AI FOR DEEPFAKE DETECTION
Singapore – South Korea Joint Grant Call
AI Singapore (AISG) and the Institute for Information & Communication Technology Planning & Evaluation (IITP), South Korea are launching a joint grant call to provide funding for research on:
Development of high accuracy real-world deepfake detection
The joint grant call aims to support scientific and technological cooperation between Singaporean and South Korean researchers to develop improved detection methods capable of counteracting evolving deepfake threats, enabling users to detect manipulated and/or AI generated content with different linguistic, socio-cultural, and environmental characteristics.
The research should encompass (but is not limited to):
- Research and development of novel, high-accuracy, scalable, multimodal AI deepfake detection technology that identifies deepfake manipulation in video, voice and text inputs, and provides intuitive explanations of authenticity using bounding boxes, captions, confidence scores etc. to help users easily understand the detected manipulation parts.
- Application of the deepfake detection technology to at least 3 distinctly different industry use cases (e.g., social media, news outlets, voice biometrics etc.) relevant to Singapore and/or South Korea context, with each application supported by at least one or more industry and/or agency partners from each country committed to using and/or commercializing the technology.
- Jointly building large-scale datasets with national languages, dialects, and socio-cultural and regional environmental characteristics, as well as developing the required data pipelines to train and maintain deepfake detection model(s).
- Benchmarking and validation of deepfake detection technology with prevailing state-of-the-art generative AI models, as well as with real-world industry datasets relevant to the application use case proposed by the research team.
- Deriving requirements, designing and implementing architecture, functionality, and interfaces for a global common platform for deepfake detection
- Prototyping a cloud-based open global common platform for deepfake detection that can be jointly used by multiple countries
Total Grant Quantum: S$3,000,000+
Project Period: 3 years (1 Sep 2025 to 31 Aug 2028)
Eligibility
We invite applications from local Institutes of Higher Learning and Research Institutes, in collaboration with South Korean research and development organisations. To apply for the grant, the joint research team should be led by one Principal Investigator from Singapore and one from South Korea.
Programme Structure
AISG and IITP will support one (1) selected joint research team by funding the researchers from their corresponding countries up to S$1,500,000 and ₩1,600,000,000, respectively, over a maximum period of three (3) years.
Grant Call Launch: 14 April 2025
Submission Deadline: 18 June 2025 (12PM SGT)
The following documents are available:
Please submit your application via the AISG Grant Management System here.
The link to IITP’s call for proposal webpage for South Korea researchers to apply to can be found here.
For any enquiries, please contact grantcall@aisingapore.org.
