3rd ACM International Workshop on Multimedia AI against Disinformation (MAD’24) – Call for papers

Topics of Interest

• Disinformation detection in multimedia content (e.g., video, audio, texts, images)
• Multimodal verification methods
• Synthetic and manipulated media detection
• Multimedia forensics
• Disinformation spread and effects in social media
• Analysis of disinformation campaigns in societally-sensitive domains
• Robustness of media verification against adversarial attacks and real-world complexities
• Fairness and non-discrimination of disinformation detection in multimedia content
• Explaining disinformation /disinformation detection technologies for non-expert users
• Temporal and cultural aspects of disinformation
• Dataset sharing and governance in AI for disinformation
• Datasets for disinformation detection and multimedia verification
• Open resources, e.g., datasets, software tools
• Multimedia verification systems and applications
• System fusion, ensembling and late fusion techniques
• Benchmarking and evaluation frameworks

Expected numbers of submissions, accepted papers, and participants

ACM expects to attract around 25-35 submissions, and to accept about half of it, with an acceptance rate of 50%. We foresee to attract around 40-45 participants on-site, allowing remote presentations for authors unable to attend due to travel restrictions.

A selection of the papers accepted for the workshop may be invited to a special issue of a first-tier journal. Potential venues are the International Journal of Multimedia Retrieval, Multimedia Tools and Applications, IEEE MultiMedia.