The IEEE Biometrics Council invites participants to the upcoming (free)
webinar by Prof. Andreson Rocha on “Synthetic Realities, Trust and
Biometrics: What's Ahead”. Detail on the webinar are given below:

Title: Synthetic Realities, Trust and Biometrics: What's Ahead”
Speaker: Prof. Anderson Rocha , University of Campinas, Brasil
When: 18 October 2023, at 10am ET (4 pm CEST, 10pm Beijing)
Where: Online (Zoom)
Registration: (free, but required):
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_cqESNTWVTvq-XeHit7mpmg

*** Talk Summary ***
In this talk, we will discuss some how our society is living what is
being referred to as Synthetic Realities. We will touch upon important
technologies shaping this new realities such as ChatGPT, Midjourney,
Dall-E2, StableDiffusion, and others. More importantly, we will discuss
what kinds of telltales can be explored to expose such creations or
forgeries and pinpoint the research challenges ahead and implications of
such fakes to the society at large.

*** About the Speaker ***
Anderson Rocha is a full-professor of Artificial Intelligence and
Digital Forensics at the Institute of Computing, University of Campinas
(Unicamp), Brazil. He is the Director of the Artificial Intelligence
Lab., Recod.ai, and the Institute Director for the 2019-2023 term. He
has actively worked as an editor of important international journals
such as the IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security
(T.IFS), Elsevier Journal of Visual Communication and Image
Representation (JVCI), and IEEE Signal Processing Letters (SPL), and the
IEEE Security & Privacy Magazine. He is an elected affiliate of the
Brazilian Academy of Sciences (ABC) and the Brazilian Academy of
Forensic Sciences (ABC). He is a two-term elected member of the IEEE
Information Forensics and Security Technical Committee (IFS-TC) and its
chair for the 2019-2020 term. He is a Microsoft Research and a Google
Research Faculty Fellow, important academic recognitions that Microsoft
Research and Google bestowed on researchers, respectively. In addition,
in 2016, he was awarded the Tan Chin Tuan (TCT) Fellowship, a
recognition promoted by the Tan Chin Tuan Foundation in Singapore.
Finally, he is ranked Top-2% among the most influential scientists
worldwide, according to recent studies from Research.com and
Stanford/PlosOne. In 2023, he was selected a LinkedIn TopVoice in
Artificial Intelligence for continuously raising awareness of AI and its
potential impacts to the Society-at-large.

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