vera.ai: VERification Assisted by Artificial Intelligence

Project Information

vera.ai

Grant agreement ID: 101070093

DOI

10.3030/101070093

EC signature date 20 June 2022

Start date 15 September 2022

End date 14 November 2025

Funded under

• Digital, Industry and Space

Total cost

€ 5 691 875,00

EU contribution

€ 5 691 875,00

Coordinated by

ETHNIKO KENTRO EREVNAS KAI TECHNOLOGIKIS ANAPTYXIS
Greece

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Deliverables

Documents, reports (3)

Cross-lingual and multimodal near-duplicate search methods

Methods developed and experiments carried out in T4.1, including reference software implementations and services.

Explainable AI methods for analysis and verification of text, audio, image & video misinformation

D3.1 will report on methods developed and experiments carried out in T3.1, T3.2, andT3.4 by M18, accompanied by reference software implementations and services.

Annotation model, API definitions, and Database of Known Fakes first release

Documentation and code from T51 and first release of the DBKF

Demonstrators, pilots, prototypes (1)

AI-enhanced Verification Tools for Professionals v1 and DBKF interim release

First release of the enhanced verification plugin, Truly Media and the verification assistant and interim release of the DBKF.

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (1)

Plan for dissemination, communication, clustering & exploitation activities

D61 will define target stakeholders and activities planned and already undertaken in T61 T62 and T63 incl supporting material The project website will be live from M3 latest and updated continuously

Data Management Plan (1)

Data Management Plan

CERTH and ATC will lead the production of this report detailing how data in the project will be managed

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (12)

Forensic Similarity for Source Camera Model Comparison

Author(s): Marina Gardella, Pablo Musé
Published in: Image Processing On Line, 2022, ISSN 2105-1232
Publisher: Image Processing On Line (ISSN 2105-1232)
DOI: 10.5201/IPOL.2022.424

Image Forgery Detection via Forensic Similarity Graphs

Author(s): Marina Gardella, Pablo Musé
Published in: Image Processing On Line, 2022, ISSN 2105-1232
Publisher: Image Processing On Line (ISSN 2105-1232)
DOI: 10.5201/IPOL.2022.432

Information Forensics and Security: A quarter-century-long journey

Author(s): Mauro Barni, Patrizio Campisi, Edward Delp, Gwenael Doërr, Jessica Fridrich, Nasir Memon, Fernando Pérez-González, Anderson Rocha, Luisa Verdoliva, Min Wu
Published in: IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 2023, ISSN 1053-5888
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/MSP.2023.3275319

Synthetic Image Verification in the Era of Generative Artificial Intelligence: What Works and What Isn’t There yet

Author(s): Diangarti Tariang, Riccardo Corvi, Davide Cozzolino, Giovanni Poggi, Koki Nagano, Luisa Verdoliva
Published in: IEEE Security & Privacy, Issue 22, 2024, ISSN 1540-7993
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/MSEC.2024.3376637

COVID-Related Misinformation Migration to BitChute and Odysee

Author(s): Olga Papadopoulou; Evangelia Kartsounidou; Symeon Papadopoulos
Published in: Future Internet, 2022, ISSN 1999-5903
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7389776

Auditing YouTube’s Recommendation Algorithm for Misinformation Filter Bubbles

Author(s): Ivan Srba, Robert Moro, Matus Tomlein, Branislav Pecher, Jakub Simko, Elena Stefancova, Michal Kompan, Andrea Hrckova, Juraj Podrouzek, Adrian Gavornik, and Maria Bielikova
Published in: ACM Transactions on Recommender Systems, Issue 1, 2022, ISSN 2770-6699
Publisher: ACM Press
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2210.10085

Comparison between parameter-efficient techniques and full fine-tuning: A case study on multilingual news article classification

Author(s): Razuvayevskaya, Olesya; Wu, Ben; Leite, João A.; Heppell, Freddy; Srba, Ivan; Scarton, Carolina; Bontcheva, Kalina; Song, Xingyi
Published in: PLOS ONE, 2024, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2308.07282

Analysis and Experimentation on the ManTraNet Image Forgery Detector

Author(s): Quentin Bammey
Published in: Image Processing On Line, 2022, ISSN 2105-1232
Publisher: Image Processing On Line (ISSN 2105-1232)
DOI: 10.5201/ipol.2022.431

ACM Computing Surveys

Author(s): Pecher, Branislav; Srba, Ivan; Bielikova, Maria
Published in: ACM Computing Surveys, Issue 57, 2024, ISSN 0360-0300
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinary, Inc.
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2312.01082

A Workflow to Detect, Monitor, and Update Lists of Coordinated Social Media Accounts Across Time: The Case of the 2022 Italian Election

