AI4TRUST: AI-based-technologies for trustworthy solutions against disinformation", HORIZON EUROPE RIA, 2023-2026.

Increasing evidence shows that disinformation spreading has non-negligible impact on our society at individual and collective levels. AI4TRUST will provide a hybrid system, where machines cooperate with humans, relying on advanced AI solutions against advanced disinformation techniques to support media professionals and policy makers. We expect that AI4TRUST's system, based on a human-centred approach to technology development that is aligned with European social and ethical values, will be integrated in the standard toolbox of data analysts working on disinformation. [Project Web site]

TransMIXR: Ignite the Immersive Media Sector by Enabling New Narrative Visions", HORIZON EUROPE IA, 2022-2025.

The maturity of eXtended Reality (XR) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies provides a unique window of opportunity for the European Creative and Cultural Sector (CCS) to reimagine digital co-creation, interaction and engagement possibilities. TransMIXR combines the necessary interdisciplinary skillsets and domain expertise to create a range of human-centric tools for remote content production and consumption via social virtual reality. The TransMIXR platform will provide (i) a distributed XR Creation Environment that supports remote collaboration practices, and (ii) XR Media Experience Environment for the delivery and consumption of highly evocative and highly-social immersive media experiences. The ground-breaking AI techniques for the understanding and processing of complex media content will enable the reuse of heterogeneous assets across immersive content delivery platforms. [Project Web site]

vera.ai: Verification Assisted by Artificial Intelligence", HORIZON EUROPE RIA, 2022-2025.

Online disinformation and fake media content have emerged as a serious threat to democracy, economy and society. Recent advances in AI have enabled the creation of highly realistic synthetic content and its artificial amplification through AI-powered bot networks. Consequently, it is extremely challenging for researchers and media professionals to assess the veracity/credibility of online content and to uncover the highly complex disinformation campaigns. vera.ai seeks to build professional trustworthy AI solutions against advanced disinformation techniques, co-created with and for media professionals & researchers and to also set the foundation for future research in the area of AI against disinformation. Key novel characteristics of the AI models will be fairness, transparency (incl. explainability), robustness against concept drifts, continuous adaptation and ability to handle multimodal and multilingual content. [Project Web site]

CRiTERIA: Comprehensive Data-driven Risk and Threat Assessment Methods for the Early and Reliable Identification, Validation and Analysis of migration-related Risks", H2020 RIA, 2020-2024.

EU borders are constantly faced with a multiplicity of challenges, from increased waves of illegal migration to human trafficking, document fraud, terrorism, smuggling, and public health threats. In the CRiTERIA project we will develop a novel risk analysis methodology, which will be backed by effective intelligent analysis technologies. Building upon state-of-the-art text, media, data and network analysis methods, we will develop and evaluate advanced analysis technologies and tools that are tailored to the new comprehensive threat indicators of the CRiTERIA methodology. In this process, ethical, legal and societal aspects will be considered from the very beginning, in close collaboration with practitioners from border agencies, which will also validate the developed technologies in piloting activities. [Project Web site]

AI4Media: A European Excellence Centre for Media, Society and Democracy, H2020 RIA, 2020-2024.

Motivated by the challenges, risks and opportunities that the wide use of AI brings to media, society and politics, AI4Media aspires to become a centre of excellence and a wide network of researchers across Europe and beyond, with a focus on delivering the next generation of core AI advances to serve the key sector of Media, to make sure that the European values of ethical and trustworthy AI are embedded in future AI deployments, and to reimagine AI. AI4Media will establish the networking infrastructure to bring together the European AI landscape in the field of media; will shape a research agenda for media AI research; and will implement research and innovation both with respect to cutting-edge technologies at the core of AI research, and within specific fields of media-related AI. [Project Web site]

QuaLiSID: Quality of Life Support System for People with Intellectual Disability, Greek national project, 2020-2023.

People with intellectual disabilities encounter several problems regarding the interaction with their environment in terms of their daily needs, activities and communication. QuaLiSID will contribute to optimizing the opportunities provided to the people with intellectual impairment in order to cope with particular everyday issues, by developing an appropriate, fully functional, interactive support system. The integrated system will provide various stimuli, facilitate information, serve entertainment, creative activities and training through specialized learning programs, and, on the other hand, it will allow the recognition of emergency situations along with relevant notices towards the responsible care givers. [Project Web site]

MIRROR: Migration-Related Risks caused by misconceptions of Opportunities and Requirement, H2020 RIA, 2019-2022. (Project's Research Manager)

The goal of the MIRROR project is to develop an integrated platform, a set of tools on top of this platform, as well as a systematic methodology for the comprehensive intermedia analysis of the perception of Europe (and individual countries in Europe), the detection of discrepancies between perception of and reality in Europe, and the creation of awareness for the impact of such misconceptions and potentially resulting threats. For achieving this goal the MIRROR project will bring together a highly interdisciplinary team of experts and three border authorities, and will combine methods of automated media analysis considering different types of media with empirical studies for creating a substantiated picture of the perception of Europe. [Project Web site]

ReTV: Enhancing and Re-Purposing TV Content for TransVector Engagement, H2020 RIA, 2018-2021.

ReTV will advance the state of the art in video analysis, video augmentation and annotation, content and audience metrics, prediction and recommendation models, and visual analytics. The results of this research will be tested and validated together with a regional public broadcaster, a national TV archive and an OTT TV distributor operating in multiple EU markets. ReTV will offer them a better match between content and viewers across vectors, time and different EU languages. Automated re-purposing and more accurate targeting in terms of relevance and appropriate representation, tailored to upcoming events and specific vector audiences, will drive growth, lower costs, and increase the competitiveness of broadcasters and other professional stakeholders in European media value chains. [Project Web site]