Overview of the InVID project

www.invid-project.eu

In Video Veritas – Verification of Social Media Video Content for the News Industry

Vasileios Mezaris, CERTH-ITI

Project Overview

Thessaloniki, December 2017

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• Motivation: UGC and the News industry

• Use cases & examples

• Our promise

• Overall approach

• Integrated InVID technologies

• Project consortium and funding agency

• Contact

Outline


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• User Generated Content (UGC): a valuable resource… • Digital media revolution & convergence of social media with broadband

connectivity are bringing breaking news to online video platforms

• News organizations often rely on user-generated recordings of breaking and developing news events shared via social media

• …but also a tricky one • Deception facilitated by access to sophisticated editing and content

management tools

• Rapid spread of fake information in electronic networks

• Careful verification of third-party content is necessary for reputable news outlets; at present, this manual process • Reduces their ability to break news quickly

• Increases their costs in times of tight budgets

Motivation: UGC and the News industry


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• Haiti earthquake video hoax

• Video from a previous earthquake in California published by major media, slightly modified (cropped) and re-circulated in social media as a Haiti video; picked-up and aired by mainstream media for hours

• Eagle video hoax

• Video of an eagle snatching a baby posted on YouTube, went viral; later, careful examination revealed inconsistencies in the shadows of the eagle’s flight path

• Presidential fake picture

• Video frame of a surgery operation in Mexico in 2008, which was sold to and mistakenly published by a top newspaper in January 2013 as a fake image of the late Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez in a Cuban hospital

Use cases & examples


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“InVID will build a platform providing services to detect, authenticate and check the reliability and accuracy of newsworthy video files and video content spread via social media”

This platform • Will enable novel newsroom applications for broadcasters, news agencies,

web pure-players, newspapers and publishers;

• Will allow them to integrate social media content into their news output

• Without struggling to know if they can trust the material, and

• Without struggling to reach the user to ask permission for re-use

Our promise


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Overall approach


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• Tool for newsworthy video collection and management

InVID Multimodal Analytics Dashboard


• Story detection across social media channels

• Story-based newsworthy video identification

• Automatic metadata extraction and indexing

• Content exploration and visualization

• Geographic distribution of emerging stories

• Embedded playback at the video- and fragment-level

• Verification of selected videos (using the Verification Application)

• Automated generation of reports in PDF format

• Accessible at: https://invid.weblyzard.com

https://invid.weblyzard.com/

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• Tool for verification of selected newsworthy videos

InVID Verification Plugin


• Free! Get it from: http://www.invid-project.eu/verify

• • Check prior video use:

• Reverse video search on the Web using YouTube thumbnails or InVID-extracted keyframes

• Check contextual information:

• Social-media-based contextual analysis

• View location, time and other video metadata

• Keyframe/image inspection by magnifying glass

• Check image forensics:

• Image/Keyframe forensic filters

• Find more related videos:

• Advanced Twitter search

http://www.invid-project.eu/verify



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• Tool for advanced video verification • Check prior video use at the video-segment level:

InVID Verification Application


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• Reverse video search also in the InVID repository; inspection by parallel playback of query and duplicate video

• Check video origin and rights:

• Video logo detection

• Video rights management

• Check video forensics:

• Advanced video forensic filters

• Frame-level video inspection in the player

• Check additional contextual information:

• Also assess historical weather data

• Store the automatic analysis results and manually add evaluation comments and notes.

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• Tool for newsworthy video contribution by the public

InVID Mobile Application


• Capture videos of breaking or evolving stories, enriched with time, location and device metadata

• Annotate captured videos with free text and pre-selected domain-specific labels

• Provide trustworthy and metadata-enriched videos to news agencies and media organizations

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Project consortium and funding agency

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 687786

InVID: In Video Veritas – Verification of Social Media Video Content for the News Industry

Start date: 1 January 2016 Duration: 36 months


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Project Coordinator:

Dr. Vasileios Mezaris Information Technologies Institute Centre for Research and Technology Hellas 6th Km. Charilaou-Thermi Road P.O. Box 60361, 57001 Thermi-Thessaloniki, Greece Tel: +30 2311 257770, Fax: +30 2310 474128 email: [email protected], web: http://www.iti.gr/~bmezaris/

For more information on InVID visit www.invid-project.eu

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Contact
