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most citedEvaluation of Granger causality measures for constructing networks from multivariate time series

52 citations · 99 across the 32 of their papers we have counts for

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33 papers

cs.MM2026

Evidence Triangulation for Multimodal Fact-Checking in the Wild

Stefanos-Iordanis Papadopoulos, Zacharias Chrysidis, Christos Koutlis +2

The proliferation of multimedia content on social platforms has fueled multimodal misinformation, where images are used to reinforce false claims. Consequently, Multimodal Fact-Che…

cs.CV2026★ 1 cited

Automated In-the-Wild Data Collection for Continual AI Generated Image Detection

Thanasis Pantsios, Dimitrios Karageorgiou, Christos Koutlis +3

The rapid advancement of generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) has introduced significant challenges for reliable AI-generated image detection. Existing detectors often suffer fr…

cs.CV2025

AuViRe: Audio-visual Speech Representation Reconstruction for Deepfake Temporal Localization

Christos Koutlis, Symeon Papadopoulos

With the rapid advancement of sophisticated synthetic audio-visual content, e.g., for subtle malicious manipulations, ensuring the integrity of digital media has become paramount.…

cs.CV2025

Designing and Generating Diverse, Equitable Face Image Datasets for Face Verification Tasks

Georgia Baltsou, Ioannis Sarridis, Christos Koutlis +1

Face verification is a significant component of identity authentication in various applications including online banking and secure access to personal devices. The majority of the…

cs.CV2025

VB-Mitigator: An Open-source Framework for Evaluating and Advancing Visual Bias Mitigation

Ioannis Sarridis, Christos Koutlis, Symeon Papadopoulos +1

Bias in computer vision models remains a significant challenge, often resulting in unfair, unreliable, and non-generalizable AI systems. Although research into bias mitigation has…

cs.CV2025★ 3 cited

Navigating the Challenges of AI-Generated Image Detection in the Wild: What Truly Matters?

Despina Konstantinidou, Dimitrios Karageorgiou, Christos Koutlis +3

As generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) advances, the realism of AI generated imagery has reached a threshold capable of deceiving even vigilant human observers. Yet, while curr…

cs.CV2025

Composite Data Augmentations for Synthetic Image Detection Against Real-World Perturbations

Efthymia Amarantidou, Christos Koutlis, Symeon Papadopoulos +1

The advent of accessible Generative AI tools enables anyone to create and spread synthetic images on social media, often with the intention to mislead, thus posing a significant th…

cs.CV2025

Latent Reconstruction from Generated Data for Multimodal Misinformation Detection

Stefanos-Iordanis Papadopoulos, Christos Koutlis, Symeon Papadopoulos +1

Multimodal misinformation, such as miscaptioned images, where captions misrepresent an image's origin, context, or meaning, poses a growing challenge in the digital age. Due to the…

cs.CV2024★ 2 cited

FaceX: Understanding Face Attribute Classifiers through Summary Model Explanations

Ioannis Sarridis, Christos Koutlis, Symeon Papadopoulos +1

EXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) approaches are widely applied for identifying fairness issues in Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems. However, in the context of facial a…

cs.CV2024

MAVias: Mitigate any Visual Bias

Ioannis Sarridis, Christos Koutlis, Symeon Papadopoulos +1

Mitigating biases in computer vision models is an essential step towards the trustworthiness of artificial intelligence models. Existing bias mitigation methods focus on a small se…

cs.CV2024

DiMoDif: Discourse Modality-information Differentiation for Audio-visual Deepfake Detection and Localization

Christos Koutlis, Symeon Papadopoulos

Deepfake technology has rapidly advanced and poses significant threats to information integrity and trust in online multimedia. While significant progress has been made in detectin…

cs.MM2024

A CLIP-based siamese approach for meme classification

Javier Huertas-Tato, Christos Koutlis, Symeon Papadopoulos +2

Memes are an increasingly prevalent element of online discourse in social networks, especially among young audiences. They carry ideas and messages that range from humorous to hate…

cs.CV2024

BAdd: Bias Mitigation through Bias Addition

Ioannis Sarridis, Christos Koutlis, Symeon Papadopoulos +1

Computer vision (CV) datasets often exhibit biases that are perpetuated by deep learning models. While recent efforts aim to mitigate these biases and foster fair representations,…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

Similarity over Factuality: Are we making progress on multimodal out-of-context misinformation detection?

