FANDANGO

FANDANGO

European Commission 
Funding Organization: European Commission
Funding Programme: H2020-ICT-2016-2017/H2020-ICT-2017-1
Funding Instrument: Research & Innovation Action
Start Date:
January 1, 2018
Duration: 36 months
Total Budget: 3,583,125 EUR
ITI Budget: 396,250 EUR

Fake News are now a hot issue in Europe as well as worldwide, particularly referred to Political and Social Challenges that reflect in business as well as in industry. Europe is lacking of a systematic knowledge and data transfer across organizations to address the aggressive emergence of the well-known problem of fake news and post-truth effect. The possibility to use cross sector Big Data management and analytics, along with an effective interoperability scheme for all our data sources, will tackle this urgent problem, generating new business and societal impacts involving several stakeholders: a) Media Companies: news agencies, broadcaster, newspapers, etc, b) Governmental institutions and organisations, c) The overall industrial ecosystem, d) The entire society. The aim of FANDANGO is to aggregate and verify different typologies of news data, media sources, social media, open data, so as to detect fake news and provide a more efficient and verified communication for all European citizens. European tradition in democracy, journalism and transparency should play a wordwide example in fast changing society, where all citizens appears completely overwhelmed by the new technologies and by the new social challenges. The FANDANGO project aims to break data interoperability barriers providing unified techniques and an integrated big data platform to support traditional media industries to face the new “data” news economy with a better transparency to the citizens under a Responsible, Research and Innovation prism. This goal will be validated and tested in three specific domains Climate, Immigration and European Context, these are typical scenarios where fake news can influence perception with respect to social and business actions and where news can be verified and validated by trustable information, based on facts and data.

Publications:
  1. A. Chatzitofis, P. Cancian, V. Gkitsas, A. Carlucci, P. Stalidis, G. Albanis, A. Karakottas, T. Semertzidis, P. Daras, et al., "Volume-of-Interest Aware Deep Neural Networks for Rapid Chest CT-Based COVID-19 Patient Risk Assessment" , International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(6), p. 2842, Special Issue Deep Learning: AI Steps Up in Battle against COVID-19, 2021. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18062842
  2. E. Kafali, N. Vretos, T. Semertzidis, P. Daras, "RobusterNet: Improving Copy-Move Forgery Detection with Volterra-based Convolutions" , in International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Milan, Italy, January 10-15, 2021. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ICPR48806.2021.9412587
  3. M. Angelou, V. Solachidis, N. Vretos, P. Daras, "Graph-based Multimodal Fusion with Metric Learning for Multimodal Classification" , Pattern Recognition, 95, 296-307, 2019. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2019.06.013
Contact:
Dr. Petros Daras
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fandango-project.eu
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Contact Information

Dr. Petros Daras, Research Director
6th km Charilaou – Thermi Rd, 57001, Thessaloniki, Greece
P.O.Box: 60361
Tel.: +30 2310 464160 (ext. 156)
Fax: +30 2310 464164
Email: daras(at)iti(dot)gr

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