Connecting Existing Pieces of Evidence in Time and Space for Understanding Real-World Events

#fact-checking #mining #persons

Tarih: 4 Mart 2019, Saat 14:00-15:00

Yer: Üsküdar Üniversitesi Altunizade Merkez Yerleşkesi, A-Blok 4. Kat Nermin Tarhan Konferans Salonu

Adres: Altunizade Mahallesi, Haluk Türksoy Sk. No:14, 34662 Üsküdar/İstanbul

Connecting Existing Pieces of Evidence in Time and Space for Understanding Real-World Events

Abstract: In this talk, we will discuss problems associated with synchronizing specific events in space and time (X-coherence), fact-checking, and mining persons, objects and contents of interest from various and heterogeneous sources including — but not limited to — the internet, social media and surveillance imagery. For that, we seek to harness information from various media sources and synchronize the multiple textual and visual information pieces around the position of an event or object as well as order them so as to allow a better understanding about what happened before, during, and shortly after the event. After automatically organizing the data and understanding the order of the facts, we can devise and deploy solutions for mining persons or objects of interest for suspect analysis/tracking, fact-checking, or even understanding the nature of the said event. Additionally, by exploring the possible existing links among different pieces of information, we aim at further designing and developing media integrity analytics tools to hint at existing forgeries, sensitive content (e.g., violent content, child pornography), and spreading patterns of multimedia objects online. With demanding and sophisticated crimes and terrorist threats becoming ever more pervasive, allied with the advent and spread of fake news, our objective is to use the developed solutions to help us answering the four most important questions in forensics regarding an event: “who,” “in what circumstances,” “why,” and “how,” thus identifying the characteristics and circumstances in which an event has taken place.

Short Bio

Anderson Rocha received the B.Sc. degree in computer science from the Federal University of Lavras, Brazil, in 2003, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Campinas (Unicamp), Campinas, Brazil, in 2006 and 2009, respectively. He is currently an Associate Professor with the Institute of Computing, Unicamp. His main interests include digital forensics, reasoning for complex data, and machine intelligence. He has actively worked as a Program Committee Member in several important Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, and Digital Forensics events. He is an Associate Editor of the Elsevier Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, and a Leading Guest Editor of the EURASIP/Springer Journal on Image and Video Processing and the IEEE Transactıons On Information Forensics And Security. He is an affiliate member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences and the Brazilian Academy of Forensics Sciences. He is also a Microsoft Research Faculty Fellow of the IEEE Information Forensics and Security Technical Committee (IFS TC), and was a member of IFS TC

• Date: 04 Mar 2019
• Time: 11:00 AM UTC to 12:00 PM UTC
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• Üsküdar Üniversitesi Altunizade Merkez Yerleşkesi
• Altunizade Mahallesi, Haluk Türksoy Sk. No:14
• Uskudar, Istanbul
• Türkiye 34662
• Building: A-Blok
• Room Number: 4. Kat Nermin Tarhan Konferans Salonu

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• Co-sponsored by Uskudar University

• Starts 04 March 2019 10:30 AM UTC
• Ends 04 March 2019 11:00 AM UTC
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