On November 30th, the National Finals of the 4th “Huawei Cup” China Postgraduate Network Security Innovation Competition were held in Changsha, Hunan Province. A team guided by Professor Liu Hui from the School of Computer Science stood out from 1,053 participating teams representing 188 universities and research institutions across the country. In the Creative Works Competition, the team achieved an excellent result of being ranked 2nd nationwide in the total score and won the National First Prize. Liu Hui was awarded the title of “Excellent Instructor”.
The team from our university conducted in-depth research on the privacy leakage risks in face recognition scenarios and proposed a face data anti-reconstruction defense method based on fine-grained adversarial perturbations. This scheme achieves a good balance among privacy strength, recognition accuracy, and computational efficiency, and has completed application verification on multiple platforms, fully demonstrating its feasibility and practicality. The work was highly recognized by the expert judges, who commented that it features an ingenious design and remarkable effects, with promising application prospects and commercial value.
It is reported that the China Postgraduate Network Security Innovation Competition is one of the thematic events of the China Postgraduate Innovation and Practice Series Competitions. It is a group-based innovative practice activity related to cyberspace security for postgraduates studying across the country. Adhering to the concept of Gathering Professional Talents to Build Cybersecurity Together, the competition is guided by national strategic needs, supported by industry and enterprise participation, and centered on improving postgraduates’ innovation and practical abilities. It strives to address the bottleneck issues in China’s cyberspace security field and cultivate, select and reserve a group of urgently needed high-level cybersecurity talents for the country.
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