Connectionists: ICME2023 2023 - Grand Challenge on Detecting Cheapfakes

[dao at nict.go.jp]

ICME 2023

Grand Challenge on Detecting Cheapfakes 
https://www.2023.ieeeicme.org/grand-challenge-prop.php

Description:

Cheapfake is a recently coined term that encompasses non-AI ("cheap") 
manipulations of multimedia content. Cheapfakes are known to be more 
prevalent than deepfakes. Cheapfake media can be created using editing 
software for image/video manipulations, or even without using any 
software, by simply altering the context of an image/video by sharing 
the media alongside misleading claims. This alteration of context is 
referred to as out-of-context (OOC) misuse of media. OOC media is much 
harder to detect than fake media, since the images and videos are not 
tampered. In this challenge, we focus on detecting OOC images, and more 
specifically the misuse of real photographs with conflicting image 
captions in news items. The aim of this challenge is to develop and 
benchmark models that can be used to detect whether given samples (news 
image and associated captions) are OOC.

Task 1: Participants are asked to come up with methods to detect 
conflicting image-caption triplets, which indicate miscontextualization. 
More specifically, given triplets as input, their proposed model should 
predict corresponding class labels 1 (OOC) or 0 (NOOC).

Task 2: Participants are asked to come up with methods to determine 
whether a given image-caption pair is genuine (real) or falsely 
generated (fake). More specifically, given an pair as input, their 
proposed model should predict corresponding class labels 0 (real) or 1 (
fake).

Challenge Website:

https://detecting-cheapfakes.github.io/

Important Dates:

- February 12, 2023: start of the competition, datasets become available,
- March 19, 2023: deadline for submitting the solutions,
- March 19, 2023: deadline for sending the reports, end of the 
competition,
- March 23, 2023: online publication of the final results, sending 
invitations for submitting papers to the associated workshops at IEEE 
ICME 2023,
- April 17, 2023: deadline for submitting invited papers,
- April 24, 2023: notification of paper acceptance after reviews by the  
Competition Organizing Committee,
- May 1, 2023: camera-ready of accepted papers due.

Organisers:

Duc-Tien Dang-Nguyen
University of Bergen & Kristiania Unveristy College
ductien.dangnguen at uib.no

Sohail Ahmed Khan
University of Bergen
sohail.khan at uib.no

Cise Midogly
Simula Metropolitan Center for Digital Engineering
cise at simula.no

Michael Riegler
Simula Metropolitan Center for Digital Engineering
micahel at simula.no

Pål Halvorsen
Simula Metropolitan Center for Digital Engineering
paalh at simula.no

Minh-Son Dao
National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
dao at nict.go.jp