vera.ai: VERification Assisted by Artificial Intelligence

Informazioni relative al progetto

vera.ai

ID dell’accordo di sovvenzione: 101070093

DOI

10.3030/101070093

Data della firma CE 20 Giugno 2022

Data di avvio 15 Settembre 2022

Data di completamento 14 Novembre 2025

Finanziato da

• Digital, Industry and Space

Costo totale

€ 5 691 875,00

Contributo UE

€ 5 691 875,00

Coordinato da

ETHNIKO KENTRO EREVNAS KAI TECHNOLOGIKIS ANAPTYXIS
Greece

CORDIS fornisce collegamenti ai risultati finali pubblici e alle pubblicazioni dei progetti ORIZZONTE.

I link ai risultati e alle pubblicazioni dei progetti del 7° PQ, così come i link ad alcuni tipi di risultati specifici come dataset e software, sono recuperati dinamicamente da .OpenAIRE .

Risultati finali

Documents, reports (3)

Cross-lingual and multimodal near-duplicate search methods

Methods developed and experiments carried out in T4.1, including reference software implementations and services.

Explainable AI methods for analysis and verification of text, audio, image & video misinformation

D3.1 will report on methods developed and experiments carried out in T3.1, T3.2, andT3.4 by M18, accompanied by reference software implementations and services.

Annotation model, API definitions, and Database of Known Fakes first release

Documentation and code from T51 and first release of the DBKF

Demonstrators, pilots, prototypes (1)

AI-enhanced Verification Tools for Professionals v1 and DBKF interim release

First release of the enhanced verification plugin, Truly Media and the verification assistant and interim release of the DBKF.

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (1)

Plan for dissemination, communication, clustering & exploitation activities

D61 will define target stakeholders and activities planned and already undertaken in T61 T62 and T63 incl supporting material The project website will be live from M3 latest and updated continuously

Data Management Plan (1)

Data Management Plan

CERTH and ATC will lead the production of this report detailing how data in the project will be managed

Pubblicazioni

Peer reviewed articles (12)

Forensic Similarity for Source Camera Model Comparison

Autori: Marina Gardella, Pablo Musé
Pubblicato in: Image Processing On Line, 2022, ISSN 2105-1232
Editore: Image Processing On Line (ISSN 2105-1232)
DOI: 10.5201/IPOL.2022.424

Image Forgery Detection via Forensic Similarity Graphs

Autori: Marina Gardella, Pablo Musé
Pubblicato in: Image Processing On Line, 2022, ISSN 2105-1232
Editore: Image Processing On Line (ISSN 2105-1232)
DOI: 10.5201/IPOL.2022.432

Information Forensics and Security: A quarter-century-long journey

Autori: Mauro Barni, Patrizio Campisi, Edward Delp, Gwenael Doërr, Jessica Fridrich, Nasir Memon, Fernando Pérez-González, Anderson Rocha, Luisa Verdoliva, Min Wu
Pubblicato in: IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 2023, ISSN 1053-5888
Editore: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/MSP.2023.3275319

Synthetic Image Verification in the Era of Generative Artificial Intelligence: What Works and What Isn’t There yet

Autori: Diangarti Tariang, Riccardo Corvi, Davide Cozzolino, Giovanni Poggi, Koki Nagano, Luisa Verdoliva
Pubblicato in: IEEE Security & Privacy, Numero 22, 2024, ISSN 1540-7993
Editore: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/MSEC.2024.3376637

COVID-Related Misinformation Migration to BitChute and Odysee

Autori: Olga Papadopoulou; Evangelia Kartsounidou; Symeon Papadopoulos
Pubblicato in: Future Internet, 2022, ISSN 1999-5903
Editore: MDPI
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7389776

Auditing YouTube’s Recommendation Algorithm for Misinformation Filter Bubbles

Autori: Ivan Srba, Robert Moro, Matus Tomlein, Branislav Pecher, Jakub Simko, Elena Stefancova, Michal Kompan, Andrea Hrckova, Juraj Podrouzek, Adrian Gavornik, and Maria Bielikova
Pubblicato in: ACM Transactions on Recommender Systems, Numero 1, 2022, ISSN 2770-6699
Editore: ACM Press
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2210.10085

