John Collomosse

Professor John Collomosse is the founder and director of DECaDE, the UKRI Research Centre for the Decentralized Digital Economy led by CVSSP at the University of Surrey. Full bio.

John's research intersects Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT), with focus on media provenance to fight misinformation and online harms, and on improving data integrity and attribution for responsible AI. John has published over 140 papers (h-Index 40) and 30 patents, and is an Adobe Distinguished Inventor.

John is concurrently a Principal Scientist at Adobe Research (San Jose, CA), directing the Cross-Modal Representation Learning (XRL) team, where he leads research for the Content Authenticity Initiative (CAI) as well as two cross-industry task forces within the C2PA open standards body for media authenticity. His research has also explored creative forms of visual search and content recommendation (focusing on cross-modal e.g. style, sketch) and immersive (3D/4D) performance capture.

John is a Fellow of the IET (FIET), Fellow of the British Computer Soceity (FBCS) and a Chartered Engineer (CEng). He is a Senior Member of IEEE and Course Director for MSc in Computer Vision, Robotics and Machine Learning. He was a member of the UKRI/EPSRC ICT Strategic Advisory Team (SAT) from 2018-2024.


Recent Updates

  • Paper  4x ICCV Watermarking and Data Attribution papers accepted (2 main papers, 2 APAI workshop)
  • Talk   Invited Talk to Westminster Media Forum (UK Government forum) on Copyright and AI
  • Talk   Invited Talk to the US National Academy of Sciences on Content Provenance (Cyber Hard Problems)
  • Talk   Invited Talk to the UK House of Lords, on Authenticity and Watermarking.
  • Paper  2x ICLR Watermarking papers accepted, congrats to Yash on his first paper!
  • Talk   Keynote at ICLR 2025 Workshop on Watermarking.
  • Funding  Royal Society Pairing Scheme - Week in Westminster paired with DSIT counter-disinfo team.
  • Paper  4x Area chairing this year for NeurIPS 2025 (AC), ICCV (SAC), BMVC (AC), WACV (AC).
  • Hiring  HIRING! Post-doc available in new BRAID/CoStar provenance project (P3R)
  • Funding  EPSRC studentship available - Authenticity in Space Imaging, joint with SSC and Adobe Research.
  • Talk   Presentation on C2PA to the European Commision Workshop on TDM/AI Opt-Out.
  • Talk   Keynote at ECCV 2024 Workshop on Generative Models and their Impact on Society.
  • Talk   Keynote at CVPR 2024 Workshop on Media Forensics.
  • Talk   UK Gov panelist at DCMS Public Body Chairs and Execs. Meeting (British Museum).
  • Paper  UK Gov Evidence given at House of Lords roundtable on DLT for the Public Good.
  • Prize  Best Paper Prize awarded to Kar Balan at CVMP 2023, for DECORAIT: DLT enabling GenAI opt-out.
  • Talk   Invited talk to the IET on Deep Fakes and Content Authenticity.
  • Talk   Keynote at CVPR Visual Copy Detection Workshop 2023.
  • Talk   Keynote at 6th ECCV Workshop on Vision for Art (ECCV 2022) on Content Provenance and Authenticity.