AI4Media Newsletter #5: Launch Of AI Media Observatory & AI Research Projects.pdf

## AI4Media Newsletter #5 - October 2023 Summary

This newsletter highlights key achievements and updates from the AI4Media project.

Major Launches:

AI Media Observatory Fully Launched: Offering curated content, expert directory ("Find an AI Media Expert"), and insights into cutting-edge AI/media research and applications.
Official Announcement of 10 AI4Media Projects: Funded through Open Call #2, these projects focus on both industry applications and research, running until November 2023 and February 2024 respectively.

Project Updates & Research:

AIDA (International AI Doctoral Academy): A non-profit promoting accessibility to AI education and research through coordination, sharing of resources, and future charter development for European universities.
AI Applications in Media: Industry partners have defined six use cases showcasing AI's potential across the media value chain, from content creation to consumption. Real-world demonstrators are currently being developed.
Synthetic Image Detection: Research efforts aim to make detection more practical by addressing domain-topic dependence and server reliance, leading to over 230 scientific publications and open datasets readily accessible.
Propaganda Detection: UCA-3IA has proposed advanced text models enriched with linguistic and argumentative features for automatically identifying propagandist content in news articles.

Resources & Events:

Open Datasets: Several datasets are available for various applications, including pest population density estimation, object detection, and ordinal quantification.
Software: The project has developed and made accessible software for tasks like semantic image synthesis and continuous pixel-wise prediction.
* Past Events: Links to past events like the e-Symposium on Computational Politics 2023 and an online event on Generative AI in the European Parliament are provided. Upcoming events include ICMR2023, MAD'23 (Multimedia AI against Disinformation), and more.