MediaFutures is pleased to announce a seminar with Duc Tien Dang Nguyen from the University of Bergen.

Welcome to all!

TITLE: Multimedia Verification – An overview on technologies and services for the detection of multimedia-based disinformation in the era of deep networks.
WHEN: 11 March 2021, 12:00-13:00.

ABSTRACT: In this seminar, Duc Tien Dang Nguyen will give a broad overview of how researchers seek to advance methods that detect and reveal modified and manipulated images and videos, and building up trust in online media based on advanced multimedia verification algorithms. He will also give discussions on how AI can be used and misused in the era of deep networks.

These main topics will be discussed within the seminar:
– Image manipulation detection
– Deepfake generation and detection
– Social multimedia verification
– The limits of current forensic tools

BIO: Dr. Duc Tien Dang Nguyen is an Associate Professor of Information Science. His area of expertise is on multimedia forensics, lifelogging and multimedia retrieval. Duc Tien is the author and co-author of more than a hundred peer-reviewed research papers that have been cited over a thousand times. He has been PC member at a number of conferences, co-organizer of both the Multimedia Verification, the NTCIR Lifelog Task and the ImageClef Lifelog tasks, and co-organizer of over ten other MediaEval tasks. He is also to be the incoming General Chair of MMM 2023.