COM-PRESS

Combating disinformation by equipping journalists with new image manipulation insights and detection methods.

This image manipulation analysis dashboard is being developed in the COM-PRESS research project. In this project, we develop image forgery detection methods that journalists can use to detect and debunk image manipulations. We explore novel techniques in fundamental research and bridge the gap to socially relevant use cases.

Specifically, COM-PRESS works towards the following objectives:

  • Investigating the credibility of existing manipulation techniques.
  • Developing new detection methods of image manipulations, as well as searching for complementary detection methods.
  • Opening up detection methods to journalists and evaluating them in concrete use cases.

In this way, COM-PRESS creates new insights in disinformation, in order to increase the resilience of citizens and journalists against disinformation.

The research consortium

The research groups IDLab-MEDIA and mict (both from Ghent University - imec, Belgium) join forces with Apache (De Werktitel cv) as media partner. The image analysis dashboard that you are on now is made by IDLab-MEDIA. Moreover, the consortium is working with CheckFirst to build a second dashboard that scrapes social media and communicates with this image analysis dashboard. The project runs from October 2022 to June 2024, with subsidies from the Flemish government’s Department of Culture, Youth & Media (Departement Cultuur Jeugd & Media).

Contact

For questions or bug reports, contact Dr. Hannes Mareen.
E-mail: hannes.mareen@ugent.be

COM-PRESS

Combating disinformation by equipping journalists with new image manipulation insights and detection methods.

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