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Detecting multimodal misinformation, especially in the form of image-text pairs, is crucial. Obtaining large-scale, high-quality real-world fact-checking datasets for training detectors is costly, leading researchers to use synthetic…

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The growing threat posed by deepfake videos, capable of manipulating realities and disseminating misinformation, drives the urgent need for effective detection methods. This work investigates and compares different approaches for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Matheus Martins Batista

The wide spread of false information online including misinformation and disinformation has become a major problem for our highly digitised and globalised society. A lot of research has been done to better understand different aspects of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Haiyue Yuan , Enes Altuncu , Shujun Li , Can Baskent

Despite significant interest in developing general purpose fact checking models, it is challenging to construct a large-scale fact verification dataset with realistic real-world claims. Existing claims are either authored by crowdworkers,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Jungsoo Park , Sewon Min , Jaewoo Kang , Luke Zettlemoyer , Hannaneh Hajishirzi

The proliferation of online misinformation videos poses serious societal risks. Current datasets and detection methods primarily target binary classification or single-modality localization based on post-processed data, lacking the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Bingjian Yang , Danni Xu , Kaipeng Niu , Wenxuan Liu , Zheng Wang , Mohan Kankanhalli

With the increasing influence of social media, online misinformation has grown to become a societal issue. The motivation for our work comes from the threat caused by cheapfakes, where an unaltered image is described using a news caption in…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Anurag Singh , Shivangi Aneja

Misinformation in healthcare, from vaccine hesitancy to unproven treatments, poses risks to public health and trust in medical systems. While machine learning and natural language processing have advanced automated fact-checking, validating…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Mariano Barone , Antonio Romano , Giuseppe Riccio , Marco Postiglione , Vincenzo Moscato

The rapid spread of multilingual misinformation requires robust automated fact verification systems capable of handling fine-grained veracity assessments across diverse languages. While large language models have shown remarkable…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Hanna Shcharbakova , Tatiana Anikina , Natalia Skachkova , Josef van Genabith

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) excel at generating highly detailed captions but often produce hallucinations. Our analysis reveals that existing hallucination detection methods struggle with detailed captions. We attribute this to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Saehyung Lee , Seunghyun Yoon , Trung Bui , Jing Shi , Sungroh Yoon

AI-manipulated videos, commonly known as deepfakes, are an emerging problem. Recently, researchers in academia and industry have contributed several (self-created) benchmark deepfake datasets, and deepfake detection algorithms. However,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Jiameng Pu , Neal Mangaokar , Lauren Kelly , Parantapa Bhattacharya , Kavya Sundaram , Mobin Javed , Bolun Wang , Bimal Viswanath

Fact-checking is an essential tool to mitigate the spread of misinformation and disinformation. We introduce the task of fact-checking in dialogue, which is a relatively unexplored area. We construct DialFact, a testing benchmark dataset of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Prakhar Gupta , Chien-Sheng Wu , Wenhao Liu , Caiming Xiong

Online misinformation is often multimodal in nature, i.e., it is caused by misleading associations between texts and accompanying images. To support the fact-checking process, researchers have been recently developing automatic multimodal…

The Multi-language Video Subtitle Dataset is a comprehensive collection designed to support research in text recognition across multiple languages. This dataset includes 4,224 subtitle images extracted from 24 videos sourced from online…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Thanadol Singkhornart , Olarik Surinta

Amid a tidal wave of misinformation flooding social media during elections and crises, extensive research has been conducted on misinformation detection, primarily focusing on text-based or image-based approaches. However, only a few…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Gautam Kishore Shahi

Multimodal misinformation, encompassing textual, visual, and cross-modal distortions, poses an increasing societal threat that is amplified by generative AI. Existing methods typically focus on a single type of distortion and struggle to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Zehong Yan , Peng Qi , Wynne Hsu , Mong Li Lee

Fact-checking is the task of verifying the factuality of a given claim by examining the available evidence. High-quality evidence plays a vital role in enhancing fact-checking systems and facilitating the generation of explanations that are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Yirong Zeng , Xiao Ding , Yi Zhao , Xiangyu Li , Jie Zhang , Chao Yao , Ting Liu , Bing Qin

Misinformation has disruptive effects on our lives. Many researchers have looked into means to identify and combat misinformation in text or data visualization. However, there is still a lack of understanding of how misinformation can be…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Chengbo Zheng , Xiaojuan Ma

In the digital age, seeking health advice on the Internet has become a common practice. At the same time, determining the trustworthiness of online medical content is increasingly challenging. Fact-checking has emerged as an approach to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Juraj Vladika , Phillip Schneider , Florian Matthes

The proliferation of synthetic images generated by advanced AI models poses significant challenges in identifying and understanding manipulated visual content. Current fake image detection methods predominantly rely on binary classification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Ritabrata Chakraborty , Rajatsubhra Chakraborty , Ali Khaleghi Rahimian , Thomas MacDougall

The verification of multimedia content over social media is one of the challenging and crucial issues in the current scenario and gaining prominence in an age where user-generated content and online social web platforms are the leading…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Deepika Varshney , Dinesh Kumar Vishwakarma