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In Video Veritas – Verification of Social Media
Video Content for the News Industry
Vasileios Mezaris, CERTH-ITI
Project Overview
Thessaloniki, June 2018

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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 is building 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
• Enables novel newsroom applications for broadcasters, news agencies, web
pure-players, newspapers and publishers;
• Allows 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
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• 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

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• Tool for verification of selected newsworthy videos
InVID Verification Plugin
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• Free! Get it from: http://www.invid-project.eu/verify
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• 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

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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
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• 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: bmezaris@iti.gr, web: http://www.iti.gr/~bmezaris/
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