Image and Video Forensics: Progress and Challenges

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to invite you to contribute to this Special Issue, "Image and Video Forensics: Progress and Challenges".

In recent years, the exponential growth of multimedia content across social media has raised concerns regarding authenticity, manipulation, and trust. With the rapid proliferation of consumer electronics and high-quality digital imaging devices such as smartphones and digital cameras, multimedia content can now be captured and shared with unprecedented ease. Simultaneously, breakthroughs in generative artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning have enabled the production of highly realistic synthetic media, including deepfakes, which pose serious challenges to information integrity, privacy, and security. As a result, the development of robust image and video forensic techniques has become increasingly crucial for verifying authenticity, detecting manipulation, and tracing the provenance of digital content.

This Special Issue aims to explore the latest progress, emerging challenges, and future directions in image and video forensics. We invite innovative contributions that propose novel algorithms, benchmark datasets, evaluation methodologies, and applications that enhance our understanding and capabilities in detecting and preventing multimedia manipulation.

Dr. Daniele Baracchi
Dr. Simone Magistri
Guest Editors

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