SemaFor_CUI_Guide_20190702_Approved.pdf

This document outlines a federal contract opportunity for the Semantic Forensics (SemaFor) program. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is seeking innovative technologies to automatically detect, attribute, and characterize falsified multi-modal media assets such as text, audio, images, and video in order to defend against large-scale disinformation attacks. The SemaFor program will develop semantic detection algorithms to determine if media assets are generated or manipulated, attribution algorithms to infer the originator, and characterization algorithms to reason about potential malicious purposes. These technologies aim to help identify, deter, and understand adversary disinformation campaigns by gaining an advantage over media falsifiers through detection of semantic inconsistencies.