Rolf Fricke from Condat AG, a member of the InVID consortium, presented the InVID applications and standards for UGC verification at the Video Day of the IPTC Autumn Meeting 2016 that was held at the DPA Headquarters in Berlin, on 25 October 2016.
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InVID at the IPTC Autumn Meeting 2016
1. www.invid-project.eu
In Video Veritas – Verification of Social Media
Video Content for the News Industry
Rolf Fricke, Condat AG
IPTC Workshop
24. Oct 2016
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Laufzeit: 1/2016 - 12/2018
9 Partner:
Funding:
R&D Project
InVID - In Video Veritas, Verification of Social Media Video Content
for the News Industry
Funded by EU H2020 under project nr ICT-2015-687786
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Using UGC for Media Production
PublishingCatastrophy,
Accident …
Social Networks
TV / Media
Editor
Eyewitness
Upload
 Verification of
 Source
 Validate Author
 Forensic
 Near Duplicate
 Location
 Time
 Rights / Cost
Retrieval
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Domain Standards
Platform HTTP
REST
JSon with Java/JavaScript Ajax Binding
URI, URN
HbbTV
TV Program Data DVB metadata model
EBU metadata model
ARD BMF
BBC Programmes ontology
TV anytime
EU Screen
IPTC
W3C ontology for Media Resources
Metadata Working Group's Guidelines
COMM
Meta Data RDF
OWL
Media Fragments URI 1.0
WebSRT
DC (Dublin Core)
CIDOC/CRM
EDM (Europeana Data Model)
FOAF (Friend of a Friend)
SIOC
Mpeg7, Mpeg47
Schema.org
UI HTML, HTML5, CE-HTML, XHTML
Ajax,
YAML
SMIL
Content XML, XSLT, XACML
UTF8
Sparql Endpoint Joseki, Open Search
AV-Format Mpeg4, Mpeg2
Standards used in InVid
Standards and Meta data
are very relevant, because we
• extract meta data from
news items or videos
• for retrieval in (youtube …)
or
• comparison with other
videos
Question: What meta data are
• defined
• provided
• what is the semantics ?
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Annova Openmedia
Octopus
Dalet
ENPS
Avid iNEWS
Ross Video Inception
AQ broadcast
…
Newsroom, Programm
Planning Systems
topics, keywords …
playlist (permanent update)
InVid Application
MOS Protocol
InVid Verification Service
• Retrieve UGV
• Invoke InVid &
Standard Tools
• UGC
• Validation State
….
InVid Application
Standards
 Newsroom and Programm Planning Integration
 Standards: NewsML, EventsML, TV-Anytime, Mpeg7,
MOS–Protocol
 Extract: Author, Title, Time, Location ….
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Verify Original – Get youtube metadata
Videos: Place: Homs, Time: 12.11.2011 – 14.11.2011 Verified:
Assess results
Verify Original Start Result Values Accept
Youtube metadata Date: 1.07.2011 Time: 12.23 Place: 34.502°N 36.402°E √
Near Duplicate Search show potential duplicates √
Validate Tampering show suspicous frames √
Validate Cloning
State
Original Remark
Author
Place Homs, Syria 34.520° N, 36.405° E
Time
Environment
Reason
Verification Values Comments
https: //youtube/watch?v=ZZQlD0X4Jbw1
J.K. Miller, Spain, Barcelona
01.07.2011
InVID Verification Application
Youtube - Metadata
Standards
 Video Meta Data from: Youtube, Twitter, Periscope …
 Task: extracting Time, Location, Title, Author ….
 Standards: URL, EXIF, Mpeg7, TV-Anytime, Dublin Core / EBU Core, EBU P/Meta,
W3C Ontology for Media Resources, Media Anotations, Timed Text
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Verification Source / Author
Demonstration Damaskus, Syria
Source: Freedom House, 18. April 2012, CC BY 2.0
• Recherche via Search Engines, in Social
Networks, Amnesty ...
• Other activities of author
• Contact via eMail, phone
…
• Recherche via Search Engines, in Social
Networks, Amnesty ...
• Other activities of author
• Contact via eMail, phone
…
Standards
 Author / Owner: Dublin Core, EBU Core, W3C Internationalization …
 Challenge: different spelling caused by translation of names and locations from
arabic into English, German …
 Need: improved tools to validate identity of persons
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Verification of Location
Analysis
• Street Names
• Licence Plates
• Clothes
• Speech in Videos
• …
Analysis
• Street Names
• Licence Plates
• Clothes
• Speech in Videos
• …
Place indicated by AuthorsPlace indicated by Authors
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Identification via Google/Bing
Maps / Street Maps
Identification via Google/Bing
Maps / Street Maps
Verification of Location
Standards
 Location Standard: Geo Location Coordinates
 Challenge: Mapping of Cities, Regions, and other terms onto Coordinates
 Need: better tool support for mappings
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Verification of Time
Tools
• Picture / Video Meta Data in
Exif, IPTC, XMP Format
• Analysis of Shadows
• Weather data history
Tools
• Picture / Video Meta Data in
Exif, IPTC, XMP Format
• Analysis of Shadows
• Weather data history
…..
Standards
 Time / Interval Standard: UTZ interval
 Challenge: Mapping of textual indications onto times or intervals: begin of
march, new years day, early summer …
 Need: better tool support for mappings
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Show UGC around focussed event
Twitter
Reports / Wires:
Demonstration, Damaskus
Facebook, Blogs …
Pictures, Videos:
Youtube,
Flickr,
Instagram,
…
Topic: Demonstration
Place: Damascus, Abdullah Ibn Rawahna
Time: 1.7.2011 – 31.07.2011
Zoom in / out for Place and Time
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Fake ?
Detection of Clones by
statistical Methods
Detection of Clones by
statistical Methods
Quelle: Exo Makina, 2015, France
Forensic Tools
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Videos / Picture
Fragments of former
Events
Videos / Picture
Fragments of former
Events
Near Duplicate Search
Standards
 Near Duplicate / Forensic: Video Coding and Compression standards: MP4, AVI,
H261 …
 Challenges: Fragments, re-size, polishing by tools
 Standards from W3C: Media Fragments URI 1.0
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 informed consent of author
 telefone / eMail agreement
 Acknoledge source and agree on
financial issues
 protect authors in crises regions
 Respect data regulations regarding
personal data
 in sozial Networks and
 sensible personal data
(Religion, Sex, diseases ...)
Rights / Costs
Standards
 RightsML, RightsOntology (http://dmag.ac.upc.edu/ontologies/ipronto/)
 Challenge:
 source unknown
 rights for publication undefined
 many individually defined written rights
Measure: contact source
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 European Journalism Centre - Verification Handbook
http://verificationhandbook.com
 Amnesty – Step by Step Guide to Assess Citizen Video
http://citizenevidence.org
 http://lab.witness.org/
 www.investigativ.ch
 http://researchclinic.net
 http://www.investigativerecherche.de
References