AIMultimediaLab

Multimedia Evaluation Benchmark MediaEval2025 https://lnkd.in/dam7CQrC -- The MediaEval Multimedia Evaluation benchmark offers innovative challenges that are of interests to researchers in the areas of , , , , . Registration is now open and submissions will be in October.

This year’s tasks are:
- : VQA (with multimodal explanations) for gastrointestinal imaging
- : Predicting movie and commercial memorability
- : Multimodal summarization of multiple topically related websites
- : Retrieval and generative AI for news thumbnails
- : Advancing detection of generative AI used in real-world online images

MediaEval places special emphasis on gaining insight into data and algorithms and moving forward the state of the art on tasks that are novel or unexpectedly challenging, due to the nature of the data or to a limited quantity of labels. The overall mission of MediaEval is to support that makes multimedia a positive force for society.

Results are presented at the next edition of the yearly MediaEval workshop, which will take place in Dublin, Ireland, Sat.-Sun. 25-26 October 2025, between CBMI 2025 (the 22th Content-Based Multimedia Indexing) and ACM Multimedia 2025 (the 33rd ACM International Conference on Multimedia). The workshop will provide an opportunity for online participation.

4th ACM International Workshop on against , organized with ACM , Chicago, USA, June 30-July 3, 2025 https://mad2025.aimultimedialab.ro/ April 10, 2025.

Topics of interest (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 detection results 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.

See the previous edition proceedings here https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3652583.3660000.

Project support UEFISCDI DeteRel SOL12/2024, AI4Debunk, vera.ai, news-polygraph.

Universitatea POLITEHNICA din București, Università Mercatorum, Fraunhofer Karriere IDMT, České vysoké učení technické v Praze, Εθνικό Κέντρο Κοινωνικών Ερευνών - ΕΚΚΕ CERTH, CEA-List, Technische Universität Berlin.

A new doctor is born – congratulations to Ciprian Zamfirescu for successfully defending his PhD thesis awarded with the highest distinction “Summa cm laude” in engineering – this is a one of a kind contribution as you balanced the & with via deploying your knowledge to undergraduate students, via deploying your knowledge to products in Vodafone Romania, and via deploying your solutions to public use, e.g., to Salvamont Romania-Dispeceratul National Salvamont for the UAV fleet which saves lives, and popularizing the technology through countless public presentations, e.g., https://lnkd.in/dnqPkGWu – it resulted the https://lnkd.in/dDTikusj with where hundreds of students and of your (and teams') results each year ... and this is just the beginning of the journey! Many thanks to the PhD defense committee Prof. Corina Naforniță, Prof. Emanuel Pușchiță, Prof. Ion Marghescu, and Prof. Mihai Ciuc Doctoral School of Electronics, Telecommunications & Information Technology Facultatea de Electronică, Telecomunicații și Tehnologia Informației Universitatea POLITEHNICA din București.