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2026 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium
9 - 14 August 2026 • Washington, D.C.
TH2.R3: Synthetic Remote Sensing Image Synthesis, Quality and Deepfake Detection
Thursday, 13 August, 11:00 - 12:15
Location: Oak Lawn
Session Type: Oral
Session Co-Chairs: Jacob Arndt, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Ilke Demir, Cauth AI
Track: Community Contributed Themes
Thu, 13 Aug, 11:00 - 11:15

TH2.R3.1: TOWARDS A SATELLITE IMAGE MANIPULATION AND DEEPFAKE LOCALIZATION BENCHMARK DATASET
Jacob Arndt, Debvrat Varshney, Philipe Dias, Nivedita Nukavarapu, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States
Thu, 13 Aug, 11:15 - 11:30

TH2.R3.2: TOWARD EFFICIENT, EXPLAINABLE SATELLITE DEEPFAKE DETECTION: COLOUR AND FREQUENCY BAND CONTRIBUTIONS
Virginia Ziulu, James Garforth, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Thu, 13 Aug, 11:30 - 11:45

TH2.R3.3: SynGlSat: Geographically Equitable Synthesis of Global Satellite Imagery
Umur Ciftci, Liam Melchior, Binghamton University, United States; Ilke Demir, Cauth AI, United States
Thu, 13 Aug, 11:45 - 12:00

TH2.R3.4: EVALUATING MULTIMODAL SATELLITE IMAGE-METADATA CONTRASTIVE LEARNING
Nivedita Nukavarapu, Philipe Ambrozio Dias, Debvrat Varshney, Jacob Arndt, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States
Thu, 13 Aug, 12:00 - 12:15

TH2.R3.5: SO(2)-AWARE PIXEL-SPACE CONDITIONAL DIFFUSION TRANSFORMER FOR MULTI-ANGLE SAR TARGET IMAGE GENERATION
Ran Yang, Tao Lai, Haifeng Huang, Sun Yat-sen University, China