Connectionists: Call for papers: 3rd ACM International Workshop on Multimedia AI against Disinformation (MAD’24)

[Cristian Stanciu]

3rd ACM International Workshop on Multimedia AI against Disinformation
(MAD’24)
ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval ICMR'24
Phuket, Thailand, June 10-13, 2024
https://www.mad2024.aimultimedialab.ro/
https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=mad2024


*** Call for papers ***

* Paper submission due: March 17, 2024
* Acceptance notification: April 7, 2024
* Camera-ready papers due: April 25, 2024
* Workshop @ACM ICMR 2024: June 10, 2024


Modern communication does not rely anymore solely on classic media like
newspapers or television, but rather takes place over social networks, in
real-time, and with live interactions among users. The speedup in the
amount of information available, however, also led to an increased amount
and quality of misleading content, disinformation and propaganda.
Conversely, the fight against disinformation, in which news agencies and
NGOs (among others) take part on a daily basis to avoid the risk of
citizens' opinions being distorted, became even more crucial and demanding,
especially for what concerns sensitive topics such as politics, health and
religion.

Disinformation campaigns are leveraging, among others, AI-based tools for
content generation and modification: hyper-realistic visual, speech,
textual and video content have emerged under the collective name of
"deepfakes", and more recently with the use of Large Language Models (LLMs)
and Large Multimodal Models (LMMs), undermining the perceived credibility
of media content. It is, therefore, even more crucial to counter these
advances by devising new analysis tools able to detect the presence of
synthetic and manipulated content, accessible to journalists and
fact-checkers, robust and trustworthy, and possibly based on AI to reach
greater performance.

Future multimedia disinformation detection research relies on the
combination of different modalities and on the adoption of the latest
advances of deep learning approaches and architectures. These  raise new
challenges and questions that need to be addressed in order to reduce the
effects of disinformation campaigns. The workshop, in its third edition,
welcomes contributions related to different aspects of AI-powered
disinformation detection, analysis and mitigation.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

- Disinformation detection in multimedia content (e.g., video, audio,
texts, images)
- Multimodal verification methods
- Synthetic and manipulated media detection
- Multimedia forensics
- Disinformation spread and effects in social media
- Analysis of disinformation campaigns in societally-sensitive domains
- Robustness of media verification against adversarial attacks and
real-world complexities
- Fairness and non-discrimination of disinformation detection in multimedia
content
- Explaining disinformation/disinformation detection technologies to
non-expert users
- Temporal and cultural aspects of disinformation
- Dataset sharing and governance in AI for disinformation
- Datasets for disinformation detection and multimedia verification
- Open resources, e.g., datasets, software tools
- Large Language Models for analyzing and mitigating disinformation
campaigns
- Large Multimodal Models for media verification
- Multimedia verification systems and applications
- System fusion, ensembling and late fusion techniques
- Benchmarking and evaluation frameworks


*** Submission guidelines ***

When preparing your submission, please adhere strictly to the ACM ICMR 2024
instructions, to ensure the appropriateness of the reviewing process and
inclusion in the ACM Digital Library proceedings. The instructions are
available here: https://mad2024.aimultimedialab.ro/submissions/.



*** Organizing committee ***

Cristian Stanciu, Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania
Luca Cuccovillo, Fraunhofer IDMT, Germany
Bogdan Ionescu, Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania
Giorgos Kordopatis-Zilos, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czechia
Symeon Papadopoulos, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas,
Thessaloniki, Greece
Adrian Popescu, CEA LIST, Saclay, France
Roberto Caldelli, CNIT and Mercatorum University, Italy

The workshop is supported under the H2020 project AI4Media - A European
Excellence Centre for Media, Society and Democracy (https://www.ai4media.eu/),
the Horizon Europe project vera.ai - VERification Assisted by Artificial
Intelligence (https://www.veraai.eu/) and Horizon Europe project AI4Debunk
- Participative Assistive AI-powered Tools for Supporting Trustworthy
Online Activity of Citizens and Debunking Disinformation (
https://ai4debunk.eu/).


On behalf of the organizers,

Cristian Stanciu
https://www.aimultimedialab.ro/
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