Multimedia verification requires not only accurate conclusions but also transparent and contestable reasoning. We propose a contestable multi-agent framework that integrates multimodal large language models, external verification tools, and arena-based quantitative bipolar argumentation (A-QBAF) as a submission to the ICMR 2026 Grand Challenge on Multimedia Verification. Our method decomposes each case into claim-centered sections, retrieves targeted evidence, and converts evidence into structured support and attack arguments with provenance and strength scores. These arguments are resolved through small local argument graphs with selective clash resolution and uncertainty-aware escalation. The resulting system generates section-wise verification reports that are transparent, editable, and computationally practical for real-world multimedia verification. Our implementation is public at: https://github.com/Analytics-Everywhere-Lab/MV2026_the_liems.

This paper presents our submission to the ACMMM25 - Grand Challenge on Multimedia Verification. We developed a multi-agent verification system that combines Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) with specialized verification tools to detect multimedia misinformation. Our system operates through six stages: raw data processing, planning, information extraction, deep research, evidence collection, and report generation. The core Deep Researcher Agent employs four tools: reverse image search, metadata analysis, fact-checking databases, and verified news processing that extracts spatial, temporal, attribution, and motivational context. We demonstrate our approach on a challenge dataset sample involving complex multimedia content. Our system successfully verified content authenticity, extracted precise geolocation and timing information, and traced source attribution across multiple platforms, effectively addressing real-world multimedia verification scenarios.

Given the escalating global threat of phishing emails, it is imperative to develop effective solutions to mitigate their potentially devastating impacts on society. This study endeavours to construct a federated multilingual spam detection system employing logistic regression, specifically targeting English, French, and Russian emails. This is the first work to the best of our knowledge which considers a non-deep learning setting for federated learning, and combines federated learning with multilingual phishing detection. Evaluation of the models is based on accuracy metrics which are compared with a most frequent class baseline. Our findings indicate that an optimal configuration comprises 10 clients undergoing 100 epochs of training with 100 rounds of federated learning, resulting in superior performance. Notably, this approach significantly outperforms the baseline, achieving an accuracy of $89.46 \%$ compared to $70 \%$.

Assessment of fetal development and wellness throughout pregnancy is essential in the early detection of pregnancy anomalies. Recent advances in wearable technology have led to the development of home pregnancy monitoring systems, which hold potentials for the continuous monitoring of expectant mothers and their unborn children through fe-tal/maternal electrocardiogram (f/mECG) technology. Given the complexity of extracting useful information from f/mECG data, these devices are often equipped with multiple channels and sophisticated signal processing algorithms. Thus, the implementation of f/mECG monitoring in daily life remains unfeasible. In this study, we propose an algorithm for extracting the fetal electrocardiogram (fECG) using a single channel. The algorithm detects the peaks of the maternal ECG (mECG) through a clustering method, followed by peak correction. The mECG signal is then reconstructed with Principal Component Analysis (PCA) before applying the Template Subtraction (TS) method to obtain fECG. Rigorous testing with various online f/mECG databases demonstrates the potential to accurately extract fECG using only a single channel. The evaluation results based on the online dataset achieved an accuracy of 99.60% and an F1 score of 99.30%. This advancement also opens opportunities to optimize home-based f/mECG monitoring, making it more compact and reliable.

Neural oscillations in the form of electroencephalogram (EEG) can reveal underlying brain functions, such as cognition, memory, perception, and consciousness. A comprehensive EEG computational model provides not only a stochastic procedure that directly generates data but also insights to further understand the neurological mechanisms. Here, we propose a generative and inference approach that combines the complementary benefits of probabilistic graphical models and generative adversarial networks (GANs) for EEG signal modeling. We investigate the method’s ability to jointly learn coherent generation and inverse inference models on the CHI-MIT epilepsy multi-channel EEG dataset. We further study the efficacy of the learned representations in epilepsy seizure detection formulated as an unsupervised learning problem. Quantitative and qualitative experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of our approach.

The Internet of Mobile Things encompasses stream data being generated by sensors, network communications that pull and push these data streams, as well as running processing and analytics that can effectively leverage actionable information for transportation planning, management, and business advantage. Edge computing emerges as a new paradigm that decentralizes the communication, computation, control and storage resources from the cloud to the edge of the network. This paper proposes an edge computing platform where mobile edge nodes are physical devices deployed on a transit bus where descriptive analytics is used to uncover meaningful patterns from real-time transit data streams. An application experiment is used to evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of our proposed platform to support descriptive analytics at a mobile edge node and generate actionable information to transit managers.