [letter].
- 🔥 A research work manuscript has been submitted for peer review.
- 🔥 A research work manuscript has been submitted for peer review and as a preprint to arXiv.
Publications
(* indicates the corresponding author. Full list of publications)
Journal Articles
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🔥 [2025 arXiv] Detecting Malicious Concepts Without Image Generation in AIGC
Kun Xu, Yushu Zhang*, Shuren Qi, Tao Wang, Wenying Wen, Yuming Fang.
arXiv, [code] -
📑 [2025 JCES] A Facial Manipulation Adversarial Defense Approach for Image Post-Processing
Kun Xu, Shuren Qi, Yushu Zhang*, Wenying Wen, Hua Zhang.
Computer Engineering & Science, [code] -
📑 [2023 MTAP] Facial depth forgery detection based on image gradient
Kun Xu, Gaoming Yang*, Xianjin Fang, Ji Zhang.
Multimedia Tools and Applications, [code] -
📑 [2023 TVCJ] Video face forgery detection via facial motion-assisted capturing dense optical flow truncation]
Gaoming Yang, Kun Xu*, Xianjin Fang, Ji Zhang.
The Visual Computer, [code]
Honors
- 🎖 Excellence Talent Program Scholarship China Scholarship Council (CSC) Jul. 2025
- 🎖 Outstanding Graduates Anhui Provincial Department of Education Jun. 2023
Services
- 💬 Journal Reviewer: SIGPRO, JSCI, Multimedia Systems