Call for Participation: Synthetic Image Detection Challenge @ MediaEval 2025

[manosetro]

Dear all,

I’d like to share with you a call for participation in a challenge we’re organizing on synthetic image detection and manipulation localization.

Apologies for using the reading group mailing list for this announcement. I thought it might be of interest to some members given the topic's relevance.

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We are pleased to invite you to participate in the Synthetic Image Detection (synthim) Challenge, part of the MediaEval 2025 workshop.

The challenge focuses on detecting synthetic content and localizing manipulated regions in images collected from real-world, in-the-wild sources. It consists of two complementary tasks:

• Task A: Real vs. Synthetic Image Classification
• Task B: Manipulated Region Localization

We welcome participation from researchers and practitioners in computer vision, multimedia forensics, machine learning, and related fields.

📌 Registration
To register and join the challenge, please visit the MediaEval 2025 website:
👉 https://multimediaeval.github.io/editions/2025/

📂 Data & Submission Instructions
Available in the official GitHub repository:
👉 https://github.com/mever-team/mediaeval2025-sid

📅 Important Dates
Data release: June 20
Runs due: September 15
Paper submission: October 8
Workshop: October 25–26

We look forward to your participation and to seeing your contributions at MediaEval 2025!

Best regards,
The synthim Task Organizers

MeVer group, CERTH-ITI, Greece
IDLab-MEDIA, Univ. Ghent, Belgium
VIS Lab, UvA, Netherlands
GRIP, Univ. Naples Federico II, Italy