October 13, 2025
Duke I3T Lab paper titled "Detecting Visual Information Manipulation Attacks in Augmented Reality: A Multimodal Semantic Reasoning Approach" has been recognized with the Best Paper Award at IEEE ISMAR 2025, the premier XR conference.
This research, funded by the Defense Applied Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and by the National Science Foundation (NSF), demonstrates how we can make next-generation AR safer by employing modern large multimodal models for monitoring whether AR-generated virtual content modifies, in an inappropriate way, the state of the real world presented to the user in the AR interface.
This work paves way to solving one of the key challenges to adoption of AR in safety-critical contexts, and to widespread adoption of AR as a whole. It also serves as a great example of "AI for systems": of how advances in AI can improve computer systems of the future.