VERIMEDIA

International Workshop on Media Verification and Integrity

VERIMEDIA - IJCNN 2025 Workshop

This workshop in conjuction with IJCNN conference addresses the rising challenges of AI-generated content and deepfakes by exploring advancements in multimedia forensics, deepfake detection, adversarial machine learning, AI-generated media attribution, multimodal analysis. A key focus is lifelong media authentication, emphasizing AI's role in safeguarding media integrity by analyzing diverse media types—text, images, videos, and speech. The session highlights the critical importance of combating disinformation and ensuring trustworthy information across fields like forensics, fake news debunking, cyberattack mitigation, and politics. The primary objective is to bring together experts from these varied fields, policy makers and stakeholders to share challenges and solutions and foster collaborative discussions.

Call for Papers

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has profoundly impacted the creation, distribution, and consumption of digital media. However, it has also introduced significant challenges, such as the rise of deepfakes, AI-generated misinformation, and adversarial attacks. To address these pressing issues, this workshop will explore advancements in multimedia forensics, deepfake detection, adversarial machine learning, AI-generated media attribution, and multimodal analysis.

A primary focus will be on lifelong media authentication—a forward-looking approach to ensuring the integrity and trustworthiness of digital content. By analyzing diverse media types, including text, images, videos, and speech, we aim to address the critical need for reliable tools and techniques to safeguard against disinformation, support forensic investigations, mitigate cyberattacks, and uphold trust in digital communications.

This workshop is aimed at researchers from various fields, including computational intelligence (e.g., deep learning, machine learning), artificial intelligence (e.g., natural language processing, knowledge modeling, computer vision), social network analysis, and signal processing who are interested in applying their methods and techniques to the challenges of detecting and countering misinformation. Additionally, professionals, practitioners, and stakeholders active in fields like journalism, communication, fact-checking, and law enforcement will also find the discussions and outcomes of this workshop highly relevant.

We invite submissions on topics including, but not limited to:

  • Multimedia Forensics: Detection and attribution of manipulated content across various media types.
  • Deepfake Detection: Innovations in identifying AI-generated content.
  • Adversarial Machine Learning: Challenges and solutions in combating adversarial threats.
  • AI-Generated Media Attribution: Techniques for tracing and authenticating content origin.
  • Lifelong Media Authentication: Long-term strategies for maintaining media integrity.
  • Applications in Disinformation Detection: Case studies in forensics, fake news debunking, infodemic control, and politics.

Submission Guidelines: We welcome research papers, case studies, and position papers. Submissions should be original and not under review elsewhere. Manuscripts must follow the IJCNN rules here and should not exceed 8 pages. During the submission, authors should select as the subject area the name of the selected Workshop.

Important dates

Key deadlines and milestones for submission and participation

Workshop Papers Submission Deadline March 20, 2025
Workshop Paper Acceptance Notification April 15, 2025
Workshop Date July 3, 2025

Submission

The VERIMEDIA workshop 2025 is organized as part of the workshop series at the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2025). Participation in the workshop is included for all registered conference attendees. We kindly remind authors that at least one representative for each accepted submission must register and be present at the workshop to deliver the presentation. Authors should select as the subject area the name of the selected Workshop.

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Commitee

Meet the experts driving the VERIMEDIA workshop

Irene Amerini

General Chair

Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

Mauro Barni

General Chair

University of Siena, Italy

Sébastien Marcel

Technical Program

IDIAP Research Center, Switzerland

Fernando Pérez-González

Technical Program

University of Vigo, Spain

Sebastiano Battiato

Technical Program

University of Catania, Italy

Paolo Bestagini

Technical Program

Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Giulia Boato

Technical Program

University of Trento, Italy

Gian Luca Marcialis

Demo Chair

University of Cagliari, Italy

Luisa Verdoliva

Keynote Chair

University di Napoli Federico II, Italy

Roberto Caldelli

Panel Session Chair

CNIT and Universitas Mercatorum, Italy

Giovanna Maria Dimitri

Publication Chair

University of Siena, Italy

Sara Mandelli

Publicity and Social Network Chair

Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Edoardo Cannas

Publicity and Social Network Chair

Politecnico di Milano, Italy

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Irene Amerini, Sapienza University of Rome - irene.amerini@uniroma1.it

Mauro Barni, University of Siena - mauro.barni@unisi.it