VERIMEDIA: The second International Workshop on Media Verification and Integrity
Abstract
The rapid growth of generative multimodal processing and dissemination technologies has enabled the creation of an unprecedented amount of realistic synthetic media. As a result, methods for assessing the integrity and authenticity of digital media play a crucial role across scientific, industrial, and societal contexts, as the realism of altered digital content continues to challenge forensic models. In this context, multimedia forensic systems must address factors such as social media preprocessing, heterogeneous data sources, distribution shifts, adversarial perturbations, and the trustworthiness of information, as well as disinformation detection. These conditions underscore the challenges of deploying digital content integrity tools that remain effective, robust, and explainable. Therefore, this workshop will highlight research advancements in multimedia forensics, deepfake detection, adversarial machine learning, and AI-generated media attribution. Particular focus will be on the deployment of autonomous AI agents for media verification, as well as lifelong media authentication, a forward-looking perspective on AI's role in safeguarding media integrity. The workshop gathers interdisciplinary contributions that advance the foundations and practice of robust and trustworthy multimedia forensics across different modalities, such as images, text, and audio, encouraging research that challenges existing assumptions and proposes forward-looking solutions across multimedia analysis.
