Martin Beneš
data scientist & researcher

Title photo of the author Martin Benes.

Data scientist, researcher, machine learning engineer, and software developer. Currently a PhD student in digital image steganalysis at University of Innsbruck. Coding in Python and R.

Previously R&D intern at Blindspot, backend developer and later QA engineer/scrum master at TaxiCaller, and C++ developer at Artisys.

MSc. in Statistics and machine learning from Linköping University, Bc. in Information technology from Brno University of Technology.



Latest publications


Automating color image steganography research from first principles
ESORICS 2026
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DCTdiff: Intriguing properties of image generative modeling in the DCT space
ICML 2025
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