Author(s): Giglietto, Fabio; Marino, Giada; Mincigrucci, Roberto; Stanziano, Anna
Published in: Social Media + Society, 2023, ISSN 2056-3051
Publisher: Sage
DOI: 10.1177/20563051231196866

VERITE: a Robust benchmark for multimodal misinformation detection accounting for unimodal bias

Author(s): Papadopoulos, Stefanos-Iordanis; Koutlis, Christos; Papadopoulos, Symeon; Petrantonakis, Panagiotis
Published in: International Journal of Multimedia Information Retrieval, 2024, ISSN 2192-662X
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10948297

Human and Machine Performance in Counting Sound Classes in Single-Channel Soundscapes

Author(s): Jakob Abeßer, Asad Ullah, Sebastian Ziegler, Sascha Grollmisch
Published in: Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, Issue 71, 2023, ISSN 1549-4950
Publisher: Audio Engineering Society
DOI: 10.17743/jaes.2022.0106

Other (4)

Handbook on the legal and ethical obligations to developers and deployers of AI-based fact-checking tools

Author(s): Sophia Wistehube, François Lavoir, Ausra Semeniene, Michele Evangelista, Lalya Gaye
Published in: 2025
Publisher: EBU

Generative AI and Disinformation: Recent Advances, Challenges, and Opportunities

Author(s): Kalina Bontcheva, Symeon Papadopoulous, Filareti Tsalakanidou, Riccardo Gallotti, Lidia Dutkiewicz, Noémie Krack, Denis Teyssou, Francesco Severio Nucci, Jochen Spangenberg, Ivan Srba, Patrick Aichroth, Luca Cuccovillo, Luisa Verdoliva
Published in: 2024
Publisher: EDMO

SheffieldVeraAI at SemEval-2023 Task 3: Mono and multilingual approaches for news genre, topic and persuasion technique classification

Author(s): Wu, Ben; Razuvayevskaya, Olesya; Heppell, Freddy; Leite, João A.; Scarton, Carolina; Bontcheva, Kalina; Song, Xingyi
Published in: 2023
Publisher: -
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2303.09421

Content provenance and authen/ca/on for trusted content with C2PA

Author(s): Hans Hoffmann, Antonio Arcidiacono, Mohamed Badr Taddist, Lalya Gaye, Lucille Verbaere
Published in: 2025
Publisher: EBU

Conference proceedings (37)

Effects of diversity incentives on sample diversity and downstream model performance in LLM-based text augmentation

Author(s): Cegin, Jan; Pecher, Branislav; Simko, Jakub; Srba, Ivan; Bielikova, Maria; Brusilovsky, Peter
Published in: Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2024
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2401.06643

Improving Synthetically Generated Image Detection in Cross-Concept Settings

Author(s): Dogoulis, Pantelis; Kordopatis-Zilos, Giorgos; Kompatsiaris, Ioannis; Papadopoulos, Symeon
Published in: ACM International Workshop on Multimedia AI against Disinformation (MAD ’23), 2023
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7984285

ChatGPT to Replace Crowdsourcing of Paraphrases for Intent Classification: Higher Diversity and Comparable Model Robustness

Author(s): Cegin, Jan; Simko, Jakub; Brusilovsky, Peter
Published in: Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), Singapore, 2023, 2023
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2305.12947

On the detection of synthetic images generated by diffusion models

Author(s): Riccardo Corvi, Davide Cozzolino, Giada Zingarini, Giovanni Poggi, Koki Nagano, Luisa Verdoliva
Published in: IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2023, 2023, ISBN 978-1-7281-6327-7
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP49357.2023.10095167

A Contrario Mosaic Analysis for Image Forensics

Author(s): Bammey Quentin
Published in: Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems (ACIVS), 2023
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8309383

Are classic forensic tools effective on satellite imagery?

Author(s): Matthieu Serfaty, Tina Nikoukhah, Quentin Bammey, Rafael Grompone von Gioi, Carlo de Franchis
Published in: IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2023, ISSN 2153-7003
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS52108.2023.10282862

Towards an international standard to establish trust in media production, distribution and consumption

Author(s): Frederik Temmermans; Sabrina Caldwell; Symeon Papadopoulos; Fernando Pereira; Philippe Rixhon
Published in: 24th International Conference on Digital Signal Processing, Issue 24, 2023
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7984567

On Sensitivity of Learning with Limited Labelled Data to the Effects of Randomness: Impact of Interactions and Systematic Choices

Author(s): Pecher, Branislav; Srba, Ivan; Bielikova, Maria
Published in: Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2024
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2402.12817

