IMPACT

We are proud of the impact DECaDE has made through the publication, commercial licensing and open-source release of provenance technologies with our industry partners.

Since DECaDE was founded, we have seen a rise in fake news and misinformation, a risk more evident with the progress of Artificial Intelligence. As a member of the Adobe-led Content Authenticity Initiative, DECaDE has influenced and impacted standards in content provenance metadata and thought leadership in the media provenance space.

DECaDE researchers led some of the earliest user studies of non-fungible tokens and their strengths and weaknesses, proposing innovations to advance this technology to create fairer forms of a decentralised market that gives creatives better agency over re-use.

Working on a joint project – Reduced International Trade (RFIT) – with the Cabinet Office and HMRC, DECaDE looked towards Distributed Ledger Technology to help shape the 2025 UK Border Strategy. We continue to push this work forward with our public sector partners.

DECaDE looks ahead to create impact in our increasingly decentralised digital economy, by developing technological solutions to enable a prosperous and safe digital society for all.

It continues to be a privilege to Chair the Independent Advisory Board for the DECaDE Programme. Over the course of the last few years I have seen for myself how the programme continues to produce impressive results but also have a significant and practical impact on both commercial and policy decision making. I expect this impact to grow and the benefits of the programmes work to flow into commerce, government and society as a whole.”

Nick Davies Director of the Centre for Digital Trade and Innovation and Innovation Lead at HMRC.

Our Impact

3 patents
jointly filed

56 Papers
published

5 Academic
Awards and
RECOGNITIONS

£583k

Additional
funding
secured

7 Policy
Engagements

35 Commercial
Partners

79 Engagement
Activities

Research Spotlights

Fighting fake news in the age of Generative AI

DECaDE researchers have contributed to the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA), a cross-industry standards group for media provenance. By developing solutions to mitigate a key weakness of metadata; that it is easily stripped from its assets including by all social media sites, the team have combined AI and Distributed Ledger Technology to solve this problem.

Creating frictionless trade at our borders

Through DECaDE’s leadership of the Reduced Friction in International Trade programme (RFIT), a blockchain based proof of concept, we explored how physical supply chain use for Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT), can provide a common trusted data set to reduce errors and improve data visibility when managing goods at borders.

Enabling creatives to share their work, while preserving privacy and rights

DECaDE explores the use of self-sovereign identity (SSI) to enable users, such as citizen journalists or activists who may want to share images while protecting their identity and rights over content.

DECaDE collaborates with industry, government policy members and public sector end-users to co-create adventurous and exciting research to shape the evolution of the digital economy towards a new 21st-century model of work and value creation.

Filter Publications:

Privacy-Preserving Photo Sharing: An SSI Use Case

Fraser, A., Shehu, AS., Frymann, N., Haynes, P., Schneider, S. In: Patil, V.T., Krishnan, R., Shyamasundar, R.K. (eds) Information Systems Security. ICISS 2024. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 15416. Springer, Cham (2025)

A User-centered Framework for Human-AI Co-creativity

Caterina Moruzzi and Solange Margarido. In Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’24), May 11–16, 2024, Honolulu, USA, (2024)

Customizing the Balance between User and System Agency in Human-AI Co-Creative Processes

Moruzzi, Caterina & Solange Margarido. Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC’24, Jonköping, Sweden. (2024)

This is the future of mining and the value chains that involve it: Blockchain for conflict minerals compliance

Tuladhar, Alisha; Rogerson, Michael; Engelhart, Juliette; Parry, Glenn; Altrichter, Birgit, EurOMA 2024 Conference, 29th June – 3rd July 2024, Barcelona, Spain (2024)

Analysis of critical success factors for blockchain technology implementation in supply chain: A Delphi study

Xie, X, Parry, G., Brookbanks, M, 10th Annual International Conference on AI and the Digital Economy; CADE, 24-26 June, Venice (2024)

Trustless is not Trust Free: How to Build Trust for Organisations’ Adoption of Blockchain Technology

Zhang, Y., Tavalaei, M., Zhou, P., Parry, G., 10th Annual International Conference on AI and the Digital Economy; CADE, 24-26 June, Venice (2024)

Digital Governance Framework for UK Cross-Border Trade

Parry, G., Brookbanks, M., Bonina, C., 11th International Conference on Business Servitization, 7-8 November 2024, Lisbon, Portugal

Enabling effective farm digitalisation through decentralised control and ownership

Alvaro Romera, Glenn Parry, James Turner, Martin Espig, Michael Rogerson, Munir Shah. In Springer Nature, Sustainable Engineering: Concepts and Practice, Springer Nature: Berlin, Chapter 1, pp 3-20. ISBN 978-3-031-47217-6 (2023)

Evolution or involution? A systematic literature review on blockchain adoption factors from an organisational perspective

Zhang, Y, Tavalaei, M., Parry, G, Zhou, P. Technological Forecasting & Social Change (Sept 2024)

Moving Beyond ‘Facts are Facts’: Managing Emotions and Legitimacy after a Fake News Attack

