MAD'25

From 30 June until 3 July 2025, Chicago will host the ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR’25). Meanwhile almost a tradition, this prestigious conference is used to also host the ACM International Workshop on Multimedia AI against Disinformation (MAD’25), now in its 4th edition.

MAD'25 location, using the prompt “expressive oil painting of the most renown landmark in Chicago"Luca Cuccovillo and the respective image generator

The workshop is supported by a selection of projects, including our very own vera.ai. Joining forces with us are: 

From our side, Milicas Gerhardt (IDMT) and Symeon Papadopoulos (CERTH-ITI) are part of the organising committee. 

YOU are most welcome to become a part of it! Either as an attendee or speaker. If the latter is of interest, please consider submitting a paper to the workshop.

Topics of interest include - but are not limited to the following:

  • 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

For more details please visit the workshop website - and off you go. Get MAD'25!

Author: Jochen Spangenberg (DW)

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