Comparison between parameter-efficient techniques and full fine-tuning: A case study on multilingual news article classification

Autori: Razuvayevskaya, Olesya; Wu, Ben; Leite, João A.; Heppell, Freddy; Srba, Ivan; Scarton, Carolina; Bontcheva, Kalina; Song, Xingyi
Pubblicato in: PLOS ONE, 2024, ISSN 1932-6203
Editore: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2308.07282

Analysis and Experimentation on the ManTraNet Image Forgery Detector

Autori: Quentin Bammey
Pubblicato in: Image Processing On Line, 2022, ISSN 2105-1232
Editore: Image Processing On Line (ISSN 2105-1232)
DOI: 10.5201/ipol.2022.431

ACM Computing Surveys

Autori: Pecher, Branislav; Srba, Ivan; Bielikova, Maria
Pubblicato in: ACM Computing Surveys, Numero 57, 2024, ISSN 0360-0300
Editore: Association for Computing Machinary, Inc.
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2312.01082

A Workflow to Detect, Monitor, and Update Lists of Coordinated Social Media Accounts Across Time: The Case of the 2022 Italian Election

Autori: Giglietto, Fabio; Marino, Giada; Mincigrucci, Roberto; Stanziano, Anna
Pubblicato in: Social Media + Society, 2023, ISSN 2056-3051
Editore: Sage
DOI: 10.1177/20563051231196866

VERITE: a Robust benchmark for multimodal misinformation detection accounting for unimodal bias

Autori: Papadopoulos, Stefanos-Iordanis; Koutlis, Christos; Papadopoulos, Symeon; Petrantonakis, Panagiotis
Pubblicato in: International Journal of Multimedia Information Retrieval, 2024, ISSN 2192-662X
Editore: Springer
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10948297

Human and Machine Performance in Counting Sound Classes in Single-Channel Soundscapes

Autori: Jakob Abeßer, Asad Ullah, Sebastian Ziegler, Sascha Grollmisch
Pubblicato in: Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, Numero 71, 2023, ISSN 1549-4950
Editore: Audio Engineering Society
DOI: 10.17743/jaes.2022.0106

Other (4)

Handbook on the legal and ethical obligations to developers and deployers of AI-based fact-checking tools

Autori: Sophia Wistehube, François Lavoir, Ausra Semeniene, Michele Evangelista, Lalya Gaye
Pubblicato in: 2025
Editore: EBU

Generative AI and Disinformation: Recent Advances, Challenges, and Opportunities

Autori: Kalina Bontcheva, Symeon Papadopoulous, Filareti Tsalakanidou, Riccardo Gallotti, Lidia Dutkiewicz, Noémie Krack, Denis Teyssou, Francesco Severio Nucci, Jochen Spangenberg, Ivan Srba, Patrick Aichroth, Luca Cuccovillo, Luisa Verdoliva
Pubblicato in: 2024
Editore: EDMO

SheffieldVeraAI at SemEval-2023 Task 3: Mono and multilingual approaches for news genre, topic and persuasion technique classification

Autori: Wu, Ben; Razuvayevskaya, Olesya; Heppell, Freddy; Leite, João A.; Scarton, Carolina; Bontcheva, Kalina; Song, Xingyi
Pubblicato in: 2023
Editore: -
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2303.09421

Content provenance and authen/ca/on for trusted content with C2PA

Autori: Hans Hoffmann, Antonio Arcidiacono, Mohamed Badr Taddist, Lalya Gaye, Lucille Verbaere
Pubblicato in: 2025
Editore: EBU

Conference proceedings (37)

Effects of diversity incentives on sample diversity and downstream model performance in LLM-based text augmentation

Autori: Cegin, Jan; Pecher, Branislav; Simko, Jakub; Srba, Ivan; Bielikova, Maria; Brusilovsky, Peter
Pubblicato in: Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2024
Editore: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2401.06643

