Month: May 2021

Last Tuesday, May 4^th, 2021, AI4Media organised the first of a series of workshops, that aimed at sharing the work and progress of the project in different research activities.

The first workshop was focused on “New learning paradigms & distributed AI”, and its main objective was to address the current limitations of learning approaches and improve speed and performance, by looking not only into the new approaches going beyond the current achievements in deep learning, such as lifelong and continuous learning, moving beyond Variational Autoencoders (VAEs), manifold and transfer learning, neural architecture search, quantum-assisted learning, the fusion of evolutionary algorithms and deep learning, but also, the present solutions for decentralised and distributed computation.

The agenda included presentations from the AI4Media partners and two guest speakers:

• Dr. Xavier Alameda-Pinedia from INRIA, which addresses the research direction of audio-visual fusion for human behaviour understanding.
• Prof. Rita Cucchiara from University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, who will tackle the hot subject of sustainable and privacy-preserving action understanding in videos.

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The AI4Media project is expected to transform the European AI landscape with regard to media & society and strengthen Europe’s position on the global AI stage.

Strengthening Europe’s leadership in AI research

AI4Media reinforces Europe’s research capacity in AI by performing cutting-edge research that caters to the needs of the media sector, tested through seven industrial use cases that range from combating disinformation in social media and supporting journalists for news story creation, to game design and artistic co-creation.

Delivering innovations for the News Media Industry

Ai4Media aims to provide new AI-based solutions for the News media sector by developing novel tools for journalistic research, journalistic creation, news production and service packaging, bias and disinformation detection, and audience/content research and performance optimisation.

Safeguarding democracy and political discourse

Media manipulation and disinformation campaigns relying on manipulated content are increasingly used as instruments for influencing key democratic processes, undermining democratic institutions, and re-shaping public opinion. AI4Media addresses these problems by developing AI technology for detecting disinformation in social media, with a view to supporting journalistic fact-checking and verification workflows in news organisations.

Putting AI in the service of the society

The research community carries a particular responsibility to help protect European societies from the potential negative impact of AI. By bringing together a diverse community of scientific experts on AI, media organisations, and social scientists, AI4Media aims to promote a unique brand of Ethical AI, powered by European actors and promoted by European media industries.

“Towards a Global Taxonomy of Interpretable AI” was a half-day workshop, supported by AI4Media, that was held on April 29th, where around 20 experts actively participated in the two sessions of the workshop: a round table discussion with short presentations and a panel session.

Invited talks were given by the experts to illustrate their perspective on Interpretable AI from the cognitive, social, ethical, and legal perspectives.

During the panel session, experts answered questions on interpretability toolboxes, ethical and philosophical concerns, and how these tools can be used in practice, for example in medicine.

The slides and streaming of the event are available on the event’s website HERE