Doctoral Researcher

Florian Braun

Short biography

Florian Braun is a PhD Student at Sokendai / NII Tokyo, supervised by Prof. Dr. Isao Echizen. His research interests include video misinformation detection, with a specific focus on approaches that exploit intermodal inconsistencies between modalities. He holds a B.Sc. and M.Sc. Degree in Media Engineering and has previously worked at the Fraunhofer IDMT as a student research assistant on Audio Deepfake Detection. 

Ongoing Projects

  • Real-world Misinformation Video Dataset
  • Video Misinformation Detection Algorithms
  • Ethical Synthetic Video Misinformation Training Dataset
  • Risk Assessment of VLM Explanations for Human-Supervised Misinformation Detection

Contact

f.braun <ät> media-bias-research org

References

2026

Braun, Florian; Hoang, Truc; Demartini, Gianluca; Echizen, Isao; Spinde, Timo

Video Misinformation Detection: A Systematic Review of Manipulation Tactics, Datasets and Algorithms Miscellaneous

preprint, 2026.

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