Over the past six years, DECaDE has tackled some of the digital economy’s biggest challenges. As generative AI, digital trade and global supply chains evolve, trusted systems that enable transparency, accountability and fair value exchange are becoming increasingly important. In our final Q&A, DECaDE Director Professor John Collomosse reflects on the centre’s achievements and discusses the future opportunities, collaborations and research directions it has inspired.
Researchers from DECaDE, part of the Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing (CVSSP) at the University of Surrey, received international recognition at the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2026 when their paper, TokenTrace, was awarded the CVPR Compute Transparency Champion Award.
DECaDE will have a significant presence at CVPR 2026, one of the world’s leading conferences for computer vision and AI, with contributions spanning synthetic media provenance, watermarking, attribution and trustworthy generative AI. CVPR takes place from 3–7 June 2026 in Denver, Colorado.
DECaDE has welcomed the Government’s response, published on 15 May 2026, to the House of Lords Communications and Digital Select Committee’s report on AI, copyright and the creative industries, reinforcing the importance of licensing, transparency and technical standards in building a fair and trustworthy AI economy.
In our latest Q&A, we speak to Evan Morgan, Research Software engineer on the DECaDE project. He shares his insights on how new technologies developed through DECaDE, can impact human behaviour.
The Centre for the Decentralised Digital Economy (DECaDE) brought together leading voices from academia, industry and government for a landmark symposium at The Royal Society, London, marking the centre’s final major showcase as it concludes its six-year programme at the end of June.
The newly published report from the House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee’s on AI, copyright and the creative industries, cites DECaDE’s multi-year work on provenance infrastructure and research on the use of open standards as the technical foundations needed to support creator rights in the age of generative AI.
DECaDE – The Centre for the Decentralised Digital Economy – welcomed the focus on transparency, provenance, and creator agency during the House of Lords Communications and Digital Select Committee’s latest inquiry on AI and copyright.
Researchers from the Centre for the Decentralised Digital Economy at the University of Surrey, have released a white paper proposing a collaborative governance framework to help government and industry work together in shaping the evolution of the UK’s digital border.
DECaDE will unveil the first public demonstration of its Creative Content Exchange platform at the Conference on Visual Media Production (CVMP) 2025, taking place at the British Film Institute (BFI) on 3–4 December.
Professor Burkhard Schafer, from the University of Edinburgh’s SCRIPT Centre for IT and IP Law, represented DECaDE as both speaker and co-organiser at the ReMeP Annual Conference 2025, held in Vienna on 2 October 2025.
In our latest blog, Professor John Collomosse, Director of DECaDE shares his thoughts on the intense public debate surrounding the use of copyright and AI, and how DECaDE, through research on media provenance, has developed tools and standards to solve these issues.
23rd Oct, 1-5pm. This interactive workshop will explore how decentralised trust technologies can transform B2B relationships in supply chain management
This online workshop is organised by DECaDE. Engage with cutting-edge academic research into digital tools and technologies to support trust and verifiability within supply chains.
Leading DECaDE’s research examining the application of decentralised technologies in support of physical supply chains and business ecosystems, we speak to Michael Brookbanks, Research Fellow at the University of Surrey.
In a remarkable achievement for a newly graduated scientist, DECaDE’s Dr Gemma Canet Tarrés’s research on image generation has been honoured at CVPR 2025, the premier Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference.
In our latest Q&A, we sit down with Abubakar – Sadiq Shehu to explore the findings and impact of his recent research in the field of cybersecurity.
With the rapid evolution of technologies like blockchain and their application to real-world problems in cybersecurity, he shares valuable insights into his work and its broader implications.
The Centre for the Decentralised Digital Economy with partners Digital Catapult hosted a webinar on 2nd April 2025 which explored tokenised licensing within the creative industries.
A ground-breaking report released today by CoSTAR National R&D Lab – of which DECaDE is a partner – aims to provide creative industries and AI developers with a framework to guide them through challenges around content usage, rights and remuneration in the age of generative AI.
Team members from the Centre for the Decentralised Digital Economy (DECaDE) presented their cutting edge research on media provenance and watermarking at ICLR 2025, the Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations held on 24 – 28th April in Singapore.