Improving Synthetically Generated Image Detection in Cross-Concept Settings

Autori: Dogoulis, Pantelis; Kordopatis-Zilos, Giorgos; Kompatsiaris, Ioannis; Papadopoulos, Symeon
Pubblicato in: ACM International Workshop on Multimedia AI against Disinformation (MAD ’23), 2023
Editore: ACM
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7984285

ChatGPT to Replace Crowdsourcing of Paraphrases for Intent Classification: Higher Diversity and Comparable Model Robustness

Autori: Cegin, Jan; Simko, Jakub; Brusilovsky, Peter
Pubblicato in: Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), Singapore, 2023, 2023
Editore: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2305.12947

On the detection of synthetic images generated by diffusion models

Autori: Riccardo Corvi, Davide Cozzolino, Giada Zingarini, Giovanni Poggi, Koki Nagano, Luisa Verdoliva
Pubblicato in: IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2023, 2023, ISBN 978-1-7281-6327-7
Editore: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP49357.2023.10095167

A Contrario Mosaic Analysis for Image Forensics

Autori: Bammey Quentin
Pubblicato in: Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems (ACIVS), 2023
Editore: Springer
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8309383

Are classic forensic tools effective on satellite imagery?

Autori: Matthieu Serfaty, Tina Nikoukhah, Quentin Bammey, Rafael Grompone von Gioi, Carlo de Franchis
Pubblicato in: IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2023, ISSN 2153-7003
Editore: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS52108.2023.10282862

Towards an international standard to establish trust in media production, distribution and consumption

Autori: Frederik Temmermans; Sabrina Caldwell; Symeon Papadopoulos; Fernando Pereira; Philippe Rixhon
Pubblicato in: 24th International Conference on Digital Signal Processing, Numero 24, 2023
Editore: IEEE
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7984567

On Sensitivity of Learning with Limited Labelled Data to the Effects of Randomness: Impact of Interactions and Systematic Choices

Autori: Pecher, Branislav; Srba, Ivan; Bielikova, Maria
Pubblicato in: Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2024
Editore: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2402.12817

MAD '23 Workshop: Multimedia AI against Disinformation

Autori: Luca Cuccovillo; Bogdan Ionescu; Giorgos Kordopatis-Zilos; Symeon Papadopoulos; Adrian Popescu
Pubblicato in: ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR), Thessaloniki, Greece, 12-15 June 2023, 2023, ISBN 979-8-4007-0178-8
Editore: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3591106.3592303

Comparison of Multilingual Entity Linking Approaches

Autori: Ivelina Bozhinova, Andrey Tagarev
Pubblicato in: Proceedings of 2023 International Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing. (pp. 224-233), 2023, ISBN 2603-28132023
Editore: INCOMA Ltd.
DOI: 10.26615/978-954-452-092-2_025

Calibrating POI-based Synthetic Speech Detection

Autori: Thomas Le Roux, Luca Cuccovillo, Patrick Aichroth
Pubblicato in: Proceedings of the 4th ACM International Workshop on Multimedia AI against Disinformation, 2025
Editore: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3733567.3735565

A Contrario Detection of H.264 Video Double Compression

Autori: Li, Yanhao; Gardella, Marina; Bammey, Quentin; Nikoukhah, Tina; Morel, Jean-Michel; Colom, Miguel; Grompone von Gioi, Rafael
Pubblicato in: International Conference in Image Processing (ICIP), 2023, ISSN 1522-4880
Editore: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICIP49359.2023.10222775

Synthetic Misinformers: Generating and Combating Multimodal Misinformation

Autori: Stefanos-Iordanis Papadopoulos; Christos Koutlis; Symeon Papadopoulos; Panagiotis C. Petrantonakis
Pubblicato in: 2nd ACM International Workshop on Multimedia AI against Disinformation, ICMR, ACM (MAD'23), 2023
Editore: ACM
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7871280

