On April 30th, 2023, the 11th International Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Social Media (SocialNLP) took place in Texas, USA, in conjunction with the ACM Web Conference 2023. Zhiwei…
CRiTERIA stands for Comprehensive data-driven Risk and Threat Assessment Methods for the Early and Reliable Identification, Validation and Analysis of migration-related risks.What most likely first comes to mind regarding migration-related…
Last week, the Malta Police Force, Risk Analysis Unit within the Immigration Department together with the University of Malta have organised the first Experimental Laboratories event workshop at the Malta…
Last week, on the 9-10th of May, CRiTERIA organized the conference "Uncovering Vulnerability in Migration and Human Trafficking" which was help in Fort Saint Elmo in Valetta, Malta. The event…
EU borders are constantly faced with a multiplicity of challenges, including human trafficking, smuggling, document fraud and illegal migration. Risk analysis and vulnerability assessment methodologies, e.g., CIRAM have several limitations,…
Video is a medium that is rich in information and has a strong temporal dimension: is typically depicts events that unfold in time. For this reason, recognizing the events depicted…
The movement trend of persons who try to cross or have crossed a state border illegally largely depends on the economic, political and social situation in the world.Due to the…
We are pleased to announce that the second issue of the CRiTERIA newsletter is now available for download!This is a special issue covering selected technologies that have been developed during…
CRiTERIA is organizing a workshop under the topic of “Uncovering vulnerabilities in migration and human trafficking“ taking place on 9-10 May in Valetta, Malta.The event will focus on the identification…
Irregular border crossings to the European Union increased significantly in 2022, as FRONTEX – the EU’s border agency – noted a rise of 64% from the previous year estimating “around…