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This article presents a beta-version of MEWS (Misinformation Early Warning System). It describes the various aspects of the ingestion, manipulation detection, and graphing algorithms employed to determine--in near real-time--the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Trenton W. Ford , William Theisen , Michael Yankoski , Tom Henry , Farah Khashman , Katherine R. Dearstyne , Tim Weninger

In this paper, we delve into the rapidly evolving challenge of misinformation detection, with a specific focus on the nuanced manipulation of narrative frames - an under-explored area within the AI community. The potential for Generative AI…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Guan Wang , Rebecca Frederick , Jinglong Duan , William Wong , Verica Rupar , Weihua Li , Quan Bai

The boost of available digital media has led to a significant increase in derivative work. With tools for manipulating objects becoming more and more mature, it can be very difficult to determine whether one piece of media was derived from…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2018-04-16 Silvan Heller , Luca Rossetto , Heiko Schuldt

The rise of social media has enabled the widespread propagation of fake news, text that is published with an intent to spread misinformation and sway beliefs. Rapidly detecting fake news, especially as new events arise, is important to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Nikhil Mehta , Dan Goldwasser

The move of propaganda and disinformation to the online environment is possible thanks to the fact that within the last decade, digital information channels radically increased in popularity as a news source. The main advantage of such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Aleš Horák , Vít Baisa , Ondřej Herman

Large-scale dissemination of disinformation online intended to mislead or deceive the general population is a major societal problem. Rapid progression in image, video, and natural language generative models has only exacerbated this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Reuben Tan , Bryan A. Plummer , Kate Saenko

Recent years have witnessed the sustained evolution of misinformation that aims at manipulating public opinions. Unlike traditional rumors or fake news editors who mainly rely on generated and/or counterfeited images, text and videos,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Yizhou Zhang , Loc Trinh , Defu Cao , Zijun Cui , Yan Liu

Image retargeting is the task of making images capable of being displayed on screens with different sizes. This work should be done so that high-level visual information and low-level features such as texture remain as intact as possible to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-18 Mahdi Ahmadi , Nader Karimi , Shadrokh Samavi

With recent advances in computer vision and graphics, it is now possible to generate videos with extremely realistic synthetic faces, even in real time. Countless applications are possible, some of which raise a legitimate alarm, calling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Andreas Rössler , Davide Cozzolino , Luisa Verdoliva , Christian Riess , Justus Thies , Matthias Nießner

Recent advances in neural networks for content generation enable artificial intelligence (AI) models to generate high-quality media manipulations. Here we report on a randomized experiment designed to study the effect of exposure to media…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-28 Matthew Groh , Ziv Epstein , Nick Obradovich , Manuel Cebrian , Iyad Rahwan

The spread of misinformation through synthetically generated yet realistic images and videos has become a significant problem, calling for robust manipulation detection methods. Despite the predominant effort of detecting face manipulation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Ekraam Sabir , Jiaxin Cheng , Ayush Jaiswal , Wael AbdAlmageed , Iacopo Masi , Prem Natarajan

Within the set of the many complex factors driving gaze placement, the properities of an image that are associated with fixations under free viewing conditions have been studied extensively. There is a general impression that the field is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-09-29 Matthias Kümmerer , Thomas Wallis , Matthias Bethge

The proliferation of fake news on social media has opened up new directions of research for timely identification and containment of fake news, and mitigation of its widespread impact on public opinion. While much of the earlier research…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Karishma Sharma , Feng Qian , He Jiang , Natali Ruchansky , Ming Zhang , Yan Liu

Copy-move forgery is a manipulation of copying and pasting specific patches from and to an image, with potentially illegal or unethical uses. Recent advances in the forensic methods for copy-move forgery have shown increasing success in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Chao Wang , Zhiqiu Huang , Shuren Qi , Yaoshen Yu , Guohua Shen , Yushu Zhang

The detection of sensational content in media items can be a critical filtering mechanism for identifying check-worthy content and flagging potential disinformation, since such content triggers physiological arousal that often bypasses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Andreas Goulas , Damianos Galanopoulos , Evlampios Apostolidis , Vasileios Mezaris

The widespread dissemination of fake news on social media poses significant risks, necessitating timely and accurate detection. However, existing methods struggle with unseen news due to their reliance on training data from past events and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Shuzhi Gong , Richard Sinnott , Jianzhong Qi , Cecile Paris

Recently, image manipulation has achieved rapid growth due to the advancement of sophisticated image editing tools. A recent surge of generated fake imagery and videos using neural networks is DeepFake. DeepFake algorithms can create fake…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Naciye Celebi , Qingzhong Liu , Muhammed Karatoprak

Social media has greatly enabled people to participate in online activities at an unprecedented rate. However, this unrestricted access also exacerbates the spread of misinformation and fake news online which might cause confusion and chaos…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Kai Shu , Guoqing Zheng , Yichuan Li , Subhabrata Mukherjee , Ahmed Hassan Awadallah , Scott Ruston , Huan Liu

The real human attention is an interactive activity between our visual system and our brain, using both low-level visual stimulus and high-level semantic information. Previous image salient object detection (SOD) works conduct their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Zhenyu Wu , Shuai Li , Chenglizhao Chen , Aimin Hao , Hong Qin

The detection and grounding of manipulated content in multimodal data has emerged as a critical challenge in media forensics. While existing benchmarks demonstrate technical progress, they suffer from misalignment artifacts that poorly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Jinjie Shen , Yaxiong Wang , Lechao Cheng , Nan Pu , Zhun Zhong