TruFor: Leveraging all-round clues for trustworthy image forgery detection and localization

Autori: Fabrizio Guillaro, Davide Cozzolino, Avneesh Sud, Nicholas Dufour, Luisa Verdoliva
Pubblicato in: IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops 2023, 2023, ISSN 2575-7075
Editore: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/CVPR52729.2023.01974

IMGTB: A Framework for Machine-Generated Text Detection Benchmarking

Autori: Spiegel, Michal; Macko, Dominik
Pubblicato in: Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 3: System Demonstrations), 2024
Editore: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2311.12574

EUvsDisinfo: a Dataset for Multilingual Detection of Pro-Kremlin Disinformation in News Articles

Autori: Joao Leite, Olesya Razuvayevskaya, Kalina Bontcheva, Carolina Scarton
Pubblicato in: Proceedings of 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2024
Editore: CIKM
DOI: 10.1145/3627673.3679167

Raising the Bar of AI-generated Image Detection with CLIP

Autori: Davide Cozzolino, Giovanni Poggi, Riccardo Corvi, Matthias Nießner, Luisa Verdoliva
Pubblicato in: 2024 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW), 2024
Editore: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/CVPRW63382.2024.00439

JADE OWL: JPEG 2000 forensics by wavelet offset consistency analysis

Autori: Quentin Bammey
Pubblicato in: International Conference on Image, Vision and Computing (ICIVC),, 2023
Editore: IEEE
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8119385

A Multi-Stream Fusion Network for Image Splicing Localization

Autori: Siopi, Maria; Kordopatis-Zilos, Giorgos; Charitidis, Polychronis; Kompatsiaris, Ioannis; Papadopoulos, Symeon
Pubblicato in: MMM 2023 - 29th Internatinal Conference on Multimedia Modeling, Numero 29, 2023
Editore: Springer
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7322720

Disinformation Capabilities of Large Language Models

Autori: Vykopal, Ivan; Pikuliak, Matúš; Srba, Ivan; Moro, Robert; Macko, Dominik; Bielikova, Maria
Pubblicato in: Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2024
Editore: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2311.08838

KInITVeraAI at SemEval-2023 Task 3: Simple yet Powerful Multilingual Fine-Tuning for Persuasion Techniques Detection

Autori: Timo Hromadka, Timotej Smolen, Tomas Remis, Branislav Pecher, Ivan Srba
Pubblicato in: Proceedings of the 17th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2023), 2023
Editore: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/v1/2023.semeval-1.86

Intriguing properties of synthetic images: from generative adversarial networks to diffusion models

Autori: Riccardo Corvi, Davide Cozzolino, Giovanni Poggi, Koki Nagano, Luisa Verdoliva
Pubblicato in: IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops 2023, 2023, ISSN 2160-7516
Editore: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/CVPRW59228.2023.00104

Demosaicing to Detect Demosaicing and Image Forgeries

Autori: Quentin Bammey; Rafael Grompone Von Gioi; Jean-Michel Morel
Pubblicato in: 2022 IEEE International Workshop on Information Forensics and Security (WIFS), 2022, ISSN 2157-4774
Editore: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/WIFS55849.2022.9975454

In-Depth Look at Word Filling Societal Bias Measures

Autori: Pikuliak, Matúš; Beňová, Ivana; Bachratý, Viktor
Pubblicato in: Proceedings of the 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2023
Editore: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2302.12640

MULTITuDE: Large-Scale Multilingual Machine-Generated Text Detection Benchmark

Autori: Macko, Dominik; Moro, Robert; Uchendu, Adaku; Lucas, Jason Samuel; Yamashita, Michiharu; Pikuliak, Matúš; Srba, Ivan; Le, Thai; Lee, Dongwon; Simko, Jakub; Bielikova, Maria
Pubblicato in: Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), Singapore, 2023, 2023
Editore: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2310.13606

