Workshop Program

June 16
All times are in Central European Summer Time (CEST).

09:15 – 09:30

Welcome from Workshop Organizers

09:30 – 10:30

Keynote Talk

How AI-Based Regeneration Reshapes Multimedia Forensics

Hannes Mareen IDLab-MEDIA, Ghent University–imec, Belgium

10:30 – 11:00

Coffee Break

11:00 – 12:30

Session 1: Foundations and Evaluation of AI-Generated Content Detection in Real-World Settings

  • Automated In-the-Wild Data Collection for Continual AI Generated Image Detection
    Thanasis Pantsios, Dimitrios Karageorgiou, Christos Koutlis, George Karantaidis, Olga Papadopoulou, Symeon Papadopoulos

  • Navigating the Challenges of AI-Generated Image Detection in the Wild: What Truly Matters?
    Despina Konstantinidou, Dimitrios Karageorgiou, Christos Koutlis, Olga Papadopoulou, Emmanouil Schinas, Symeon Papadopoulos

  • Hidden in Plain Sight: Occlusion Edge Blur as a Perceptual Blind Spot in Multimodal LLMs
    Jessica Herrington, Ben Swift

  • Detecting Audio-Text Decontextualization through Entailment and Semantic Analysis
    Milica Gerhardt, Luca Cuccovillo, Patrick Aichroth

12:30 – 13:30

Lunch Break

13:30 – 14:30

Keynote Talk

When Memes Manipulate: Multimodal Tools of Disinformation

Dimitar Dimitrov Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Bulgaria

14:30 – 15:30

Session 2: Multimodal Trust, Forensics, and Robustness Against Synthetic Media Manipulation

  • RoPe-DW: Robust and Perceptual Dual Watermarking for Secure AI-Generated Multimedia Content
    Jie Hu, Shicheng Fang, Wenzheng Liu, Menghan Liang, Cheng Fu, Xiaofeng Wang, Qianqian Xing, Xiaoyong Tang, Tan Deng, Ronghui Cao

  • Generative Deepfake Videos in the Foundation-Model Era: A Timeline of Eroding Trust in Visual Evidence
    Shaina Raza, Jessee Ho, Mahveen Raza, Christos Emmanouilidis

  • Unified Detection of Synthetic and Manipulated Images via Dual-Stream Artifact Fusion
    Thinh-Phat Vo, Dang-Khoa Mai, Minh-Triet Tran, Trong-Le Do

15:30 – 15:45

Closing Remarks