ORAgen Fables, a storytelling interactive developed by DECaDE researchers, was showcased in a week long exhibition at the National Museum of Scotland as part of the Edinburgh Science Festival.
Hear from DECaDE Director Professor John Collomosse about his time spent in the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) as part of the Royal Society Pairing Scheme.
Find out about PhD student Kar Balan’s internship experience at Digital Catapult and the European Commission in his Q&A interview…
Professor John Collomosse has been paired with the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) as part of the Royal Society Pairing Scheme.
In this free webinar, we offer new approaches to managing creative assets in the changing digital landscape and reflect on ORA, a novel tokenized licensing framework which could help to overcome these challenges.
Researchers from DECaDE at University of Edinburgh, along with storyteller Gerry Durkin presented ORAgen Fables at Leith Police Box on Thursday 13th March.
Researchers at The Centre for the Decentralised Digital Economy (DECaDE) have submitted a formal response to the UK Government’s Open Consultation on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence.
We are recruiting for a funded PhD studentship exploring novel technologies for securing the integrity of space imagery.
DECaDE presented ORAgen Fables, a collective story writing interactive at the Scottish Storytelling Centre in Edinburgh on 7th February, as part of National Storytelling Week.
DECaDE researcher Frances Liddell, presents our latest report exploring ORA – a framework addressing licensing, ownership, and attribution in digital content.
DECaDE’s latest report from the Digital Economy Next Stage Symposium (DE-Nexus) highlights future research opportunities within the digital economy field.
DECaDE researcher Prof. Burkhard Schafer attended the UK House of Lords Property (Digital Assets) Special Public Bill Committee on 5th December.
DECaDE PHD student, Kar Balan shares details of his latest paper -‘PDFed: Privacy-Preserving and Decentralized Asynchronous Federated Learning for Diffusion Models’ – which he presented at the recent European Conference on Visual Media Production (CVMP).
On 29th September, researchers from The Centre for the Decentralised Digital Economy (DECaDE) presented ‘ORAgen Fables’, a pilot of their latest ‘ORAgen’ research project.
Professor John Collomosse from the School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering has been elected as a Fellow to the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET).
The Centre for the Decentralised Digital Economy (DECaDE) presented their cutting edge research on the Digital Economy Theme at DE-Nexus, the Digital Next Stage Symposium, held on 10-11th June, during London Tech Week.
DECaDE researchers presented and joined discussions on 7th March, at the House of Lords roundtable discussion on Distributed Ledger Technology for Public Good
To explore the application of advanced digital licensing technologies in the future creative sector, DECaDE held a workshop on 22nd January, together with Digital Catapult and the University of Edinburgh.
DECaDE are pleased to welcome Dr Arka Ujjal Dey, who has joined the team as Research Fellow in AI and Computer Vision! Read his inspiring responses in our Q&A interview…..
DECaDE researchers Dr Birgit Altricher and Dr Ashley Fraser presented their research at the International Conference on AI and the Digital Economy 2022 held in Venice.
DECaDE Professor Glenn Parry offers a historical overview of the impact of technologies on work and employment following the launch of Surrey’s new Future of Work Research Centre on 26th May 2022.
A new paper by DECADE researchers draws on the Reducing Friction in International Trade (RFIT) project. RFIT developed a supply chain platform that integrates with UK Border agencies and uses blockchain to secure a common data set, reducing errors, improving data visibility and helping build trust.
A Token Gesture is an academic research project and an exhibition led by researchers at the Institute for Design Informatics, part of the UKRI funded DECaDE: Centre for a Decentralised Digital Economy.
This project describes how we are using self-sovereign identity technologies to allow photojournalists to distribute and assert ownership of images
Digital image manipulation has contributed enormously the way fake news is being spread online in recent times. Images and videos
We are happy to launch DECaDE innovation brochure 2021. DECaDE was launched in October 2020 and is a 5-year National
The University of Surrey, together with the University of Edinburgh and Digital Catapult, has today launched the Digital Economy Centre