MAD'25: 4th ACM International Workshop on Multimedia AI against Disinformation

Autori: Dan-Cristian Stanciu, Bogdan Ionescu, Symeon Papadopoulos, Giorgos Kordopatis-Zilos, Adrian Popescu, Roberto Caldelli, Milica Gerhardt, Vera Schmitt
Pubblicato in: Proceedings of the 2025 International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval, 2025
Editore: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3731715.3734512

Large Language Models Offer an Alternative to the Traditional Approach of Topic Modelling

Autori: Yida Mu, Chun Dong, Kalina Bontcheva, Xingyi Song
Pubblicato in: Proceedings of the First Workshop on Language-driven Deliberation Technology (DELITE) @ LREC-COLING 2024, 2024, ISBN 978-2-493814-10-4
Editore: LREC-COLING

Deepfake audio detection by speaker verification

Autori: Alessandro Pianese, Davide Cozzolino, Giovanni Poggi, Luisa Verdoliva
Pubblicato in: IEEE International Workshop on Information Forensics and Security (WIFS), 2022, ISSN 2157-4774
Editore: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/WIFS55849.2022.9975428

M3DSYNTH: A Dataset of Medical 3D Images with AI-Generated Local Manipulations

Autori: G. Zingarini, D. Cozzolino, R. Corvi, G. Poggi, L. Verdoliva
Pubblicato in: ICASSP 2024 - 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2024
Editore: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP48485.2024.10446605

Audio-Visual Person-of-Interest DeepFake Detection

Autori: Davide Cozzolino, Alessandro Pianese, Matthias Niessner, Luisa Verdoliva
Pubblicato in: IEEE Conference on Compurer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops 2023, 2023, ISSN 2160-7516
Editore: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/CVPRW59228.2023.00101

Evaluation of LLM Vulnerabilities to Being Misused for Personalized Disinformation Generation

Autori: Aneta Zugecova, Dominik Macko, Ivan Srba, Robert Moro, Jakub Kopál, Katarína Marcinčinová, Matúš Mesarčík
Pubblicato in: Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2025
Editore: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2412.13666

SheffieldVeraAI at SemEval-2024 Task 4: Prompting and fine-tuning a Large Vision-Language Model for Binary Classification of Persuasion Techniques in Memes

Autori: Charlie Grimshaw, Kalina Bontcheva, Xingyi Song
Pubblicato in: Proceedings of the 18th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2024), 2024
Editore: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/v1/2024.semeval-1.278

Pitfalls of Conversational LLMs on News Debiasing

Autori: Ipek Baris Schlicht, Defne Altiok, Maryanne Taouk, Lucie Flek
Pubblicato in: Proceedings of the First Workshop on Language-driven Deliberation Technology (DELITE) @ LREC-COLING 2024, 2024, ISBN 978-2-493814-14-2
Editore: ELRA and ICCL

Automatic Retrieval of Indicator Sounds for Acoustic Geo-Tagging

Autori: Jakob Abeßer
Pubblicato in: Annual Meeting on Acoustics 2025, 2025
Editore: DAGA
DOI: 10.24406/PUBLICA-4474

Self-Supervised Video Similarity Learning

Autori: Giorgos Kordopatis-Zilos; Giorgos Tolias; Christos Tzelepis; Ioannis Kompatsiaris; Ioannis Patras; Symeon Papadopoulos
Pubblicato in: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, 2023
Editore: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/cvprw59228.2023.00504

Dwreco at CheckThat! 2023: enhancing subjectivity detection through style-based data sampling

Autori: Ipek Baris Schlicht, Lynn Khellaf, Defne Altiok
Pubblicato in: 2023, ISSN 1613-0073
Editore: CEUR-WS Workshop Proceedings
DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2307.03550

Revisiting Algorithmic Audits of TikTok: Poor Reproducibility and Short-term Validity of Findings

Autori: Mosnar, Matej; Skurla, Adam; Pecher, Branislav; Tibensky, Matus; Jakubcik, Jan; Bindas, Adrian; Sakalik, Peter; Srba, Ivan
Pubblicato in: Proceedings of the 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2025), 2025
Editore: ACM
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2504.18140