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[June 2026] Zeno Geradts commented on the ease of creating convincing deepfakes and the difficulty of preventing them, after a deepfake video of a NU.nl editor was viewed 300,000 times before TikTok intervened.
[April 2026] Zeno Geradts warned about the sharp increase in sexual extortion cases using AI-generated nude images, advising the public not to immediately trust digital media content.
[March 2026] Zeno Geradts and Stijn van Lierop presented at the Science Café on "Deepfakes and GenAI: Detection of AI-Manipulated Media," discussing the forensic relevance and authenticity research of images and videos.
[March 2026] An update on deepfake detection in forensic practice highlighted the research of Stijn van Lierop, Sanne de Wit, Zeno Geradts, and Paula Pronk on blood flow detection, and emphasized the European Horizon Europe DETECTOR project.
[January 2026] Quest magazine published an article titled "No heart for deepfake," featuring Sanne de Wit, Zeno Geradts, and Stijn van Lierop discussing their research into detecting fake videos through blood flow analysis.
[November 2025] The NFI published the 2024 annual reports of its special professors and lecturers, detailing the scientific anchoring, educational activities, and R&D achievements of the forensic research groups.
[August 2025] It was announced that the NFI is collaborating on the Horizon Europe project DETECTOR (Deepfake Evidence Technology for Forensic Content, Oversight and Research) to develop new deepfake detection methods.
[May 2025] Zeno and the team presented a breakthrough heartbeat test to detect deepfakes by analyzing facial blood flow at the European Academy of Forensic Science (EAFS) 2025 conference in Dublin. Covered by Amsterdam AI and the NL Times.
[Feb 2025] Zeno was interviewed at the AAFS Conference: Today on AAFS TV.
[June 2024] Zeno was interviewed for EenVandaag (in Dutch): "How can you recognize a deepfake? These 8 clues can help you".
[May 2024] "Deepfakes are everywhere on the internet: 6 tips to protect yourself against deception": Zeno was interviewed by Algemeen Dagblad (in Dutch).
[April 2024] Merel and Javier published a paper in Information Visualization: ProtoExplorer: Interpretable forensic analysis of deepfake videos using prototype exploration and refinement.
[February 2024] Elina finished an eight-week research visit to Brno University, during which she intensified her collaboration with the Speech@FIT group, one of the most renowned speech processing research groups in the world.
[February 2024] Andrea successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled Face comparison in forensics: A deep dive into deep learning and likelihood rations.
[February 2024] "Can we still trust anything, now that every video or image could be a deepfake?": Zeno was interviewed by Quest (in Dutch).
[January 2024] Zeno was featured on Nieuwsuur, on Dutch television, where he spoke about using AI in forensic research (between 02:30 and 03:54): "Experts are surprised at the use of AI techniques by the police".
[November 2023] Marcel, Zeno, Merel, Conor and Gonçalo presented at DEX-XL, the annual conference organized by the larger law enforcement departments in the Netherlands.
[October 2023] Meike presented her work at the Triennial Meeting of the International Association of Forensic Sciences in Sydney.
[October 2023] Conor won the best poster award at the annual CLHC symposium.
[October 2023] Marcel was interviewed by RTL (in Dutch): "Problems with deepfakes: 4 questions and answers"
[May 2023] Eleni published a paper in Speech Communication: Frequent-words analysis for forensic speaker comparison.
[April 2023] Conor won the best presentation award at the NFI Science Fair.
[March 2023] "In this lab, algorithms help unravel criminals’ hidden messages": Folia published an interview with Meike and Eleni on the opening of the AI4Forensics lab.
[March 2023] On March 14, the AI4Forensics lab was officially opened. It was a festive event with interesting talks and drinks afterward.