June 30th

08:30 - 09:00 (CDT)
Registration Open

09:00 - 09:15 (CDT)
Welcome from Workshop Organizers

09:15 - 10:10 (CDT)
Keynote Talk: Multimodal Detection of Misrepresented Images
Stefanos-Iordanis Papadopoulos (The Centre for Research & Technology, Hellas, Greece)

10:10 - 10:30 (CDT)
Break

10:30 - 11:30 (CDT)
Session 1: Benchmarking and Evaluating Multimodal Misinformation Detection

1. Beyond Transparency: Evaluating Explainability in AI-Supported Fact-Checking
Vera Schmitt, Isabel Bezzaoui, Charlott Jakob, Premtim Sahitaj, Qianli Wang, Arthur Hilbert, Max Upravitelev, Jonas Fegert, Sebastian Möller, Veronika Solopova

2. Mitigating Class Imbalance in Fact-Checking Datasets Through LLM-Based Synthetic Data Generation
Lwin Moe, Uyen Trang Nguyen, Boi Trinh Luu

3. SocialDF: Benchmark Dataset and Detection Model for Mitigating Harmful Deepfake Content on Social Media Platforms
Arnesh Batra, Anushk Kumar, Jashn Khemani, Arush Gumber, Arhan Jain, Somil Gupta

11:30 - 12:30 (CDT)
Session 2: Multimodal Fact-Checking and Deepfake Detection I

1. Integrating Semantic Representations in a Cross-Modal Approach to Fact-Checking
Z. Melce Hüsünbeyi, Djamé Seddah, Tatjana Scheffler

2. XDF: A Large-Scale Dataset for Evaluating Video Deepfake Detection Across Multiple Manipulation Techniques
Vazgken Vanian, Georgios Petmezas, Konstantinos Konstantoudakis, Dimitris Zarpalas

3. Calibrating POI-based Synthetic Speech Detection
Thomas Le Roux, Luca Cuccovillo, Patrick Aichroth

12:30 - 13:30 (CDT)
Lunch

13:30 - 14:15 (CDT)
vera.ai Project Presentation
Olga Papadopoulou (The Centre for Research & Technology, Hellas, Greece)

14:15 - 14:45 (CDT)
Break

14:45 - 15:45 (CDT)
Session 3: Multimodal Fact-Checking and Deepfake Detection II

1. Integrating Video, Text, and Images for Multimodal Disinformation Detection
Thomas Hetzner, Veronika Solopova, Vera Schmitt, Dorothea Kolossa

2. Do Deepfake Attribution Models Generalize?
Spiros Baxevanakis, Manos Schinas, Symeon Papadopoulos

3. From AI Fact-Checks to User Understanding: Explaining Misinformation Detection to Non-Expert Audiences
Subia Ansari, Mohammad Zaiyan Alam

15:45 - 16:00 (CDT)
Closing