Monthly Archive: September 2016

InVID and First Draft News partnership started

InVID and First Draft News partnership started

InVID and First Draft News partnership started!

We are thrilled to announce the participation of the InVID project to the partner network of First Draft News, that aims to tackle issues of trust and truth in reporting information that emerges online. The members of the InVID consortium will join their efforts for developing technologies for video verification, with a group of over thirty major news and technology organizations including (but not restricted to) Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, The New York Times, The Washington Post, BuzzFeed News, CNN, ABC News (Australia), AJ+, ProPublica, Agence France-Presse, Channel 4 New and The Telegraph.

Check the First Draft News public announcement for further details about this collaboration!

InVID video demo on similarity search

InVID video demo on similarity search

Check out the new InVID video demo on similarity search for video verification, made by Denis Teyssou of AFP.

Starting from a video uploaded to YouTube on March 7th 2016, Denis demonstrates a verification process based on reverse image search using keyframes and the YouTube API. The outcome of this process can assist journalists in making a decision about the originality of the video. Other InVID technologies for visual analysis that are currently under development, such as sub-shot segmentation and logo detection, can enhance the efficiency and the robustness of video similarity search.

For further news, stay tuned on the InVID YouTube channel!

InVID at REVEAL workshop in Athens

InVID at REVEAL workshop in Athens

A one-day workshop on user-generated content verification in news is organized by the REVEAL project in Athens, Greece, on September 16th, 2016.

The InVID project will be there, represented by the project coordinator Vasileios Mezaris (CERTH-ITI), Arno Scharl (webLyzard), Denis Teyssou (AFP) and Rolf Fricke (Condat). The project work, the achievements to date and the steps ahead will be presented during the InVID session of the workshop (see the full agenda of the workshop here).

More specifically, Vasileios will give an introductory presentation about the InVID project, describing its motivation through a number of use cases for UGV verification, explaining the envisaged approach, and outlining the expected outcomes. Subsequently, Arno will present the developed InVID multimodal visual analytics dashboard that can be used for finding UGV, Denis will discuss various aspects of hands-on video verification and Rolf will introduce the InVID verification application and its UI.

Demos related to the InVID multimodal visual analytics dashboard and the hands-on video verification process will be presented during the demo sessions of the workshop.

Further details regarding the workshop can be found here.