Workshop on Media Forensics

Overview

The recent advent of techniques that generate photo-realistic, fully synthetic audio, images, and videos (so-called deep fakes), and the increasing prevalence of misinformation associated with such fabricated media have raised the level of interest in the computer vision community. Both academia and industry have addressed this topic in the past, but only recently, with the emergence of more sophisticated ML and CV techniques, has multimedia forensics become a broad and prominent area of research. The recent appearance of relevant datasets and the widespread concerns surrounding synthetic media and misinformation, have turned the field of media forensics and misinformation into an important and timely research topic.

This workshop aims at bringing a heterogeneous group of specialists that will address the topic not only from a research point of view but also bringing into the event experts that will present real-life examples, thus highlighting both the experience of practitioners and the many application domains of media forensics.

Topics

• media forensics

• detection of forged and manipulated images, documents and video

• reconstruction of media genealogy, provenance

• analysis and detection of audio, images, and videos created by new synthesis methods

• counter-forensics (methods to defeat traditional media forensics)

• semantic interpretation

• forensic pattern analysis and identification

• ethics in data manipulation

• datasets