Media
Protect Content, Detect Tampering
Today, text documents, images, videos, and audio files can be easily copied, altered, and distributed using AI applications. This raises numerous challenges: How can media companies mark their content as authentic and verify it? How can disinformation be automatically detected, and how can instances of manipulation be proven in a way that stands up in court? How can product identifiers and information be embedded in a forgery-proof manner in packaging, product passports, or certificates?
At the same time, AI techniques and multimedia security methods are opening up new possibilities in many areas, such as fraud detection in the insurance industry or the tracking of illicit cultural property.
Fraunhofer SIT has developed its own technologies and methods to protect digital and physical media content, verify its authenticity, and make any tampering traceable through IT forensics. Our solutions help verify the authenticity of content, uncover counterfeits, and combat the illegal distribution of content.
Our Focus Areas in Media Security
- Document Security: Protecting the authenticity and integrity of electronic and physical documents
- Data Leakage Prevention and Copyright Protection through Digital Watermarking: Invisible, robust markings for audio, image, and video data, e-books, 3D models, and packaging
- Tamper Detection: Methods for analyzing multimedia content to detect signs of tampering or artificial generation
- Image-based detection of fraud attempts and illegal transactions
- Content labeling in accordance with the AI Regulation (AI-VO or AI Act)
- Product protection: Digital authentication solutions for packaging and branded products
- Protection of Minors: Age verification for victims, person recognition, CSAM detection
- Standardization: Active participation in standardization processes at DIN and ISO for interoperable, future-proof security solutions
Fraunhofer SIT possesses a broad spectrum of technologies and expertise in the field of media security. The institute supports its partners and customers in making content and information flows secure, trustworthy, and future-proof—even in the age of generative AI and digital manipulation.
What We Offer You
- Contract research for industry and government agencies,
- publicly funded research projects,
- often in collaboration with partners from industry and government agencies
- Licensing of our security software
- Digital watermarks
- SmartID—Forgery-proof authenticity verification using fingerprinting technology
- JAB Code – Color Barcode
- DocSeal – Document Security
Training:
- Forensic Authentication of Digital Photos and Videos
- Introduction to Data Storage Forensics
- IT Forensics for Storage Media and RAM
- Multimedia Forensics
- Authenticity verification, such as
- Deepfake detection in videos
- “Copy and Paste” Detection in Digital Photos
- Authenticity verification, such as