MAD '23 Workshop: Multimedia AI against Disinformation

Author(s): Luca Cuccovillo; Bogdan Ionescu; Giorgos Kordopatis-Zilos; Symeon Papadopoulos; Adrian Popescu
Published in: ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR), Thessaloniki, Greece, 12-15 June 2023, 2023, ISBN 979-8-4007-0178-8
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3591106.3592303

Comparison of Multilingual Entity Linking Approaches

Author(s): Ivelina Bozhinova, Andrey Tagarev
Published in: Proceedings of 2023 International Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing. (pp. 224-233), 2023, ISBN 2603-28132023
Publisher: INCOMA Ltd.
DOI: 10.26615/978-954-452-092-2_025

Calibrating POI-based Synthetic Speech Detection

Author(s): Thomas Le Roux, Luca Cuccovillo, Patrick Aichroth
Published in: Proceedings of the 4th ACM International Workshop on Multimedia AI against Disinformation, 2025
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3733567.3735565

A Contrario Detection of H.264 Video Double Compression

Author(s): Li, Yanhao; Gardella, Marina; Bammey, Quentin; Nikoukhah, Tina; Morel, Jean-Michel; Colom, Miguel; Grompone von Gioi, Rafael
Published in: International Conference in Image Processing (ICIP), 2023, ISSN 1522-4880
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICIP49359.2023.10222775

Synthetic Misinformers: Generating and Combating Multimodal Misinformation

Author(s): Stefanos-Iordanis Papadopoulos; Christos Koutlis; Symeon Papadopoulos; Panagiotis C. Petrantonakis
Published in: 2nd ACM International Workshop on Multimedia AI against Disinformation, ICMR, ACM (MAD'23), 2023
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7871280

TruFor: Leveraging all-round clues for trustworthy image forgery detection and localization

Author(s): Fabrizio Guillaro, Davide Cozzolino, Avneesh Sud, Nicholas Dufour, Luisa Verdoliva
Published in: IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops 2023, 2023, ISSN 2575-7075
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/CVPR52729.2023.01974

IMGTB: A Framework for Machine-Generated Text Detection Benchmarking

Author(s): Spiegel, Michal; Macko, Dominik
Published in: Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 3: System Demonstrations), 2024
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2311.12574

EUvsDisinfo: a Dataset for Multilingual Detection of Pro-Kremlin Disinformation in News Articles

Author(s): Joao Leite, Olesya Razuvayevskaya, Kalina Bontcheva, Carolina Scarton
Published in: Proceedings of 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2024
Publisher: CIKM
DOI: 10.1145/3627673.3679167

Raising the Bar of AI-generated Image Detection with CLIP

Author(s): Davide Cozzolino, Giovanni Poggi, Riccardo Corvi, Matthias Nießner, Luisa Verdoliva
Published in: 2024 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW), 2024
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/CVPRW63382.2024.00439

JADE OWL: JPEG 2000 forensics by wavelet offset consistency analysis

Author(s): Quentin Bammey
Published in: International Conference on Image, Vision and Computing (ICIVC),, 2023
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8119385

A Multi-Stream Fusion Network for Image Splicing Localization

Author(s): Siopi, Maria; Kordopatis-Zilos, Giorgos; Charitidis, Polychronis; Kompatsiaris, Ioannis; Papadopoulos, Symeon
Published in: MMM 2023 - 29th Internatinal Conference on Multimedia Modeling, Issue 29, 2023
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7322720

Disinformation Capabilities of Large Language Models

Author(s): Vykopal, Ivan; Pikuliak, Matúš; Srba, Ivan; Moro, Robert; Macko, Dominik; Bielikova, Maria
Published in: Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2024
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2311.08838

KInITVeraAI at SemEval-2023 Task 3: Simple yet Powerful Multilingual Fine-Tuning for Persuasion Techniques Detection

Author(s): Timo Hromadka, Timotej Smolen, Tomas Remis, Branislav Pecher, Ivan Srba
Published in: Proceedings of the 17th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2023), 2023
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/v1/2023.semeval-1.86

Intriguing properties of synthetic images: from generative adversarial networks to diffusion models

Author(s): Riccardo Corvi, Davide Cozzolino, Giovanni Poggi, Koki Nagano, Luisa Verdoliva
Published in: IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops 2023, 2023, ISSN 2160-7516
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/CVPRW59228.2023.00104

Demosaicing to Detect Demosaicing and Image Forgeries

Author(s): Quentin Bammey; Rafael Grompone Von Gioi; Jean-Michel Morel
Published in: 2022 IEEE International Workshop on Information Forensics and Security (WIFS), 2022, ISSN 2157-4774
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/WIFS55849.2022.9975454

