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Explore our core focus areas and recent scientific outputs in AI and decentralized infrastructure.

Asymmetric Phase Coding Audio Watermarking (NeurIPS 2026)New

Authors: Guang Yang, Fengchen Liu, Amir Ghasemian, Zhong Wang, Ninareh Mehrabi, Homa Hosseinmardi

A training-free cryptographic signing layer for audio: an Ed25519 signature hidden in phase and magnitude, verified with the public key alone. 97.5% to 98.3% verification across eight attack conditions at mean PESQ 3.02. Sponsored and led by Phi Lab Foundation.

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Asymmetric Phase Coding Video Watermarking

Authors: Guang Yang, Fengchen Liu

A training-free video watermark that removes the shared secret. The signer embeds a complete Ed25519 signature in the chroma phase spectrum; anyone holding the 32-byte public key verifies offline. Paper on arXiv, open-source JavaScript library, and a browser demonstration.

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Crown Shyness — Jointly Generating a Whole Canopy

Authors: Thomas Yang, Fengchen Liu

Neighbouring crowns stop short of touching, leaving channels of sky no single tree owns. A stand-level simulation where the gap is never specified — it settles as an equilibrium between growth and contact loss. Includes an interactive showcase.

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Generalization of AI-Generated Image Detectors: A Face-Centric Study

Authors: Thomas, Elizabeth, Fengchen

Generic AI-image detectors collapse out-of-distribution (worst-group AUROC 0.526), while a face-focused detector stays robust across unseen generators and corruptions.

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Algorithmic Bias Auditing: Image Generation Benchmarks

Authors: Mousumi, Thomas

Benchmarking demographic representation bias in state-of-the-art image generation models, with mitigation via prompt engineering and fine-tuning.

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Psychological Indicator Analysis: Children's Drawing Signals

Authors: Mousumi, Thomas

Adapting vision-language models to quantify visual patterns in children's drawings, supporting a non-clinical screening workflow for developmental psychology.

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Real2Gen: A Frequency-Space Benchmark for Detecting AI-Generated Images

Authors: Thomas, Elizabeth

A benchmark of aligned real–generated pairs with frequency-space evaluation for open-set, cross-architecture robustness testing of AI-image detectors.

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Blockchain-Based Decentralized Domain Name System

Authors: Thomas, Peter, Alma, Amuru, Edward, Osman

Proof-of-Work powered DDNS integrating IPFS storage, zero-trust signatures, and 15-second record propagation.

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FreqCross: Detecting Stable Diffusion 3.5 Images

Authors: Thomas

Multi-branch frequency–spatial fusion model reaching 97.8% accuracy on diffusion-generated image forensics.

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Phase-Coding Audio Steganography

Authors: Thomas

Adaptive mid-frequency phase embedding to authenticate audio in the era of AI voice synthesis.

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VeryNews: Multi-Agent System for News Authenticity Verification

Authors: Thomas, Peter

Multi-agent system for automated fact-checking using nine specialized agents, achieving 87% macro-F1 score with evidence-grounded reasoning.

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