Joachim, M., Castello, I., Parry, G. Business & Society. Sept 2024

Self-supervised disentangled representation learning of artistic style through Neural Style Transfer

D. Ruta, G. Canet Tarres, A. Black, A. Gilbert and J. Collomosse. In Proc. European Conf. on Computer Vision Workshop (ECCVW) on Vision for Art (VISART). 2024

NeAT: Neural Artistic Tracing for high resolution Style Transfer

D. Ruta, A. Gilbert, J. Collomosse, E. Shechtman and N. Kolkin. In Proc. European Conf. on Computer Vision Workshop (ECCVW) on Vision for Art (VISART). 2024

DIFF-NST: Diffusion Interleaving For deFormable Neural Style Transfer

D. Ruta, G Canet Tarres, A. Gilbert, E. Shechtman, N. Kolkin and J. Collomosse. In Proc. European Conf. on Computer Vision (ECCV). 2024.

Thinking Outside the BBox: Unconstrained Generative Object Compositing

G. Canet Tarres, Z. Lin, Z. Zhang, J. Zhang, Y. Song, D. Ruta, A. Gilbert, J. Collomosse and S. Kim. In Proc. European Conf. on Computer Vision (ECCV). 2024.

SegGuard: Defending Scene Segmentation against Adversarial Patch Attack

Tommy Gittings, Steve Schneider and John Collomosse. In Proc. Intl. Conf. Image Processing (ICIP). 2024.

PARASOL: Parametric Style Control for Diffusion Image Synthesis

Gemma Canet Tarres, Dan Ruta, Tu Bui and John Collomosse. In Proc. CVPR Workshop on Women in Computer Vision (CVPR WiCV). 2024

VIXEN: Visual Text Comparison Network for Image Difference Captioning

Jing Shi, Yifei Fan, Tu Bui and John Collomosse. In AAAI Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). 2024

CLASS: Conditional Latent Architecture for Search and Synthesis of Design Layouts

D. Manandhar, P. Guerrero, Z. Wang and J. Collomosse. In Proc. IEEE/CVF Winter Conf. on Appl. of Computer Vision (WACV). 2025

To Authenticity and Beyond! Building safe and fair Generative AI upon the Three Pillars of Provenance.

John Collomosse and Andy Parsons. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications (IEEE CG&A) June 2024

PDFed: Privacy-Preserving and Decentralized Asynchronous Federated Learning for Diffusion Models

Kar Balan, Andrew Gilbert, John Collomosse. CM SIGGRAPH European Conference on Visual Media Production 2024

ProMark: Proactive Diffusion Watermarking for Causal Attribution

Vishal Asnani and John Collomosse and Tu Bui and Xiaoming Liu and Shruti Agarwal. Published in Proc. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). 2024.

Towards End-to-End Verifiable Online Voting: Adding Verifiability to Established Voting Systems.

Mohammed Alsadi; Matthew Casey; Constantin Catalin Dragan; François Dupressoir; Luke Riley; Muntadher Sallal; Steve Schneider; Helen Treharne; Joe Wadsworth; Phil Wright published in IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, October 2023

EKILA: Synthetic Media Provenance and Attribution for Generative Art.

K. Balan and S. Agarwal and S. Jenni and A. Parsons and A. Gilbert and J. Collomosse. Published in Proc. CVPR Workshop on Media Forensics (CVPRW). 2023.

DECORAIT – DECentralized Opt-in/out Registry for AI Training

K. Balan and A. Black and S. Jenni and A. Gilbert and A. Parsons and J. Collomosse. Published in Proc. Conf. Visual Media Production (CVMP). 2023.

On the role of blockchain for self-sovereign identity

A. Fraser; S. Schneider, published in Competitive Advantage in the Digital Economy (CADE 2022)

The impact of a blockchain platform on trust in established relationships: a case study of wine supply chains

Brookbanks, M., Parry, G., Published in Supply Chain Management: An International Journal, Vol. 27, No. 7, 128-146 (2022)

Blockchain and Beyond: Understanding Blockchains Through Prototypes and Public Engagement

Dave Murray-Rust, Chris Elsden, Bettina Nissen, Ella Tallyn, Larissa Pschetz, and Chris Speed. Published in ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact. 29, 5, Article 41 (October 2022).

The future of money as a design material

Speed, C., Rankin, J., Elsden, C., and Vines, J. (2022). Design Research Society Conference. DRS2022: Bilbao, 25 June – 3 July, Bilbao, Spain.

RepMix: Representation Mixing for Robust Attribution of Synthesized Images

T. Bui and N. Yu and J. Collomosse. In European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV). 2022.

ARIA: Adversarially Robust Image Attribution for Content Provenance

M. Andriushchenko and Rebecca Li and Geoffrey Oxholm and Tommy Gittings and Tu Bui and Nicolas Flammarion and J. Collomosse. In CVPR Workshop on Media Forensics (WMF). 2022

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