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2020-2023Completed

DARPA Semantic Forensics (SemaFor)

Semantic forensics pipelines for detecting falsified media using object, scene-text, and human-pose evidence.

Role
Computer Vision Researcher
Context
Kitware and University at Albany
Focus
Computer Vision, Media Forensics, Multimodal Reasoning, Detection

Problem

Detect manipulated or falsified media using semantic evidence that extends beyond low-level image artifacts.

Context

The project combined object-level cues, scene text, and human-pose signals across manipulated content.

My role

Developed computer vision and semantic reasoning pipeline components.

Constraints

Architecture

The available source identifies object, text, and pose analysis feeding a semantic-forensics workflow.

Technical decisions

Trade-offs

Balancing multiple semantic cues requires attention to calibration, failure modes, explainability, and compute cost. The public summary intentionally keeps dataset and implementation details high-level.

Results

Contributed to semantic media-forensics research workflows focused on detecting inconsistencies across visual evidence streams.

Public note

Detailed diagrams and qualitative examples are kept out of the public portfolio when release scope is limited.

Related public references can be listed as they become available.