In-Depth Look at Word Filling Societal Bias Measures

Author(s): Pikuliak, Matúš; Beňová, Ivana; Bachratý, Viktor
Published in: Proceedings of the 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2023
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2302.12640

MULTITuDE: Large-Scale Multilingual Machine-Generated Text Detection Benchmark

Author(s): Macko, Dominik; Moro, Robert; Uchendu, Adaku; Lucas, Jason Samuel; Yamashita, Michiharu; Pikuliak, Matúš; Srba, Ivan; Le, Thai; Lee, Dongwon; Simko, Jakub; Bielikova, Maria
Published in: Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), Singapore, 2023, 2023
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2310.13606

MAD'25: 4th ACM International Workshop on Multimedia AI against Disinformation

Author(s): Dan-Cristian Stanciu, Bogdan Ionescu, Symeon Papadopoulos, Giorgos Kordopatis-Zilos, Adrian Popescu, Roberto Caldelli, Milica Gerhardt, Vera Schmitt
Published in: Proceedings of the 2025 International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval, 2025
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3731715.3734512

Large Language Models Offer an Alternative to the Traditional Approach of Topic Modelling

Author(s): Yida Mu, Chun Dong, Kalina Bontcheva, Xingyi Song
Published in: Proceedings of the First Workshop on Language-driven Deliberation Technology (DELITE) @ LREC-COLING 2024, 2024, ISBN 978-2-493814-10-4
Publisher: LREC-COLING

Deepfake audio detection by speaker verification

Author(s): Alessandro Pianese, Davide Cozzolino, Giovanni Poggi, Luisa Verdoliva
Published in: IEEE International Workshop on Information Forensics and Security (WIFS), 2022, ISSN 2157-4774
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/WIFS55849.2022.9975428

M3DSYNTH: A Dataset of Medical 3D Images with AI-Generated Local Manipulations

Author(s): G. Zingarini, D. Cozzolino, R. Corvi, G. Poggi, L. Verdoliva
Published in: ICASSP 2024 - 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2024
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP48485.2024.10446605

Audio-Visual Person-of-Interest DeepFake Detection

Author(s): Davide Cozzolino, Alessandro Pianese, Matthias Niessner, Luisa Verdoliva
Published in: IEEE Conference on Compurer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops 2023, 2023, ISSN 2160-7516
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/CVPRW59228.2023.00101

Evaluation of LLM Vulnerabilities to Being Misused for Personalized Disinformation Generation

Author(s): Aneta Zugecova, Dominik Macko, Ivan Srba, Robert Moro, Jakub Kopál, Katarína Marcinčinová, Matúš Mesarčík
Published in: Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2025
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2412.13666

SheffieldVeraAI at SemEval-2024 Task 4: Prompting and fine-tuning a Large Vision-Language Model for Binary Classification of Persuasion Techniques in Memes

Author(s): Charlie Grimshaw, Kalina Bontcheva, Xingyi Song
Published in: Proceedings of the 18th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2024), 2024
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/v1/2024.semeval-1.278

Pitfalls of Conversational LLMs on News Debiasing

Author(s): Ipek Baris Schlicht, Defne Altiok, Maryanne Taouk, Lucie Flek
Published in: Proceedings of the First Workshop on Language-driven Deliberation Technology (DELITE) @ LREC-COLING 2024, 2024, ISBN 978-2-493814-14-2
Publisher: ELRA and ICCL

Automatic Retrieval of Indicator Sounds for Acoustic Geo-Tagging

Author(s): Jakob Abeßer
Published in: Annual Meeting on Acoustics 2025, 2025
Publisher: DAGA
DOI: 10.24406/PUBLICA-4474

Self-Supervised Video Similarity Learning

Author(s): Giorgos Kordopatis-Zilos; Giorgos Tolias; Christos Tzelepis; Ioannis Kompatsiaris; Ioannis Patras; Symeon Papadopoulos
Published in: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, 2023
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/cvprw59228.2023.00504

Dwreco at CheckThat! 2023: enhancing subjectivity detection through style-based data sampling

Author(s): Ipek Baris Schlicht, Lynn Khellaf, Defne Altiok
Published in: 2023, ISSN 1613-0073
Publisher: CEUR-WS Workshop Proceedings
DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2307.03550

Revisiting Algorithmic Audits of TikTok: Poor Reproducibility and Short-term Validity of Findings

Author(s): Mosnar, Matej; Skurla, Adam; Pecher, Branislav; Tibensky, Matus; Jakubcik, Jan; Bindas, Adrian; Sakalik, Peter; Srba, Ivan
Published in: Proceedings of the 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2025), 2025
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2504.18140