Stefanos-Iordanis Papadopoulos, Christos Koutlis, Symeon Papadopoulos +1

Out-of-context (OOC) misinformation poses a significant challenge in multimodal fact-checking, where images are paired with texts that misrepresent their original context to suppor…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

TextureCrop: Enhancing Synthetic Image Detection through Texture-based Cropping

Despina Konstantinidou, Christos Koutlis, Symeon Papadopoulos

Generative AI technologies produce increasingly realistic imagery, which, despite its potential for creative applications, can also be misused to produce misleading and harmful con…

cs.CV2024

SDFD: Building a Versatile Synthetic Face Image Dataset with Diverse Attributes

Georgia Baltsou, Ioannis Sarridis, Christos Koutlis +1

AI systems rely on extensive training on large datasets to address various tasks. However, image-based systems, particularly those used for demographic attribute prediction, face s…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

Leveraging Representations from Intermediate Encoder-blocks for Synthetic Image Detection

Christos Koutlis, Symeon Papadopoulos

The recently developed and publicly available synthetic image generation methods and services make it possible to create extremely realistic imagery on demand, raising great risks…

cs.CV2023★ 2 cited

FRCSyn Challenge at WACV 2024:Face Recognition Challenge in the Era of Synthetic Data

Pietro Melzi, Ruben Tolosana, Ruben Vera-Rodriguez +44

Despite the widespread adoption of face recognition technology around the world, and its remarkable performance on current benchmarks, there are still several challenges that must…

cs.MM2023★ 3 cited

RED-DOT: Multimodal Fact-checking via Relevant Evidence Detection

Stefanos-Iordanis Papadopoulos, Christos Koutlis, Symeon Papadopoulos +1

Online misinformation is often multimodal in nature, i.e., it is caused by misleading associations between texts and accompanying images. To support the fact-checking process, rese…

cs.LG2023

FairBranch: Mitigating Bias Transfer in Fair Multi-task Learning

Arjun Roy, Christos Koutlis, Symeon Papadopoulos +1

The generalisation capacity of Multi-Task Learning (MTL) suffers when unrelated tasks negatively impact each other by updating shared parameters with conflicting gradients. This is…

cs.CV2023★ 1 cited

Towards Fair Face Verification: An In-depth Analysis of Demographic Biases

Ioannis Sarridis, Christos Koutlis, Symeon Papadopoulos +1

Deep learning-based person identification and verification systems have remarkably improved in terms of accuracy in recent years; however, such systems, including widely popular cl…

cs.CV2023★ 2 cited

MemeFier: Dual-stage Modality Fusion for Image Meme Classification

Christos Koutlis, Manos Schinas, Symeon Papadopoulos

Hate speech is a societal problem that has significantly grown through the Internet. New forms of digital content such as image memes have given rise to spread of hate using multim…

cs.CV2023

FLAC: Fairness-Aware Representation Learning by Suppressing Attribute-Class Associations

Ioannis Sarridis, Christos Koutlis, Symeon Papadopoulos +1

Bias in computer vision systems can perpetuate or even amplify discrimination against certain populations. Considering that bias is often introduced by biased visual datasets, many…

cs.CV2023★ 4 cited

VERITE: A Robust Benchmark for Multimodal Misinformation Detection Accounting for Unimodal Bias

Stefanos-Iordanis Papadopoulos, Christos Koutlis, Symeon Papadopoulos +1

Multimedia content has become ubiquitous on social media platforms, leading to the rise of multimodal misinformation (MM) and the urgent need for effective strategies to detect and…